Not By Works

What I call is facebook is READING THE BIBLE close up!

You got your face, and its in the BOOK. Thats the only facebook im rocking with!

Actually no. I need to remind myself each day, as did the Apostle Paul, to walk that Narrow Way, that road of Repentance.
I put myself above no one. Rather it is the Word of God that I put far above the opinions and wishful thinking of man.

It always boils down to this.

I believe what the Word declares. Nothing more; nothing less.

The Trinity doctrine states -

'The Trinity: our one God is eternally existent in three Persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, who are co-equal, co-existent and co-eternal.'

When taking in the whole of Scripture we find that such a doctrine will not stand. Indeed we have the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, but they are not 'co-equal, co-existent and co-eternal.

Jesus made this irrefutable when He declared - "My Father is greater than I." (John 14:28)

The Father/Son relationship is clearly defined in 1Cor 15:27-28 which states -

"For “He (God) has put all things under His (Jesus) feet.” But when He (God) says “all things are put under Him (Jesus),” it is evident that He (God) who put all things under Him (Jesus) is excepted. Now when all things are made subject to Him (Jesus the Son), then the Son Himself will also be subject to Him (God the Father) who put all things under Him (Jesus), that God (the Father) may be all in all."


And may we not forget the words of our Lord and Savior to Mary the day that the Father raised Him from the dead -

"Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God.’” - John 20:17

The Father, Yahweh, is the God of Jesus. Jesus is our Lord and Messiah because He obeyed God fully -

"For it was fitting for Him (God), for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the Captain (Jesus) of their salvation perfect through sufferings." - Heb 2:10

and...

"though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered. And having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him." - Heb 5:8-9

therefore because of the Sons perfect obedience to the Father, even to death -

“ let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ.” - Acts 2:36


Because Jesus set aside His own will in the garden (which was different from the Fathers), and obeyed God perfectly, He received from Almighty God all authority in the heavens and on earth and the right to sit down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven. (see Heb 1:3, 8:1)

He was given authority from the Ancient of Days - Dan 7:14

"Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me." - Matt 28:18

If Jesus is God, or equal to God, then why would He need someone to GIVE Him authority?

Friends, there is much taught today which cannot stand the test of Scripture. May we not taken as truth all we hear preached for the pulpits, but let us be as the Bereans who -

"received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so." - Acts 17:11


79 times in the Gospels Jesus refers to Himself as the Son of Man

5 times He refers to Himself as the Son of God

47 times He is called by others the "Son of God", or "God's Son"

5 times He is referred to as the Son begotten of God, or begotten of the Father

4 times God, Himself, speaks from heaven and declares Jesus to be His Son

0 times does Jesus refer to Himself as God

Dear saints we are called to be one with Jesus as He is with the Father. When we take Jesus' statement in John 10:30 along with His discourse in John 17, then for us to say the Jesus is equal to the Father we would also have to say the we are equal to Jesus. Which we are not. We are His body, be He will always be greater than we, just as God will always be greater than Jesus.

We can see that clearly as Jesus prayed to His Father -

"that they (His disciples) all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me." - John 17:21-23


Amen.

God's wisdom and understanding to all,
Michael

If only that were true. Sigh 😔

He is now, yes!.

"And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a Son, and shall call His name Jesus." - Luke 1:31

The physical Man Jesus, who was tested and proven faithful in the flesh, did not exist before the baby born in Bethlehem.

Again, the Word existed, but not the Man.

"Today I have begotten You." - Acts 13:33

Always has been. No beginning, no end.

Amen.



Just peekin my head in, hope everyone here is giving credit to Jesus, God in the flesh, our Savior the praise for salvation and not works.



Always got a few people who seem to want to take the credit and belittle His sacrifice.

Always great seeing you.
Blessings always, beloved. 🙏

Thanks bro, always great seein you stand for what's truthful.


I feel like soon I'll have more time like I used to.

Gonna be nice to replace a lot of extra work with some lovely CC fellowship.



About to drive home now, I am maaaaaany pages behind but plan to read the most recent 20 or so tonight.



May God bless you today man, I hope you're havin a good one.

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He also called them deceived, fools, Jesus called them blind, deaf, hypocrites, children of the devil, and John called them a generation of vipers......Friend and Foe I have always used pet names based upon their names.....!

Considering the following (post), at which point in time do you believe the word "Today" ^ refers (considering that the Father says it):

--[quotes from BibleHub-->] "Usage: I beget (of the male), (of the female) I bring forth, give birth to.
"HELPS Word-studies
1080 gennáō – properly, beget (procreate a descendant), produce offspring; (passive) be born, "begotten."" [end quotes; underlining mine]

--context: Acts 13:29-37 - "29 And when they had finished all the things having been written about Him, having taken Him down from the tree, they put Him in a tomb. 30 But God raised Him out from the dead, 31 who appeared for many days to those having come up with Him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now His witnesses to the people.
32 And we preach the gospel to you, the promise having been made to the fathers, 33 that God has fulfilled this to us their children, having raised up Jesus, as also it has been written in the second psalm:
‘You are My Son,
today I have begotten you.’a
34 And that He raised Him out from the dead, no more being about to return to decay, He spoke thus:
‘I will give to you the holy and sure blessings of David.’b
35 Therefore He also says in another:
‘You will not allow your Holy One to see decay.’c
36 For indeed David, having served the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep and was added to his fathers, and saw decay. 37 But the One God raised up did not see decay.


...in view of the above info, was "Today" (Acts 13:33) referring to:

--when He was conceived from the Spirit (Matt1:20 - https://biblehub.com/text/matthew/1-20.htm )?
--when He was born in Bethlehem (Lk2:11)?
--when He was raised from the dead/ascended to Heaven/exalted (Jn20:17, etc)?


Just wondering how you see this.

I have been called rat poison....I am not easly offended.....Lemonade Stand should not be that offensive....

Amen....leads and guides into all truth and 100% points at Christ <-unlike some religions!

THANK YOU MANAGMENT! You caught our Local Red X Catholic Troll, in two hours, today.

I will give you a STANDING OVATION! GOOD JOB!





Everyone, the moderator banned our local TROLL in TWO HOURS this time. Click on the RED X in my post: #112,191

He got the Red X Catholic Troll in only 2 Hrs. and 3 Min. with his NEW NAME 382AD, all you have to do is point at his new name and just hover over it and you will see what time he Joined, and what time he was banned.

It seems arguments over scripture will continue until Christ returns.

Might I recommend after twice attempts we just leave each other in God’s Hands and part in love with no name calling.

Yeshua/Jesus departed this world by saying, “Father, forgive them. They know not what they are doing.”

Yeshua/Jesus as The Word had to take on flesh and obey the Law in order to become the Human Fulfillment of the Law for us. He was examined by The Law (Moses) and the Prophets (Elijah) on the Mt. of transfiguration prior to going to the cross. He passed and became our Passover Lamb without blemish.

On the cross, He died giving us His Body - the Righteousness of God - the Human Fulfillment of the Law and His Blood - the Forgiveness of sin.

Rising from the dead, He has become our Lord, Savior and King. We, too shall rise from the dead and be just like Him.

This is the Gift of God, not of works least any man should boast.