Posted on 04/07/2013 7:22:38 PM PDT by hiho hiho
Amen
A social gospel saves no one , it’s has no power to change lives . Most churches have forgotten this and have been infested with hirelings who themselves are not saved .
We are looking at an America today who is the product of an infestation of a social gospel . Most will say yes Jesus was Messiah but turn around and say that they think they deserve to go to heaven because they have been good people .
There is no power in that gospel to transform anyone’s life because they totally miss the point of why Jesus died for them on that cross and why they needed him to. There is no salvation without true repentance and the realization that you are a sinner who needs to be saved .
I agree as a nation we have become almost totally illiterate of what the Bible says . Most just a few bits and pieces with no idea of how to put those pieces together and that includes most who sit in our pulpits .
Nothing will change here until the people repent and well the nation doesn’t think it needs to and sadly they think they are blessed because they live better than most of the world (well that will soon change at the rate we are going)
And that is ALL we are asked to do!
Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”
1 John 3:21-24
Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God and receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him. And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us. The one who keeps God’s commands lives in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.
Yup.
Yesterday's sermon: Luke 18:9-14 (niv)
9 To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everyone else, Jesus told this parable:
My child prayed for ME!
Good idea!!!!
and it's in the church; too!
As a teacher; I've found that it's not as hard to teach something that IS in the Bible; as it is to UNteach something that AIN'T there!
There are a few verse that alude to what I have said but nothing concrete - maybe others would be better at that. I just know that every tear could not be wiped from my eye and that joy would not come if I knew and remembered that my kids would not be with me in the Lord. I cannot rest now seeing through a glass darkly what awaits for us but also what waits for those who reject Christ.
For both my boys I wonder at times where their heads are and if they even believe any more.
Yes they have been affected by poor doctrine from churches and by feeling looked down up by hobnob Christians who looked down their noses at them, but they know the love of Christ and they have heard His voice calling them I am sure.
Mel
And were your child’s prayers answered?
*nod* Gnashing of teeth comes to mind , and when you show them what is written the just get madder
I assume melsec is thinking of this verse,as do I when I contemplate remembering the lost forever.
Rev 21:4 "And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away"
We're either incapable of emotion (which would also preclude joy),or we do remember and simply don't care (hard to reconcile),or we no longer remember.
"For both my boys I wonder at times where their heads are and if they even believe any more."
I wonder the same thing myself sometimes,especially when I look in the mirror.God knows His grandchildren children and nothing is immpossible with Him.You've trained them in the way they should go and in the end we have to trust that He will get them.I know your two as you know mine and when the god of this world pushes them to the point where they will have to hate and fear us they will turn around and kick him in the nuts.I believe this because we do not instill in them that "stench of death".They are not blind,they just have blurry vision right now.
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yup!
All that in a tag line? You must have condensed sermons:)
Thanks mitch I should get you to ghost read my posts first!
Mel
Just add water!
It is a sign of the times and this author is misled, also.
"But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, having a form of godliness but denying THE POWER. Have nothing to do with such people." 2 Timothy 3:1,5
Just as i thought, a baptismal regnerationist!
Some people add a full can; others about a half...
That would be the Can-aanites.
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