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Hi Mailmandan, wonderful post and praise God for helping you find the "Truth" and the courage to act upon that truth. My dads family were mostly Roman Catholic, but I was "born again" and raised in a non-denomination conservative evangelical Church. I have 2 cousins that left the RCC....
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I'm going to take a wild guess and suggest that my point zoomed right over your head. All unrighteousness is sin, in fact, anything we do that is less than perfect is sin. Also, not doing what you know to be right is also a sin. I merely admit to being a human, or, in other words a sinner saved by grace.
We often, including you, find ourselves doing things that we know we shouldn't but we do them any way because they please us. And we do them until God corrects us with His chastisement. It may be that we suddenly find that heaven is silent to us and we know that we have broken fellowship with God. We decide that it is much better to walk with Him than against Him.
I trust that you are not interpreting my 'enjoyment' of sin as something heinous like adultery, drunkenness or some other gross sin. I'm using more of watching television programs that do not please God, but I get a kick out of them . . . for a season.
Does that clear things up for you, my judge?
I'm going to take a wild guess and suggest that my point zoomed right over your head. All unrighteousness is sin, in fact, anything we do that is less than perfect is sin. Also, not doing what you know to be right is also a sin. I merely admit to being a human, or, in other words a sinner saved by grace.
We often, including you, find ourselves doing things that we know we shouldn't but we do them any way because they please us. And we do them until God corrects us with His chastisement. It may be that we suddenly find that heaven is silent to us and we know that we have broken fellowship with God. We decide that it is much better to walk with Him than against Him.
I trust that you are not interpreting my 'enjoyment' of sin as something heinous like adultery, drunkenness or some other gross sin. I'm using more of watching television programs that do not please God, but I get a kick out of them . . . for a season.
Does that clear things up for you, my judge?
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benhur said: No fake branch is on the true vine.
Matthew 7:20-23 (HCSB)
20 So you’ll recognize them by their fruit.
21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord!’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but ⌊only⌋ the one who does the will of My Father in heaven.
22 On that day many will say to Me, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in Your name, drive out demons in Your name, and do many miracles in Your name?’
23 Then I will announce to them, ‘I never knew you! [born again] Depart from Me, you lawbreakers!’
John 15:5-7 (NKJV)
5 I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, {born again} bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.
6 If anyone does not abide in Me {unsaved church-goers}, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
7 If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.
John 10:27-28 (HCSB)
27 My sheep hear My voice, I know them [born again], and they follow Me.
28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish—ever! No one will snatch them out of My hand.
Mark 4:14-19 (NKJV)
14 The sower sows the word.
15 And these are the ones by the wayside where the word is sown. When they hear, Satan comes immediately and takes away the word that was sown in their hearts. - [ unsaved unbeliever ]
16 These likewise are the ones sown on stony ground who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with gladness;
17 and they have no root in themselves, and so endure only for a time. Afterward, when tribulation or persecution arises for the word's sake, immediately they stumble. - [ unsaved church-goer ]
18 Now these are the ones sown among thorns; they are the ones who hear the word,
19 and the cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful. - [ unsaved church-goer ]
Mark 4:20 (NKJV)
20 But these are the ones sown on good ground, those who hear the word, accept it, and bear fruit: some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some a hundred." = { BORN AGAIN CHRISTIANS - NO 0% FRUIT }
Matthew 25:1-13 (NKJV)
1 "Then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.
2 Now five of them were wise, and five were foolish.
3 Those who were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them,
4 but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
5 But while the bridegroom was delayed, they all slumbered and slept.
6 And at midnight a cry was heard: 'Behold, the bridegroom is coming; go out to meet him!'
7 Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps.
8 And the foolish said to the wise, 'Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.'
9 But the wise answered, saying, 'No, lest there should not be enough for us and you; but go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.'
10 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding; and the door was shut.
11 Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open to us!'
12 But he answered and said, 'Assuredly, I say to you, I do not know you.' = [ Born Again ]
13 Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.
