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Thank you so much for your prayers. Is there a way I can let you know her name privately? The Lord's blessings to you and yours.
Don't be trouble by what people say Trust in The Lord Jesus Christ. anything any man says to you. You need to Gurd your heart with all diligent for out of it the issues of life arise so Check by the scriptures at all times.
Please understanding this Satan main agender is to attack your faith and he will use all means Just to get to you, but you need to go before the Lord and pray against unbelief and renounce its by proclaiming. The Scripters cannot be broken.
Pray and Trust in the Lord Jesus Christ He Knows all you need is to trust in the Lord
For its written in ROMANS 8:35-37.
35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 As it is written,
For thy sake we are killed all the day long;
we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
37Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
The ultimate servant , would be Himself in the man Christ Jesus!
Being covered in the blood is the supernatural power unto those who receive Him and believe on His name!
During ww2 the Jews would put blood on the doors of the concentration buildings, hoping that the prince of death would pass . Neither is insignificant!
A Nation who lives under the law will be judged by the same law. If a Nation no longer lives under grace and the forgiveness found in Christ, How then can the Spirit know who we are without the blood?
Repent and be Baptized
Remember all the words of God is pure and there's no unrighteousness with HIM.
Amen
Remember
acts 20;21
Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Ephepians 3:14-21
Love u and all in Christ.
Part 2.
Acts 8:5-25.
I believe in Samaria they had a head knowledge of the things that Phillip was teaching, and they were baptized by water but in this instance, they weren't converted until Peter came and laid hands on them and they received the Holyspirit.
You can't be saved without the Holyspirit!
It takes the Holyspirit to show you the things of God, not miracles! 1 Corinthians 2:10-11.
These people were bewitched by Simon who used sorcery and they presented him to be some great one.
The unclean spirit can leave a person but it takes the Holyspirit to seal him.
This reminds me of Matthew 12:43-44.
"They received the word of God" even Simon!
When the apostles were able to bring on about the Holyspirit by the laying on of hands then that which they received (The word of God) was sown in them. It took the Holyspirit to seal them, water baptism didn't do it and their head knowledge didn't do it.
Acts 8:14-24. The Apostles were given this power to demonstrate the power of God. Romans 15:18-19. 2 Corinthians 12;12.
God bless.
Part 1
In part 1 you gave me Luke 1:17 and stated, "This means that another part of John's ministry was to teach Hebrews to clean their heart by preaching them to obey God's commandments. I would have to disagree with you on that.
No one could keep the law therefore it couldn't make you clean. Acts 15:5-10. Romans 8:3. Galatians 3:10-14.
You also referred me to Luke 3:7-18. Notice vs 9) "And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire. They couldn't bare fruit! Israel was a degenerate vine.
Jeremiah 2:20-21. Matthew 21:42-44. In contrast to that Jesus is the genuine vine. John 15:1-2.
John was preparing the way for someone to do what the Law couldn't do. and that's Christ.
John's baptism was to turn the Jews "The lost sheep of Israel" to Christ and yet he says there comes one who will give a baptism that exceeds his that brings us to Jesus.
Now John says he must decrease, and Jesus must Increase. Now we have the beginning of Jesus ministry in which he came for the lost sheep of Israel. Due to blindness, they denied there king so as Paul says salvation has come to the Gentiles. That brings us to Pentecost. Here's a predominantly mostly if not all Jewish beginning of the Church. Here is where baptism of the Holyspirit begins and this is where the Spirit of God baptize Jews and Gentiles into the body of Christ and water baptism is a ritual way for you to display what the Spirit of God has already done once you TRULY believed.
So, the obedience is for you to show by display who and what you believe in. It's the faith of Christ that initiates your belief which leads to Salvation.
See part 2.
Then Peter began to preach being bornagain of an incorruptible seed even by the words of God that liveth and abideth for ever...Which is that LIVING WORD THE H.G. That Child of Promise...That Spirit of truth that is gonna rule all nations....The manchild that is gonna reprove this whole world of sin and judgement and righteousness...Thus the earth will be at rest n full of his glory.
Yes I know very well what it is like to be "pressed on" by God to act in specific situations. Sometimes it is pretty intense, and other times amore gentle nudge or circumstancial confirmations that we cannot make happen. The important thing is to keep close to Him, be determined to be obedient, keep in prayer and His Word, and know that what you are doing according to His leading is important.
