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Chuck, from what you've written, I believe you have misunderstood this passage in Nehemiah. This was a commitment that Israel made before the Lord. It began when Ezra rehearsed the Words of God before the people (Nehemiah chapter 8) & the people repented because they had strayed so far from God. (9:1,2).

So they separated themselves from the heathen (10:28), & entered into a unified oath (a curse: which they pronounced upon themselves if they failed to do according to their oath). And part of that oath was that they would not intermarry (v 30), they would honour the Sabbath Day (v 31), they would contribute to the various offerings (vv 32,33), to bring in the firstfruits (the first of their crop, their sons, their animals as an offering to the Lord (vv 34-37); but bear in mind that their sons were NOT sacrificed (see Exodus 13:2, where the sons were sanctified (separated) as consecrated to the Lord)).

Israel had strayed very far from the Lord, so this renewed vow & commitment as a result of the reading of the Law by Ezra & the rehearsal of Israel's history by the Levites (chapter 9), was a turning point in their history, at least for some time.

When you read why Jesus says "Why callest thou me good?", this is a question on Jesus part, in response to a certain ruler's question in regards on how to inherit eternal life, He did not say "don't call me good". two totally different meanings.

Luke 18:16-22 Context 16 But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God. 17 Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein. 18 And a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? 19 And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? none is good, save one, that is, God. 20 Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother. 21 And he said, All these have I kept from my youth up. 22 Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.

Our Father God who are in heaven I praise God for forgiveness this day Lord I pray for this person that's going through right now in the mighty name of Jesus Gabe, that she be healed delivered and set free from anxiety father God right now in heaven I pray in Jesus name older guys set a free right now God heal her mind her body her soul father God heal her father made every request that is righteous in Jesus name make her whole right now God make her family whole her father God that he might see in Jesus name we pray amen

Truth, forgiveness

In order to be saved what is the requirement..? Believe in Jesus Christ and keep his commandments?

matthew 6 verse 21 please explain

The word homosexuality was not invented until the 19th century:

Homosexual: A term created by 19th century theorists to describe a sexual and emotional interest in members of one's own sex.... The Columbia Encyclopedia.

So when the Bible mentions men with men one should be able to associate men with men with the word homosexuality.

The KJV is so old the word homosexual was not a word when it was written. Some of the newer translations use the word homosexual.

The New Living Translation

Le 18:22 "Do not practice homosexuality; it is a detestable sin."

English Standard Version

1Co 6:9 - "Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,'

Today's New International Version

1 Ti 1:10 - :for the sexually immoral, for those practicing homosexuality, for slave traders and liars and perjurers. And it is for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine .

The Complete Jewish Bible

De 23:17 - "No woman of Isra'el is to engage in ritual prostitution, and no man of Isra'el is to engage in ritual homosexual prostitution."

Yes, when a person commits fornication they fall and they die. Sin is deadly. But a person must leave being upright and righteous to fall dead as stated in Pro 2:13, "Who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness." They are upright before they fall.

A person must leave being upright to walk in the fallen state of sin. And the sin of fornication makes a spiritual darkness on earth. Today the darkness is everywhere and is the condition that is responsible for all our social ills.

God is truth, Jesus brings truth to earth, the Holy Spirit is the truth. They are all three truth and they are the same truth.

The Holy Spirit is not a person, but it is truth. When you have the Holy Spirit in you, you have the truth of God in you.

The truth will lead all people to God. Truth is sent to people to convince and to bring conviction to the sinner. When a person has the Holy Spirit, they have the truth within them making it possible to speak the truth. When a person departs from the truth they are profane, meaning unholy and they cannot speak the truth.

It is confusing to think of the Holy Spirit as a person. The Holy Spirit is the truth that can go everywhere. It can be spoken, written, go out on the radio and television and the internet. Yes, truth it does convict the sinner. It can go throughout the entire world.

Read again what you have written with the knowledge that the Holy Spirit is the truth of God.

Oops! Wasn't quite done! I forgot that Almighty God gave me Blessings of being able to Love so deeply and a person to share that Love with!

I forgot of myself, I am Nothing!

Only God can help me by my prayers & putting the things that give me anxieties into the CARE of my Loving Father - I was anxious because I separated myself from God!

I took back my Will!