NO ONE Without being READY AT THE TIME HE RETURNS FOR HIS BRIDE, will be taken to heaven, no matter how many times they went to Church. They HAVE TO BE READY AND EXPECTING THE BRIDEGROOM.
Matthew 7:20-23 (HCSB)
20 So you’ll recognize them by their fruit.
21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord!’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but ⌊only⌋ the one who does the will of My Father in heaven.
22 On that day many will say to Me, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in Your name, drive out demons in Your name, and do many miracles in Your name?’
23 Then I will announce to them, ‘I never knew you! [born again] Depart from Me, you lawbreakers!’
John 15:5-7 (NKJV)
5 I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, {born again} bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.
6 If anyone does not abide in Me {unsaved church-goers}, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
7 If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.
John 10:27-28 (HCSB)
27 My sheep hear My voice, I know them [born again], and they follow Me.
28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish—ever! No one will snatch them out of My hand.
Mark 4:14-19 (NKJV)
14 The sower sows the word.
15 And these are the ones by the wayside where the word is sown. When they hear, Satan comes immediately and takes away the word that was sown in their hearts. - [ unsaved unbeliever ]
16 These likewise are the ones sown on stony ground who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with gladness;
17 and they have no root in themselves, and so endure only for a time. Afterward, when tribulation or persecution arises for the word's sake, immediately they stumble. - [ unsaved church-goer ]
18 Now these are the ones sown among thorns; they are the ones who hear the word,
19 and the cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful. - [ unsaved church-goer ]
Mark 4:20 (NKJV)
20 But these are the ones sown on good ground, those who hear the word, accept it, and bear fruit: some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some a hundred." = { BORN AGAIN CHRISTIANS - NO 0% FRUIT }
Matthew 25:1-13 (NKJV)
1 "Then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.
2 Now five of them were wise, and five were foolish.
3 Those who were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them,
4 but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
5 But while the bridegroom was delayed, they all slumbered and slept.
6 And at midnight a cry was heard: 'Behold, the bridegroom is coming; go out to meet him!'
7 Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps.
8 And the foolish said to the wise, 'Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.'
9 But the wise answered, saying, 'No, lest there should not be enough for us and you; but go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.'
10 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding; and the door was shut.
11 Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open to us!'
12 But he answered and said, 'Assuredly, I say to you, I do not know you.' = [ Born Again ]
13 Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.
NO ONE Without being READY AT THE TIME HE RETURNS FOR HIS BRIDE, will be taken to heaven, no matter how many times they went to Church. They HAVE TO BE READY AND EXPECTING THE BRIDEGROOM.
I understood what you meant.......I just thank God I am not like you you sinner..........
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AMEN to the calling them WORKERS OF INIQUITY/LAWLESSNESS. Yes, I came out the Lutheran Church, with the same ritualistic order of service, with VERY LITTLE BIBLE TEACHING. I put up with it for about a YEAR after I was saved, while I was feeding on the Word taught by John MacArthur, on the Grace To You radio program. Then I just had to find a Church that Taught the Bible for an hour every Sunday. Before I left the Lutheran Church, Pastor confided in me, the board of elders came to him, saying that his 15 min. Sermons were too long, because after all they all wanted to get out of Church before Noon. So they ordered him to cut his sermons to 10 min. He told me he had to move because of that, so he accepted a Senior Pastor position, in a suburb of L.A. where he could teach for a half hour. And, I told him that was too short for me even. After I left that NON-BIBLE Teaching Church, every church I have attended taught sermons at LEAST 45 min. and most have taught sermons for 1 hour or more. Feels good to be WELL FEED.
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Anything, between Gen. 1:1 thru Rev. 22:21.
Back when I was first Saved, here is the Series that was MY Spiritual MILK.
https://www.gty.org/library/resources/sermons-library/scripture/1?book=66&chapter=0
I went through that WHOLE series 4 times all the way through, starting with - A Jet Tour Through Revelation.