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Derobo

Derobo

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Lifted_by_the_word said:
His Love is different because it is a spiritual love.God is love,and he is spirit.So that love can only come through the Holy Spirit.
The people who don't have that forgiveness in them toward those who wronged them have never felt that love because if they did,they would have overcome that unforgiveness in their heart.
A lot of them will even deceive themselves into believing that they have forgave, but that forgiveness didn't come from the heart.It's only in the mind where that forgiveness came from.And it didn't go down from the mind to the heart.
That is the mercy seat.Our hearts are the offering unto the Lord.
God's love overcomes all things that are not righteous and pure.

1 john 4:8
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

John 4:24
God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
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Amen brother i couldn't have said it better myself, i completely agree with you!
 
Cameron143

Cameron143

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Derobo said:
I told you many times my friend how to do it but you don't see it for some reason.

*when you live in the Spirit, you put your mind on things of God Bible, Prayer, Fasting, and that's where you heart will be*
if you live in the spirit you will automatically do as God commands, because he is in you and you in the things of God.

im gonna let this discussion stop because im saying things you don't understand, so maybe its best not to go further.
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I do understand. Just telling someone to walk in the Spirit doesn't teach them how to do so. Just telling people to practice spiritual disciplines doesn't put them in the presence of God. There is a very real and vital relationship with Christ that few people actually come to know. There is an actual empowerment in each believer that is equivalent to the power that raised Jesus from the dead. Unfortunately, it doesn't come with an on/off switch.
So while what you have shared is correct in general, people's lives will be little affected. The reason I engaged with questions isn't because I don't know what it is to walk in the Spirit or enter into the presence of God employing spiritual disciplines. Rather, I was attempting to see if you could actually move people from knowledge to experience.
 
2ndTimeIsTheCharm

2ndTimeIsTheCharm

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Cameron143 said:
I do understand. Just telling someone to walk in the Spirit doesn't teach them how to do so. Just telling people to practice spiritual disciplines doesn't put them in the presence of God. There is a very real and vital relationship with Christ that few people actually come to know. There is an actual empowerment in each believer that is equivalent to the power that raised Jesus from the dead. Unfortunately, it doesn't come with an on/off switch.
So while what you have shared is correct in general, people's lives will be little affected. The reason I engaged with questions isn't because I don't know what it is to walk in the Spirit or enter into the presence of God employing spiritual disciplines. Rather, I was attempting to see if you could actually move people from knowledge to experience.
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There's only so much exhorting a Christian can do. It becomes the responsibility of the hearers to take what they heard and come to the Lord to help them accomplish those things.

A good example is Jeremiah. As far as anyone knows, NO ONE listened to him and his warnings. Was that Jeremiah's fault? No, and God didn't punish him for that. He punished those that didn't heed the warnings He gave through Jeremiah.


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