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I've recently converted to Christianity. Not out of decision, but a compulsion from within me. One that has shocked and confused me. Yet I feel enlightened. I'm worried, where I come from, it's not safe to be Christian. The danger is worrying. But my fervor for the lord grows regardless of my concerns. I ask you pray I stay safe.

The two words that immediately came to mind when reading your words, & not knowing what the triggers are for your feelings & behaviour, are Forgiveness & Faith.

How are you doing in these areas? Are there areas that are unresolved in your life, people that have hurt you or misunderstood you, situations you have felt very uncomfortable in, fear of the unknown or future? These things can come to any one of us, but how we deal with them can help us overcome those feelings.

A true Forgiveness is accepting that both you or another could have done wrong. Even if the other remains obstinate, you can choose to forgive, shake hands & express friendship. Lack of forgiveness will eat through us as a canker & we remain under its power. We often say "forgive & forget" - both are hard to do, but both are required if healing of our minds are to take place. If we forgive & not lay it aside forever, then we haven't really forgiven & the canker goes to work.

A true vibrant Faith in the Living God will bring your perspective on God, Who alone can heal you & go before you in every situation. Faith takes your eyes off your problems & circumstances & in a committed way places them onto God, leaving it all in His capable Hands. We can never deal with our problems successfully - we don't even know what tomorrow holds for us - but we do know the One Who can deal with them & Who has gone ahead of us into our tomorrows. Look to God - wait on Him - feed & digest the Truths from His Word, cover yourself in Christ's precious Blood for protection from the enemy's darts, putting on the whole armour of God. When evil assails your mind, run to the Word & stand on His Promises - God is faithful.

Jesus told her that she could not touch him because He had not yet ascended to his Father. Shortly after, when all the disciples were together, Christ appeared to them resurrected! Thomas was absent from this gathering. Later, when the disciples reported to Thomas that they had seen Jesus alive, he understandably responded with skepticism. Eight days later, Jesus unexpectedly appeared again to the gathered disciples and challenged Thomas to touch him by placing his hands into the holes that remained in his body. The obvious question is this: why did Jesus deny Mary, but later encourage Thomas to touch Him?

In order to understand Jesus' very different instructions to Mary and Thomas, we need to understand the purity requirements for the Jewish High Priest on the Day of Atonement. The High Priest was forbidden to come into contact with anything that was ceremonially unclean in order to avoid being disqualified to enter God's presence the following day. So much depended on this ritual purity!

After His resurrection, Jesus (as our High Priest) would shortly be ministering in the heavenly tabernacle ( Heb. 9:11). It is significant that Jesus appeared to the disciples and told Thomas to touch him after eight days, because it takes seven days to ordain a priest ( Ex. 29:35).

The most-likely reason for Jesus' instructions to Mary had to do with the fact that He was determined to enter the heavenly tabernacle in a ready-to-serve, consecrated state. Defilement would not be a sin, but it would have disqualified Him (for a period of time) from entering God's presence. By the time Jesus met Thomas, His priestly work is done. He had returned from completing His duties and possible defilement was no longer an issue. His role as King was yet to be realized at the time of the ascension. He first needed to be ordained a priest and carry out His dutiesin the heavenly tabernacle! Nothing could be permitted to stand in the way of his mission.

Mishael

Though there are many Scriptures to support the after life & into eternity with God, there are very few that can fully support the immediate passage of the spirit & soul after death takes its grip. Clear portions, as Mishael has showed, about the penitent thief & Lazarus are often used & I would add to his list: 2 Corinthians 5:1-8. Herein, we see Paul's hope that when his "earthly tabernacle is dissolved" (or, passed away in death), God will provide a heavenly one. In fact, he says that he is confident (convinced) that while we're in this body on Earth, thus we're absent from the Lord. Rather, his desire was to be absent from his body (leave his mortal body behind at death), & be found in the Lord's presence. To me, these verses & those others given, show that at death, the spirit that cannot be destroyed by death does not linger aimlessly near a grave or under water, but returns to God Who gave it. For those who've rejected Christ, their spirits too are held captive awaiting coming judgement.

