Recent content by Mreal402

If you believe Scripture teaches we must do any "good" works to receive salvation (justification) I understand your position and reject it. If you are saying God woos us first and we have the responsibility to act upon that initial primary call of God to us then I agree - I simply do not equate...

Your last sentence seems to sum up your post.. I would submit that I can see a bit of your reasoning when the matter is strictly limited to justification - as if once freely justified, the process of sanctification was of no effect - but it is! Therefore one can state we are justified by God's...

Never cause in Christ for arrogance or fleshly division...as for zeal and exhortation, bring it! <grin>

I noticed you didn't respond to my discussion point regarding how you are defining repudiate...I am honestly curious.

If you are defining repudiate as a refusal to accept or acknowledge then I agree with you - a believer may indeed for whatever reason come to refuse to believe once they are saved by God's grace that they are sealed until the final day of redemption and think they can somehow undo the work of...

Just a thought, perhaps this is a most opportune time to use the gift of a fast; such a spiritual discipline is designed to allow one to focus entirely upon God for a period of time - offering yourself as a vessel before your Lord in a position of surrender and focus.

Well said!

My position is no one saved can be disqualified. Hebrews 6:4-6 "For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted the word of God, and the powers of the world to come, if they shall fall...

I do believe that the desire to repent is a gift which can be removed (Heb 6:4-6)...and that continuing in sin should lead us to expect judgment - at the Bema Seat, Judgment Seat of Christ. Some will be saved, yet as through fire...1 Corinthians 3:15 That is an exceptionally sobering truth...

Agreed...perhaps this is a better statement: "Frankly I wish I were more akin to a sheep who always immediately obeyed and followed my Lord...would be much more profitable for me then to seek my own path so many times."

Ephesians 1:13-14..."In Christ you also trusted after you heard the word of truth, the Gospel of your salvation, in Whom also after you believed...you were SEALED with that Holy Spirit of PROMISE...which is the pledge of our inheritance until the redemption o the purhased possession, unto the...

Frankly I wish I were more akin to a blind sheep - would make my life as a servant of the Lord Jesus much easier.

Perhaps John 12:31-32 is relevant..."Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast out. And I, if I am lifted up from the Earth, will draw all peoples to Myself." Pretty fruit filled passage!

When I see supposed tongues and guys flapping their jackets at a crowd and people flip flopping it appears fake and the type of signs and wonders I would expect to be deceptive and warned against in Scripture - however, if a person manifest a demon before me I would seek to cast it out in the...