I was in such a panic, was so vulnerable, that the dark crept in with it's doubts, tunnel vision that made my heart race & took away my oxygen!

I didn't let go...so I got dragged, shut off from the "Sunshine of the Spirit"!

Uncalm times are the ONLY times when evil can find an entrance; I am more afraid of Spirit unrest, Soul Disturbances ANY Ruffling of my mind, than of any earthquakes or fire!

Of course I wanted to die, than have my Unguarded Soul remain in The Darkness!

So I took a deep breath & prayed to God to forgive my sinful thought, that He was my refuge & my fortress! I want to live to Serve you, Lord, I just want my life as it is NOW to end!

That was my truth, Gabe!

How selfish to want to die before we have done our Utmost Good to serve God, Mankind, the Earth.

Even the smallest change for the Good as We Love & Serve one another creates ripples of Positive God energy all around, Lights up Souls & The Darkness cannot survive the Light & The Word!

Ask Christ to guide you along a new path for He is with you ALL THE TIME!

The Holy Spirit entered my body & I live & will have Eternal life, as will you; CHOOSE LIFE!

Every moment may not be filled with Joy, but they will only be MOMENTS - and you'll forget what even bothered you because you will seek The Light & The Word. Lose your self-centered fear by Serving other Children of God to seek Forgiveness, Love & Service & LIVE in Peace surrounded by light helping a Soul out of The Darkness, to be Saved; just like I just did as a "Channel of His Peace"!

Your Sister in Christ,

Glo

Also in the OT laws. Leviticus 18:22 and Leviticus 20:13.

To properly define the Holy Spirit, as you know would take several pages & even then we would not do justice because of our limited understanding from the Word. So briefly, without giving references at this stage, the Holy Spirit is:

a. a Person within the Triune God: proved by His Names, His Characteristics, His Works & His association with the Father & the Son.

b. He proceeded from the Godhead eternally & without any dividing or change in God's Nature.

c. He was involved in Creation, the Virgin Birth, in Christ's Life, Ministry, Death & Resurrection & also for the sake of mankind (convicting, regenerating, indwelling, baptizing, sealing).

d. He gave gifts to God's children & fills them so they can lead God-honouring lives with joy & in power. In so doing, He teaches us, guides us, gives assurance & comfort, & helps us to pray.

e. He came upon the men of old (including Christ's disciples) in measure, according to their appointment, but now, in fulness to reside in all of God's children.

f. He inspired the writing of God's Word & leads us into God's Truth & even today empowers men to preach the Gospel & to stand for Christ even in the face of death.

And so "what is the Spirit's Power?" As can be gleaned from the incomplete list above, the Holy Spirit is the very Presence of God sent to the world to bring conviction to the hearts of men of their sin & their separation from God and to indwell every one who has come to God in faith because of His Son. To us, we have all the resources from God to live a victorious life, using His Gifts for the blessing of His people, having the power & joy to serve God, to withstand Satan & his followers around us & to increase our faith when we falter. Yet He is so often stifled in His Work in us, because of unconfessed sin & by taking our eyes off Jesus & looking to the world or within ourselves. But "greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the World".

Hello William,

Well, it is known Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed for being "abominable" with homosexuality and other things I would believe. As you can read Genesis 19 where two Angels of the Lord came to save Lot and the men of the city came so they may "know" them. As he offered his two virgin daughters to them so they would do nothing to the Angels.

Also in Romans 1:25-28 it is spoken of. Hope that helps.

Dear Gabe,

I will pray for your father & for you; to keep strong in Faith!

I, too suffer on occasion from anxieties. They are so bad at time I felt I WAS dying!

I started to ask myself what is bothering me?

What things, one by one is disturbing me so much that I want to die?

One thing at a time I said it out loud & after each I prayed & I KNEW it was going to be OK; God had Blessed me by opening my heart to love another so much, that when they were ill, I feared losing that love!

I FORGOT that the Lov

Hi William, The answer to you first question you may find in Romans ch 1, read vs 1 on down to about 28 to get clarity.

