That’s like saying last night I talked to Martians, prove me wrong. Or better yet when third graders say I know you are but what am I. You’re better than that, Icon.
Romans 9:18 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
I do not think mankind can move him to change his mind. he makes the heart soft .He perform the things appointed to us working in and with us to do His good pleasure. .
Job 23: 13-14
But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.
For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.
Its not about who is a better Christian or who is ones favorite bible preacher as if we did wrestle against flesh and blood the temporal things seen. .
Mankind plants the incorruptible seed and waters it by preaches the gospel .God does the teaching and forming Christ in the person if any .
But mercy is about God who is of one mind and always does whatsoever his soul pleases having mercy .He alone can make our new heart soft.
The biggest problem comes from those that have the idea there is some work they could do after they stop breathing buried under ground .. Some say their bones will be dug up and judged as in double jeopardy. .Believer will not come into condemnation.
God is a God of mercy .Not vengeance as in. . .I will punish one forever and ever while not punishing the other. we live in a body of death it punishment' will prevail and return to the dust
When a unbeliever not given a new born again spirit dies The lifeless, spiritless dust returns to the field of clay and their temporal spirit subject to the letter of the law (death) It returns to the father who gave it temporally.
Hell is the daily sufferings we experience in these bodies of death . God has mercy by giving some a new spirit that will rise on the last day and it will then be clothed with the eternal .Body, soul and spirit a new creature..
Ecclesiastes 12:7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
It would seem salvation has in some ways been turned upside down taking away the understanding of the Potter .
Believing God not seen is a work of God ,the first experience of His love giving us his understanding through the living abiding word..
I would think Christians are saved by Christ's labor of love. Also called work of faith working . the Son working with the father for three days and nights . His faith that works in us with us is not our own selves .We are his masterpiece. The Potter forms the clay. He says let there be the glorious light of his presence and it is good when we do mix faith Our first love. The comforting love we repent to.
I am not accusing. . .Salvation is not about who had the wiser choice choosing life (moving the Potters hand). . rather than the dummies that don't know a good deal when they see one. That simply makes no biblical sense to me. The way I understand. More like the voice of the clay .
Christ must increase as we decrease .
I think we must be careful how we hear or say we hear the understanding of another. Familiarity like with Jesus' brothers and sisters can bring contempt, cause hatred (no blessing ) and can end up in murder as in. Out of sight out of mind . The foundation of Paganism .(No faith)
We must guard our heart be patient the first work of love and hear the understanding . A rope of three strands is not easily broken.
My wife and I need to be lifted up as with any two working to become one new bride.
Isaiah 29:16 Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?
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