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Went in to urgent care last night. Gave me back to back breathing treatments. Ordered a nebulizer for me to use at home. that should help. Thank you for praying for me Alex. I know I will get better, but it is rough in the mean time. Glad the treatments they gave me tided me over to today. Waiting for company to deliver the nebulizer. That should allow me to treat things better at home in more timely way and keep me from needed additional medical support. Very tired, though. Going to try to nap some for now.
I tried to start responding and as always my extra tabs wiped out the page. Anyway; it is somewhat heartening that you seem to know the Lord.
Starting off here; I'm too lazy to once again get all the exact quotes. Roughly speaking I was going to say that in Psalm 139 we are said to be "fearfully and wonderfully made." In Ecclesiastes 7:29 the "uprightness" of man is mentioned but that he goes astray for "many inventions". A big point many make is about the age of accountability. I can't see how anyone is lost forever in condemnation without understanding some basic things about sin and punishment which probably begins with child rearing. David's quote about the child that died seems to indicate a certainty that he will see him someday but not until he dies ( 2 Samuel 12:23).
Sin; death and decay (as brought up through the concept of the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics) really can't be explained other than it happens; much like concepts like gravity. I would say simply the spirit of a man lives foreever; whether in restored (saved) condition or lost. Man would have lived forever in an "innocent" state if he hadn't sinned. This would not have enabled him to rule and reign with Christ as we can now; nor fulfilled His plans for free agents in the spirit realm to choose to rebel or remain with Him in their "proper estate". ( Jude 1:6). Whether we understand sin as we get older we see more and more of the effects. God has designed this world to unwind; and eventually be destroyed and replaced with a new heaven and earth. Things in the sovereignty of God ( Deut. 29:29) remain there at least this side of eternity. Proverbs 25:2 states that kings have some things revealed which may suggest as "kings and priests" in Him some understanding comes. We are not God who knows all.
Thank you for sharing where you are coming from. It is ok with me if you do not respond to what I posted. I just did not want to give a light reply to your thoughtful queries. I hope you stay with us here. I pray that God will bless you today and always.
But in the church things change. The church consists of people who were cleaned by Jesus Blood. We are not living sinful lives, we have become righteous by Jesus' Blood. We asked God to be our King, and His Laws we are obeying. We live inside a different Kingdom, the Kindom of the Heavens, of God. We live in a another world inside this world. So God has taken, through Jesus' sacrifice, the authority on us, and He provides His protection to us. But (and this is very important to know) He hasn't placed us inside a glassy cage so that nothing touches us, we will go through what goes through all people's lives, but this time things go according to His plan for us (which means that He doesn't let everything in ones life) and also He places limits to what we go through according to how much we can take. And He doesn't do that because He just feels like doing it, but because there is always a plan in His mind, there is always a reason for letting something in our lives. And the reason is to transform our character to be like His. His Will is not just saving us but making us in his likeness. So there is a path to follow until we arrive at the end, and that road is narrow and the gate to that road is also narrow. If one wants to go the wide highway, they are free to do so but they should know that the end is destruction, the hell. Judas and many other took that way.
So as I said I don't know you. So I would advice you to stop complaining, start reading the Bible, start praying, follow God's Laws, repent when you fail and rely always on God's Love for you, Him who gave His only Son for you won't He give you what is needed to you? Join a christian congregation. Christians must live in a christian community. There you will find support, help and and good advice from people that have probably spent their whole lives following God and have a huge experience, and listen, listen, listen to what they advice you. And God will bless you. I am sure about that..
Hello PrayerNot Condemn
You ask yourself many questions, like all of us do. Job was confused about why God allowed so many bad things occuring in his life, but he didn't have the answers. Many times we are revealed some things, some other times we get the answers from our lives, and some times things remain usanswered. We will never get to know everything in our lives, we have to wait untill we go up there.
I don't know you and I will say some general things.
