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Declaring His Work! Jesus!
We have returned to the Garden of Eden
Brought into His presence, made whole by the Lamb.
Satans lies crushed underfoot as we enter..
Truth is our breastplate, and light floods our stand.
Victory of blood, Royal blood out from Heaven
No stain of sin, given once for all men
Born into Him..Son of God, son of mankind
Covering; purging....flowing within.
Now we an army, attired in white linen
Helmets salvation encloses our head
Righteousness pinning lusts serpentine yearnings
Peace reigns our hearts touching others for Him.
He leads His army, His Voice individual
Yet, corporate as all move in Spirit as One
His-story shouting in signs and in wonders
Gathering all for His home filled with love.
Gonna keep on sayin it...
We have returned to the Garden of Eden
Brought into His presence, made whole by the Lamb.
Satans lies crushed underfoot as we enter..
Truth is our breastplate, and light floods our stand.
Victory of blood, Royal blood out from Heaven
No stain of sin, given once for all men
Born into Him..Son of God, son of mankind
Covering; purging....flowing within.
Now we an army, attired in white linen
Helmets salvation encloses our head
Righteousness pinning lusts serpentine yearnings
Peace reigns our hearts touching others for Him.
He leads His army, His Voice individual
Yet, corporate as all move in Spirit as One
His-story shouting in signs and in wonders
Gathering all for His home filled with love.
Gonna keep on sayin it...
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Post for E-grateful,
And thank you E-gratefully for protecting our home front in the US Coast Guard, we have a 90ft Coast Guard vessel here in Marina Del Ray, Los Angeles, named "Point Bridge" They had an open to the public tour one day of the "Point Bridge", and I was thrilled to Go. Of the things that I do remember is that all of the engine repairs were made by the crew only. And I recall asking the tour guide why do you have 2 covered barbecue's on the forward deck and he just laughed and said those are 50 caliber machine guns. I said same thing I reckon....
Thanks for your service as well,
Truth
And thank you E-gratefully for protecting our home front in the US Coast Guard, we have a 90ft Coast Guard vessel here in Marina Del Ray, Los Angeles, named "Point Bridge" They had an open to the public tour one day of the "Point Bridge", and I was thrilled to Go. Of the things that I do remember is that all of the engine repairs were made by the crew only. And I recall asking the tour guide why do you have 2 covered barbecue's on the forward deck and he just laughed and said those are 50 caliber machine guns. I said same thing I reckon....
Thanks for your service as well,
Truth
thanks bro,
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No, that's not the argument. I have no ability to believe, let alone continue to believe. God's gracious gift of faith is the ability He gives people to believe. That's why we can not boast in our believing.
It is only by His gracious gift of faith (the ability to believe something is true that you can not see) that we can then trust in and be saved by what he shows us to be true. And even our believing/trusting is so enabled and encouraged by his help that we can not boast in it either. We would quickly stop believing/trusting if it were not for God's continual help to keep us trusting in what he has shown us to be true through the gracious gift of faith.
God does not do our believing/trusting for us. He gives us the gracious gift of faith so we can believe/trust in the gospel and be saved. The believing part is what we do. But even that is not without his gracious encouragement and help.
It is only by His gracious gift of faith (the ability to believe something is true that you can not see) that we can then trust in and be saved by what he shows us to be true. And even our believing/trusting is so enabled and encouraged by his help that we can not boast in it either. We would quickly stop believing/trusting if it were not for God's continual help to keep us trusting in what he has shown us to be true through the gracious gift of faith.
God does not do our believing/trusting for us. He gives us the gracious gift of faith so we can believe/trust in the gospel and be saved. The believing part is what we do. But even that is not without his gracious encouragement and help.
Again it is important that we know whom we worship and do not forget; God is good and loving, forgiving, gracious, jealous, sovereign, merciful and yet just in all of His Judgments. He is eternal and holy, has all wisdom and he is unchanging, Omniscient, Omnipresent, just to mention a few of God's attributes.
"For in him we live and move and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'We are his offspring.' Acts17:28. Sermon on Mars Hill.
"For in him we live and move and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'We are his offspring.' Acts17:28. Sermon on Mars Hill.
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That is correct, 'he could not' is in no way indicative of his inability to heal. It's a direct reference to the absence of the requirement for their believing for him to heal. But people nowadays in the church say that's God's responsibility, not ours, because if believing was our responsibility it would be us trying to earn God's grace.
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Maybe it's a bloke thing that we laugh when one lets rip.
Although we have two dogs.
One is a cute and cuddly bichone frise.
He sits next to us, let's one go. Stands up looks at us as if butter wouldn't melt in his mouth then walks out the room.
The other is a border terrier.
She likes to come up on the sofa and lie on her back a spread herself out.
She lets one go and looks at me as if I had done it.
I remember once when I wasn't going to church. One Sunday morning I watched a movie about Jesus. Similar to Jesus of Nazerath.
As they were walking alongside the Red Sea or whatever sea it was, Jesus and the disciples started pushing each other into it and were laughing.
When my wife came home from church I said to her "Jesus and the disciples were fooling around and laughing, that can't be right"
She looked at me and said "Why not they would have had fun and laughed and it wouldn't surprise me if when they were together and one of them farted then they would have laughed as well"
Although we have two dogs.
One is a cute and cuddly bichone frise.
He sits next to us, let's one go. Stands up looks at us as if butter wouldn't melt in his mouth then walks out the room.
The other is a border terrier.
She likes to come up on the sofa and lie on her back a spread herself out.
She lets one go and looks at me as if I had done it.
I remember once when I wasn't going to church. One Sunday morning I watched a movie about Jesus. Similar to Jesus of Nazerath.
As they were walking alongside the Red Sea or whatever sea it was, Jesus and the disciples started pushing each other into it and were laughing.
When my wife came home from church I said to her "Jesus and the disciples were fooling around and laughing, that can't be right"
She looked at me and said "Why not they would have had fun and laughed and it wouldn't surprise me if when they were together and one of them farted then they would have laughed as well"
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God's power does not fail, WE FAIL. That's what 1 John 5 explains. Not everyone responds with believing to the testimony of the Holy Spirit through which God's faith (the power to believe) is delivered to a person. In fact, most people in the history of mankind choose to not believe the sure testimony of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of faith.
God does not do our believing for us. He provides the faith to do that believing, but the believing part is what we are to do. That is the part that he can only influence, not make happen apart from our will. Calvinism believes that God does do our believing for us. That's why I say this present doctrine about faith being a damnable work of self effort is Calvinism run amok.
God does not do our believing for us. He provides the faith to do that believing, but the believing part is what we are to do. That is the part that he can only influence, not make happen apart from our will. Calvinism believes that God does do our believing for us. That's why I say this present doctrine about faith being a damnable work of self effort is Calvinism run amok.
Jeremiah 29:11-15
11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. 12 Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. 13 And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. 14 I will be found by you, says the Lord, and I will bring you back from your captivity; I will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you, says the Lord, and I will bring you to the place from which I cause you to be carried away captive.
11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. 12 Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. 13 And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. 14 I will be found by you, says the Lord, and I will bring you back from your captivity; I will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you, says the Lord, and I will bring you to the place from which I cause you to be carried away captive.