Is your church condemned?
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This scripture has had me perplexed. Finally I have settled on, that Jesus was trying to tell them about what must happen to Him..and they could not understand. He sent them out "without purse or script" and they lacked nothing. He goes on, "but now, he who has "purse and script" (Isn't He referring to their opposition here? For they had been shown to trust in Him, not provisions.) Soon He would tell them Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.
IOW, I think He was trying to warn them about what would happen to Him, and after He was crucified..that they would be persecuted for following Him. His response, "..it is enough" referring to 2 swords? 2 swords won't get very far up against a mob. ..so maybe it was His way of ending that discussion. That's just my take..I'm speculating.
IOW, I think He was trying to warn them about what would happen to Him, and after He was crucified..that they would be persecuted for following Him. His response, "..it is enough" referring to 2 swords? 2 swords won't get very far up against a mob. ..so maybe it was His way of ending that discussion. That's just my take..I'm speculating.
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It might have been tongue in cheek, but not ridicule.
I have my own life experiences to be able to say for a fact the spiritual world exists.
However if a spirit is teaching you something contrary to scripture, isolating you from loved ones and causing you to NOT display the fruits of walking with the Holy spirit like love, peace, kindness, etc or practice true religion such as visiting widows and orphans, clothing the naked, feeding the poor.....then it's time to pray and ask God if that spirit is truly HOLY.
General test everyone should use upon any spirit claiming to be from God.
I have my own life experiences to be able to say for a fact the spiritual world exists.
However if a spirit is teaching you something contrary to scripture, isolating you from loved ones and causing you to NOT display the fruits of walking with the Holy spirit like love, peace, kindness, etc or practice true religion such as visiting widows and orphans, clothing the naked, feeding the poor.....then it's time to pray and ask God if that spirit is truly HOLY.
General test everyone should use upon any spirit claiming to be from God.
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I am not ridiculing it Just can't make my experience authoritative and other not 
all has to be measured in Light of Scripture
all has to be measured in Light of Scripture
Jesus has actually let me see him. But most of the times and there have been a number of them Jesus just lets me hear and know he is there. How I know is not something I can explain. Jesus has given me seven visions of my walk with him all the way to my death, and after my death.
When Jesus sat next to me to teach me that Christians don’t sim, I did not actually see him, but I felt him, and he talked to me.
When Jesus sat next to me to teach me that Christians don’t sim, I did not actually see him, but I felt him, and he talked to me.
Don’t you read scripture Jesus said he would show himself to those who keep his commandments, I have seen Jesus.
(John 14: 23) “Anyone who loves me will keep my word and my Father will love him, and we shall come to him and make a home in him.”
(John 14:21) “Anybody who receives my commandments and keeps them will be one who loves me; and anybody who loves me will be loved by My Father, and I shall love him and show myself to him.”
(John 14: 23) “Anyone who loves me will keep my word and my Father will love him, and we shall come to him and make a home in him.”
(John 14:21) “Anybody who receives my commandments and keeps them will be one who loves me; and anybody who loves me will be loved by My Father, and I shall love him and show myself to him.”
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*In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials, *that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ, *whom having not seen you love. Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, *receiving the end of your faith—the salvation of your souls. - 1 Peter 1:6-9
That's cool. And as some have said here.... hang onto that, and believe it. It's yours; cherish it.
But If you ARE laying what you understand on people as something others have to listen to and obey when you preach about your vision, (removed) has been given the task of, and the right to go around telling everyone they are going to hell.
But If you ARE laying what you understand on people as something others have to listen to and obey when you preach about your vision, (removed) has been given the task of, and the right to go around telling everyone they are going to hell.
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