God is not the King of this world, satan is. Not because God doesn't have the power to be a King, but because His Justice tells Him that authority on sinful people only the satan can have. Satan is the King of this world and drives people to death making them sinning. And if God tries to put him aside he will tell God, "Look they are like me, they are my children, please step aside", and God is compelled to do so, this is what His righteousness tells Him to do. He can not do otherwise. And so the world is driven by the devil,... crime, wars, murders, etc, etc. God is never going to stop those, 80 years ago a world war occured with more than 50 million victims and God didn't stop it, and would never do. You know why? Because people have sent Him away from their lives, they don't want Him, and God doesn't want to violate people's free will, so he goes away and let people living the way they want. But the devil is not polite as God is, neither he cares about free will and this sort of things, he forces people into sinning and destroys them. This is something we must understand and stop blaming God for those, it it us to blame, who even without knowing it, we let devil into our lives. And as long as the church is still on earth, satan is prevented from setting a literal kingdom on earth and rule the world. After the rapture of the church he will put his man, the antichrist on the throne and sinful people will get him whom they always wanted, a man like them. And the end for them will be distruction.
Pray that GOD will deliver ALL victims of abusers from out of EVERY abuser's hand;
That GOD COMPLETELY heal ALL victims FULLY & give so much love to them directly from Him, that they ALL develop that SAME level of loyalty that people have toward those that they love the most in life;
That GOD REVEAL the TRUTH COMPLETELY--to restore & heal the reputations of the abused & any debts abusers incurred through lies.
That GOD heal ALL that the wicked are trying to break or have broken (the economy, hope, outlets for truth, honest news, etc). That GOD restore & even BETTER that which the locust hath taken away (jobs, retirement savings, an affordable future, financial independence).
That GOD rise up GOODLY WORKERS to teach The Truth, the WHOLE Truth & nothing BUT The TRUTH in His WORD! AS many false doctrines have caused MUCH of the devastation that now IS! That GOD provide a CORRECT, TRUE, King James Version of the Holy Bible in EVERY LANGUAGE spoken, read, heard & understood by EVERY Man that is & ever will be!
That GOD will reveal Himself, THE TRUTH in His Word about Heaven, Hell, eternity, His Son, His Holy Spirit & what Man needs to DO to BE well-pleasing to Him, to have their land & bodies healed & for protection!
That GOD will make it so that the rest of 2022, 2023, etc, will be better than things have been morally, job opportunity wise, affordability with needs & wants (housing, transportation, food, insurance, etc). That GOD will BLESS those w/ gifts from Him to have MANY non-evil outlets to work in their gifts (singers, musicians, writers, journalists, radio hosts, carpenters, mechanics, etc).
That GOD will disincentivize working iniquity amongst ALL & break all evil ties that bind & make manifest the ALL doctrines of devils & love, embrace, forgive & be loved EQUALLY back by all who now hate Him, make war w/ His, don't know or believe n Him
I can appreciate the time taken in your reply. Thank you. I continue to pray for you.
I just read a recent post reminding someone about the guidelines (2nd half of first paragraph). I bring this up, as I'm concerned, and realize my comments may appear to others as an attack on Christianity, or close to it.
My introduction to Christianity began as a young child, having a devout Christian mother. Since then, I was fairly consistent in my involvement in church, until around fifteen years ago. I continued though, reading and meditating on the Bible and God. I can't remember the last time, even on a bad day, when I haven't thought about God. I'm certain you and millions others can relate.
I'm also certain that if I respond to you in complete honesty, not withholding comments and questions important to me,which I would pray and hope would lead towards better understanding, I would probably be banned. I don't want that. Yet, although I wish this was not the case, I know myself well enough, it would upset me to upset you and others. I don't want that; for any of us participating. I perceive your integrity, thus I understand you would not want to have a dialogue with someone who could not speak freely while you could. Please understand, I don't feel slighted or hold any bitterness. It's just the way it is.
I'm not saying that I won't participate any more. I'm not sure; I try not to make these decisions on my own. If I do, I'll need to lean NOT on my own discernment.
