Cobus, i have a serious question, i hope you will answer honestly.
do you believe anyone alive and walking around today is actually saved and can be assured they already have eternal life?
Yes!
amen, Cobus
are any of them in glorified bodies yet?
no. so that theory of what happens when we are born from above doesn't work.
we receive the Holy Spirit in "measure", as a seal (God's stamp or sign - a King sealed His proclamations/possessions with his ring in a wax seal. a Guarantee, or down-payment on our future inheritance).
the Spirit in us is, and will do everything God requires to deliver us home. He is the Helper, the Comforter, and He is in us. God is One, Cobus...His will
is done.
another question: do you think the new birth happens at the Resurrection (end of time, Second Advent) or before?
Before!
right. in this life, now.
before your flesh body returns to dust.
do you believe anyone alive and walking around today is actually saved and can be assured they already have eternal life?
Yes!
John 5:24
"I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned;
he has crossed over from death to life.
the end of time for me as a sinner is the day when God BAPTIZE/fill and overfill and surround me with His Spirit. When I am drenched and covered and surrounded in Holy Spirit, that is the end of time for me! End of MY time and the biginning of GOD TIME. Or Better put God's Life...Holy Life.
okay. but that happens in this life, now Cobus, or it doesn't happen at all.
John 5:24
"I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned;
he has crossed over from death to life.
the end of time for you in this flesh body is your physical death.
if you have been buried with Christ in His baptism, you have been raised with Him in His resurrection.
He is the first resurrection - we who are saved by grace through faith have died and been raised already (new birth). you still have an appointment with the grave - but you will never die because Jesus said so.
okay brother?
believe it Cobus.
find a good, solid calm and consistent church and obey the very first commandments of the Gospel. you already believe Cobus. so what prevents you from doing what Jesus instructed?
Mark 16:16
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
love ya
zoney
Acts 8
Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch
26Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Rise and go toward the southd to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” This is a desert place. 27And he rose and went. And there was an Ethiopian, a eunuch, a court official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of all her treasure. He had come to Jerusalem to worship 28and was returning, seated in his chariot, and he was reading the prophet Isaiah. 29And the Spirit said to Philip, “Go over and join this chariot.” 30So Philip ran to him and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet and asked, “Do you understand what you are reading?” 31And he said, “How can I, unless someone guides me?” And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him. 32Now the passage of the Scripture that he was reading was this:
“Like a sheep he was led to the slaughter
and like a lamb before its shearer is silent,
so he opens not his mouth.
33 In his humiliation justice was denied him.
Who can describe his generation?
For his life is taken away from the earth.”
34And the eunuch said to Philip, “About whom, I ask you, does the prophet say this, about himself or about someone else?” 35Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning with this Scripture he told him the good news about Jesus. 36And as they were going along the road they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “See, here is water! What prevents me from being baptized?” 38And he commanded the chariot to stop, and they both went down into the water, Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him. 39And when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord carried Philip away, and the eunuch saw him no more, and went on his way rejoicing. 40But Philip found himself at Azotus, and as he passed through he preached the gospel to all the towns until he came to Caesarea.
