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Isaiah 44:20
He feeds on ashes. His deceived mind has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself, or say, "Isn't there a lie in my right hand?"
Habakkuk 2:18,19
What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
19Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.
Romans 1:25
Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
He feeds on ashes. His deceived mind has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself, or say, "Isn't there a lie in my right hand?"
Habakkuk 2:18,19
What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
19Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.
Romans 1:25
Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
It's the Holy Spirit that enables us to forgive our enemies, not something we can do.
"All manner of sin shall be forgiven to man but rejecting the Holy Spirit shall not be forgiven to man." We certainly don't learn in our understanding. If we could learn in our understanding, it would be something we could do and salvation would be by works. "If there was a law that could make us perfect, salvation would have been by the Law." It remains that the mystery of God is not in our understanding but being led by His Spirit.
James refers to evidence of Faith that works by Love: to Love and forgiving our enemies is only possible by the Holy Spirit. Earthly language divided us, saying the same thing differently until perfected in Love; having Loved our enemies, carried into the death of Christ, by the Holy Spirit: dead with Him there is no more work, having entered into His rest. But if we can't Love and forgive our enemies, we are bound by works, trying to accomplish this. The work of the religious leaders was to look good outwardly, while offended and in danger of rejecting the Holy Spirit. "Blessed is he whoever is not offended in me." On the internet there is no need to look good outwardly and clean the outside of the cup, to be admired as a teacher, while "Not by the works,'' cost everything. God has a Way of turning things upside down, our old life in the cross of Christ, to have the life of Christ who has finished the work. Our whole heart invested in the Love of God. So that we have nothing to prove to anyone. "Its no longer I that lives but Christ that Lives in me." "From now on let no one trouble me for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus."
"All manner of sin shall be forgiven to man but rejecting the Holy Spirit shall not be forgiven to man." We certainly don't learn in our understanding. If we could learn in our understanding, it would be something we could do and salvation would be by works. "If there was a law that could make us perfect, salvation would have been by the Law." It remains that the mystery of God is not in our understanding but being led by His Spirit.
James refers to evidence of Faith that works by Love: to Love and forgiving our enemies is only possible by the Holy Spirit. Earthly language divided us, saying the same thing differently until perfected in Love; having Loved our enemies, carried into the death of Christ, by the Holy Spirit: dead with Him there is no more work, having entered into His rest. But if we can't Love and forgive our enemies, we are bound by works, trying to accomplish this. The work of the religious leaders was to look good outwardly, while offended and in danger of rejecting the Holy Spirit. "Blessed is he whoever is not offended in me." On the internet there is no need to look good outwardly and clean the outside of the cup, to be admired as a teacher, while "Not by the works,'' cost everything. God has a Way of turning things upside down, our old life in the cross of Christ, to have the life of Christ who has finished the work. Our whole heart invested in the Love of God. So that we have nothing to prove to anyone. "Its no longer I that lives but Christ that Lives in me." "From now on let no one trouble me for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus."
New International Version 1984 Romans 8:1-4 Life Through the Spirit Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in sinful man, in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit.
Let me tell you where satan's victory will be sweet for him.
A person thinks they are saved, but they don't believe Jesus when he says you have to forgive, because they think it is some meaningless work that is somehow trumped by grace.
I believe you are a man who forgives readily, and so this is no problem. However, other 'good' Christians, thinking they are saved, and are not able to forgive easily, could have a problem with their walk with God.
A person thinks they are saved, but they don't believe Jesus when he says you have to forgive, because they think it is some meaningless work that is somehow trumped by grace.
I believe you are a man who forgives readily, and so this is no problem. However, other 'good' Christians, thinking they are saved, and are not able to forgive easily, could have a problem with their walk with God.
The ZOMBIES are groping and WALKING DEAD....
New International Version 1984 Revelation 3:1-6 To the Church in Sardis “To the angel of the church in Sardis write: These are the words of him who holds the seven spirits of God and the seven stars. I know your deeds; you have a reputation of being alive, but YOU ARE DEAD. Wake up! Strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your deeds complete in the sight of my God. Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard; obey it, and repent. But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come to you. Yet you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their clothes. They will walk with me, dressed in white, for they are worthy. He who overcomes will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out his name from the book of life, but will acknowledge his name before my Father and his angels. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
New International Version 1984 Revelation 3:1-6 To the Church in Sardis “To the angel of the church in Sardis write: These are the words of him who holds the seven spirits of God and the seven stars. I know your deeds; you have a reputation of being alive, but YOU ARE DEAD. Wake up! Strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your deeds complete in the sight of my God. Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard; obey it, and repent. But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come to you. Yet you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their clothes. They will walk with me, dressed in white, for they are worthy. He who overcomes will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out his name from the book of life, but will acknowledge his name before my Father and his angels. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
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What satans sweet victory will be when people who think because they forgave others, Went to church every sunday and wednesday, gave to the poor, God baptised in water and Obeyed Gods other commands, Maybe even cast out demons and spoke in toungues.
Only to get to heaven and scream to God how he did all those works in jesus name, And jesus will say depart from him, for he never knew them.
Because they rejected the ONLY thing which could save them, and thatr was the cross. They became fools who tried to start in the spirit, and perfect it in the flesh. Religious is satans greatest victory.
What satans sweet victory will be when people who think because they forgave others, Went to church every sunday and wednesday, gave to the poor, God baptised in water and Obeyed Gods other commands, Maybe even cast out demons and spoke in toungues.
Only to get to heaven and scream to God how he did all those works in jesus name, And jesus will say depart from him, for he never knew them.
Because they rejected the ONLY thing which could save them, and thatr was the cross. They became fools who tried to start in the spirit, and perfect it in the flesh. Religious is satans greatest victory.
I have heard this phrase several times in the last few pages: Trust that God has forgiven you, then you will have power to forgive others.
Isn't that the reverse of Matthew 6:14-15? In this verse it says, If you forgive, then the Father will forgive. If you do not forgive, then my Father will not forgive you.
So what comes first? Does the Father forgive, and then we forgive, or as Jesus says, we forgive then the Father forgives?
Isn't that the reverse of Matthew 6:14-15? In this verse it says, If you forgive, then the Father will forgive. If you do not forgive, then my Father will not forgive you.
So what comes first? Does the Father forgive, and then we forgive, or as Jesus says, we forgive then the Father forgives?