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What if you as an unbeliever live more righteously than those who claim to have Jesus in their life?
I wasn't raised Christian and I followed the rules better than the teenagers preaching at me about Jesus.
I even read the Bible more than they did. I could quote more verses and they couldn't answer my questions. Even the preachers they introduced me to were disappointing, because they preached at me and prayed for me, but never took the time to listen and pray with me.
Maybe when I have time, some day I will tell you some of my life story and how God called me to Him.
I wasn't raised Christian and I followed the rules better than the teenagers preaching at me about Jesus.
I even read the Bible more than they did. I could quote more verses and they couldn't answer my questions. Even the preachers they introduced me to were disappointing, because they preached at me and prayed for me, but never took the time to listen and pray with me.
Maybe when I have time, some day I will tell you some of my life story and how God called me to Him.
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I've seen many children, teens, and young adults understand the Gospel, and believe and accept it, and their need for a Savior, WITHOUT explaining to them what a grain offering, peace offering, sin offering, trespass offering, was, or get into the daily animal bloodletting, that was all prophetic of Jesus Christ.
They simply heard that God came to save the world in the form of a human being, paid the price for THEIR wrongdoings (sin), and rose to life.
As they grow in faith, they learn more and more from the Word. Including the sacrificial system and it's relation to Jesus.
Issachar - did you get your icon pic from this site - really nice stained glass work.
https://pt.slideshare.net/guesta6167d/los-hijos-de-jacob-presentation
https://pt.slideshare.net/guesta6167d/los-hijos-de-jacob-presentation
More righteous by who's standard? I haven't met an unsaved person, who WE might consider righteous, that wasn't also SELF-righteous.
But you do illustrate why it is so important not to take the Lord's Name in vain. And by that I mean call ourselves by His Name and then act in a un-Christlike manner.
But you do illustrate why it is so important not to take the Lord's Name in vain. And by that I mean call ourselves by His Name and then act in a un-Christlike manner.
that's a shame because I have met several unsaved people who could easily be called righteous. I know several people who are unsaved and while having many flaws have some of the most virtuous hearts i have ever met, they stand for what is right and care for the needs of others. They are atheists but I always pray for God to come into their hearts because once he does they will be some of his greatest warriors.
I don't know how you see things but for me personally i look to the heart not if they are saved are not to decide things about them. true it is vital they be saved but a righteous person is one who stands for good and who shows this virtue in all they do and believe it or not many of them are not who you might expect
One of the things that Grace7 says often is that we must look at the word through the lens of Christ (something to that effect). I believe that this statement is very true when we read or teach the OT and the law. If we fail to do this, we confuse ourselves and others that we try to teach it to.
Thank you, Ariel, for bringing this thread. The BDF seems to always get hung up on how to be saved, and never gets to the real meat of the Gospel. We are Saved, now what?
My question for everyone. When you have shared the Gospel with a person, and that person accepts Christ as his Savior, What do you do next? I suspect that many will hand that person a track or a bible, and never speak to him/her again.
Thank you, Ariel, for bringing this thread. The BDF seems to always get hung up on how to be saved, and never gets to the real meat of the Gospel. We are Saved, now what?
My question for everyone. When you have shared the Gospel with a person, and that person accepts Christ as his Savior, What do you do next? I suspect that many will hand that person a track or a bible, and never speak to him/her again.
I agree. Without looking at scripture through the finished work of Christ we can get ourselves all messed up between the Old and New Covenant. The bible is progressive revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Without the epistles of Paul we would have no idea what happened from the cross to the throne by just reading the 4 gospels. We wouldn't know that we too died on the cross with Christ and were risen from the dead with Him.
Here in Acts 20 is what Paul did about leaving people with the Lord. After doing this below - he would then pray his prayers in his epistles for them - that the Father would grant them to be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man - give them a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Christ. That their love would abound more with real knowledge and all discernment.
Acts 20:32 (NASB)
[SUP]32 [/SUP] "And now I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.
