Posted on 04/05/2014 8:09:38 AM PDT by varmintman
It's not about how much you love Him but how much He loves you.
He loved us while we were yet sinners and haters of God. God's love for us is demonstrated that Jesus was reconciling us to God and redeeming us on the cross at the exact time we were hating Him and nailing Him to the cross.
We love Him becasue He first loved us.
He has redeemed us from the law so it's no longer about how much we love God, but about how much He loves us. When we receive His love, sooner or later we can't help but love Him back. We are no longer the old, flawed covenant that demands, "YOU will". We are under the new covenant where God says, "I will" no longer remember your sins and iniquities becasue of Jesus' perfect sacrifice. It's not what we DO . It's what Jesus DID.
"God so loves the world..." (John 3:16).
I do not believe for one second that Putin is a believer. His embrace of Christian values is purely political.
I sure didn’t throw Him out, idiot progressives did, NOT GUILTY!
I’ll still take Putin over Obama.
So was the Emperor Constantine's embrace of Christianity. History can turn on very small pivots.
Amen God hates divorce and doesn’t cotton to killing and theft and adultery all of which Vlad does
Well He has a funny way of showing it
We. Not just you. All of us. He’s gone from our, that is to say the entire country’s, public life.
You didn’t put Him back, did you? Or did I miss that part?
Not America. Some Americans certainly, but not this country. We have become Sodom and are in need of a new Great Awakening!
In the case of Syria, Christianity and Christians would have no home in Syria were the people WE are supporting to take the place over. Syria is a big part of the original home of Christianity and Putin basically saved the situation.
The only question mark in the picture is Iran which may involve business which Russians figure they have to have to survive or at least did at one point, I don't really know. Russians were literally starving in 1999, and I doubt anybody was asking too many questions about whatever it took to bring that situation to an end.
As to Buchanan and Poles and how WW-II got started, Buchanan is right. The Poles had actually invaded all but one or two of their immediate neighbors in the 20s and 30s and thought they were going to make short work of Hitler and Germany and were basically living in a dream world.
You're free to believe what you want. I'm going to take him at his word. He is the ONLY world leader today giving any sort of Christian testimont at all. He is the only world leader standing againstthe moral rot that eating the soul of the West...the US included.
I don’t think Buchanan is saying that. I think he’s saying Putin has figured out that there’s a powerful global group with no representation in any government.
Agree. It is the false prophet approach to lure in the vulnerable. He is as evil as the rest of the Soviet dictators have been.
Sodom didn’t get awakened, it got put to sleep, like a rabid dog.
I am working on it, I preach it and I practice it and I try to convince others there is a right and a wrong and theft, adultery, selfishness, is wrong and self sacrifice for one’s family is right. What are you doing?
Part of the flawed thinking in Buchanan and others is the idea that God is mad at America. God isn't mad at anyone. God took out all His rage, anger, condemnation, and judgement on the whole world on the body of Jesus 2000 years ago. God loves the world (John 3:16) and is now in the business of reconciling the world to himself not imputing their their sins against them (2 Cor 5:19).
I goad.
not good enough, fail
Ah well, I’ve failed.
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