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I AM the resurrection

John 11:25 Jesus said unto her I AM THE RESURRECTION, and THE LIFE......

Isaiah 26:19

1 Timothy 6:16

Job 14:7-9 For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and the tender branch thereof will not cease.

(vs 8) Thought the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;

(vs 9) Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.

S Spencer, a parable to you, you said I am green.

Matthew 24:32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth (green) leaves, you know summer is nigh.

Revelation 22:2 ..... And the leaves shall be for the healing of the nations......

GBY

If you're inviting them into your home for worship and fellowship, try choosing a day or evening that works best for everyone. Any day would be fine!

Thomas,

2 Thessalonians 2:6 says, And now you know what withholds, and the word withhold is the word restrains, something that holds back.



"You know the restraint that he might be revealed in his time." He says there is a restraining force that is keeping the antichrist from being revealed.



He could be on the earth alive right now waiting to be revealed. And this restraining force is keeping him from being revealed because it's not time.

Verse 7 says For the mystery of iniquity is already working: That's in Paul's day.



And right now, whether the person is alive or not, we have the one world system taking shape, and then he'll step right in to the situation.



Only he who now letteth will let, and that's the nice Old English language. It's the same word hinders, or restrains.



He says and he who is restraining, will continue to restrain until it's time for the antichrist to be revealed, until he be taken, that is, this restrainer be taken out of the way.



There is much speculation as to what is the restraining force. I believe that it is God.

Some believe it's the Spirit of God in the church, that at the rapture when we're removed from the earth, that God's Spirit in the form of His people is gone.



That is true. But as I read through Revelation, I find out that it's the Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit himself, whether it's in His people or not in His people, it is the Holy Spirit. God's Spirit will remove the hold, or restraining on the man of sin, and he will be revealed.

Thanks Earl,

I agree.

Romans 6:4-5. Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:

Zephaniah 1:14. The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.

Zephaniah 2:3. Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD'S anger.

2 Corinthians 4:5-7. For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.

For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. Amen.

I am praying for a healing arouse for me and my granddaughter my ged most of all a closer walk with God

Please pray that the exceedingly wicked reason that I am made to become exceedingly sick before I have NO CHOICE but to go somewhere...please pray that GOD will heal me from all of this sickness now. I live with a Devil-worshiper (not of my choosing), and before I HAVE to leave--I'll become exceedingly tired, sick (to the point of vomiting, barely being able to stand or walk). She's started this up already. She does a LOT of dangerous and bad things to me, but again, I have NO CHOICE but to leave today for victuals (I don't have enough food to last me for the rest of the night/day, let alone the next morning).

In the past, she's made me so sick, I thought that I'd pass out. In the past, I've vomited uncontrollably (couldn't even hold it until I could get to the restroom's toilet). I could barely walk, and thought that--even once when I trudged through it (again, NO CHOICE, just kept praying to the LORD, as I thought I was going to pass out and need an ambulance--thankfully GOD heard my prayers and kept me from passing out in the past), weeks later, when I'd come back to that same vehicle (that I'd left out in). I opened the door to it, and immediately was hit with INSTANT sickness. It's some sort of gas or something she fills my living quarters up with or toxin, because as SOON as I opened the car door--WEEKS LATER--I was hit with instant sickness.

Please pray that GOD will not allow her to sicken me today. She's caused my hair to fall out (all types of hair on my body--scalp, eyelashes, and other body hair) to the touch, and just on it's on (eyelashes just falling out to my cheek or onto my little desk), etc.

Please pray GOD heal me of the toxins she's already started with today, so that I can leave. Please pray GOD will PLEASE tell me of a safe place that I may go to today, that I not have to live in this Satanic, abusive, and toxic (physically and emotionally/spiritually) situation. PLEASE HELP ME by asking CHRIST's Father to deliver me from Satan's KIDS

Keep your lamps filled.

Know that God is here for you and that no matter what you do He will always be with you. God is sooooo amazing! =)

Please pray for God's guidance for me and my family and to help us in our mental health.