All people can ONLY be saved by FAITH: faith being the implicit trust & looking to God to save them though not having seen Him. For the Jew, they received the Law from God & though none could fully obey its demands, it served to show them there sin, the need for sacrifice & of course, a faith that looked only to God & looked forward to God to provide a better Sacrifice. Most Jews didn't do this, though some did ( Hebrews 11) but God is the Judge of their hearts. For those without the Law (Gentiles), the laws written within us condemned us ( Romans 2:12-16) & we have to stand before God on that basis &/or the rejection of God's Sacrifice. "But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name" ( John 1:12). And of course, we receive Him only by faith, not by works or sacrifice.

I can't answer your last question; it must be something wired in us to know what & where 'our shame' (our less honourable) body parts are.

God bless you brother Al

I respond to you question about how Eve knew which parts of her body to cover.

The tree of the knowledge of good and evil is a symbol for sin/unbelief. The serpent (which was an upright walking creature between human and animal) seduced Eve to eat from the tree. The euphemism of the "fruit" is a symbol for sex. The serpent had sex with Eve. She took this "fruit" to Adam, and they ate. Afterwards they knew they were naked because of the effect of the lust. Therefore they made garment of leaves to cover their sexual organs. Later Eve bore the children. Cain was the son of the serpent. Abel was the son of Adam.

For more on this topic you can research the doctrine of the Serpent's Seed.

God be with you in Christ

God bless you Rhonda

After Jesus rose from the dead He went to Heaven to offer Himself as the sacrifice for sin on the Altar before the Father. At that time He could not be touched because the sacrificial lamb had to be pure and not handled with unclean hands.

After Jesus offered Himself He returned to the earth dimension and spend time with the believers for about 40 days. At that time He was touched frequently. After that He ascended into Heaven and have not walked on the earth since then.

Peace and love in Christ

A friend of my daughter's has a friend who has a twin brother who is on life support. His condition has taken a turn for the worse and they are considering taking him off tomorrow which will be Sat. 11/14/20. Please pray that GOD would intervene and spare this man's life. My daughter does not know the condition of his soul. So, this man may possibly need spiritual healing as well as physical healing. Pray that GOD would be glorified. Pray that GOD would help everyone involved to be willing to accept HIS will regardless of the outcome. I wish that I had more details. I will update day by day that we may all be encouraged and rejoice together.

Roland

Jax.Fl.

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That was sad to read of the comment by the ex-military man from Pakistan; such is the hate of those opposed to the Gospel & claims of Christ. You did well to block him, though I hope that you have since then also blocked cigarette smoke from filling you. Your body is God's Temple ( 1 Corinthians 6:19) where His Spirit resides - we must care for it by what we put into it just as much as to show care for what comes out of it (by our minds, our mouths, etc).

Also, do seek the Lord about a place to meet real believers & worship with them. The RC Church is not suitable at all, as much as you have a desire to be in a 'Christian' environment to pray. God hears & answers prayer right there in your room ( Matthew 6:6), where you are alone with God to call & cry to Him, & no man can interfere. But with the strong influence of the French in your country, I'm sure there would 'evangelical' Christians there also, just as we had contact with them travelling as 'Equipe Commando' in France in 1988, spreading the Word to a predominantly RC population.

Josef, may you continue to grow in the grace & knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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Brother Josef, thank you for your kind words - each one here loves the Lord & loves each one who comes here so that we might learn together & also teach & encourage others. To learn more of the Lord, His Word & to build one another up in our faith, is the important thread that runs throughout the Bible.

My short time in Pakistan was very special as I met people that had the same desires & needs as anyone else & most were even willing to listen to God's Word as it was applied to their situation. In the West sadly, most have their hearts hardened to anything of God, preferring to cast Him aside & attend to spiritist teachings or their own inclinations. There was always danger in Pakistan, but the God Whom we serve carried us through at every instance.

And so for you also Josef, I know there are spiritual struggles going on in you as you live as a follower of Christ amongst those that give Him little regard. You need to follow the Lord's leading: if He prompts you clearly to go somewhere or do something in His Power, then it means that He is with you, giving you the words & protection that you need. When you are in the centre of His Will, you will see wonders before your face. In Karachi, we often saw how God worked on our behalf: blinding the eyes of those against us so we were invisible to them. Or changing their minds of hate to minds willing to listen. The Holy Spirit goes before you to prepare the way, preparing both the hearer & the messenger.

