lol. Again, it was you two who started condemning not me. I just asked a few questions and you went off. And did not like my answers.
No. My baptist is not in me If it was I would be like you and praising how well I have defeated sin, by just saying no. And how my church does not do this or do that.
I am not a Baptist and left the denomination at 14 with my Parents.
Instead I would rather just stick to the word Again, people who are stuck in tradition have a hard time breaking from it. I know it was hard for me.
Yet you reject the truth of the word that you have a responsibility to renew your own mind and say super spiritual things like, God only renews it. Jesus was your blue print about how to live down here.
When we send a soldier into battle, we give them the best training, best equipment and arm them with the very best weapons. We give them power and authority to go into battle. They have access to call on their satellite phone/radio and get whatever support they need, whether it be air support, artillery fire, more supplies, anything. They have a link to call upon.
They are trained in their power and authority to overcome all obstacles, hardships, setbacks, and given everything they need to to engage the enemy and destroy him and his works and take real estate and claim it and keep it. They have been trained in the mindset of victory and overcoming all obstacles, they know what their objective is, they know the weapons of their warfare, they know they have a link to call upon force multipliers to enhance their already lethal capabilities, They do not need to continually ask the Commander in Chief for support. Theya re a mena, lean fighting machine that is instinctive in its mission and how they conduct warfare.
You will never see a Solider on the battlefield with his helmet, boots, knee pads, body Armour on, weapon slung stop on the Battle field and take his sat phone out and call the President and say:
Hi huh this is soldier 1, yes Mr. President, I was wondering, The enemy has started probing us, and fired a few shots in our direction, and one bullet grazed my helmet and hmmm, yeah ,I just do not understand this at all, and I need to know hmm, what to do and how we engage here and what authority and power I have to deal with this stuff, and I hmmm, need your help really bad right now, because to be honest its getting a little hot and tense right now hhmmm Sir.
So after a long pause, the President asks the soldier:
Son, are you Soldier of the United States? DO you not know you carry the power and authority of the President and Congress of the United States on you? Are you not trained in the ways of warfare? Do you not have the very best Protective Armour money on you? Do you not understand you have the very best hand weapons in the world? Are you not equipped wiht the very best commo gear to reach out and call in support when you really need it? Have you not been tuaght to go and run toward sand engage the enemy and take back what he is taken form us? Have you not been supplied to bring the captives of the enemy back home? Have you not been molded and made to be a lean, mean fighting machine, that does not need to call upon me every step of the way, because your faith in the things we have given and put inside of your should take you into the enemy camp and utterly destroy him?
Yes sir all that is correct................
Then why are you calling upon my name and standing there and seeking my advice. I have given you everything you need to recover the captives, save the innocent and utterly destroy the works of the enemy, SO Soldier, ready your weapon, tighten up your helmet, plant those boots in the ground, know you have support if you ask if you need to take out a stronghold and go out and engage the enemy and deliver the captive, bind up the broken hearted, save the lost, heal the sick and take abck what the enemy has stolen, killed and destroyed.
Love propels us to action, not stroke our inability to advance the kingdom.
The single greatest lie the enemy tells God's people is that cannot pursue, overtake and recover all!!!! That they are powerless to live in victory and can overcome the wicked one, because they are strong and the word of God abides in them! If you think its bragging, its because you are still bound by the very tradition you seek so hard to detach yourself from and are now bound in false humility adn that is exactly where satan has kept many in the body of CHrist.
He knows that if you ever become free from sin consciousness and false humility and never take on the name of Jesus, put on the whole Armour of God and never take it off understand you have legal right to use the name above all names and have his power and authority in his name, you will stay powerless and are no threat to him at all.
I believe most baptists will be in heaven, thats not my problem with them My problem with them is they do not know or teach how to reach spiritual maturity. But this is not just the problem with them, it is the problem with most traditional churches.
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Then stop judging sinners who have not yet found that healing, and start loving them, and stop praising your church as so much better than every one elses.
Exhorting you to get off your duff and advance the kingdom is not judgement. It is obvious by your statements you are still wounded beyond belief. You get mad at every believer that has bypassed you in spiritual growth and hide behind the spiritual juvenile tactic of, where's your love walk and how prideful are you and that church down the road. Love also sees the kingdom potential in people and believes for that kingdom potential to be brought forth in a variety of ways. You would do very well to study out the sharp disagreements Paul had with co-apostles to see how true love can also work.
No. I am not ruled by anything but God See you still have absolutely no idea what I believe, your still stuck in what you THINK I am saying,
You have no desire to learn what I believe you take everything I say as an insult. and must defend yourself (which is exactly how I used to be) so you are blind to even open your eyes, and say what is this guy really saying.
Spiritual maturity is not the act of becoming a greater sinner, It is the acknowledgement of how much of a sinner we really are (we stop looking at our outward sins, and start looking at our inward heart)
Thats what Paul realised in romans 7.
Sorry man, now your back pedaling with private revaluation immaturity.
1 COr 10.13a says:
[SUP]13 [/SUP]No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man;
Temptation is trial here, we have all been through what you think is the only thing you have learned or gone through.
Nobody is blind but you, because you are a growth path, many have completed before you. Do not be so spiritual and instead be spirit led. That will come for you. This is why you attack people and then accuse them of being blind and attacking you instead. I see this happen with sheep all the time, I have been where you have been and a sign of true spiritual maturity is understanding that others have gone through what you are goign through and your revelation is not of any private interpretation, but is common to every man and woman of God.
Romans 7 is a contrast chapter to Romans 8. In Romans 7, Paul is showing that it is impossible to live the life of a Christian under the flesh, then in Romans 8, he shows that the only way you walk the Christian walk is by the Spirit leading you, and that you have the power to overcome your sin and flesh to be Spirit led.
I have great victory. Victory I never had when I was stuck on stopping sin, and trying to repent. I have victory, because it is not about me, it is about others.
Why do you think I said you will never hear me puff myself up as not doing this or that? it is not about me.
It is absolutely about others. You are hindered by false humility, which is not a SIN, but a stumbling block to further spiritual maturity.
Your the one self righteous. Name something self righteous I have praised myself of overcoming, or my church of not being?
Again, your trying to fight me by putting me in the boat you are in. That will not help you grow. believe me, I know
You are self righteous in your false humility.
My yes is yes, my now is no.
No it really is not, but its ok, its a spiritual growth phase.
You asked if I unconditionally loved benny hinn, If I just said yes, would that prove anything?
See. I know your type. If i just said yes, you would come at me, Instead I said yes, and used an example you still came after me.
Had you simply said YES, it would have proven everything you have stated about the Love walk you so passionately and correctly talk about. IF anything I would have either replied wiht good answer, or nothing at all. I did not come after you, I asked what your statement had to do with a direct question, that was either a yes or no answer. You did not say yes EG, stop back pedaling, you said I hope he goes to heaven. Come on man, lower the pride a wee bit.
My motive was finding out if what you talk, you walk. A simple Yes, would have proven something very important, and instead of seeing this as a exhortation to improve, you back up with pride and indignation and believe I am 'coming" after you.
You will go nowhere in the kingdom if you fold like flower when a little humid heat hits you
Oh. Do tell. what part of the world (sin) am I throwing out? I would love to hear this, with examples of what I said.
lets see you prove your straw man argument.
I do not need to do engage in this, I think my points have been made very well. Continue on your growth path EG and lower your pride and stop leaning so much on your understanding and stop being spiritual and look to be Spirit-Led