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    Looking forward to the cross?

    Agreed, but knowing “something of the future” is not the gospel unto salvation.
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    Looking forward to the cross?

    Yes, and we can put them together and see how those prophesies point to what the Lord would accomplish, however, at the time, those OT saints could not see the cross. If they could see the cross, why was no one looking forward to it in the day of Jesus? His own disciples had no understanding...
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    Looking forward to the cross?

    They all died in faith. Faith in what God told them at any given time in history. They did not die in faith in the gospel of Jesus Christ, the d,b,r for sins. Remember, faith come by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. Noah had faith in what God told him about the flood and the building...
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    Looking forward to the cross?

    Wicked men...the sons of Satan. See John 8. Satan's lust to destroy the seed...Satan was a murdering from the beginning, and yet, he never physically murdered anyone. He always sought men to carry out his lusts. 40 But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have...
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    Looking forward to the cross?

    God the Father did not crucify his Son. God stepped out of the way so Satan would initiate the cross. Satan was trying to eliminate the promised seed before his head would be bruised. Little did he know, the cross would be the means of bruising his head.
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    Looking forward to the cross?

    John 3:16 has no mention of the cross. It has no mention of the death, burial, and resurrection for sins. We can read into John 3:16 with the knowledge we have now.
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    Looking forward to the cross?

    Agreed, God has allowed much of what goes on. God has allowed Satan to be the god of this world, the ruler of the darkness of this world.
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    Looking forward to the cross?

    Amen to all those passages. After the cross, we can look back at the OT and see the figures and types.
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    Looking forward to the cross?

    Abel offered a lamb by faith as a sacrifice because that's what God told them to do. Faith is not blind. Faith come by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. 4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God...
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    Looking forward to the cross?

    God was going to initiate the cross to crucify his only begotten Son? Nope. Satan initiated the cross. He's been out to destroy the seed since Genesis 3:15.
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    Looking forward to the cross?

    Satan would have never initiated the cross if he'd known the outcome. If any man before the cross understood that the Messiah would die on a cross for sins and resurrect the third day, Satan would have known it and would have not allowed it. 1 Corinthians 2: 7 But we speak the wisdom of God in...
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    Looking forward to the cross?

    Many claimed that the OT saints were saved by "looking forward to the cross." If you have a few minutes, take a listen. One of the best explanations I've heard on why no OT saint looked forward to the cross, including Jesus' disciples. Were Men Before Calvary Saved by Looking Forward to the...
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    Mega-Church Vs Small Church

    I've been on the "inside" of a mega church. Believe me, the number of people in attendance does not equate to God's in it. Let's start with that. You have to agree that compromises are being made to satisfy the whole. The purpose of the local church is for the growth and equipping of the...
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    Gospel Confusion...

    According to this passage, baptism was not enough, but Paul laying his hands on them.
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    Gospel Confusion...

    Notice he didn't say, "He that is not baptized shall be damned."
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    Gospel Confusion...

    Ephesians 1 13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, 14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the...
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    Gospel Confusion...

    Romans 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
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    Gospel Confusion...

    The book of acts is not a sound book to get church doctrine. It's a transition book between the gospels and Paul's letters.
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    Gospel Confusion...

    3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
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    Gospel Confusion...

    Of course it's not talking about baptism, that's my whole point. Paul is defining the gospel unto salvation and baptism is not there.