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I was seeking after God..... because in my rational mind I believed that if God was real, which I believed He was, He should be knowable... after all I knew Jesus had told his disciples that He would be with them always.... but Jesus did not seem to be with me.
I asked everyone I knew the meaning of life, yet no one had a satisfactory answer.
I was having the same discussion with many students, day after day, at school for hours people came and went, I skipped all my classes ... then a person lingering around the table and listening asked if he could join in, I said sure, soon as he sat down I knew he knew something I had yet to be told.
Remember Mr. FHS.... I was that person trying to be good to assure my salvation.
Still open Mr FHS?
I asked everyone I knew the meaning of life, yet no one had a satisfactory answer.
I was having the same discussion with many students, day after day, at school for hours people came and went, I skipped all my classes ... then a person lingering around the table and listening asked if he could join in, I said sure, soon as he sat down I knew he knew something I had yet to be told.
Remember Mr. FHS.... I was that person trying to be good to assure my salvation.
Still open Mr FHS?
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Someone truly has got things mixed up if love becomes hate in someone else, especially
when talking about a follower of Jesus by another follower of Jesus.
Dear Lord, may you forgive these blind people who share such contradictatory ideas as
if they are speaking about your love and sacrifice upon the cross and deal so lightly with
those who love and honour your ways, In Jesus Christs name, Amen.
when talking about a follower of Jesus by another follower of Jesus.
Dear Lord, may you forgive these blind people who share such contradictatory ideas as
if they are speaking about your love and sacrifice upon the cross and deal so lightly with
those who love and honour your ways, In Jesus Christs name, Amen.
I was seeking after God..... because in my rational mind I believed that if God was real, which I believed He was, He should be knowable... after all I knew Jesus had told his disciples that He would be with them always.... but Jesus did not seem to be with me.
I asked everyone I knew the meaning of life, yet no one had a satisfactory answer.
I was having the same discussion with many students, day after day, at school for hours people came and went, I skipped all my classes ... then a person lingering around the table and listening asked if he could join in, I said sure, soon as he sat down I knew he knew something I had yet to be told.
Remember Mr. FHS.... I was that person trying to be good to assure my salvation.
Still open Mr FHS?
I asked everyone I knew the meaning of life, yet no one had a satisfactory answer.
I was having the same discussion with many students, day after day, at school for hours people came and went, I skipped all my classes ... then a person lingering around the table and listening asked if he could join in, I said sure, soon as he sat down I knew he knew something I had yet to be told.
Remember Mr. FHS.... I was that person trying to be good to assure my salvation.
Still open Mr FHS?
You are searching for God and Jesus being with you. A guy asked to share with you.
I am always open, do share on, my friend.
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Not sure about the friend part, as my mom always taught me to choose my friends wisely.... Good advice I might add.
I am simplifying things a bit, since there were some other factors at play that were causing my desperate search but I amt so inclined to get into all the details.
Anyway... he explained "metanoia" ( the real metanoia, not contrition for sin) and not matter how sinless I thought I was I could never meet God's absolute standard.... the only thing I could so was accept by faith God's free gift of salvation earned for me by Jesus on the cross.
I knew what he spoke was truth... although I only understood in part.
People had been telling me all semester that I was overly concerned about salvation that I should just enjoy life and then here comes someone who tells me yes salvation/sin is absolutely a concern, but the problem has been solved.
Here I am thinking all these years I better be good and it was possible to be good to WOW.....I can never be good enough to merit salvation.
That Mr. FHS is a radical mind shift...have you had that radical mind shift?
not done yet...
I am simplifying things a bit, since there were some other factors at play that were causing my desperate search but I amt so inclined to get into all the details.
Anyway... he explained "metanoia" ( the real metanoia, not contrition for sin) and not matter how sinless I thought I was I could never meet God's absolute standard.... the only thing I could so was accept by faith God's free gift of salvation earned for me by Jesus on the cross.
I knew what he spoke was truth... although I only understood in part.
People had been telling me all semester that I was overly concerned about salvation that I should just enjoy life and then here comes someone who tells me yes salvation/sin is absolutely a concern, but the problem has been solved.
Here I am thinking all these years I better be good and it was possible to be good to WOW.....I can never be good enough to merit salvation.
That Mr. FHS is a radical mind shift...have you had that radical mind shift?
not done yet...
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Life is great come look at the swimming pool
4 You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God?
Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.
James 4
25 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it.
26 What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what
can a man give in exchange for his soul?
27 For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father's glory with his angels, and then he will
reward each person according to what he has done.
Matt 16
Being born again is rebuilding our whole life around Jesus and His word.
Nothing is off limits and nothing is too difficult or problematic to walk through and resolve.
Emotionally some of these issues are like explosives, unless the Lord heals and resolves nothing
will save our souls from destruction and a great collapse.
Repentance is the beginning of reconciliation, but if we are not reconciled when the Lord comes
to see what we are, it will just be a broken vessel that does not work, nothing there.
So many hold their lives together and fear the pressure openness will create if they let go.
Unfortunately we need the Lord love ruling in our hearts or else we have nothing but our life
history to cling on to, and before the Lord, even that will be taken away.
Jesus is more than a swimming pool, He is the eternal King of all, worthy of praise and worship,
Amen
4 You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God?
Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.
James 4
25 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it.
26 What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what
can a man give in exchange for his soul?
27 For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father's glory with his angels, and then he will
reward each person according to what he has done.
Matt 16
Being born again is rebuilding our whole life around Jesus and His word.
Nothing is off limits and nothing is too difficult or problematic to walk through and resolve.
Emotionally some of these issues are like explosives, unless the Lord heals and resolves nothing
will save our souls from destruction and a great collapse.
