Can you love your enemy

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homwardbound

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So why did David kill other people okayyyyy hate something you are yet to understand also
The difference of flesh and the Spirit of God Sister.
Galatians 4:29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.

The battle then is the same battle today.
 

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Isaiah 59:18

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18 According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence.
Yes God will, not you, me or anyone else, yet flesh not of God will do as self will thinks period and bring evil upon evil as what has gone on for centuries using God as the catalyst
To justify their evil actions

So seek Mercy and do not be self-righteous for only God is good
 

homwardbound

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hmmm you so want to deny it hmmm she is saying


God is love and Love thinks no evil yet God thinks evil hmmm please explain what she asked hmmm stop beating around the bush


God is Love , Love think No Evil , Yet God thinks Evil hmmmmm
Isdaniel I have to ask, are you mocking God, it seems so to me and for me noway God is the only one good no matter what it might appear to look like as you seem to be pointing out that God is not Love by saying God thinks Evil. When in truth it is man flesh that thinks evil, not God
 

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Isaiah 45:7

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7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.
And by this darkness it shows how desperately we need the Light yes?
And who is the light
John 3:19
And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
John 8:12
Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
John 1:9 That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

Are you lit yet? Of God's Spirit the true light or the flesh that loves to hide in the dark and in the light act as if they got it all together

[h=3]Luke 18:9-14[/h]Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)

[SUP]9 [/SUP]And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: [SUP]10 [/SUP]Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. [SUP]11 [/SUP]The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. [SUP]12 [/SUP]I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess. [SUP]13 [/SUP]And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. [SUP]14 [/SUP]I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.


 

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Exodus 32:14

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14 And the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.
Because of the Mercy of God, and yet later people still took advantage of this Mercy as is what still goes on today, so God swore they will never enter his rest, why?
Because of unbelief, so go ahead and say you believe and work at it, showing you do not believe God took care of it all for you by the Cross of Son
Colossians 1:22 in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:

Do you believe the above verse to be true or not? Can you or anyone improve on Holy?
So did God by son do this for you or not? Is that Mercy or what?
 
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Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
 

homwardbound

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Deuteronomy 32:39See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.

God is the creator, the potter, and God can do whatever God chooses period
We are nothing more than clay
So being clay we can try to mold ourselves but can't do it
So either we turn to God to mold us at our asking to or we stay stubborn and continue to try and mold ourselves
Your choice between God and you, you get to have the amazing free choice as to who you will serve God or man
 

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Deuteronomy 7:15And the Lord will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.
I don't hate anyone and am not Special I have received Mercy therefore I give Mercy
And you?
 

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Did he create a tree of good and evil ? Why
If we had never known evil how would we know good and be able to choose one over the other?
Otherwise we would be nothing more than robots, just doing good without the knowledge in why
God is that loving and Merciful for us to come to belief. Why we all were and do sin God through Son dies for us all, to bring us to Father to give us new life in Father via the Spirit of Father. The very same Spirit that led Christ is to lead us, if one so chooses.

1 John 2:1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
 

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Jeremiah 18:11Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.
I am elated over anyone that wants to do right by God, for that is the front lead to one to come to the end of the energy of their own flesh, showing that one their inability to be perfect under the perfect law
And when one does come to the end of the energy of their own flesh God shows them:
James 1:25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed
 

homwardbound

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God Kills is on the list also

Deuteronomy 32:39-41

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39 See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.
41 If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.

Do you see love there


Yes God does, The Flesh and then brings one back to life in the Spirit done and completed in Christ
He told Peter in Acts to kill and eat. An allegory to go to the Gentiles and preach the amazing word of God and the Holy Spirit fell upon them without water Baptism. And later in the next Chapter Peter talks about this how they received without water Baptism, even though he water Baptized them afterwards, and says who is he (anyone) to stand in the way of God
God does just love you and all, time to respond, maybe?
 

homwardbound

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I applaud your patience with this fellow but hmmm i am finish it a rock
Christ is the rock that doesn't roll
[h=3]Colossians 1:21-23[/h]Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)

[SUP]21 [/SUP]And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled [SUP]22 [/SUP]in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight: [SUP]23 [/SUP]if ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;

 

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  • Jeremiah 19:3And say, Hear ye the word of the Lord, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bringevil upon this place, the which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle.
  • Jeremiah 19:15Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words
Just checking are you listening?
 

homwardbound

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hmmm i fully understand that words have many meanings hmm the devil created sin not God hmmm

But donot tell me God dont hate and He does not hate satan to the core :mad:
Careful Brother by your own words, I know I am not God or righteous ever of me ever, and I trust God to mold me as God has been doing for awhile now, praying the same for you, I personally can't mock God and it seems that you are, only you knoweth though and it is between God and you. Please praying you do not bring God's wrath down on you
Thank you lord for I know you know what is best, so Amen to all this
 

homwardbound

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hmm you said that God is unjust because you are saying God dont hate hmm God hates evil so must I even people
Hate evil yes agreed but not the person, and show the person God's love by God doing the work through you. I call it an exchanged life my life for God's given through Son's work finished at the cross through the resurrected Christ not the dead one
 

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Destruction is the consequences of evil doings.

Did God kill them or permitted their death? God is not a murderer.
God is righteous and the only one, nom matter what God does God is righteous in whatever God man can slice, dice and or cube it anyway man decides for God is not a liar, man flesh is
 
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Homwardbound, I really love you brother, but would it be too much to ask that you wait for others to respond before posting several things for a half hour plus? I say this because as the pages float by some newcomers will miss several other posts but other people because they are 1, 2, or 3 pages in the rear after an hour or two. Maybe you could consolidate your responses to several people at one time or something. Your thoughts are good, and I would not want to stifle the truth that you present.
 

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I am living holyvby the power of the holy ghost but onlybthrough Jesus holy for he has cleansed me not by my own might by my own power but by God's spirit..
Tank you and don't I know this as God leads not me ever, is my thanking God for this thanks to Son
and am thankful whenever I get a messenger of the Devil to buffet me as to keep me humble as Paul so well showed us in 2 cor. 7
 

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I can say yes we become dead to our flesh but the work never ends there are others in need of life therefore we are to be living sacrificed pillars to those to receive salvation we in Christ love our family and labor with great joy that is the participation in the death of our Lord ...
Yes, yet is it actually us doing the work? Or God through us as shown on the day of Pentecost and afterwards?
There is a difference is there not?
If there was not then there would have never been a need for them to wait for tat day of the Holy Ghost that came upon them?
I mean the resurrected Christ hung out for forty days after he rose and explained all, and why he had to go to the death and rise again. I mean they knew the truth right, better than we, being eye witnesses
So why then did they have to wait? Could it be that no one really knows without God actually in the lead
Look at before the cross what Christ said in Matt. 10:16-20. Is that still true today for you, me and all that believe?
 

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Good grief Home its the cross. You are my brother. Man the power of God is the preaching of the cross. Who cares what an angel names is or title. We will all throw are crowns to the ground and worship the lamb around the glassy sea. Its the cross and nothing else. What can we do in the flesh except have faith in the cross and I know that you know what I mean.
Thank you, direct back on track =, thank you