Peace
GOD IS
I'm sorry you felt I did those things to you. I was agreeing with a lot of the points you made. Again, please forgive me for offending you. I'm so sorry. You've been in my thoughts and prayers. I truly hope you're well.
Love in Christ. God Bless.
The theme of being "poor and needy" and making haste for help is seen repeated once again as we saw in Psalm 69 and most of the preceding Psalms in the 2nd section of the book. Verse 18 makes it pretty clear that he was indeed aged with the gray hairs mentioned and a point blank statement of being old. He desired to remain until he reached "this generation" and power to every one that is to come. This would be accomplished of course through giving Solomon quite a financial and planning "jumpstart" to the opulent Temple being built with a modern day value of materials easily in the billions. I have seen estimates in the HUNDREDS of billions. How sad that Solomon's downfall basically ended the Kingdom of Israel and let to a divided state which has to date never reached it's fullest glory but will in the Millennium.
We notice in verse 17 David recognized being taught from an early age. Solomon also had proper upbringing but didn't learn until his life was nearly over the folly that his life became following foreign women and hoarding possessions despite God's warnings to him. Such is the message of Ecclesiastes. May we all learn so as not to embrace madness and folly to achieve understanding!
Praise and proper worship (verse 22-24) also were remembered by David. He was a man after God's own heart ( 1 Samuel 13:14) which Saul didn't like to acknowledge. This was despite his grevious sin with Bathsheeba that the Lord ultimately used for His purposes but cost him the privilege of building the Temple himself. ( 1 Chron. 22:18 and elsewhere).
Verses 3 through 8 precede verse 9 which was quoted in the New Testament ( John 2:17) when Jesus overturned the moneychangers tables (done at least one more time at the end of His ministry). They all could be prophetic about Christ as well; except for verse 5 talking of David's foolishness and sin; as well as the end of verse 4 where he was sid to "restore that which was not taken away" which would seem to indicate he had to give compensation to those accusing him of stealing stuff that he never took from them.
Verses 10 through 12 involving sackcloth and fasting also would apply to David alone (Christ's fasting wasn't for any sins of his own but as an example of how to be more fully empowered with the Spirit to cast out particular demons ( Matt. 17:21). When we go further from verses 13 through 19 once again the themes of mire and deep waters are mentioned; and these passages once again are rather interchangeable between David and Christ's trials.
Verses 20-22 once again are clearly prophetic; Christ's heart literally was boken (v. 20); verse 21 is quoted in Matt. 27:33-34; and verse 22 through 28 are likely describing Judas Iscariot as seen more clearly in Psalm 109 and several other passages. I would say that verse 28 is describing the book of ALL living souls; not the Book of Life. Finally; verse 29 also ties in with Psalm 109 in describing Christ at the crucifixion.
The rest of this Psalm gives hopefulness with again a Millennial type Kingdom to come. Sacrifice isn't needed of animals (v. 31) but I suspect it is a ceremonial and memorial thing.
Prisoners will be released (v. 33); and the land will have it's covenant borders and the world blessed (v. 34-end). The Lord will be praised throughout the earth. Amen.
There is I think a general misconception that once your are BORN again you are automatically in the Bride of Christ .
Let me make it quite clear every true born child of God is called to that high calling .
But it is not automatic . To run a race in the Olympics you have to be qualified to do so . To be BORN again qualifies us to so "run the race " but to win the prize you must run it! And run it correctly or lawfully .
Putting aside those things that will hinder you from running .
For they seek a temporal prize that passeth away .
The Bride is a body taken from a body .
As eve was created from the body of the first Adam . So the Bride of Christ is taken from His own body .
As ALL the tribes of Isreal had an inheritance. Levi had no inheritance for God was their inheritance .
A body taken from a body .
We have twelve Apostles yet from that body we have " Peter James and John" who saw and heard things the others did not . For they walked closer with the Lord .
Yet even out of these three you have John who alone said " who is it Lord" for he knew it was not him.
