Posted on 11/23/2022 6:29:47 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
Salvation Ping
So simple, yet most of the worlds people wax worse and worse.
Amen!
I pray the message falls on people who are on the fence and wish to choose life.
Jesus gives it abundantly!
An essay just right for you!
Oh, I’m sure about salvation.
But I do give a side-eye to random bloggers who say “The end is here for real - this time! But first, a word from our sponsor.”
If you go to Church looking for genuine emotion most of the time you are going to be disappointed. The Lord grants us wonderful gifts where sometimes we weep, are filled with joy or other wonderful emotions being in his presence. Sometimes he doesn't. This is a great gift of emotion we should hold dear and remember and when this gift comes back, if ever because there is no guarantee, we need to cherish it and do great things for The Lord when it comes.
Just remember how you felt when you were given these emotional gifts and how much more great they will be if we persevere and get to Heaven.
2 Tim 1:12 For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
Is comforting to know that nothing in life nor death can separate me from the love of God. I can't screw up bad enough for God to unadopt me. I can get chastised, but not unadopted.
And the reseaon is that "HE is able to keep that". Not me, it doesn't depend on me. It depends on God. The promise was claimed, and God will keep it.
No, the essay is just right for the inaccurate picture of me you have painted by your own internal stereotypes.
I would strongly recommend reading Michael S. Heiser’s SUPERNATURAL. Unlike his other books, it is written for people who are not Theology PhD candidates.
He was able to answer questions I had had from the time i was 17 and left the Catholic Church. I became a Believer as a result of three incidents and was Baptized about a year ago in the John’s Fork River in southern Missouri.
He was able to make sense out of Genesis 6:1-4
His revelation came when waiting for the Minister, one Sunday morning, when a fellow PhD candidate handed him a Hebrew language Bible, open to Psalm 82. In English, it says that God was standing in the midst of His council.
In Hebrew, it says that (Singular) Elohim was standing in the midst of (plural) elohim.
In Genesis 6:1-4, it says Sons of God in English, but (plural) elohim in Hebrew.
SUPERNATURAL is a good read and only $15 on Amazon. I have given many copies to friends and family...even the ones with Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Take care, and God Bless...
P.S. Other significan encounters included the Testimony of an Atheist who was stung by 5 Box jellyfish during a night dive off of Mauritius...the 2 most compelling 2 hours of YouTube I have ever seen...and some lectures by Amir Tsarfati.
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Amen brother!
Nice.
"Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling."
Philippians 2:12
Every Christian,everyday has to do this. It is the only way. It is zthe knowledge that convinces us of what the only begotten Son of God did for those of us have so loving a Savior. We must see the futility of redemption through good works and accept the perfection of the Savior's incomprehensible love and desire for our salvation. It's not anything we've done, it's Who He is.
Bought a copy for our preacher. After reading it he said that "Heiser was a rare theologian and God's gift to the church". Highly recommend it. I understand Supernatural is the simplified version.
I’m a big fan of Heiser.
The guy is a genius - well ahead of everybody I’ve read and heard thus far.
Thanks for the recommendation!
“For how can those who abandon their faith be brought back to repent again? They were once in God’s light; they tasted heaven’s gift and received their share of the Holy Spirit; 5 they knew from experience that God’s word is good, and they had felt the powers of the coming age. 6 And then they abandoned their faith! It is impossible to bring them back to repent again, because they are again crucifying the Son of God and exposing him to public shame.” - Hebrews 6
--Tithing Pharisee(I give 1/10th of EVERYTHING!)
For an accurate picture of Catholicism, you can see the images painted into history by it's own external revealings.
"Brothers and sisters, if someone is caught in a sin, you who live by the Spirit should restore that person gently. But watch yourselves, or you also may be tempted"
Galatians 6:1
There is a difference between 'losing faith' and being 'caught in sin'.
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