Please pray for Kristie and Myself . please pray that walls that have separated be forever removed

Why is the word Gentiles capitolized?

Your eyes are clearly on the Lord & your heart breaking for those in grief & perishing around you. May it be a challenge to each of us to be mindful of others & to intercede for them, as you are doing, that their days on Earth might be made better & their eternity, certain.

Some believe that while Jesus' body was in the tomb, His spirit was in hell. Scripture does not support that position when it is taken in context and we look at the meaning of the word "hell." In the Old Testament, the place of the dead or the place of departed souls was called "Sheol." It was to this place that all souls of the dead went to await resurrection.

In the New Testament, we find the story of Lazarus and the rich man who both died and went to Hades ( Luke 16:19-31). The King James translates the Greek word "hades" as hell but most other translations use the Greek word. Hades had two separated parts. Those who died in faith believing in God's promise waited for the resurrection in Abraham's Bosom. Those who died spiritually separated from God wait in torment for the resurrection unto death, or eternal separation from God. The rich man was on the torment side and Lazarus was in Abraham's Bosom, which was called "paradise" by the LORD Jesus Christ when He addressed the thief who found faith the day Jesus was crucified ( Luke 23:42-43)

For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment" ( 2 Peter 2:4). The word translated "hell" here is not the Greek word "hades" but is the Greek word "tartarus" meaning abyss or the lowest regions. This could very well be the "gulf" that was fixed between the place of torment and Abraham's Bosom ( Luke 16:26).

Wherefore He saith, When He ascended up on high, He led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. (Now that He ascended, what is it but that He also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that He might fulfill all things" ( Ephesians 4:8-10). Leading captivity captive refers to Jesus taking all those that waited in Paradise to heaven to be with Him. The descending into the "lower parts" then refers to Jesus mission of declaring victor

If I'm understanding you correctly, the thieves that hung on their crosses at each side of Jesus, were hung & nailed in the 'proper manner', so to speak. There's no indication that their crucifixion was any different to the others. There is a tradition however, that the Apostle Peter was crucified upside down at his request, so that his crucifixion would not resemble his Lord's. But that is only tradition & not found in Scripture.

In John 21:18, Jesus told Peter, "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not". Some have understood Jesus' prophecy of Peter that one day he would be taken as a prisoner & eventually crucified. We can't be certain that is what is meant. Whatever the case, it is of praise to the Lord that all His servants, the apostles, were willing to lay down their lives for Jesus, as Jesus had done for them. That should be cause of much searching of our own hearts in our love & commitment to our wonderful Saviour.

Scott, you shared great insights to the Mind of God & the carnal mind of man (Israel). And a great challenge to us, to personal introspection of our thoughts & motives resulting of the Work of the Cross in our lives.

No one is outside the bounds of God's Love & Mercy & we need to have that always before us as we look at others, seeing them & understanding them as God does. Not always easy to do as our eyes & minds sometimes get clouded, but the Spirit speaks expressly & clearly in every facet of our lives. Thank you again for that worthy & timely message.

You wrote, "Thats y the lord was so upset with Peter as Peter was in essence saying the blood was insufficient they needed water baptism". The Lord 'was upset' not because Peter negated the efficacy & sufficiency of Christ's Blood sacrifice, but that Peter had rejected the fact that Gentiles could also be partakers of the Holy Ghost, & the vision was to show that "what God had cleansed, that call not thou common". Nothing to do with water baptism. He then clarified this in Acts 11 to the other apostles & believers in Jerusalem & they together "When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life". (11:18).

You wrote, "Thats y Paul said i thank God that i baptised none of you, Paul knew that water baptism wd make the CROSS th BLOOD OF NO EFFECT". If you read the passage again, Paul was upset that there were cliques forming as certain folk followed after some of the big names. So Paul said what he said, in case some would think that he was so great that water baptism was being done in Paul's name & by his authority & not what Jesus had prescribed. ( 1 Corinthians 1:12-16).

