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I agree.....God has called and used many different types of men with different types of personalities to lay his word bare.......some were meek, some full of love, some in your face with heat etc.....and God knows how to move us and at what times with particular emphasis upon character to make points needed to be made......If I tell a lost person they will burn in the lake of fire if they leave this world without Jesus...does that mean I don't love them?.....the problem is simple....society has been coddled and sissyfied to the point that anything negative hurts our "wittle" feelings and we need a binki and our nappies changed like every 30 seconds.......now watch how much heat I will get from this truth
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Esther 4
13Then Mordecai told them to reply to Esther, “Do not think to yourself that in the king’s palace you will escape any more than all the other Jews. 14For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?"
13Then Mordecai told them to reply to Esther, “Do not think to yourself that in the king’s palace you will escape any more than all the other Jews. 14For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?"
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There is a reason why it's called a DOUBLE EDGED sword.....the truth should cut both ways.
Steel sharpening steel....
A fire that burns away the dross....
All those I am okay with...
What I don't like is kicking someone while they are down and in need of love and comfort.
A time and place for everything and only through prayer and God's guidance can we know how to speak to others that will draw them towards God or help them tear down their spiritual strongholds.
Steel sharpening steel....
A fire that burns away the dross....
All those I am okay with...
What I don't like is kicking someone while they are down and in need of love and comfort.
A time and place for everything and only through prayer and God's guidance can we know how to speak to others that will draw them towards God or help them tear down their spiritual strongholds.
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This video has a simple was of explaining who we are and what salvation is https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b5aAGTNWNBA
So when people say we should follow the example of Jesus, they really don't mean it, they mean, do what Jesus did but exclude certain things. This should be stated up front, like, do as Jesus did, except for this, this, this, and this. Funny how people give them self permission to do certain things but don't like to see others doing anything remotely similar! That is called hypocrisy, Ariel. I wonder how you would rationalize and justify calling me names. That is more a rhetorical question, really, so you needn't feel compelled to answer it. You and Fran...
Jesus did not sugar coat my sin. Did He yours? How can you acknowledge the magnitude of your sin if it is candy coated? If you don't see yourself for who you really are, how can you acknowledge sin? You say you cannot see into people's hearts but you judge them just the same.
Jesus did not sugar coat my sin. Did He yours? How can you acknowledge the magnitude of your sin if it is candy coated? If you don't see yourself for who you really are, how can you acknowledge sin? You say you cannot see into people's hearts but you judge them just the same.
Hi Ariel: Maybe this will illustrate my point. Two men are drowning and there is no possible way either one of them can save themselves. One man is laying face down in the water and is unconscious and a Savior comes along and pulls him out of the water, that is not how we get saved(without any effort on our part). The other man sees the Savior and appeals to him to save him and reaches out his hand when the Savior is near, that is how we get saved.
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All the views on salvation shared here I am sure is with the desire to be a blessing to someone...Whether it is correct or not is subject to the Bible and our willingness to allow God speak to us. I have shared this link of a video (an animation) on another thread... it gives a simple explanation of salvation:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b5aAGTNWNBA
As we draw closer to Him the more we will know all that salvation is...
1cor 13:12 "Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely."
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b5aAGTNWNBA
As we draw closer to Him the more we will know all that salvation is...
1cor 13:12 "Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely."