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Seriously, Jesus Christ does The Father’s Will........WHO chooses The Bride for Jesus......
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Let the word of God explain the word of God
God bless
God bless
The Holy Spirit leads me....I have a wonderful relationship with him.....you do know how powerful the Holy Spirit is...Right?
We talk to each other all day every day!.......I often lose stuff in the house..I lost my driving license...the Lord has given me the faith to believe he will lead me to my lost items.
Only got to ask in Jesus Name....he led me into the loft,straight to a plastic carrier bag...there it was,amongst my receipts.
He also gives me his strength to carry my shopping home....
Just a little of the many things the Holy Spirit helps me with.
My faith hasn’t always been this way....
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I have come to believe that it’s ok to say “I don’t know” on certain issues.
limited atonement and certainly predestination, even though I lean heavily in the sovereignty of God over man, are issues that we can say qualify as “seeing through a glass darkly”.
What most here have in common is much greater than what divides us.
Most here believe the following.
Jesus Christ is God in human flesh.
Jesus was crucified and died to pay our sin debt.
Jesus rose from the grave on the third day.
Those that trust in Him, and are born again, are forever His.
Jesus Christ will come again to judge the living (His children) and the dead (unsaved).
So my point is we shouldn’t be divisive to one another over doctrines that don’t impact the Gospel.
And I am by no means singling you out. I have had more than my share of fairly contentious doctrinal arguments.
But it’s the Gospel, and any attempt to alter it in any way, that we need to unite around and not let get perverted. Be blessed brother.
limited atonement and certainly predestination, even though I lean heavily in the sovereignty of God over man, are issues that we can say qualify as “seeing through a glass darkly”.
What most here have in common is much greater than what divides us.
Most here believe the following.
Jesus Christ is God in human flesh.
Jesus was crucified and died to pay our sin debt.
Jesus rose from the grave on the third day.
Those that trust in Him, and are born again, are forever His.
Jesus Christ will come again to judge the living (His children) and the dead (unsaved).
So my point is we shouldn’t be divisive to one another over doctrines that don’t impact the Gospel.
And I am by no means singling you out. I have had more than my share of fairly contentious doctrinal arguments.
But it’s the Gospel, and any attempt to alter it in any way, that we need to unite around and not let get perverted. Be blessed brother.
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Hos 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
Pro 25:2 It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
You need to know the word of God to test what the spirit is teaching you. If it is contrary to the word of God it is not from the Spirit but from a different spirit. Remember that our war is in the spirit not in the flesh. We need to have discernment and we can only have that when we know the word of God. On earth the final authority in truth is from the Word of God. The Spirit will never teach us anything that is contradicting scripture.
Pro 25:2 It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
You need to know the word of God to test what the spirit is teaching you. If it is contrary to the word of God it is not from the Spirit but from a different spirit. Remember that our war is in the spirit not in the flesh. We need to have discernment and we can only have that when we know the word of God. On earth the final authority in truth is from the Word of God. The Spirit will never teach us anything that is contradicting scripture.
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Dear Heavenly Father,
Thank You for hearing our prayer......
Send Your Word AND Your Holy Spirit and open the blind eyes and deaf ears....may Jackrosie’s friend see and hear The Word and Holy Spirit of God even unto Salvation and great fervent love for You - so much love for You that the world goes silent, in the Name of Jesus Christ, amen.
Thank You for hearing our prayer......
Send Your Word AND Your Holy Spirit and open the blind eyes and deaf ears....may Jackrosie’s friend see and hear The Word and Holy Spirit of God even unto Salvation and great fervent love for You - so much love for You that the world goes silent, in the Name of Jesus Christ, amen.
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I think you misunderstand me.....the Holy Spirit leads us to scripture and talks to us through it.
The carnal mind cannot understand the word of God...as they are still in sin/darkness...they are alienated from God.
As was I once....I had never ever read the bible...I became born again without scripture....after becoming a child of God..he then led me to scripture and spoke to me through it and still does.