I think that the transfiguration was most awesome. It was displaying that Jesus is the Messiah who fulfills all the Law and prophets ( Matt. 5:17; 26:56). This is why Moses and Elijah were present. They represented the Law and the Prophets.
But Moses and Elijah being present would be so reassuring to the disciples to know that Moses and Elijah are alive! Later, when Jesus would appear after His resurrection, they can solidly believe that not only was He alive from the dead, but also that He can fulfill his promise of resurrection for all who believe in Him, like Moses and Elijah.
And again, the transfiguration was really all about Jesus in His glory that He had prior to becoming man. His glory was cloaked among them, but here, He shows them His glory and they recognize that they should worship Him as God.
The first verses of Hebrews 12 tells us that there is a great cloud of witnesses in heaven who have gone before us in faith. This follows chapter 11 were it speaks of all who where faithful. the author names names and speak of what happened to them, and how they kept their faith and endured severe hardships, death, or long waiting times to receive the answer to God's promises. Abraham never received the land promised, but instead, he looked ahead to the heavenly fulfillment of the promise, the heavenly Jerusalem, built by God, which is the true fulfillment of God's promises to Abraham and others.
Fred, keep stuck to Jesus. He is our King. We are in Him, and will inherit the kingdom with Him. How generous of God to do this for us who believe and trust
I will be keeping your niece in prayer these last few months of school. What is her name?
Spencer.
You have not answered my question yet.
In the incident that Philipp went to Samaria, the scripture says that people believed in Jesus and were baptised in water. Afterwards the apostles came by and lay hands on them and hence they were baptised in the Spirit. My question is, when were those people born again? At which point?
GBU
Spencer
So lets sum up John's ministry.
1. He preached people to leave their sinful lives and turn back to God. To obey God's commadments. He led them to repentance for their sins and asking for forgiveness. That was done during baptism, in public. He helped them clean their hearts as a first step towards the salvation that was going to be revealed to them through Jesus. Obviously John had to teach people to clean their hearts before introducing the Savior. to them.
2. He revealed the Savior to them. From that time onwards John was diminishing and Jesus kept increasing ( John 3:30, "He must increase, but I must decrease."
Hence John, the last prophet of the Old Testament era functioned as a bridge between Judaism and Christianity, between the OT and the NT, between the Law and the Grace. John's ministry served as a smooth transition from one era to a whole new era. He was an ntercessors (I don't know if this is a proper word). That was his ministry. It is what Isaiah said.
Now lets go to the incident that Jesus gives His apostles His final instructions before leaving. That incident is described in both Matthew and Mark.
Matthew 28:19-20, "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, BAPTIZING them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world"
The same incident is described in Mark as ( Mark 15-18) , "And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is BAPTIZED shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned..."
So I think it becomes obvious that Jesus talks about water baptism, not Spirit baptism.
About the creeds. I live in a country where everybody knows the Nicene creed, we are tought it in school as well. And I can assure you that the baptism it talks about is the water baptism. I think you can find a lot of information about it on the net.
Hello Spencer, I agree with you about John's baptism.
In my previous post I wanted to put emphasis on the christian baptism and its meaning using as an introduction John's baptism.
So now mainly about John:
1. John's mission was to reveal the Savior (Jesus), John 1:31.
Also when Mary went to Elisabeth, Elisabeth prophesied and among other she said ( Luke 1:75-76), "And thou, child(John), shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord (Jesus) to prepare his ways; To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins".
Also John 1:29 (the Lamb of the God).
2. When the angel Gabriel came to Zacharias he said, ( Luke 1:16-17) "And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God. And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord"
The latter means that another part of John's ministry was to to to teach Hebrews to clean their heart by preaching them to obey God's commandments, what they should do and what not, see Luke 3:7-18. And lead Hebrews to repentance for their sins to be forgiven. That remission of sins was done during the baptism, in public. ( Luke 3:3 And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins;)
3. Isaiah prophesied about John the Baptist, ( Isaiah 30:3-5), "The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it."
So John prepared a smooth path for Jesus' ministry.
These last few years , the holy Spirit has moved upon me like never before, or I have not noticed Him like I have in the most recent times.
