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    Not By Works

    There is both a temporal and an intemporal aspect to our salvation. It’s settled before the world began but God reveals, manifests it in time. 2 Timothy 1:9-10
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    Not By Works

    Perfect love drives out fear. I have always been a performance driven individual, and I had to learn that everything is vanity if we don’t know and live the Lord. This is now my first priority, and everything else must flow out from that. Otherwise, it’s all just carnal striving.
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    Not By Works

    He had a crushed spirit, and God healed him.
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    This is what it’s all about...glorifying God and telling of His wonderful works.
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    That’s a horrible circumstance about your wife. That would be a severe test for anyone and anyone would at the very least struggle mightily (and that’s the very strongest) As far as legalism, that was one of the reasons I fell. When we put ourselves under law/ legality, falling is inevitable. I...
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    I thought I had apostasized and was unsavable. That was a lie straight from hell.
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    I was for over a decade. God is long suffering and patient...I spent other years as a flickering wick and a bruised reed, but He never gave up on me.
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    Yes. The Holy Spirit is an eternal gift. And the Prodigal returns.
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    I don’t think walking away is necessarily apostasy. Some have walked away and returned by the Grace of God. Temporary lapse. I am one, praise Him. The Lord is my Shepherd. A temporary lapse is better than a temporary profession.
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    Could Hebrews 6, wher it says “ should they fall away” be refutation of thinking you have to be saved over and over again. (see Hebrews 6:1, where it mentions NOT laying AGAIN the foundation of faith) Some people who fall think they have to be “saved” all over again, but the writer is...
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    Not By Works

    I say yes.
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    Finding God again

    Don’t let sin in others drive you away from the One who knows no sin. Man cannot be trusted, but God is Faithful and no one who trusts Him will regret it. Look to God. Man will always let you down, but God never will.
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    Was the crucifixion that Jesus endured the worst possible suffering a human could experience?

    The worst about it was bearing the weight of our sins. The Infinitely Holy and Righteous and Pure became flesh and bore the weight of our sins
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    Not By Works

    I have slipped and fallen many times, but never has God forsaken me.
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    Only God and maybe that person knows if that person believed from the heart. It says you must believe in your HEART. A person can join a church, publically profess Christ, have the right creed, pray the “right” words, etc without ever believing from the heart.
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    Not By Works

    Yes, people have faith in many things, but only one faith can save. Only faih in Jesus and what He has done.
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    It becomes uncomplicated when the Gospel is clearly and powerfully, ( power of the Spirit) is proclaimed and it touches the heart. Preaching Jesus crucified and risen is what produces simple and powerful faith. If it’s a mere exercise, it becomes complicated.
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    Not By Works

    Correct. It is the object of our faith that is important
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    Not By Works

    Correct. And only faith in Christ saves.
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    Not By Works

    It is possible to trust in our faith, in our sinner’s prayer, in saying the right words, in having the right creed, in doing the right things, in other words, to trust in something that we do, instead of trusting Christ. Even putting our faith in our faith can replace faith in Christ...