SALVATION
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Ah, yes, but when Heco mes, WILL He find belief?
Sometimes we say we believe but then worry about our job or our retirement fund, etc.
What IS that worry if not unbelief even as we SAY we DO believe?
A bit bizarre when you truly think hard about it. To say I believe I willn ever die but then to not trust Him in what He has said about an earthly and temporary thing like money and provision...there's a problem there, don't you think? Between what I say and what I prove? It's like I say I believe Him for the really big and eternal thing but won't believe Him for the small and temporary thing. For THAT thing, I look more to the worlds wisdom and understanding and insisto n worrying. I'll never die yet I'm going to worry about eating catfoodi n old age...? So when He comes, WILL He find belief?
Sometimes we say we believe but then worry about our job or our retirement fund, etc.
What IS that worry if not unbelief even as we SAY we DO believe?
A bit bizarre when you truly think hard about it. To say I believe I willn ever die but then to not trust Him in what He has said about an earthly and temporary thing like money and provision...there's a problem there, don't you think? Between what I say and what I prove? It's like I say I believe Him for the really big and eternal thing but won't believe Him for the small and temporary thing. For THAT thing, I look more to the worlds wisdom and understanding and insisto n worrying. I'll never die yet I'm going to worry about eating catfoodi n old age...? So when He comes, WILL He find belief?
Jesus is our High Priest, able to save us completely because He lives forever to intercede on our behalf. Such a worry needs to find comfort in His faithfulness and love. His blood is sufficient for us, and we are secure in Him. Holy Spirit inside of us as a seal of redemption. Its smooth sailing. 
(1Thess 5:9)
For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
John 3:13-16
King James Version(KJV)
13.)And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
14.)And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
15.)That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
16.)For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
King James Version(KJV)
13.)And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
14.)And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
15.)That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
16.)For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
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My faith lies in his ability to save me. I'm not perfect, my faith as a man comes short on what seems to be required yet I cannot increase my faith to any measure above what I am capable of. Quite a predicament. Yet the Lord is faithful to complete the good work he started in me. Ah that's my rest, my assurance that the Lord is not man, he does not fail.
I shall trust his word, I shall trust in him that created me, for where does my help come from? It comes from the Lord.
I shall trust his word, I shall trust in him that created me, for where does my help come from? It comes from the Lord.
Romans 3: KJV
19 ¶Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
21 ¶But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
19 ¶Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
21 ¶But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
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So? There wasn't much written at all before the 17th century and even fewer people who could read anything that was written. English as a language began for real around 450 A.D. That leaves over 1100 years between when it began and the time you say the Messiah was first called Jesus. So how do you know He was not called Jesus during that period??
Sounds way too simple. What's the catch??
(1Cor 1:17)
For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect.
(1Cor 1:19)
For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.”
(1Cor 1:21)
For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.