Salvation is a Free Gift.
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there is Spiritual warfare, that many do not see, being of the flesh nature still, trying to make it here on earth physically. Glad you see this truth now and are learning too, as I am daily learning and forgetting and learning from each and all my mistakes. Then I have my resetter, where I have a thorn in my side as Pul talked of too in 2 Cor 12:7-10, I see that now, I am perplexed, yet see it yet do not, yet do not ever, wanting not or desiring not to ever take grace ever for granted ever.
As it feels, I do, yet no I am not, as God knows truth over error.
So I got a taste, to see to not ever, ever sin again ever. I got proud and out of this world over others, as if better, no thank you now after seeing this below, his me deeply
Luke 18:9-14
King James Version
9 And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:
10 Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican.
11 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.
12 I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.
13 And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
As it feels, I do, yet no I am not, as God knows truth over error.
So I got a taste, to see to not ever, ever sin again ever. I got proud and out of this world over others, as if better, no thank you now after seeing this below, his me deeply
Luke 18:9-14
King James Version
9 And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:
10 Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican.
11 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.
12 I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.
13 And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
I wonder if being made alive is different than being born again, and if having one's heart circumcised
guarantees that one will attain to life ever after. Some say yes, which is why I wonder. Some say you
cannot hear or experience God if you are not born again, but I had multiple encounters over many years
that spanned into decades before laying down my opposition to God and surrendering my will and my
life to Him. Also, it is the Holy Spirit of God that convicts the world of sin. Surely they experience that
before they are made alive, before coming to believe, before being born again?
guarantees that one will attain to life ever after. Some say yes, which is why I wonder. Some say you
cannot hear or experience God if you are not born again, but I had multiple encounters over many years
that spanned into decades before laying down my opposition to God and surrendering my will and my
life to Him. Also, it is the Holy Spirit of God that convicts the world of sin. Surely they experience that
before they are made alive, before coming to believe, before being born again?