Who leaned upon the chest of the Lord at the last supper .
A body out of a body .A double selection .
GB
Using the analogy of a jigsaw puzzle ,the milk of the Word is the four corners pieces and the side pieces .
For no matter how big the puzzle those pieces are the most easily recognisable out of all the pieces and the simplest to put together . Every true born child of God shouid comevto a place where they can teach others the same basic tenets of THE Christian faith .
Once these are in place we understand there is nothing outside that framework and we need no further ' revelations' or other ' books' of dubious origin . For everything we need is onside it.
To put it another way Jesus said " The Word is the seed" . A seed has this property while it is not the fruit ,it does have everything that is needed and nothing that is not needed to reproduce the fruit .
Some approach the scriptures differently . Systematically or perhaps clumps by clumps which ever way it will produce the same result .
A puzzle is often subdivided between earth and heaven and it is often the earthly parts that are the easiest to do first . Perhaps because they are more recognisable . And the sky the more difilcukt because they look much the same .
So the more we grow in grace and in the knowledge of God the heavenly becomes easier .
But let us not stay with the milk of the Word for while it is very satisfying to get thus far . It is not the end but rather the end of the beginning .
GB
thank you for updating us about "Bible Discussion". Author: lesson plans
Promise... Zech 12:10 and Zech 13:7...Thats y he always refered to himself as the son of man...B/C of his death mankind will bring forth fruit unto God.. Romans 7:4...This is the New Covenant in my blood drink ye all of it... In Adam we all die but in Christ we will all live...If i be lifted up i will draw ALL MEN UNTO ME....OK
I am angry. I am NOT to blame for being abused and prevented from escaping those who abuse me, and refuse to relinquish their "right" to "my" life: to control it, stalk me, and destroy me.
My hatred stems from GOD being ABLE...seeing EVERYTHING... knowing ALL THINGS...YET: CHOOSING...with HIS "free will," to ignore, not care,and let those who have power reign. He sets up/appoints ALL that in every high place.
His "love..." even in Genesis, when I was younger, made me take notice: He knows what will happen to EVERY ONE OF US... yet...still forms us in the womb and of the seed of beasts! Then, for a select FEW, if we sin...as a DIRECT result of said abuse... guess who MAY get punished by GOD? Guess who's NEVER been punished, but, if GOD would, the world WOULD be a better place. GOD is brilliant. His creation illustrates thus. He us quick to forgive people, the Holy Bible illustrates this. He doesn't always punish, most times He doesn't, but when He does, He NEVER punishes those that lead the world to sin!
How can Man blame a mortal CEO for the UNKNOWN indiscretions of an employee, or a talk show host for sone staff, but COMPLETELY absolve GOD--who is ALL-POWERFUL, ALL-KNOWING, The CREATOR of the Devil, and the giver of his power...how can people attack victims for the FREE WILL acts of their abusers against them, and absolve GOD for not doing what He COULD?
None of us have walked in GOD's "shoes," so NONE of us can speak for y He wills to NOT help victims more & y He wills to protect, cover & prosper the lies of abusers!
People LOVE to jump up & defend GOD WHILE simultaneously ATTACKING those made "in His image." GOD has the MOST free will of all! Who hinders Him?
So, not only in the Gospel of John, but also in this his first epistle, we read of the Holy Spirit's witness & involvement; which witness could not be disputed, unlike some in John's day who were trying to dispute the truth of Jesus' Person & Work. In 1 John 5:6, the Spirit of Truth bore witness to Jesus' start & completion of His Work. In 1 John 5:7, we read of the Triune God bearing record in Heaven, and then in verse 8 (on Earth), three bear witness to Jesus' Mission.
We do well to "receive the witness of men" & we are likely to be convinced. But "the witness of God is greater" ( 1 John 5:9), which must give us no room for any doubt & a certainty that all that Jesus has accomplished for us is fully accepted by those to whom the Spirit of God has been given.