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Once you have experienced being taught The Word by The Holy Spirit, you just NEVER want to know anything unless The Holy Spirit teaches you.
He is The Spirit of Truth, in Him is no lie.
But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
1 John 2:27 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=1 John 2:27&version=KJV
He is The Spirit of Truth, in Him is no lie.
But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
1 John 2:27 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=1 John 2:27&version=KJV
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Good day sir
1. nothing my my post insists that a person was chosen by their own power of comming to faith,
2. the argument that was being “proven” by this so called quote was that god chose me based on the fact I CHOSE him, nothing in that post said I chose god, saying “I chose god” and saying ” I have faith in God“ is two different things, and to say otherwise is dishonest, this is where bearing false witness comes in
not only was the argument, on that fact basis that I said “I chose God and that is why God chose me” it is also stated that I am MERITING my salvation because of faith and this is the remark used to prove it.
if this is the argument, it MUST be assumed I came to faith on my own power with no direction or help from God, how else could I merit salvation? And I never stated such a thing.
it is the tactic of those who are no defending to play this game, that’s why I had them on ignore to begin with and now am going to ignore whatever they say unless they start their lies and inflammatory posts again,
if you feel offended because I am sick of being told I insinuated something I did not, I can not help it
if you feel justified of declaring I merit my salvation because I made a statement that I never made, then I can not help that
put yourself in my Shoes.
if you catch me saying something and I deny it, yet it is proven I did say it, I will gladly and openly confess it, I think I proved that many times on here.
but when others continually insist that I made a claim i never made. Well
and by the way, if you think I am just using this as an excuse and it was not the argument,I will prove it to you
there is a lot more where ths comes from.
can you show me where in the post you just claimed I said whatbi was accused of saying says I CHOSE GOD? Because I can not see it,
I see that I said God chose people who would eventually come to faith in him and based on that fact, not that they chose God, that they TRUSTED GOD, yu claim you trusted God did you not? Did you merit salvation because god drew you, thought you, convicted you and led you?
let’s get real, these things must stop, I personally am sick of these things that draw away from the purpose of this thread,
1. nothing my my post insists that a person was chosen by their own power of comming to faith,
2. the argument that was being “proven” by this so called quote was that god chose me based on the fact I CHOSE him, nothing in that post said I chose god, saying “I chose god” and saying ” I have faith in God“ is two different things, and to say otherwise is dishonest, this is where bearing false witness comes in
not only was the argument, on that fact basis that I said “I chose God and that is why God chose me” it is also stated that I am MERITING my salvation because of faith and this is the remark used to prove it.
if this is the argument, it MUST be assumed I came to faith on my own power with no direction or help from God, how else could I merit salvation? And I never stated such a thing.
it is the tactic of those who are no defending to play this game, that’s why I had them on ignore to begin with and now am going to ignore whatever they say unless they start their lies and inflammatory posts again,
if you feel offended because I am sick of being told I insinuated something I did not, I can not help it
if you feel justified of declaring I merit my salvation because I made a statement that I never made, then I can not help that
put yourself in my Shoes.
if you catch me saying something and I deny it, yet it is proven I did say it, I will gladly and openly confess it, I think I proved that many times on here.
but when others continually insist that I made a claim i never made. Well
and by the way, if you think I am just using this as an excuse and it was not the argument,I will prove it to you
Exactly! He teaches that God chose him because he chose God. Since God saw he would do that he teaches God elected him because of it. That is merit, not grace. Again, grace is unmerited favor.
can you show me where in the post you just claimed I said whatbi was accused of saying says I CHOSE GOD? Because I can not see it,
I see that I said God chose people who would eventually come to faith in him and based on that fact, not that they chose God, that they TRUSTED GOD, yu claim you trusted God did you not? Did you merit salvation because god drew you, thought you, convicted you and led you?
let’s get real, these things must stop, I personally am sick of these things that draw away from the purpose of this thread,
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