Subject: IS there any answers out there? |
Bible Note: John After Graceful was run off it seemed to me that you were the next target. The other day I sat done and started to write some feelings concerning being a Christian and ended up writing about the Forum. It is impossible for one to speak to the word without bias of ones denomination. It is improper for anyone to tell me that what I believe is wrong and what they believe is right. Scripture talks for itself. The Word and the Holy Spirit will correct. For the word of God is LIVING AND ACTIVE and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to JUDGE THE THOUGHT AND INTENTIONS of the heart. God will change us not any forceful arguement. Any way I want to encourage you that God has put you in Christ (1 Cor 1:30). When you are there you are the image of Him. In Him you are made complete (Col 2:9-13). DESPAIR NOT that is a lie from satan that you are NOT in Christ and His image. The following is some babblings form Jeff. Why does God equip us with the means to become complete in Him. Is it all about a our personal experience with Him is this what He is looking for. Is the Divine purpose one of individual experience? God has made us part of a body. He calls it church, ekklesia. A calling out, congregation, assembly. We are called out to be His body. We have the personal experience with him to prepare us for the calling. He has equipped us with all we need to partake of the divine nature. IN HIM is where we are to live. In Him through the Cross is deliverance which will make us without spot or wrinkle. The Cross removes us from the picture. We indeed become earthen vessels for Him. He said for us to stay in Him and He will stay in us. He has given us His Spirit to empower us to do what He requires. We indeed become instruments of righteousness. Get out of the way. Let God be God. Stop trying to help Him do His will. He can do it all Himself. We think it is our job to do the will of God. God has given us His word to provide us with a guide to explain what He has provided for, done to, made, completed in us through faith in Jesus Christ. If you want to know about the reason for the Old Testament look only to what God has provided in the New Testament. The things of the Old are to show that God is real. It is a way for Him to explain to us in our feebleness who He is. It is the place where He tells us of His promises. It is the New that gives life. It is the New that makes the promises a reality in our lives. It makes no difference if sheol is Hades or who goes there or if hell is now or is for the future. The Old is a picture of what we HAVE in the NEW. Once saved always saved? It is only important that we ARE saved, justified and sanctified through faith in Jesus Christ. We are wasting our time with petty arguments over inconsequential trivia. “Look at me I know Greek. I have been studying the bible for 97 years.” What have you learned from all that study? Are we only tying to show others what we know? Or are we directing them to the Savior. Are explaining what scripture says about who we are in Christ? Are we equipping the saints for the service to God? Are we helping those who are burdened to experience the life, the rest, the peace, the confidence, the boldness, the healing that is in our Savior? I am more interested in knowing what God wants from me than whether He invented evil. I want to know how to stop evil, how to walk by the Spirit, how to walk in the light, how to have the fruit of the Spirit, how to defeat temptation, how to not sin, how to be obedient to God. Am I really a son of God? A member of His family? A joint heir with Jesus? How do I get IN CHRIST? How does one pray? If I have been transferred into the Kingdom of God’s Son what does that mean? What do I have to do so when I stand before Jesus He says “Good to see you Jeff. Well done My good and faithful servant.” Do I have to DO anything for that? Does the life of Christ show on these pages? When they are read do we see Jesus? If we read between the lines would the words spell L O V E ? Questions are asked for various reasons. Some to trap babes and take them away from the truth? Some to make us explain our beliefs by what God has said. Some are to find the truth about this thing we call the Christian Walk. Some are out right attacks on our beliefs. We will be held responsible for how we respond. Like Christ or like us? The choice is ours. Who do you think God wants us to respond like? Jeff |