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Amen! We obey the Gospel by choosing to believe the Gospel. Romans 10:16 - But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?”
Ephesians 1:13 - In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, 14 who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.
Ephesians 1:13 - In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, 14 who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.
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Almost every time you open your mouth <---Better to be thought a fool than open your mouth and be known as one!!
Your incessant rejection of truth and insertion of your self anti-truth apologetics is rather distrubing.......
Your name is a farce as well.....Jesus began his church and promises the perpetuity of HIS CHURCH and needs no religous street organ player such as yourself to rebuild anything.....
Your incessant rejection of truth and insertion of your self anti-truth apologetics is rather distrubing.......
Your name is a farce as well.....Jesus began his church and promises the perpetuity of HIS CHURCH and needs no religous street organ player such as yourself to rebuild anything.....
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Regarding Rebuild Jesus’ Church, what a sad spiritually deprived state - which is why you have no love - you live in if when you read Isaiah through Malachi and it does not read like the morning newspaper. How clearly the glory departed! How obvious that God’s people are in captivity, led there by their shepherds. The modern church clearly has repeated King Saul’s errors. But the church will not go out weaker than it entered this age. He will come to us as the rain.
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Serious question:
In the Parable of the Sower, did the 2nd type of soil person come to Christ on his own, or was he drawn by the Father?
"13 Those on the rocky ground are the ones who receive the word with joy when they hear it, but they have no root. They believe for a while, but in the time of testing they fall away." - Luke 8:13
44“No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them" - John 6:44
I say he was drawn by the Father because I agree with those who say the natural man will never be interested in the gospel.
Only by the drawing of the Father does any natural person have even a passing interest in the gospel.
In the Parable of the Sower, did the 2nd type of soil person come to Christ on his own, or was he drawn by the Father?
"13 Those on the rocky ground are the ones who receive the word with joy when they hear it, but they have no root. They believe for a while, but in the time of testing they fall away." - Luke 8:13
44“No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them" - John 6:44
I say he was drawn by the Father because I agree with those who say the natural man will never be interested in the gospel.
Only by the drawing of the Father does any natural person have even a passing interest in the gospel.
For a new believer, yes, I agree that someone who says works literally earn salvation can cause distress to a believer who doesn't know better yet. But I was talking in regard to salvation itself. People who subscribe to the Reformed view of salvation should never express any concern about unbelieving works salvationists leading believers astray. Because in that doctrine that can't happen. I remember the guy who does the Wretched videos on YouTube getting his undies all in a bunch about some false doctrine leading people astray and wondering why since he is a hard core Reformist. And I mean hard core. Haaaaaard core. And I see this a lot; Reformists who don't seem to believe their own doctrine.
Whoever you are, my post this morning was:
"And yet, if anyone considers himself religious and yet does not keep a tight reign on his tongue, he deceives himself and his religion is worthless. Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. James 1:26,27
If we have faith, we are to be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry (v.19). We are to care for orphans and widows and are to come out of the world and be separate - to touch no unclean thing (neither with our eyes, nor our ears or ultimately with our hearts) and God has promised, then, to receive us as His children and be our Father. Since we have that promise, we are to purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God; see 1 Cor.6:16-7:1. And I encourage you to never view the Scriptures through the lens of doctrine or personal ideas. Humbly listen.
Many here are slaves to sin by the definition of Jesus and the Scriptures and yet claim a place in Heaven as does their father the devil. With unforgiveness in their hearts, the erroneously claim their own forgiveness. They will go on to do their own will today, whereas, if they were a true child of God, they would be led of the Holy Spirit and rest. There is no fear of God before their eyes."
Whoever you are, you either lie or are uniformed.
"And yet, if anyone considers himself religious and yet does not keep a tight reign on his tongue, he deceives himself and his religion is worthless. Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. James 1:26,27
If we have faith, we are to be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry (v.19). We are to care for orphans and widows and are to come out of the world and be separate - to touch no unclean thing (neither with our eyes, nor our ears or ultimately with our hearts) and God has promised, then, to receive us as His children and be our Father. Since we have that promise, we are to purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God; see 1 Cor.6:16-7:1. And I encourage you to never view the Scriptures through the lens of doctrine or personal ideas. Humbly listen.
Many here are slaves to sin by the definition of Jesus and the Scriptures and yet claim a place in Heaven as does their father the devil. With unforgiveness in their hearts, the erroneously claim their own forgiveness. They will go on to do their own will today, whereas, if they were a true child of God, they would be led of the Holy Spirit and rest. There is no fear of God before their eyes."
Whoever you are, you either lie or are uniformed.
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Lie much? Due to our prior interactions my opinion of you is extremely low but I had no idea you were this bad off. Not much need to address you in the future either.
But my post this morning in response to the original post was:
"And yet, if anyone considers himself religious and yet does not keep a tight reign on his tongue, he deceives himself and his religion is worthless. Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. James 1:26,27
If we have faith, we are to be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry (v.19). We are to care for orphans and widows and are to come out of the world and be separate - to touch no unclean thing (neither with our eyes, nor our ears or ultimately with our hearts) and God has promised, then, to receive us as His children and be our Father. Since we have that promise, we are to purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God; see 1 Cor.6:16-7:1. And I encourage you to never view the Scriptures through the lens of doctrine or personal ideas. Humbly listen.
Many here are slaves to sin by the definition of Jesus and the Scriptures and yet claim a place in Heaven as does their father the devil. With unforgiveness in their hearts, the erroneously claim their own forgiveness. They will go on to do their own will today, whereas, if they were a true child of God, they would be led of the Holy Spirit and rest. There is no fear of God before their eyes."
As per usual, as you know, lots of Scripture. Shalom out.
But my post this morning in response to the original post was:
"And yet, if anyone considers himself religious and yet does not keep a tight reign on his tongue, he deceives himself and his religion is worthless. Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. James 1:26,27
If we have faith, we are to be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry (v.19). We are to care for orphans and widows and are to come out of the world and be separate - to touch no unclean thing (neither with our eyes, nor our ears or ultimately with our hearts) and God has promised, then, to receive us as His children and be our Father. Since we have that promise, we are to purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God; see 1 Cor.6:16-7:1. And I encourage you to never view the Scriptures through the lens of doctrine or personal ideas. Humbly listen.
Many here are slaves to sin by the definition of Jesus and the Scriptures and yet claim a place in Heaven as does their father the devil. With unforgiveness in their hearts, the erroneously claim their own forgiveness. They will go on to do their own will today, whereas, if they were a true child of God, they would be led of the Holy Spirit and rest. There is no fear of God before their eyes."
As per usual, as you know, lots of Scripture. Shalom out.
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@RebuildJesussChurch, you did not answer the question, why did Jesus come to planet Earth?
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