And your other question, where in the Bible does it speak of the difference in the races, and race mixing. You want find race in the Bible as used today, you would find Jews, Gentiles, the heathens, the nations, the church, ect.. God called Abraham out of the land of his father and made a nation out of him, they became the jews, that was their beginning, every one else was Gentiles, Those who are born again out of these two groups and baptized by the Holy Spirit into one body is called the Church. Israel was set apart so God could Demonstrate his Glory, relationship, Holiness, ect.. to all nations. They was not to be joined in marriage and be separated from all nations or they would end up forsaken their God and serve the other nations Idols, no race the way we see it today. However racism probably was active in the world then as well because pride existed, but that's not the focus of mature Christians, We leave that up to the world and we be about our fathers business.

Ann, may the Spirit grace you with HIS wisdom and His understanding.

Isaiah 11:1-5 Is a prophecy about Christ. Verse 2 is the prophecy of the seven spirits being poured out on Christ. This happened at Christ baptism of John. This is also the prophecy spoken of in

Revelation 4:5 .....which are the seven Spirits of God.

Isaiah 11:2 And the

(1) spirit of the Lord (Father)

(2) the spirit of wisdom

(3) the spirit of understanding

(4) the spirit of counsel

(5) the spirit of might

(6) the spirit of knowledge

(7) the spirit of the fear of the Lord (Father)

GBU

Marilyn Taplin,

"don't call me good", once again you misquote the Lord Jesus. He didn't say "don't", he did ask "why", as the verse you listed plainly shows.

"Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." 2Timothy 2:15

Isaiah 11:1,2: "And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD".

You probably know that this chapter is the prophecy from Isaiah about the coming Christ Jesus. Jesus, in His Humanity, takes His descendancy back to King David, to David's father, Jesse & all the way back to Adam. So, Isaiah sees this aspect of the Messiah, the Branch coming out of David's tree. Verse 2 onwards gives us a description of what Isaiah saw concerning Him: the God's Spirit would be upon Him (for His Holiness & Power in Ministry); Wisdom, Understanding, Counsel & Might would be also be the hallmarks of Messiah (& we know how well he spoke to all people, understanding the core of their needs & in wisdom & authority refuted the most intellectual of them); & holding God in continual awe & reverence. Verses 4 & 5 also speak of His acts of Righteousness.

As an addition to the above, we might think that Isaiah only saw the Messiah as a Man sent from God, as many even today believe him to be (i.e. the Son of God only but not God the Son). But Isaiah did see the Messiah as God coming in the flesh ( Isaiah 9:6,7 (His Name will be called The Mighty God & the Everlasting Father); 7:14 (where Immanuel means 'God is with us'); & 40:3, where John the Baptist would cry out, "Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for OUR GOD"). I hope this helps you in understanding this very important prophetical Book.

I loved reading your prayers with my prayer circle and I am praying for you. What state are you in, if you don't mind my asking? I have had a lot of worry concerning where to live as well but I have asked Father God to remove my inequities. You can do the same. We will be made new! Is that not exciting?!

Hello, I'm not sure what you mean by "incomplete." The Bible can't possibly cover every detail that happened in every person's life in history. If you notice, human beings were created in only 1 verse. Obviously we are extremely complex beings, so a lot more could have been said about it, but wasn't. The Bible also never talks about people using the restroom, although we can assume they probably did. There were probably many times people ate, bathed, and did all kinds of things not covered. No other book covers every detail either, because its too much info. So, the Bible didn't happen to inform us how people got to Nod. Some think Eve bore more children with her sons and made Nod. Others think that God created more people, but just don't know the timing. It seems fairly safe to say that Adam and Eve were the first beings, then after things went south with them, it's possible other things occurred that weren't documented.

I loved reading your prayers with my prayer circle and I am praying for you. What state are you in, if you don't mind my asking?

You're correct - my Bible too gives the word as "fell". But why I say that 'fell' means 'died' is because of the longer account of this tragedy in Numbers 25:1-9. You will see it there. Of course, from your reading you will also notice the difference in the number who 'died': in Numbers it is given as 24,000, whereas Paul indicates 23,000. In case you raise this matter with me, this 'discrepancy' has been explained by the fact that in Numbers, the total number of people killed is given (i.e. 23,000 killed by the plague & the other 1,000 killed by Phinehas). But if you need another option to this: the number killed may have been somewhere between 23,000 & 24,000, in which case Paul uses the former & in Numbers, the latter is given. I think this last option deals with the 'discrepancy' better.

So, they were certainly not "upright before they fell" - they were 'downright bad folk' whom God severely dealt with.

