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Robo36

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I'm a new member seeking fellowship and biblical understanding with Christians. I'm 83 years old and recently lost my wife of 60 years to lung cancer.
 

Melach

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welcome to the forum dear friend. i am sorry to hear you lost your wife my condolances she is now in heaven with Jesus.

i am sure you have wisdom to share us from all your life experiences. any particular bible topic you want to discuss?
 

dodgingstones

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Welcome and prayers 4 you n your family. Hope u find the fellowship u r searching 4.
 

dodgingstones

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Does CC not offer the Marital Status option of Widowed? Seems it should.
 

Robo36

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welcome to the forum dear friend. i am sorry to hear you lost your wife my condolances she is now in heaven with Jesus.

i am sure you have wisdom to share us from all your life experiences. any particular bible topic you want to discuss?
I'm just seeking fellowship now to strengthen my faith. I'm missing my wife something unreal. Though I've always known my love for her, I never knew just how much I really loved her until she passed. My most compelling thoughts now is simply to leave this flesh, blood and bone existence and reunite with her in the spirit dimension. Some assurance now from other Christians that the promise of the Christ is strong, powerful and perfect is appreciated.
 
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I'm just seeking fellowship now to strengthen my faith. I'm missing my wife something unreal. Though I've always known my love for her, I never knew just how much I really loved her until she passed. My most compelling thoughts now is simply to leave this flesh, blood and bone existence and reunite with her in the spirit dimension. Some assurance now from other Christians that the promise of the Christ is strong, powerful and perfect is appreciated.
Welcome, and sorry that your wife passed away, and when you pass away or resurrected alive you will see your wife, but after the millennial reign of Christ you will know her no more.

Joh 14:2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
Joh 14:3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

Isa 65:17 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.

Rev 21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.

2Pe 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
2Pe 3:11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
2Pe 3:12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
2Pe 3:13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

Mat 5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

Zec 14:9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.

Jesus has not fulfilled the role of perfect King on earth yet for He came as a humble servant, and after the millennial reign of Christ heaven and earth shall pass away and be no more, and there will be a new heaven and earth where sin has never been and sin will never be, and the angels and saints will remember nothing prior to the New Jerusalem and will feel as if they have always been there and nowhere else.

1Co 13:13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

When the saints get to the New Jerusalem they will not remember anything of the earth, and who was there, and what was on it for it is associated with sin and rebellion, and of all we did on earth and knew will be gone and the only thing that will go on forever is love and God, the Lord Jesus Christ that the saints will know forever, and faith and hope is not needed in heaven.

So cherish her as much as possible and you will see her again if she was saved for one day you will not know her anymore.
 

dodgingstones

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Its not a disease we caught, to be quarantined over. LOL
I'm aware of that, however, it would afford a person to show proper love and respect for their spouse. IMO only I guess.
 

Ghoti2

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Welcome, and sorry that your wife passed away, and when you pass away or resurrected alive you will see your wife, but after the millennial reign of Christ you will know her no more.

Joh 14:2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
Joh 14:3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

Isa 65:17 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.

Rev 21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.

2Pe 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
2Pe 3:11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
2Pe 3:12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
2Pe 3:13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

Mat 5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

Zec 14:9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.

Jesus has not fulfilled the role of perfect King on earth yet for He came as a humble servant, and after the millennial reign of Christ heaven and earth shall pass away and be no more, and there will be a new heaven and earth where sin has never been and sin will never be, and the angels and saints will remember nothing prior to the New Jerusalem and will feel as if they have always been there and nowhere else.

1Co 13:13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

When the saints get to the New Jerusalem they will not remember anything of the earth, and who was there, and what was on it for it is associated with sin and rebellion, and of all we did on earth and knew will be gone and the only thing that will go on forever is love and God, the Lord Jesus Christ that the saints will know forever, and faith and hope is not needed in heaven.

So cherish her as much as possible and you will see her again if she was saved for one day you will not know her anymore.
I wonder how The Rich Man recognized Abraham in Jesus' parable? (and he had never even seen Abraham in hiis lifetime.)
 
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My most compelling thoughts now is simply to leave this flesh, blood and bone existence and reunite with her in the spirit dimension. Some assurance now from other Christians that the promise of the Christ is strong, powerful and perfect is appreciated.
I understand your profound sense of loss, Robo36. I can assure you that the excruciating pain in your heart becomes less excruciating as time passes. The loss is still there, but it becomes less painful as time goes by.

Please know that every promise God has made to us is true. Our God is a faithful God Who keeps His Word and will fulfill it.

Hebrews 6:

13 For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,

14 Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.

15 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

16 For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.

17 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:

18 That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:

19 Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;


vs 13 - God's promise to Abraham was underwritten by Himself. He is the Guarantor of His own promise to Abraham.

vs 15 - Abraham patiently waited for God to fulfill His promise and Abraham did receive the son promised to him by God.

vs 17 - God not only made promises, He also confirms His promises with His oath.

vs 18 - the two immutable (unchangeable, unalterable) things are (1) God's promise, and (2) God's oath. God's promises and God's oath are a strong consolation to us and we lay hold upon the hope set before us because we know God is faithful and He will fulfill all He has promised to us.

vs 19 - Because we trust our faithful God, Who has made promises and confirmed His promises through His oath, our hope is a sure and steadfast hope which anchors our soul and binds us to Him, and we now enter within the veil.


God's promises are true. God's promises are sure. And we can know in our heart of hearts that everything God promises to us will come to pass. Hope this helps you in your time of grieving.



 
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I'm a new member seeking fellowship and biblical understanding with Christians. I'm 83 years old and recently lost my wife of 60 years to lung cancer.

Welcome sorry for your great loss .
 
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I'm a new member seeking fellowship and biblical understanding with Christians. I'm 83 years old and recently lost my wife of 60 years to lung cancer.
welcome and prayers!
 
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I wonder how The Rich Man recognized Abraham in Jesus' parable? (and he had never even seen Abraham in hiis lifetime.)
Abraham the new name he named Abram. Abraham means the father of a multitude of nations( all). It is used to represent our unseen father in heaven .

I would offer in that parable the rich man is not a believer but one that looks to the flesh as the apostate Jews who refused the hearken unto the word of God. .No faith coming from God.

They used the things seen fleshly Abraham which in the end of the matter usurped the unseen things of out Father in heave, They had Abraham as if they were walking by faith. . . in place of our father in heaven . It is the reason he informed the faithless Jew. Call no man on earth father. For one is in heaven .

One of the think not doctrines. . forbidding those who seek after other kinds of authorities as a source of faith other than as it is written

Matthew 3:9 And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.

The Rich man is shown as seeking after a form of necromancy. . communing with dead saints. Or what Catholics call patron saints. (3,500 and rising a legion.) an abomination of desolation.

Jesus made it clear He replied . . beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that fleshly Abraham which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.

Still in unbelief as if he did not hear one word . . no faith

Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house: For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment. Abraham (in respect to our unseen father) saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; (sola scriptura) let them hear them. And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent. And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets,(sola scriptura) neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead. Luke Luke 16: 27-31