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I completely agree with you. Everything will happen on the last day, when Jesus comes back. In addition, God will establish the Final Judgment then; he will also create the new heaven and earth, where we will live forever in our resurrection bodies. Praise the Lord!!

I completely agree with you, as a retired pastor of 7 churches. In those churches, they had active deacons who, hopefully, looked after people's physical needs, while the elders took care of their spiritual needs. We must reach IN to administer God's love to our members and also reach OUT to...

Here, we have to distinguish between the legal word "justification" (Paul in Romans 3) and the word "cleansing" (John in your passage). Both are true. The very moment we trust in Jesus genuinely, God, our just Judge, declares us to have the "not-guilty" verdict of Jesus, who took our "guilty"...

You're correct, but I'm trying to summarize the whole Bible, not just Jesus' redemption.

Since these three are God's gifts to us, how do they deal with his creativity in creating everything and everyone, human sin, and Jesus rescue?

That passage beginning Hebrews does not deny the importance of the Old Testament but does say God spoke through the prophets. Read it carefully. The prophets also warned Israel about where their disobedience would lead, just the way the history does.

No, one of the members suggested an addition to it by adding LANDED before LOVING. Your response gave me a chuckle just because I tried to show how mine might be a little better as a preaching and teaching tool to help people remember it.

Are you doubting at all that God is Triune? If not, what convinced you? i would say the Gospel of John for me. If he is open to the New Testament, as he appears to be, show him its beginning and then the seven I AM statements of Jesus; they identify him with the I AM THAT I AM of Moses' burning...

I agree with you that Philippians is very inspiring, but it is inspiring in encouraging us to run the Christian race better. By my count, I see 15 imperatives or commands pointing us to become more joyful, gentle, less anxious, more prayerful, more supplicatory (if that's a word), more thankful...

Where in that verse does Paul say that we can lose our salvation? If we deny him, we can be like Peter and be restored through his forgiveness.

You are right about that. Christ with the Father and the Holy Spirit as the ONE true God created and LAUNCHED humans; LOVED us enough to rescue us by sending Jesus, the God-man; and gave us the power to live LOVING lives. Such is my explanation of my summary, which is only that, a summary that...

True, but God is involved in all of the parts of my summary except causing our LOST condition; we did that ourselves.

When I formulated my summary, I wanted it to be memorable, that is, so that when I preached and taught, the listeners would remember it beyond the church's doors. Obviously, Jesus is at the center of all the words, because he is God with the Father and the Holy Spirit as the one God who does all...

Of course, it is our LOST condition from which God LOVED us in order to rescue through Jesus' LOVING actions so that we can lead LOVING lives. Someone on this forum suggested that we need to insert the word "LANDED" in between "LOVED" and "LOVING." I think that it's a good suggestion, since God...

Yes, that is true in the Old and New Testaments.

God gives his Holy Spirit to believers to enable them to believe in him in the first place by provide his new birth (John 3). God is three Persons: the Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit (the whole Gospel of John). After that first gift of the Holy Spirit, he gives him again to us resulting in...

None of the prophets, including Isaiah, were God, who guided their writing for your benefit. The reason is that the prophets were mere humans, but Jesus as a Prophet was both God and human in the same body, who came to earth from heaven through Mary's womb in order to live the perfect life that...

Do you believe that the whole Bible is God's Word? Can you obey all of it perfectly? If your answers are "yes" and "no," then, you must rely on and trust in Jesus' perfect life, death, and resurrection that involves your emotions, decisions, and thinking, not just your mind. Such...

No, Jesus was very clear in John 6, 8, and 10 that we are always saved once we become saved. But I would say this. Only God knows for sure whether or not any person is truly saved, because only he can see our hearts as to whether he has given us the new birth. Also, when God saves a person...

The Apostle Paul in Ephesians 6:10-20 makes it very clear that the evil forces will be attacking believers in their warfare against God, who uses the armor to repel the devil's attacks. I get tired of his attacks too, but I revel in God's victorious rescues as well. As long as you are at the...