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...For certain men whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. THEY ARE GODLESS MEN, WHO CHANGE THE GRACE OF OF OUR GOD INTO A LICENSE FOR IMMORALITY and DENY Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord. Jude 1:4
...They claim to know God, but by THEIR ACTIONS they DENY Him. They are detestable, DISOBEDIENT and UNFIT for doing anything good. Titus 1:16
Look who's talking about HONESTY.
...We know that we have come to know him if we obey his commands. The man who says, “I know him,” but does not do what he commands is A LIAR, AND THE TRUTH IS NOT IN HIM. But if anyone obeys his word, God’s love is truly made complete in him. This is how we know we are in him: Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did. 1 John 2:3-6
Do you not CALL EVIL GOOD and GOOD EVIL? (Isaiah 5:20-24)
Is it RIGHT to OBEY God?
Do you not insult and call the views of those who promote OBEDIENCE to God as IDIOTIC?
It's funny how your group can say that only genuine believers would OBEY God and those who promote OBEDIENCE to God are LOST, UNBELIEVERS, FALSE, DECEIVER, NOT SAVED TO BEGIN WITH and many other discriminating NEGATIVE remarks.
And when you are called out, you will accuse them of SLANDER and start bullying those who disagree with you.
But scriptures fortold of these kind of people and behaviour.
.. Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men: “See, the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones to judge everyone, and to convict all the ungodly of all the ungodly acts they have done in the ungodly way, and of all the harsh words ungodly sinners have spoken against him.” These men are grumblers and faultfinders; they follow their own evil desires; they boast about themselves and flatter others for their own advantage. But, dear friends, remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ foretold. They said to you, “In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires.” These are the men who divide you, who follow mere natural instincts and do not have the Spirit. Jude 1:14-19
...If anyone teaches false doctrines and does not agree to the sound instruction of our Lord Jesus Christ and to godly teaching, he is conceited and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy interest in controversies and quarrels about words that result in envy, strife, malicious talk, evil suspicions and constant friction between men of corrupt mind, who have been robbed of the truth and who think that godliness is a means to financial gain. 1 Timothy 6:3-5
...Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. HE WHO DOES WHAT IS RIGHT IS RIGHTEOUS, just as he is righteous. He who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work.
IS IT RIGHT TO OBEY GOD or not?
Are you an instrument of God's righteousness or do you just BELIEVE and let God do everything for you?
Who now is the LORD, you?...and who is your servant, GOD?
....“You have said harsh things against me,” says the Lord. “Yet you ask, ‘What have we said against you?’ “You have said, ‘IT IS FUTILE TO SERVE GOD. What did we gain by CARRYING OUT HIS REQUIREMENTS and going about like mourners before the Lord Almighty? But now we call the arrogant blessed. Certainly the evildoers prosper, and even those who challenge God escape.’” Then THOSE WHO FEARED THE LORD talked with each other, and the Lord listened and heard. A scroll of remembrance was written in his presence concerning those who feared the Lord and honored his name. “They will be mine,” says the Lord Almighty, “in the day when I make up my treasured possession. I WILL SPARE THEM, just as in compassion a man spares HIS SON WHO SERVES HIM. And you will again see the DISTINCTION between the RIGHTEOUS and the WICKED, between those who SERVE GOD and those who do not. Malachi 3:13-18
...God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him WE MIGHT BECOME THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD. 2 Corinthians 5:21
...For certain men whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. THEY ARE GODLESS MEN, WHO CHANGE THE GRACE OF OF OUR GOD INTO A LICENSE FOR IMMORALITY and DENY Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord. Jude 1:4
...They claim to know God, but by THEIR ACTIONS they DENY Him. They are detestable, DISOBEDIENT and UNFIT for doing anything good. Titus 1:16
Look who's talking about HONESTY.
...We know that we have come to know him if we obey his commands. The man who says, “I know him,” but does not do what he commands is A LIAR, AND THE TRUTH IS NOT IN HIM. But if anyone obeys his word, God’s love is truly made complete in him. This is how we know we are in him: Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did. 1 John 2:3-6
Do you not CALL EVIL GOOD and GOOD EVIL? (Isaiah 5:20-24)
Is it RIGHT to OBEY God?
