Can We Really Exercise Free Will?
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If He is here , on this earth and ruling.........He sure is doing a BAD job.
This is why I pray for my local churches and their pastors and those whom the Lord has called to teach.
2 Peter 3:18
but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.
The Resurrection body will never die.
It will be a body just like the Lord's.
The Resurrection of Church age believers will take place in the Rapture.
When a nation is about to declare war?
It will withdraw its ambassadors.
The Tribulation will be an all out war of Satan against Israel, who is to remain on earth for seven years.
The Church will be "gone."
Sorry to make sense to you.
I know you hate it.
Please insist that @Cameron143 and @BillyBob inform all of their associates of the amazing discoveries found in these passages.
And their desperate need of sound Biblical doctrine.
[Act 1:9-11 KJV]
9 And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.
10 And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;
11 Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.
Act 3:21
Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.
Luk 13:35
Behold, your house is left unto you desolate: and verily I say unto you, Ye shall not see me, until the time come when ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,
who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our
lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body." Philippians 3:20-21
That body can not- will not- die.
That is what our Resurrection body will be like!
Maybe you are living in a bottomless pit amid nations that are not deceived but my feet are firmly on the Earth where many nations are deceived.
Rev.20:1-3
Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. 2 He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; 3 and he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, so that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished.
And why you think the devil ever held the keys to death and hades in the first place when it is the Lord who has always determined our allotment on this planet, beats me. It was sin that bound us to death, not the devil.
Was just rereading Revelation and it speaks about the Devil, the Dragon, the Accuser of us all that he is daily at throne of God showing God our sins.
The boy gets around because he is also attacking us and when we resist he goes to the next because he's a roaring lion seeking to destroy.
The boy gets around because he is also attacking us and when we resist he goes to the next because he's a roaring lion seeking to destroy.
Have you ever wondered why the Lord allows the Devil to accuse us before the Throne of God?
Just like He let him think he was winning while dying upon the Cross. He messes with the goober.
Point your finger at someone and you have three pointing back at yourself.
Satan unknowingly is justifying God's condemnation of Satan!
How?
By condemning the very actions that he is the father of!
When we sin?
The Cross puts us in the clear.
All sins paid for.
God will discipline, but not condemn.
For there is no condemnation to anyone in Christ. (Romans 8:1)
Therefore... No sin can condemn us to Hell.
But, Satan?
He keeps attacking our sins and ends up condemning himself.
Why?
For he is the father of the very nature he tries to condemn us for having!
What an elegant tactic God has been using against Satan!
One might say? God is deceiving the great deceiver, by getting him to unwittingly condemn himself!
“Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others,
you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you."
Matthew 7:1-2
This is why he lives rent free, as a squatter, in the dumpster area of our minds. Arguably the most charismatic counterfeit on this thread.
And he is proud of it.
I never had a clue how to live the Christian way of life for 10+ years.( stuck in deformed/calvie/tulip theory.)
Do not grieve the Spirit.
Do not quench the Spirit.
Be filled with the Spirit.
Walk in the Spirit.
1 John 1:9
Problems?
1. Rebound,,,,,, 1 John 1:9
2. The Filling of the Holy Spirit
3. Faith-Rest
4. Grace Orientation
5. Doctrinal Orientation
6. A Personal Sense of Destiny
7. Personal Love for God the Father
8. Impersonal Unconditional Love for all Mankind
9. Contentment and Perfect Happiness with God
10. Occupation with the Lord Jesus Christ