Dear Chris, I love to read your writing as so many do. Thank you. Yesterday morning I received an email from my Nigerian brother/minister. His thoughts were on grace and faith, the mind and the heart. Grace is available to turn the mind to the condition of the heart where God can dwell in His believing children. All works of faith must happen and remain happening in the heart. We can challenge that faith by our willingness to search our hearts for uncleanness of any kind. This faith because of grace allows Christ Jesus by the comforter, the Holy Ghost in a born again believer to be sanctified continually while time remains in sinful flesh. As Christians we cannot shun this grace or avoid it in our hearts which we know as our souls which are eternal either unto life or death. Meanwhile we also have the mind, there is grace for the mind to believe and hear and have faith. But God dwells in the heart. Our true faith must be in the heart and we accept His grace to gently turn our minds to the living faith at Calvary in our hearts. We have a responsibility as Christians to protect the mind in its thoughts and actions by casting out evil imaginations which are common to all of Adam's descendants . So faith by our mind should only be considered a reasonable service to protect the faith and grace and Finished work at Calvary in our hearts. Eternal Security requires this living faith (God's Dwelling) and the mind turned to the heart. Our minds can turn our hearts to lasciviousness if our faith is in control of our minds. Likely, something like this happened to me way back then because I failed to understand how powerful Satan is related to faith by the mind and how he wants to challenge the finished Work of Jesus Christ in the hearts of the simple believing children. When we are attacked by the ally of the flesh by the evil one we must have a place of refuge as there is no place to hide except in the heart where salvation has taken place where security is everlasting.

S Spencer, may the Spirit grace us with HIS wisdom and HIS understanding.

The Spirit has revealed to you HIS truth in your reply to Karen. The promise was the indwelling of the Holy Spirit (immortal life by Christ); but this was not possible without RESURRECTION; therefore, we and the saints of the old testament also became partakers of HIS RESURRECTION.

Hebrews 11:39-40

Isaiah 26:19

Revelation 20:5-6

Matthew 27:52-53

Revelation 7 they were sealed with the Holy Spirit and His immortal body

1 Timothy 6:16

To Doris, if this is the first marriage for both, you are one flesh with your husband for life. No more twain, but one flesh, said Lord Jesus; never again two. a spiritual union that lasts until the death of one. This is why marrying is very very important to the Lord as it represents His marriage union with the Church whom He does not divorce. Have ever heard of the ''betrothal'' (a sort of engagement pior to the marriage itself, a spiritual bounding contract, see Deuteronomoy 22 about a virgin bride) and what it means to marriage?

How many times in life we are not doing what Jesus said...? He is patient with us to repent even until we die.

The exception in Matthew 5:32 and 19:8 is for fornication, meaning Not adultery (modern lexicons have added to the meaning in the past 200 years to include all sorts of sins other than fornication), but unchastity before the marriage itself. And in 1 Corinthians 7:15, ''not bound'' is coming from the word ''douloo'' in Greek which means ''servant/slave'', and it means not bound in the matrimonial duties, but still bound in the one flesh for life. Apostle Paul says that a woman who has a husband is bound to her husband for life until he dies and if she marries another she is an adulterress ( Romans 7:2-3, 1 Corinhians 7:29, 39).

In case of abuse , extreme, separation can be a solution, but divorce and remarriage is against thr Word of God and adulterers do not inherit God's Kingdom ( 1 Corinthians 6:9-10, Galatians 5:19-21).

Don't let modern interpretations mislead you about marriage, if it's a first for both, it is for life.

Amen! Praise God!

I definitely believe there will be animals in heaven. Jesus will be on a horse and I don't believe He will be the only one with an animal. Billy Graham believed it too.

Jeremiah 33:26 | View whole chapter | See verse in context

"Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them."

THEN I WILL CAST AWAY THE SEED OF JACOB.... "The Scepter had to remain in JUDAH, Christ, "the lion of Judah" and the root of Jesse.....

"LET HE WHO HAS EARS, HEAR AND UNDERSTAND!"

SEED and not "descendants" - what was "the seed of Jacob" - supplanter; dealer; deceiver; thief; conniver; contender etc.... And what was the SEED of ABRAM-ABRAHAM, father of FAITH, and father of many families and nations, through obedience in sacrificing his only son of promise, ISAAC: He BELIEVED GOD: THUS, IT WAS HIS FAITH THAT WAS "RECKONED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS!"

Hence, why Christ talks in the parable of the Sower sowing "SEED" and "beware of the leaven of the Pharisees" and the Apostle Paul, also warning us, against "mutilators of the flesh," blaspheming their heresy that Christ had no come in the flesh: for "a little leaven leavens the whole loaf."

"The abomination of sacrilege that causes desolation" - spoken of by Daniel the prophet and reaffirmed to us by CHRIST JESUS HIMSELF more than 2,000 years ago, is "standing in the holy place" right now amongst us, since 1948 - causing violence and bloodshed for spoils of loot and booty!