Do you not insult and call the views of those who promote OBEDIENCE to God as IDIOTIC?
It's funny how your group can say that only genuine believers would OBEY God and those who promote OBEDIENCE to God are LOST, UNBELIEVERS, FALSE, DECEIVER, NOT SAVED TO BEGIN WITH and many other discriminating NEGATIVE remarks.
And when you are called out, you will accuse them of SLANDER and start bullying those who disagree with you.
But scriptures fortold of these kind of people and behaviour.
.. Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men: “See, the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones to judge everyone, and to convict all the ungodly of all the ungodly acts they have done in the ungodly way, and of all the harsh words ungodly sinners have spoken against him.” These men are grumblers and faultfinders; they follow their own evil desires; they boast about themselves and flatter others for their own advantage. But, dear friends, remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ foretold. They said to you, “In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires.” These are the men who divide you, who follow mere natural instincts and do not have the Spirit. Jude 1:14-19
...If anyone teaches false doctrines and does not agree to the sound instruction of our Lord Jesus Christ and to godly teaching, he is conceited and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy interest in controversies and quarrels about words that result in envy, strife, malicious talk, evil suspicions and constant friction between men of corrupt mind, who have been robbed of the truth and who think that godliness is a means to financial gain. 1 Timothy 6:3-5
...Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. HE WHO DOES WHAT IS RIGHT IS RIGHTEOUS, just as he is righteous. He who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work.
IS IT RIGHT TO OBEY GOD or not?
Are you an instrument of God's righteousness or do you just BELIEVE and let God do everything for you?
Who now is the LORD, you?...and who is your servant, GOD?
....“You have said harsh things against me,” says the Lord. “Yet you ask, ‘What have we said against you?’ “You have said, ‘IT IS FUTILE TO SERVE GOD. What did we gain by CARRYING OUT HIS REQUIREMENTS and going about like mourners before the Lord Almighty? But now we call the arrogant blessed. Certainly the evildoers prosper, and even those who challenge God escape.’” Then THOSE WHO FEARED THE LORD talked with each other, and the Lord listened and heard. A scroll of remembrance was written in his presence concerning those who feared the Lord and honored his name. “They will be mine,” says the Lord Almighty, “in the day when I make up my treasured possession. I WILL SPARE THEM, just as in compassion a man spares HIS SON WHO SERVES HIM. And you will again see the DISTINCTION between the RIGHTEOUS and the WICKED, between those who SERVE GOD and those who do not. Malachi 3:13-18
...God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him WE MIGHT BECOME THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD. 2 Corinthians 5:21
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I want to prove to you that you do not know what the Apostles did on a daily basis.
John 21:24-25 (HCSB)
24 This is the disciple who testifies to these things and who wrote them down. We know that his testimony is true.
25 And there are also many other things that Jesus did, which, if they were written one by one, I suppose not even the world itself could contain the books that would be written.
There is how LITTLE you and I know about JESUS CHRIST. ALL WE HAVE IS THE HIGHLIGHTS. NOW HOW DO YOU EXPECT WE SHOULD NOW EVEN MORE ABOUT THE APOSTLES.
They PRAYED DAILY, and why would they NOT PRAY FOR THEIR SINS.
We Confess and Repent of every NEW SIN THAT WE DISCOVER IN OUR LIVES.
HAVE YOU EVER TRIED IT ? ? ? You just might discover, a BLESSING in that Habitual Confessing of new SINS brings to you. YOU WILL DRAW CLOSER TO HIM! PLUS, I can guarantee that as you MATURE, you will sin LESS and LESS, but you will not be free from that sin nature until HE GIVES US THAT GLORIFIED BODY at the Resurrection, that CANNOT EVEN THINK SIN.
We repent of sin we know is going on. We cannot confess and repent of things we do not know.
People invent lots of failure points and lots of social sins.
Learning how to do good works, to care, to reach out, to love is our walk and our practice.
It has always been so from the beginning. Sin is not the primary feature of the people of God,
they are cleansed and purified. Is this a shock?
People invent lots of failure points and lots of social sins.
Learning how to do good works, to care, to reach out, to love is our walk and our practice.
It has always been so from the beginning. Sin is not the primary feature of the people of God,
they are cleansed and purified. Is this a shock?
