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That FEAR, is translated, A REVERENT RESPECT, WITH AN ASSURANCE THAT DADDY WILL SPANK.
Hebrews 12:5-8 (NASB)
5 and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons, "MY SON, DO NOT REGARD LIGHTLY THE DISCIPLINE OF THE LORD, NOR FAINT WHEN YOU ARE REPROVED BY HIM;
6 FOR THOSE WHOM THE LORD LOVES HE DISCIPLINES, AND HE SCOURGES EVERY SON WHOM HE RECEIVES."
7 It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?
8 But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.
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I believed that there was a GOD, but even the Demons believe that much, and sitting on a Church Pew regularly, did not SAVE me either. After that third attempt at SUICIDE, I realized that I was just a Church-GOER, and my whole lifestyle was an offence to HIM. I was NEVER a REAL CHRISTIAN. That realization drove me to my KNEES, as I Cried OUT TO HIM, "LORD, Forgive Me! If you have a purpose for my Life, YOU have to come into it, and run my life. I cannot do it! I am making a total mess of it." That was a Complete and TOTAL Surrender to Jesus Christ, out of LOVE FOR HIM, as I wept and Cried for hours. THAT IS WHEN I TRULY WAS SAVED, not the 29 years prior to that, I lived as a Lutheran. I know now that I was standing in the gates of hades/hell, ready to walk in on my own, as I held that Pistol to my temple, with trigger half pulled. TWO TIMES I DID THAT, and both times the TERROR BEYOND WHAT MAN COULD EVER DO TO ME, OVERWHELMED ME, and I dropped the Pistol both times. YES, I KNOW I STILL WAS NOT SAVED, and it took a third time of trying to arrange a FATAL motorcycle accident; before I was WILLING, out of LOVE FOR HIM, to Surrender Control of my life to HIM.
Prior to that, I sat on a Pew almost Every Sunday, Knew Who Jesus Was (but even the Demons believe that much), I knew the Order of Service printed in my Hymnal by memory, including the Apostles Creed, knew every answer in the Catechism, went to Lutheran Services Volunteer Camp, I was AN ACOLYTE {Altar Boy}, I KNEW most of the Bible Stories about JESUS, etc.; and STILL WAS NOT SAVED. None of that equals SALVATION.
THAT NIGHT AFTER THE THIRD ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE, I REPENTED REMORSEFULLY, for hours, and I REALLY CAME TO KNOW AND LOVE HIM, and TRULY RECEIVED HIM AS MY PERSONAL LORD, meaning MASTER.
No one ever taught me that is what I should do; I believe the Holy Spirit gave that to me, when I needed it the Most.
Prior to that, I sat on a Pew almost Every Sunday, Knew Who Jesus Was (but even the Demons believe that much), I knew the Order of Service printed in my Hymnal by memory, including the Apostles Creed, knew every answer in the Catechism, went to Lutheran Services Volunteer Camp, I was AN ACOLYTE {Altar Boy}, I KNEW most of the Bible Stories about JESUS, etc.; and STILL WAS NOT SAVED. None of that equals SALVATION.
THAT NIGHT AFTER THE THIRD ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE, I REPENTED REMORSEFULLY, for hours, and I REALLY CAME TO KNOW AND LOVE HIM, and TRULY RECEIVED HIM AS MY PERSONAL LORD, meaning MASTER.
No one ever taught me that is what I should do; I believe the Holy Spirit gave that to me, when I needed it the Most.
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Many heretics have already accepted Jesus 
According to the RCC, protestants are heretics, and according to protestants, the RCC is heretical. So, whaddya gonna do? Revere Christ as Lord, and always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. The underlined part is apologetics in a nutshell
According to the RCC, protestants are heretics, and according to protestants, the RCC is heretical. So, whaddya gonna do? Revere Christ as Lord, and always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. The underlined part is apologetics in a nutshell -
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Many heretics have already accepted Jesus According to the RCC, protestants are heretics, and according to protestants, the RCC is heretical. So, whaddya gonna do? Revere Christ as Lord, and always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. The underlined part is apologetics in a nutshell
According to the RCC, protestants are heretics, and according to protestants, the RCC is heretical. So, whaddya gonna do? Revere Christ as Lord, and always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. The underlined part is apologetics in a nutshell
It was probably discouragement that make us want to give up on it
Keep going is not easy