What is the meaning of verse 4 in chapter 32 of ecclesiastes

In my search and in the text above...when referring to satan as god the g is always shown lower case god, never upper case God. In the search that led me here and the text above you have mistakenly used the upper case when lower case would be appropriate...even though I don't see the use of god appropriate for the serpent. Just saying.

Hi Georganna, Here's another scripture that go along with those you already have, 2 Corinthians 12:9-10. And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong. God does answer, I think often we try to muster up faith for our request but we take our eyes off God's Attributes, God is Love, God is Mercy, God is Justice, ect. We can put our faith in him and who he is and he will do his will which is always the best thing for us. I hope that helps

So it seems the biblical account is incomplete and we are left to surmise otherwise.

explaine Neh.Chapter . 10 V 29 Through 36 or even all way through to v39 it sound's or reads as Like do to there disobedance to GOD'S commandments of the LAW not to intenmigle marraige's of Foreign People who don't know GOD or the LAW To be Reconnected with GOD'S Favor the Israels othed to The LAW GOD gave Moses's which Become a curse to them ??? which to atone they gave there First Fruits which look's to inclue the first born son's in v 36 Do to there oth which was a curse V 29 to have GOD'S Forgiven for there intermingle marraiges of which they left Behind there married forein wire's an children from the past foreign country's!!! So to reconcile for that SIN that they inclueded to sacrificed even there first Born Children to show there recommitted Oth to GOD an his LAW's of marriage's within the Israelites People ????

Born again Christians, upon death: their flesh bodies remain in their grave (where they were buried, or wherever they died).

There is a scripture that "all souls belong to God".

Your born again spirit goes to heaven to be with Christ until the moment of the Rapture.

Then Jesus restores us to our resurrection body that is complete and will be with Him eternally, in Heaven.

Our faith in Gods promises is what accomplished that which is hard for us to understand now. Faith puts doubts to rest. Put your faith in what God days. Faith is strong and able to Rest in what God has said.

Remember Enoch? He loved God and fellowshipped with God. One day he just walked to heaven without dying...with his Lord. It was recorded in the Bible, so it happened. No body was found.

Strong faith in God will carry you through any situation. God spoke it, it will be done.

When faith wavers, run to the Lover of your Soul. He will never lose you or forsake you. You're not lost in a crowd. He knows right where you are.

Tell others what you know to be true. Be strong in His faith.

Please include Rosemary in your prayers to the Lord Jesus Christ that He will heal her completely -

Ruth

Barbara, may the Spirit grace you with HIS wisdom and HIS understanding. The traditions of man has distorted the true gospel. The traditions of man teaches heaven is a natural place with natural streets, natural buildings, natural walls and we exist much like we exist now; but the word of God teaches heaven is a person in a glorified body with no need for streets or houses or any thing existing in a natural state.

John 3:13 No man has ascended up to heaven, but he (Christ in the same glorified body he existed in as Jehovah in the old testament) that came down from heaven (and became flesh), even the Son of man which is in heaven (now back in the glorified body he had before).

Let's try to comprehend what is depicted as (spiritual) heaven (where the Spirit dwells).

1 Corinthians 3:17 Know ye not that ye are the TEMPLE OF GOD, and the SPIRIT OF GOD dwelleth in you.

Isaiah 66:1 Thus saith the Lord (the Father), The heaven is my throne, and the earth (dust, flesh) is my footstool: where is the house that ye (Christ) build unto me? and where is the place of my (SPIRIT) rest?

Psalm 127:1 Except the Lord (Christ) build the house, they labour in vain .....

Hebrews 3:6 But Christ as a Son over his own house, whose house we are....

Revelation 3:21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I overcame and am sit down with my Father in his throne.

John 17:21 That they ALL MAY BE ONE as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that THEY also may be ONE in us.....

1 Timothy 6:16 Who (CHRIST) only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto....

1 Corinthians 15:52-54 In a Moment....Death is swallowed up in victory.

Isaiah 26:19 Thy dead men (we are dead in our trespasses) shall Live, TOGETHER WITH MY (CHRIST) DEAD BODY SHALL THEY ARISE....

Revelation 20:5 .....This is the FIRST RESURRECTION.

Luke 20:34-36 .....Being the CHILDREN OF THE RESURRECTION.

John 14:2 In my Fathers house are many mansions...