"Jerusalem" -city of peace in Arabic-"stolen" by David from the JEBUSITES, which God had "allowed" to happen, AFTER "THE ISRAELITES" HAD REJECTED GOD AS THEIR ONLY KING (1 SAMUEL) SO AS TO save a REMNANT to bring Christ Jesus Messiah Savior into the world; Jerusalem, whose name has NEVER changed, to this day, spiritually symbolizes-prefigured God's living Word in ISAIAH the prophet, Hebrews 11, in Revelation 20-22 - "a new country:" "THE JERUSALEM FROM HEAVEN" WHICH ONLY CHRIST JESUS MESSIAH WILL ESTABLISH UPON HIS RETURN WITH "A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH." **

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stablish you according to my Gospel; v.25 = Paul used the expression, "my Gospel", at least three times in his writings (see Rom. 2:16; 16:25; 2Tim. 2:8), and possibly even more so in similar phraseology. The Greek could correctly translate into "according to the Gospel which I preach".

This is the first occurrence wherein Paul personalized the Gospel by describing it as "my Gospel". Paul so thoroughly identified with the Gospel, and of JESUS CHRIST as his LORD and SAVIOR, both through personal experience and throughout his ministry, that he owned it as "my Gospel".

When writing to the Thessalonian Church, he personalized the Gospel with the personal plural pronoun "our" in his expression, "our Gospel" (1Thes. 1:5; 2Thes. 2:14). There, the pronoun "our" refers to Silvanus (Silas) and Timotheus (Timothy) (see 1Thes. 1:1; 2Thes. 1:1), both of whom Paul included in his salutations to the Thessalonian Church.

"my Gospel"; v.25 (cont.) This is the same Gospel of which Paul proclaimed, "I certify you, brethren, that the Gospel which was preached of me [or "which I preach"] is not after man. For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the Revelation of JESUS CHRIST" ( Gal. 1:11-12). Thus, the Gospel is not Paul's as its originator, but rather, Paul's because JESUS CHRIST revealed it to him "that I (Paul) might preach HIM (GOD's SON JESUS CHRIST) among the heathen" ( Gal. 1:16).

The reader should also consider the contexts in which Paul distinguished "my" Gospel from that of

+ those who Paul described as "them that are con-tentious, and do not obey the Truth, but obey unright-eousness" ( Rom. 2:8). This also includes Judaizers who coerced and manipulated their subjects to obey the Law so that they could "make [their own] boast of GOD" ( Rom. 2:8 & 23).

+ "them which cause divisions and offenses con-trary to the Doctrine which ye (Roman Christians) have learned" ( Rom. 16:17; cp. v.18).

+ Hymenaeus and Philetus, both of whom taught "that the Resurrection is past already" ( 2Tim. 2:18). Of note, Paul did not specify that which these two heretics taught pertaining to the resurrection, but their teaching was certainly a perversion.

For as christ himself in his merciful eternal loving kindness and selfless omnipoteent and omniscient benevolence warned us more than 2,000 years ago" : "heaven and earth shall pass away but my words shall never pass away" - ( acts 4:12 kjv 1611 - for there is no other god given to humankind by whom we must be saved." ***

My comments addressed all the godless humanist "ISM's - among which, ZIONISM, 1896, and NOT the book of Genesis, which is also God's living Word prophesying the coming of Christ Jesus Messiah Lord God Savior Redeemer in GENESIS 3:15, KJV, where Christ is referred to as THE SEED OF WOMAN, and not as "descendant" or "offspring" that begs focus and concentration on carnal biological genealogical flesh lineage that contradicts God's Word in the Book of John that we are BORN OF GOD and that THE FLESH IS OF NO AVAIL ( JOHN 1: 1-18; JOHN 3:16; JOHN 6:63; JOHN 17:3; HEBREWS 8:13; HEBREWS 13:8; REVELATION 1:7; REVELATION 20, 21, 22, KJV 1611, HOLY BIBLE). ***

Are you now censoring the FIRST AMENDMENT and serving ANTICHRIST in promoting the godless material interests of carnal men spiritually blinded by "the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life? You will be found yourselves fighting against God, a warning issued by Gamaliel, a Pharisee, under whom, the Apostle Paul, was "advancing in Judaism," sum of which, the Apostle Paul, uttering God's prophetic eternal Words of Spirit and Life in Christ Jesus, aptly, calls "dung" or "refuse?" "Ye err greatly in not knowing the Scripture and the power of God!" ***

please pray for Kristie and me , please pray the LORD give Kristie the strength and courage to face what is before her and to say and do what she must , please pray that the walls that separate be removed once and for all

Pray for Jim a widower and Drilling Engineer who is on a rig 500 miles out in the ocean and cannot access his bank account. He needs financial help to get an airline ticket to fly home and will pay the person back whatever he owes them.