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exodus 32
33 And the Lord said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.
Revelation 3:5
5 He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
1 John 5:
4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
5 Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
33 And the Lord said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.
Revelation 3:5
5 He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
1 John 5:
4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
5 Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
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Yeh when him and I went out for lunch the other day he did mention you.
He got a bit upset because you kept talking about this bloke called Bill.
I told him to forget about Bill, he is a waster.
So he said to me "Thanks Fred, in your ideal world who would bring you your coffee?
I asked him if he friendly with Claudia?
He got a bit upset because you kept talking about this bloke called Bill.
I told him to forget about Bill, he is a waster.
So he said to me "Thanks Fred, in your ideal world who would bring you your coffee?
I asked him if he friendly with Claudia?
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22 But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:
23 And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry:
24 For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
part of the parable
Jesus is telling the parable
the father of the son in the parable which Jesus is saying in context is who claims the son was dead
23 And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry:
24 For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
part of the parable
Jesus is telling the parable
the father of the son in the parable which Jesus is saying in context is who claims the son was dead
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...Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well. This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands. This is love for God: to obey his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God. Anyone who believes in the Son of God has this testimony in his heart. Anyone who does not believe God has made him out to be a liar, because he has not believed the testimony God has given about his Son. And THIS IS THE TESTIMONY: God has given us eternal life, and THIS LIFE IS IN HIS SON. He who has the Son HAS LIFE; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. 1 John 5:1-5,10-12
...“Why do you ask me about what is good?” Jesus replied. “There is only One who is good. IF YOU WANT TO ENTER LIFE, OBEY THE COMMANDMENTS.” Matthew 19:17
...On that day you will realize that I AM IN MY FATHER, and YOU ARE IN ME, and I AM IN YOU. Whoever has my commands and obeys them, HE IS THE ONE WHO LOVES ME.(See werse 15) He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him.” Then Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, “But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?” Jesus replied, “If anyone loves me, HE WILL OBEY MY TEACHING. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and MAKE OUR HOME WITH HIM. He who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.
If you have Jesus in you then you will have to OBEY what He says. Is He the One leading you?(see Romans 8:14)
...I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father...On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. John 14:12 & 20
WHY DO YOU CALL ME "LORD, LORD", AND DO NOT DO WHAT I SAY? Luke 6:46
...“Why do you ask me about what is good?” Jesus replied. “There is only One who is good. IF YOU WANT TO ENTER LIFE, OBEY THE COMMANDMENTS.” Matthew 19:17
...On that day you will realize that I AM IN MY FATHER, and YOU ARE IN ME, and I AM IN YOU. Whoever has my commands and obeys them, HE IS THE ONE WHO LOVES ME.(See werse 15) He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him.” Then Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, “But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?” Jesus replied, “If anyone loves me, HE WILL OBEY MY TEACHING. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and MAKE OUR HOME WITH HIM. He who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.
If you have Jesus in you then you will have to OBEY what He says. Is He the One leading you?(see Romans 8:14)
...I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father...On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. John 14:12 & 20
WHY DO YOU CALL ME "LORD, LORD", AND DO NOT DO WHAT I SAY? Luke 6:46
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i'm sorry, i dont understand your point.
the Father in the story represents God......right?
Jesus, who is God, is telling teaching us a lesson about SINNERS. Dont forget how these parables was started
Luke 15:1-3 (KJV)
1 Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.
2 And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.
3 And he spake this parable unto them, saying,
the Father in the story represents God......right?
Jesus, who is God, is telling teaching us a lesson about SINNERS. Dont forget how these parables was started
Luke 15:1-3 (KJV)
1 Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.
2 And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.
3 And he spake this parable unto them, saying,
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the point is the son was never dead in the parable
"This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them"
this whole story is about the forgiveness of God to those who seek Him in earnest
the Pharisees are accusing Jesus of being in the wrong for speaking to sinners
(pharisees who think they are without sin)
it is not about saved believers losing salvation
it is about the forgiveness of God extending to anyone no matter what youve done
"This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them"
this whole story is about the forgiveness of God to those who seek Him in earnest
the Pharisees are accusing Jesus of being in the wrong for speaking to sinners
(pharisees who think they are without sin)
it is not about saved believers losing salvation
it is about the forgiveness of God extending to anyone no matter what youve done
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