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You PROVE how little you do actually know about OSAS.
2 Timothy 1:9 (HCSB)
9 He has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began.
Titus 3:5-7 (HCSB)
5 He saved us— not by works of righteousness that we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of regeneration and renewal by the Holy Spirit.
6 He poured out this ⌊Spirit⌋ on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior,
7 so that having been justified by His grace, we may become heirs with the hope of eternal life.
Romans 5:8-11 (HCSB)
8 But God proves His own love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us!
9 Much more then, since we have now been declared righteous by His blood, we will be saved through Him from wrath.
10 For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, ⌊then how⌋ much more, having been reconciled, will we be saved by His life!
11 And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ. We have now received this reconciliation through Him.
John 10:27-28 (HCSB)
27 My sheep hear My voice, I know them, and they follow Me.
28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish—ever! No one will snatch them out of My hand.
{It is not ETERNAL, if you can lose it.}
1 Peter 1:3-5 (HCSB)
3 Praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. According to His great mercy, He has given us a new birth {It is the HOLY SPIRIT Who birthed our Human Spirit.} into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead
4 and into an inheritance that is imperishable, uncorrupted, and unfading, kept in heaven for you.
5 You are being protected by God’s power through faith for a salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.
Romans 11:29 (HCSB)
29 since God’s gracious gifts and calling are irrevocable.
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Did you forget that when even Jesus was speaking, He said, “Whoever has an ear to hear what the SPIRIT Is saying,”......
The flesh of man will trust in his own intellect to find Truth - this is prideful and foolish and any knowledge gained will only puff up the person and make them even more prideful. This type of person has eyes but, sees not and ears but, hears not. This type of person boasts in their years of seminary, diligent study of God's Word, that they speak Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic, that they have written thousands of commentaries yet, they were only a hamster on a wheel going nowhere.
However, when a believer learns to depend ONLY on the HOLY SPIRIT for TRUE knowledge and understanding of the scriptures, the Word becomes living - The Word and The Spirit together give LIFE to the hearer. The hearer does NOT become prideful and puffed up, instead the hearer becomes so humbled and thankful and delights immensely in The Truth. They may still go to seminary, write commentaries, speak Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic but, they rarely mention those things....instead they speak of how fascinating and life giving the scriptures are when the Holy Spirit illuminates them......then, we have eyes to see and ears to hear what the SPIRIT is saying.
As I mentioned in a prior post, I DO enjoy listening to preachers and sermons BUT, EVERYTHING I hear is filtered through The Holy Spirit and God's Word.
Lately, I've enjoyed watching "encountertv," I also enjoy Charles Stanley, Tony Evans, Joyce Meyer - no body has it all correct but, I enjoy listening. Mostly, I just listen to the audio bible.
God bless you both! Sorry for my late reply.
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Everyone of us makes judgements all the time about words spoken by others. Most of the time we don’t respond to them unless we have an opinion that warrants a response.
Here we should be comparing scripture with scriptures and most of us are doing this. So it’s not judging the person but the words.
When someone twists another’s words, it’s upsetting. People aren’t wrong in this case.
Here we should be comparing scripture with scriptures and most of us are doing this. So it’s not judging the person but the words.
When someone twists another’s words, it’s upsetting. People aren’t wrong in this case.
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Come let us reason together...
Isaiah 1:18
So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who happened to be there.
Acts 17:17
God has the ability to reason and He gave us that gift as well, while I agree we are in a fallen state and our ability to reason is faulty as well, relying solely on divine revelation apart from reason is not what I read in scripture at all.
As someone once stated to me..............both blades of the scissors are required for them to cut.
Isaiah 1:18
So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who happened to be there.
Acts 17:17
God has the ability to reason and He gave us that gift as well, while I agree we are in a fallen state and our ability to reason is faulty as well, relying solely on divine revelation apart from reason is not what I read in scripture at all.
As someone once stated to me..............both blades of the scissors are required for them to cut.
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The two blades of the scissors are The Word and The Holy Spirit. When a person is teaching according to God's Will they will speak The Word WITH The Holy Spirit, just as Jesus did.
The disciple Stephen just before he was stoned presented the history of Israel and the Messiah from the Torah to the religious leaders and at the end of his speech he cried out, "Why do you always resist the Holy Spirit?!"
Those scribes and pharisees clung so tightly to their human reasoning of the scriptures that made them so prideful that they would not receive the Truth that the Holy Spirit through Stephen was trying to tell them.
Holy men wrote the scriptures by being moved by the Holy Spirit, we cannot truly understand them without the Holy Spirit.
The disciple Stephen just before he was stoned presented the history of Israel and the Messiah from the Torah to the religious leaders and at the end of his speech he cried out, "Why do you always resist the Holy Spirit?!"
Those scribes and pharisees clung so tightly to their human reasoning of the scriptures that made them so prideful that they would not receive the Truth that the Holy Spirit through Stephen was trying to tell them.
Holy men wrote the scriptures by being moved by the Holy Spirit, we cannot truly understand them without the Holy Spirit.
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