Complete faith in God means no faith in the ideas and works of men. All science is falsely so-called. The only ''government'' is Our Father which art in heaven and He will be our protector in these evil days.

Psalms chapter 91

1 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

2 I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.

3 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.

4 He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.

5 Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;

6 Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.

7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.

8 Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.

9 Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;

10 There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.

11 For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.

12 They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.

13 Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.

14 Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.

15 He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.

16 With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.

conclusion: no trust whatsoever in mortal medicines

Thank you Carleton - that was a very telling testimony of retrieval from the clutches of sin. And praise God for those elders who assisted in your rescue & restoration. And so it is, for all who are beguiled by Satan & find themselves in his clutches, the Lord does all things possible by His Spirit & through godly men & circumstances, to alert us to the folly of our ways. The Lord gave you a loving assembly family who were quick to fish you out of the snare - many others flounder around for months or years, making shipwreck of their faith, dishonouring the Lord.

But when one knows the wrong & continues to persist in it, enjoying it & finding no conviction of such a lifestyle in the Light of God's Holiness & the Cross of Christ, hoping that the Lord would overlook it at His Coming, that to me is a great stretch of 'undeserved unlimited Grace'. It is then any wonder that those of us (= me) who believe in the 'eternal security of the believer' are often labelled as 'those who promote or allow licentious living while under such Grace', or being in support of "where sin abounded, grace did much more abound" ( Romans 5:20). Our hearts must never be allowed to get so hardened in sin or a sinful lifestyle that the Spirit's Light can no longer be seen or felt.

What a Beautiful Prayer for your family Brother. That's a ok can say I Love your Prayers. AMEN and AMEN Bother in Chist JESUS.

Please Pray for my wife Jenny and myself. My wife was in a car accident in 2018 of may. Airbag blew up in her face. She was burned from her head and hands also her front of body. We also found out that day she has Chiari Malformation in her Brain. Her whole family has it. She has had a hard time with woman things that shouldn't have to take 5or7 years . Menopause post, Perry. Every pause possible. She got scoliosis in the spine from laying down for 2 years. Bed rest for 3 years. It's like I'm living by myself. Holy Spirit touchand restore my wife back to me please in the name of J Jesus. The Malformation really effects her body. Please pray for complete healing from head tto toes. She has had a mini stroke that dropped her face God healed that she looks like the woman I married 14years ago.Amen and AMEN. For myself I was in a car accident also. I was rearended going to work from being off of work cause I got Covid on the job and bought it home to her. The Chiari made the virus worse on her. So it would seem the advisory is throwing darts at us. I ask for prayer on my whole body. We both have had concussions for a couple of years. The acc caused all of my surgeries to my body flare up. The holy Spirit knows all about us . Sorry I wrote a book about us. Please forgive me. We both have chronic pain. So pray for healing so we can get off of opiates. Thank you so much for listening. Hallaluya Praise GOD for his Loving Son JESUS CHRIST our Savior. Thank you again KEVIN and JENNY ERICKSON. May God bless you all for your patience and Prayers.

Without delving too deep in theology, Divine Election is essentially God choosing who are to belong to Him.

We have the Old Testament references to God's choosing Israel: Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 45:4; Isaiah 65:9; Matthew 24:22 (Matthew is still OT in this respect). Israel wasn't a nation at the time of God's choosing nor did its forefathers deserve anything for God choosing them, but that He wanted a "special people, to set His Love upon them, & to keep His Oath made to their forefathers" ( Deuteronomy 7:6-8).

In the New Testament (post Cross), the Apostle Paul speaks of God's Elect as being from both Israel & the Gentiles: under "the election of Grace" (Romans chapter 11) and Colossians 3:12; 1 Peter 1:2.

So we understand from Scripture, that God chooses whomever He desires to be His very Own. Yet, after the advent of Jesus Christ & His Sacrifice for all (Jew & Gentile), God's choosing is based on the Cross & yet the remnant of disbelieving Israel will still figure at the end times.

Then maybe your question is in respect of how that Divine Election affects sinful mankind now: are some forever lost without hope, or are some dragged kicking & screaming into the Kingdom, none having any choice because of Divine Election? To answer this, God's choosing of those to be saved is entirely because of His Determination & His Plans. Since we know that God is an Omniscient God (He knows all things from eternity to eternity), His Plans must include those who come into the world, the life path they take, their hearing of the Gospel & their response to it.

Acts 13:48: "And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed." "Ordained to eternal life". This is election, showing that God, Who had appointed some to eternal life, followed through with believing on His Son. In other words, whom God chooses will be saved - those who refuse His Son are not part of the elect or chosen of God.