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Post by frienduff on Sept 11, 2020 12:32:39 GMT -5
Thank you, this is what I was trying, and failing, to express. I hope it is right but may the Lord correct or tweek it if it needs to be....I have such a hard time trying to understand and then express these things too. Spiritual warfare, I believe. That is something i learned too my dear sister . When i was once on petes sight i would delve into deeper things . Yet none could grasp it . I also largely always had kept it simple and still they would fight it . I often wondered why do we have so many different interpreations . Like post mid or pre trib , or why do so many folks go into directions of fables and so forth . DO you wanna know what the MOST HOLY , well ONLY HOLY SPIRIT told me . HE said , GO YE and return to the sayings of JESUS and those apostels . AND YE WILL see WHY they cannot grasp and have created so many fables and doctrines . Guess what sister . I DID . AND every last one of them , HELD to sayings That contradicted JESUS and the apostles . NOT some , BUT every single one i tested . SEE , the truth is , and very simple it is , IF FOLKS dont love JESUS then they at most will know some truths but are given always unto fables . SINCE that day and that time . I HAVE STUCK to testing men against JESUS WORDS and the apostels words . IT will show us real quick , WHO LOVES and who LOVE NOT JESUS . We in such a day and such an age , that while i see many folks that are always learning . ALWAYS able to deliver elegant speeches , always seemingso wise and full of wisdom . YET NEVER ABLE TO COME to the truth . You gotta know , IT was GOD ALONE who put the love for TRUTH , FOR the BIBLE in my heart . AND by that same grace , TIS WHY I CONTINOUSLY try and get them INTO BIBLES . What GOD did for me , was not based on me . cause the truth is , HAD GOD simply given me what i deserved , i had been dead long ago and in hell rotting away and awaiting my final sentence to throw this hog into the flames of eternal fire . SORRY if any folks thought GOD came to me , cause i was some kind of wise good man . NOPE , i was worse than every single one hear and IF YOU EVEN added up ALL YALLS SINS next to mine It would be but a speck of dust for you all , AND A MOUTAIN FOR ME . WHEN GOD CHANGES someone , BELIEVE YOU ME , HE CHANGES THEM . I got a saying . WHY CHANGE and twist the truth to fit our evil and give us peace , YET OUR END BE HELL FIRE , WHEN instead we could simpy submit to GOD and BE CHANGED and the end everlasting life . That my friends is a questoin every lamb needs to ask themselves. EVEN if we know it . examine ourselves daily . MAKE SURE its the JESUS ofthe bible we love . mAKE SURE its the doctrine of the apostels we adorn . MAKE SURE that election my friends . MAKE SURE its truly JESUS , as in the BIBLICAL ONE we follow . JUST Keep it simple and to the point .
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Post by watchful on Sept 11, 2020 13:15:03 GMT -5
Christ and Him crucified...and then take up our cross and follow/obey Him. That to me is the simple gospel message. And as we do so, looking into His word and applying it, we are being changed into His image from glory to glory. As well as growing in the knowledge of the Lord....knowing Him better and being changed into His image go hand in hand.
2Co 3:17-18
Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
I find the Lord teaches me often through the simple word pictures that are embedded all through the bible.
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Post by John on Sept 14, 2020 12:16:01 GMT -5
Christ and Him crucified...and then take up our cross and follow/obey Him. That to me is the simple gospel message. And as we do so, looking into His word and applying it, we are being changed into His image from glory to glory. As well as growing in the knowledge of the Lord....knowing Him better and being changed into His image go hand in hand. 2Co 3:17-18Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.I find the Lord teaches me often through the simple word pictures that are embedded all through the bible. Faith in Christ, believing in Him, and then taking up our cross daily and following Him really is the message of the gospel, but I was thinking today, how many are preaching that? Many are out there preaching we need to believe in Jesus. James tells us that even the devils believe and tremble, but what of the taking up the cross daily? If we would just do those things, nobody would have to worry about whether or not we could lose salvation. If we take up our cross daily and follow Jesus, living like he is walking right beside us all day long, living like the disciples did when they physically walked beside Him, we would live in a way pleasing to God and would never fall. But who is teaching that? I cannot think of a single person.
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Post by watchful on Sept 14, 2020 18:45:52 GMT -5
Christ and Him crucified...and then take up our cross and follow/obey Him. That to me is the simple gospel message. And as we do so, looking into His word and applying it, we are being changed into His image from glory to glory. As well as growing in the knowledge of the Lord....knowing Him better and being changed into His image go hand in hand. 2Co 3:17-18Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.I find the Lord teaches me often through the simple word pictures that are embedded all through the bible. Faith in Christ, believing in Him, and then taking up our cross daily and following Him really is the message of the gospel, but I was thinking today, how many are preaching that? Many are out there preaching we need to believe in Jesus. James tells us that even the devils believe and tremble, but what of the taking up the cross daily? If we would just do those things, nobody would have to worry about whether or not we could lose salvation. If we take up our cross daily and follow Jesus, living like he is walking right beside us all day long, living like the disciples did when they physically walked beside Him, we would live in a way pleasing to God and would never fall. But who is teaching that? I cannot think of a single person.
The church has lost the concept of the cross. I never heard it preached and taught either and I've known the Lord since 1986. Cross-less Christianity isn't Christianity at all, because it is so foundational. Nowadays it's all about what the Lord can do for us, and not what we are to do for Him. That doesn't mean the Lord doesn't bless us and load us up with benefits, because He does, but most of those benefits come by way of the cross we carry for Him. Because our cross is really Jesus' cross....He is our forerunner and we are following in His same footsteps, the way of the cross, also called the narrow way. We are to be people of "the way". Well I have a hunch more will be talking about the cross again in the times that are coming, I hope so anyway.
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Post by frienduff on Sept 14, 2020 18:50:16 GMT -5
Faith in Christ, believing in Him, and then taking up our cross daily and following Him really is the message of the gospel, but I was thinking today, how many are preaching that? Many are out there preaching we need to believe in Jesus. James tells us that even the devils believe and tremble, but what of the taking up the cross daily? If we would just do those things, nobody would have to worry about whether or not we could lose salvation. If we take up our cross daily and follow Jesus, living like he is walking right beside us all day long, living like the disciples did when they physically walked beside Him, we would live in a way pleasing to God and would never fall. But who is teaching that? I cannot think of a single person.
The church has lost the concept of the cross. I never heard it preached and taught either and I've known the Lord since 1986. Cross-less Christianity isn't Christianity at all, because it is so foundational. Nowadays it's all about what the Lord can do for us, and not what we are to do for Him. That doesn't mean the Lord doesn't bless us and load us up with benefits, because He does, but most of those benefits come by way of the cross we carry for Him. Because our cross is really Jesus' cross....He is our forerunner and we are following in His same footsteps, the way of the cross, also called the narrow way. We are to be people of "the way". Well I have a hunch more will be talking about the cross again in the times that are coming, I hope so anyway. Thats right dear sister . yes it is . Praise the GLORIOUS KING .
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