Things are coming together like never before. I understand only what I know from the scriptures and the revelations of those things predicted and fulfilled.
The prince of darkness has known from the beginning that one day He will be finished. That the war we find ourselves in has become quite clear , to me any way. His presence and power weakened each and every day, as His servants are found out before my very eyes. This fear tactic he enjoys as he possesses another soul, a soul without the knowledge of Christ and the power of His might.
Even so, we who speak the things of God, somehow provoking the demons within! So natural, and yet, one learns not to be too hasty. Waiting after the first and second admonition, watching and waiting for His next move!
In these last days , this spiritual warfare is understood by the believing Christian , and yet Satan does not see His demise as the rest of the world looks on! His position being compromised each day. He is loosing the war!
These things belong to the faithful, the knowledge and power given through the shed Blood of Christ.
The transfiguration ,God determined to prove the existence of Himself before the law and prophets. The Jews are without excuse. He came unto His own and His own received Him not!
The church's that are under attack are those with large denominations, who bibles have been disregarded for another meaningless translation. We are in the last days! Repent and be Baptized
I know a lot of people do not know or believe in the three heaven ages, three earth ages, eons and that 2nd Peter chapter three is not often taught with understanding. It would be wonderful if some of the mega churches would teach it today. That our Father (the God Head) never leaves his dimension. I thank Him that his spirit is always with us. God Bless.
God requires perfection from the time we exit the womb.
Can we present that?
I'M SPEAKING IN TERMS OF SALVATION, NOT SERVICE.
FAITHFULNESS.
Can you present perfect faithfulness from the time you exited the womb?
Again; I'm talking about WHO provides salvation and what "initiates" salvation?
If you can answer yes to these questions then there's no need of a unblemished sacrificial Lamb to takeyour place.
If you answered no to these questions then any attempt to add anything to what is perfect would defile the work and purpose of the perfect sacrifice.
AGAIN WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE PERFECT FAITHFULNESS, PERFECT WORK TO ATONE US FOR GOD PERFECT REQUIREMENTS FOR SALVATION.
Is it your perfect obedience/works and faith of Christ?
Is it your imperfect obedience/work and faith of Christ?
Or is it your faith of Christ in Christ that atone you and justifies you, and makes you righteous before a Holy God?
The entire Bible is Christ relationship to a lost world! Our theology is shaped by how we view that relationship.
God bless.
It is good to hear from you.
Our Great God touches us and our lives every day. We are precious to Him and He takes the initiative in reaching to us. We respond in worship, obedience, and seeking to know more of Him in His word.
Moses was very blessed to experience such a close friendship with God. First, God reached out to Moses in the burning bush.
Then Moses experienced His power before Pharoah. Then He experienced God's presence in the pillar of fire by night and cloud by day. Then He meet God up on Mt. Sinai in a very remarkable way. Then He met regularly with God in the tabernacle where God displayed His Presence and glory. God spoke with Moses in a real voice. Moses sought out communion with God and walked with God all the years in the wilderness until God took Him when He died.
Moses appeared with Elijah upon the mountain when Jesus was transfigured before the selected apostles. This happened at God's initiative.
We should definitely seek God ever day, but we must also wait for God to reveal Himself to us. We can't imagine Him into manifesting Himself or glory. It has to be by His initiative. But we will see Him in heaven, which is the place Jesus not only prepare for us, but also prepared us for.
Talk to Jesus, we keep praying John. May God bless you all in Jesus Christ.
Sorry Laura139. I misread the question. They will serve Christ. They will be priest and priestess a thousand years with Christ. (Revelations 20:6) Surely there will be many others also for in Ezekiel we are told that we will know our families and will be able to go to them.
Entering into the spiritual world requires much discipline, our minds eye seeing the "Shekinah glory".
Being found under the wings of God is an honor unto those who love Him! A place of revelation unto the soul that trusts and waits on Him! Evidence, only as He communicates His Love, His Shekinah Love through His word.
This glory revealed in the new covenant, in His Holy Blood , given unto all mankind, in Himself through His Son!
Knowing the Shekinah glory, is knowing the power that belongs to those who love Him. A Power once and for all, a constant unmoving power, the same power that has created all things. Reach out, and touch His Majesty, while He can be found!