If you deny the necessity of water baptism, post Cross & post reception of the Holy Spirit, you have to deny what Jesus ordained in Matthew 28:19 & what all the apostles believed was necessary as shown in many Scriptures. I'm unsure from where you develop your ideas: there are definite Truths in what you write, but it seems that your interpretations which clearly are outside the revealed Scriptures, formulate your ideas. And that is a dangerous practise.

By the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ remember this

Philippians 4:6-10 (KJV)

[6] Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. [7] And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. [8] Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. [9] Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.

Hebrews 13:5-6

[5] Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. [6] So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.

My God bless.

Remember this always

Philippians 4:6-9

[6] Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. [7] And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. [8] Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. [9] Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.

And my God bless.

For God to work on my husbands heart and he develop a humble heart and a love or other people. He has a world of biblical knowledge, but does not possess a true love for people. I breaks my and our children's hearts. Please pray for Buddy.

why did Jesus say to Mary, after he had risen from the grave. "do not touch me for I have not ascended to the father"

I love the bible thank you so much for making this bible

what bible story is this because it dosen't say.

Using the Search Engine to Find Answers on Isaiah 54.

Know what? If we got a new video game we'd be awake 24/7, figuring out how to play it. Another 2 years trying to beat the game (including Time spent on YouTube watching cheats and tricks).

We're all over the place trying to Beat That Game!!!

Tell me why we don't go at the Bible the same way?? Dig, dig deeper, read commentaries on here, read commentaries on Google.

The Holy Spirit is your TEACHER. Ask Him. If you'll sit still long enough and be quiet, you will get answers.

PRAY for a TEACHABLE spirit.

They're not cheats; but your Bible will start speaking to your spirit.

Get a Study Bible that has Center of Each page, reference columns: with the abc notes within the scriptures. Those send you to other scriptures that EXPAND the meanings or reveal a prophesy.

Back out of the room to the Search Box.

Put a scripture in it or just a word (like worms) hit the arrow. The search engine will pull up all verses with 'worms' in it.

Touch or click the verse and it will highlight yellow.

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Questions answered. It makes studying fun and interesting.

Be adventurous.

There's a quickie link from KJV to Google to help you find a scripture you're unsure about. Like: "Jesus releasing prisoners from hell".

Learn to study! For yourselves. Share what you find, on here. IT IS FUN! God speaks to us through His Word.

When you sit down to study: pray: I HAVE THE SAME MIND OF CHRIST !! I receive it by faith right now. God watches over His Word To Perform it.

Habakkuk 2:2-4 find your identity in the Bible.

LEARN how to use the Tools to get your questions answered sooner. Let's rejoice that we have them! Old Testament saints didn't have Bibles. Have courage.

Mishael

Grateful. I love to teach and for some years now I have searched different books to bring more clarity to the audiences God allows me to speak to for their own growth and God get the glory

Commentary for Psalm 91:12

The safety of those who have God for their refuge. (1-8) Their favour with Him. (9-16)

1-8 He that by faith chooses God for his protector, shall find all in him that he needs or can desire. And those who have found the comfort of making the Lord their refuge, cannot but desire that others may do so. The spiritual life is protected by Divine grace from the temptations of Satan, which are as the snares of the fowler, and from the contagion of sin, which is a noisome pestilence. Great security is promised to believers in the midst of danger. Wisdom shall keep them from being afraid without cause, and faith shall keep them from being unduly afraid. Whatever is done, our heavenly Father's will is done; and we have no reason to fear. God's people shall see, not only God's promises fulfilled, but his threatenings. Then let sinners come unto the Lord upon his mercy-seat, through the Redeemer's name; and encourage others to trust in him also.

9-16 Whatever happens, nothing shall hurt the believer; though trouble and affliction befal, it shall come, not for his hurt, but for good, though for the present it be not joyous but grievous. Those who rightly know God, will set their love upon him. His promise is, that he will in due time deliver the believer out of trouble, and in the mean time be with him in trouble. The Lord will manage all his worldly concerns, and preserve his life on earth, so long as it shall be good for him. For encouragement in this he looks unto Jesus. He shall live long enough; till he has done the work he was sent into this world for, and is ready for heaven. Who would wish to live a day longer than God has some work to do, either by him or upon him? A man may die young, yet be satisfied with living. But a wicked man is not satisfied even with long life. At length the believer's conflict ends; he has done for ever with trouble, sin, and temptation.