Repentance is the beginning of reconciliation, but if we are not reconciled when the Lord comes
to see what we are, it will just be a broken vessel that does not work, nothing there.
So many hold their lives together and fear the pressure openness will create if they let go.
Unfortunately we need the Lord love ruling in our hearts or else we have nothing but our life
history to cling on to, and before the Lord, even that will be taken away.
Jesus is more than a swimming pool, He is the eternal King of all, worthy of praise and worship,
Amen
Surprise is a guarantee my friend. The first shall be the last and the last shall be the first. It will not go the way you have been taught.
Matt 25:
37“Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’
40“The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’
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44“They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’
45“He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’
Even as per prophesy:
Isa 65:
1“I revealed Myself to those who did not ask for Me;
I was found by those who did not seek Me.
To a nation that did not call My name,
I said, ‘Here I am! Here I am!’
2All day long I have held out My hands
to an obstinate people,a
who walk in the wrong path,
who follow their own imaginations,
You have turned a man's understanding to be your assurance.
Matt 25:
37“Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’
40“The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’
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44“They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’
45“He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’
Even as per prophesy:
Isa 65:
1“I revealed Myself to those who did not ask for Me;
I was found by those who did not seek Me.
To a nation that did not call My name,
I said, ‘Here I am! Here I am!’
2All day long I have held out My hands
to an obstinate people,a
who walk in the wrong path,
who follow their own imaginations,
You have turned a man's understanding to be your assurance.
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Come here you angel.
Matt 24:13But the one who perseveres to the end will be saved.
This is Jesus' promise, i think you just misunderstood. It is all over the scripture:
Rom 5:
6For at just the right time, while we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. 7For rarely will anyone to die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. 8But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
9Therefore, since we have now been justified by His blood, how much more shall we be saved from wrath through Him! 10For if, when we were enemies of God, we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through His life! 11Not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
Rom 13:11And do this, understanding the occasion. The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, for our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.
Matt 24:13But the one who perseveres to the end will be saved.
This is Jesus' promise, i think you just misunderstood. It is all over the scripture:
Rom 5:
6For at just the right time, while we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. 7For rarely will anyone to die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. 8But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
9Therefore, since we have now been justified by His blood, how much more shall we be saved from wrath through Him! 10For if, when we were enemies of God, we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through His life! 11Not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
Rom 13:11And do this, understanding the occasion. The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, for our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.
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You talk as if you are speaking with authority. I listen to Jesus. Peter when he was going to deny Jesus
what did Jesus say
32 But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. And when you
have turned back, strengthen your brothers
Luke 22
20 Granted. But they were broken off because of unbelief, and you stand by faith.
Do not be arrogant, but be afraid.
21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either.
Rom 11
6 If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers;
such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.
John 15
People who do not know the full depths of repentance in Christ, of working through everything
they are in Him, do not understand what rejecting Christ really means. Such a fleeting thing,
a vague understanding of love and how great Jesus is, a gift given and then fading away into
blackness.
Jesus can just tweak it and it is fine, no problems, we are not dramatically lost in
need a being totally rebuilt. We are safe in Him, He gave such great promises to help support
our faith, and stay exactly were we are before life knocks us over too much.
what did Jesus say
32 But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. And when you
have turned back, strengthen your brothers
Luke 22
20 Granted. But they were broken off because of unbelief, and you stand by faith.
Do not be arrogant, but be afraid.
21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either.
Rom 11
6 If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers;
such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.
John 15
People who do not know the full depths of repentance in Christ, of working through everything
they are in Him, do not understand what rejecting Christ really means. Such a fleeting thing,
a vague understanding of love and how great Jesus is, a gift given and then fading away into
blackness.
Jesus can just tweak it and it is fine, no problems, we are not dramatically lost in
need a being totally rebuilt. We are safe in Him, He gave such great promises to help support
our faith, and stay exactly were we are before life knocks us over too much.
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Bit strong. If someone quotes scripture especially Jesus judging people on their actions of love,
helping the needy and the homeless, one has to take notice. This is Jesus talking.
Unless you put ones response into context one is blaspheming Christ.
Now it is no coincidence those who have a closed heart and find repentance and working through
our behaviour and hearts not relevant are also very quick to use spiritual fighting language inappropriately.
At worst God will just tell them off, at best, it will just be ignore as trying to do something in Christ.
God regards such behaviour not of the Lord as worthy of death.
And actually rebelling against Jesus, a field sending off offence not sent to the lake of fire.
How is it language of ultimates, heaven and hell, salvation and judgement becomes I am ok, and you
are this devil in human form. Imagine if God behaved like this or gave children of Him real responsibility
and power to judge. It would be chaos.
How many have contemplated death row and killing an innocent. This is much worse and on the basis
of sharing a few verses on a discussion board on the internet. This is how far off some are, literally.
helping the needy and the homeless, one has to take notice. This is Jesus talking.
Unless you put ones response into context one is blaspheming Christ.
Now it is no coincidence those who have a closed heart and find repentance and working through
our behaviour and hearts not relevant are also very quick to use spiritual fighting language inappropriately.
At worst God will just tell them off, at best, it will just be ignore as trying to do something in Christ.
God regards such behaviour not of the Lord as worthy of death.
And actually rebelling against Jesus, a field sending off offence not sent to the lake of fire.
How is it language of ultimates, heaven and hell, salvation and judgement becomes I am ok, and you
are this devil in human form. Imagine if God behaved like this or gave children of Him real responsibility
and power to judge. It would be chaos.
How many have contemplated death row and killing an innocent. This is much worse and on the basis
of sharing a few verses on a discussion board on the internet. This is how far off some are, literally.
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