EXCEPT the FOOLISH VIRGINS, those that never RECIEVED that Holy Spirit. NO, that NOT the Charimatic THING.
They are Church Goers who love the Worldly things more than they LOVE THE LORD.
Hear is another example of them:
1 Corinthians 2:12-14 (NIV)
12 We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us.
13 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.
14 The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
There certainly are people that sit in church Pews every week, WITHOUT THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THEM. HOW DO I KNOW ? ? ? I USED TO BE ONE OF THEM, that thought my Infant Baptism, and Sitting on a Church Pew regulary mean I was SAVED. NOT AT ALL. I knew every time I tried to commit suicide (3 times), that I was walking into hades/hell. I never KNEW that LOVING JESUS could feel so good. I thought thought the Bible was the most BORING BOOK ON EARTH, NOW it is the most Exciting BOOK. The difference is literally NIGHT and DAY.
Now I LOVE HIM more than any body.
Matthew 7:14 (NIV)
14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
Only a FEW find it, HOW do you make your THEORY, square with the TRUTH of SCRIPTURE ? ? ?
Matthew 7:20 (NIV)
20 Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.
Fruit of the SPIRIT, is listed in ORDER of IMPORTANCE.
Galatians 5:22-23 (NIV)
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
If AGAPE love is not the MOTIVE for Serving HIM, you are still LOST. I WAS, and I KNEW I WOULD GO TO HADES/HELL.
But that night after my THIRD attempt at SUICIDE the last week of 1977. I wept deeply and long over my sinful lifestyle, and
SURRENDERED willing to JESUS CHRIST out of pure love For HIM, and gave HIM CONTROL of my LIFE. THAT is GENUINE SALVATION.
Sitting on a Church Pew did not SAVE ME, THAT 🡽 love that HE PUT IN MY HEART, DID.
Romans 5:5 (NIV)
5 And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.
They are Church Goers who love the Worldly things more than they LOVE THE LORD.
Hear is another example of them:
1 Corinthians 2:12-14 (NIV)
12 We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us.
13 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.
14 The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
There certainly are people that sit in church Pews every week, WITHOUT THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THEM. HOW DO I KNOW ? ? ? I USED TO BE ONE OF THEM, that thought my Infant Baptism, and Sitting on a Church Pew regulary mean I was SAVED. NOT AT ALL. I knew every time I tried to commit suicide (3 times), that I was walking into hades/hell. I never KNEW that LOVING JESUS could feel so good. I thought thought the Bible was the most BORING BOOK ON EARTH, NOW it is the most Exciting BOOK. The difference is literally NIGHT and DAY.
Now I LOVE HIM more than any body.
Matthew 7:14 (NIV)
14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
Only a FEW find it, HOW do you make your THEORY, square with the TRUTH of SCRIPTURE ? ? ?
Matthew 7:20 (NIV)
20 Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.
Fruit of the SPIRIT, is listed in ORDER of IMPORTANCE.
Galatians 5:22-23 (NIV)
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
If AGAPE love is not the MOTIVE for Serving HIM, you are still LOST. I WAS, and I KNEW I WOULD GO TO HADES/HELL.
But that night after my THIRD attempt at SUICIDE the last week of 1977. I wept deeply and long over my sinful lifestyle, and
SURRENDERED willing to JESUS CHRIST out of pure love For HIM, and gave HIM CONTROL of my LIFE. THAT is GENUINE SALVATION.
Sitting on a Church Pew did not SAVE ME, THAT 🡽 love that HE PUT IN MY HEART, DID.
Romans 5:5 (NIV)
5 And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.