Commentary by Matthew Henry, 1710

There is but one GOD,there is No God before him ,there is No God with him &there will be No God After Him..Praise his Holy Name.

Hello David,

Seeing your post just made me wonder. You know satan was not ever in Heaven? So what do you take of say 2 Peter 2:4 or Jude 1:6? Which are pretty straight forward. About angels sinning. I'll just state this. God our Eternal Father is so much higher than us. As His ways, and thoughts, also are so high above us.

So as I believe things between angels and "us" are two different categories. One thing I believe our Father gives all is "free will". I myself would never condemn anyone(person) who was say "touched" by the Lord. Say they repented well and dropped many sinful things of this world. Then say they made a mistake and did something "sinful". Would you say that person is no longer saved? Even if they knew they made a mistake, confessed to the Lord, and tried to learn from it and keep on repenting and living for the Lord?

We are still here in earth. I know there are some people who say they are "perfect" and "sin free" after being saved by the Lord. I myself could never say that. Keeping a humble state of mind. I only see my Lord Jesus Christ, and my Holy Father, as perfect. I try my best to follow in the footsteps of the Lord and live for the Will of our Father. As I don't condemn people this does not mean I say it's ok, or right, to "sin". I guess I just have more "mercy" and "forgiveness" in me than "judgement" or "condemnation".

I know we're all different and have our own views. This is not to start an argument. I just felt to post from the heart.

God Bless you.

Where does the bible promise you that your soul will go to Heaven when you die? or conversely that a soul will go to hell when the wicked die? How were people saved before there was a savior?....how did Eve know what part(s) or her body to cover with fig leaves?...thank you

Please pray for my Mom good health and long life, salary raise at my work for the Lord will use my work as the channel of my blessings. Courage more to share the gospel and the Lord will help me to be the salt and the light, head not the tail and top not the bottom, where I am now that I could be able to do what he has called me to do.

Thank you very much to all those whose praying for my request God bless us all. =))

Alex comments on water baptism but John Who gave us water baptism, Preached behold the lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world i have need to be baptised of him ( Jesus ) Its not water baptism that made us Clean, its only by the blood of the lamb that we are made Clean not h20 . After that Christ had shed his blood on the Cross were we made Clean which was the ULTTMATE BAPTISM AND NOTHIN CAN BE ADDED TO IT ABSOLUTLY NOTHIN . But Peter a Godly man was commanding water baptism after that God Almighty had baptised them with the H.G. That resulted from the blood of the lamb ( WHO CAN FORBID WATER ETC) Thats when God gave Peter that vision in a trance of a GREAT SHEET knit at the 4 corners with all the unclean animals which was the Church ( Humanity ) That God made Clean by the blood of the LAMB not water baptism that Peter was commanding, Thats y the lord was so upset with Peter as Peter was inessence saying the blood was insufficient they needed water baptism Then after that Peter had understood the vision he says then remembered I the WORDS OF OUR LORD, JOHN BAPTISED YOU WITH WATER BUT I WILL BAPTISE YOU WITH THE H.G. N FIRE NO WATER MENTIONED . Nothin can be compared to his blood or added to his sacrifice on th Cross Thats y Paul said i thank God that i baptised none of you, Paul knew that water baptism wd make the CROSS th BLOOD OF NO EFFECT thats y the lord was so upset with Peter he was making the blood of no effect by commanding water baptism in essence saying the Blood was insufficient . It was a slap in the face of God and the lamb of God to command water baptism after the CROSS. Peter should have been preaching behold the lamb of God that taketh away the SINS of the world not water baptism after that God had washed them with the ULTIMATE baptism of his blood the greatest event to ever grace planet earth. Unto him that has loved us and has washed us from OUR SINS IN HIS OWN BLOOD . Even in th O.T. WITHOUT THE SHEDDING OF BLOOD NO REMISISON OF SINS.