"To lead is not easy, my dear!"Truth is that which is consistent with...
Wieb
Truth is that which is consistent with the mind, will, character, glory, and being of God. ~Melissa Moss
Sing F Lau
If this simple AXIOM is observed, it would save many sincere men from much of the lies they embrace so dearly!
Hamm
Yes it would Sing F Lau. Yes it would!
Sing F Lau
I will give a very simple illustration... a very obvious one... and but some who read this would rave and rant and fume... but that is perfectly alright with me!
Jesus said, "For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will... of him that sent me. And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day."
Jesus stated the Father's plain will... and stated that He came to do the Father's will, no more and no less. And the Father's will is perfectly spelled out.
Many insist that Jesus came to do THEIR WILL - to die for every one and make salvation for every one possible... and this salvation is to be offered to every one indiscriminately... including those for whom God didn't give to Christ, and for whom Christ didn't die and save, and that each man must decide for himself whether to accept that salvation of not!
As if that is not bad enough, here is worse.
God plainly declared that He justifies the UNGODLY "FREELY by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus." This is God's will and action plainly stated in so many words.
Born Calvinists and Armnians INSIST that they are justified by God through faith, their act of believing - and insist that that notion is consistent with the will of God! (Of course they will also piously protest, their faith is a gift of God... as if an unjustified man, in the state of condemnation an death is able to utilize any spiritual gift... a nonsense always leads to another nonsense!)
In their BLINDNESS they don't even realized an obvious NONSENSE!
How could God's act of justifying an UNGODLY man in the state of condemnation and death be equated to the believing act of a child of God justifying him?
Justification by God's free grace of a condemned man is ENTIRELY DIFFERENT and DISTINCT from the justification by the believing act of a child of God.
Gordon
Powerful words, Amen
Chapin
It's hard [impossible without the Lord's help] to give up the fleshly desire to want to "help God." Scripture says, "The flesh lusteth against the Spirit and the Spirit against the flesh." That's all due to our old nature. It would have sol...ved a lot of problems if the Lord would have eradicated this nature when He regenerated us. But, the Lord didn't do this...so, we have to contend with it
Unless the Lord gives the Light for them to walk in it, they will stay in their own little world [darkness] and miss the blessings and joys of living the gospel life during their earthly pilgrimage.
