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Thanks Mishael, good info.

Donna, very good advice. I agree wit what you posted. One thing I will add is that participating in communion is just that, communion (common fellowship and agreement with another). So, whenever possible, participate in the Lord's Supper with another believer as much as possible. With covid keeping many vulnerable people at home and away from others, I can see how this could be something people may wish to clarify. Some denominations do send elders out to being Communion to people who are unable to come to services. But as you said, the Scriptures do not make stipulations on this practice other than what you pointed out. Thank You.

With respect and affection in Christ dear brother or sister . I believe u r mistaken and don't understand the significance of this event . Read John Ch 3 V 14 and 15 . See how these two passages r connected ? What is the significance of the serpent ? of the brass ? of the outcome of the situation for those who believed and showed their faith in the wilderness ? and in Christ crucified . U need to connect these two passages and understand how and why they r connected . I'm sure I will c the truth of the matter .

Hi Marco Romero, the fear of the Lord is wanting to always do his good pleasure to stay in his graces. Regular fear is actually being afraid of something or someone for no good reason

Praise you Donna. You get it! Jesus is LORD OF LORDS and KING OF KINGS. John the Baptist said behold, The Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. He is all you need. Thank you for the words of encouragement and my you KEEP the faith because you will be tested.

Thanks GiGi!

I will testify. In the appointed time, when the Holy Spirit says okay Donna go and tell this to my people.

I don't understand why I'm going through the trials and I'm not asking why. I'm just asking God to help me get through them and learn what HE alone wants me to learn for whatever reason.

I'm sure that God has a plan. And I pray that He will use me for HIS purpose. Even if it hurts.

I understand now that without the Holy Spirit I would not even be able to repent. I cannot be a Christian and live in sin. Unless I want to wake up in hell.

I actually woke up out of my body at what I can only describe as the outskirts of hell , and only Jesus was there with me. I had been living in sin. I believed in God I believed in Jesus I lived for Him with all my heart at one time. Then troubles and trials came and I fell away By taking my circumstances into my own hands thinking that maybe I could fix them. Needless to say that did not work out well for me and the devil took full advantage of it. I never stopped believing in Jesus and I defended His name but I got lost. I became deceived to say the least. To those who think that they can repent anytime they feel like it , you cannot. I understand now that hell is real. The church needs to wake up and preach hell and sin and repentance. We are out of balance with all the grace only teaching. Without holiness no man shall see God. I am thankful that the Lord brought me back to this life so that I could repent. He let me be able to repent. His judgment is righteous and true. Hell is real. And when you die it's too late to ask for forgiveness. I don't know why Jesus had mercy on me. But I'm sure thankful that He did. Every day he's working in my heart and changing me. I have to be 100% in. 99% isn't good enough. I need the prayers of all the Bible believers as do we all. Let's pray for one another. Jesus will get us to our destination.

1 Timothy2:5

Im very grateful that I can share these verses with my children so easily....thankyou so much...

1 Corinthians 11:24-31

Luke 22:19

My humble understanding of the scriptures:-).

I think it's about remembering what Jesus did on the cross. How He suffered and was bruised and bled. That must never be forgotten. No no no. On the contrary Jesus wants us to remember His Sacrifice for us often. He says take communion often in remembrance of Him. I don't know of any scripture that says you can't do that alone. I have been doing it alone. So if anybody knows of any scripture that says you can't do that alone please share it.

I cry when I take communion. When I remember what Jesus did and what he went through and the heaviness of the sin that He carried to the cross on behalf of every soul that lives or ever has lived or will live. I couldn't even stand under the weight of my own sin. I think it's about remembering. Until He comes.

Also, I believe that you should not take the communion unworthily;

1Corinthians 11:27-31

in doing so the Bible says you will bring sickness and death to yourself. So I always pray and ask the Lord to forgive any sin in my life, examining my own heart, before I take the communion and I don't take it carelessly or lightly. But that's just me.

I haven't heard anybody holding communion at church teach on this part of preparing yourself for the communion so that you may not bring sickness and death unto yourself .

But once again that's my interpretation of the Scriptures. Please don't take my word for it read the Scriptures and pray and ask God for understanding.

:-)Blessings

Dear Kenekat, I see that you have received many good replies already.

God is perfect in all of His ways, so He can never sin in His hate or anger or wrath.

But in His Being He possesses many things that seem to

Us to be opposites, but even so, He possesses these in perfection to the utmost degree. He is not part love and part hate, but His love is 100% and His hate is 100% within His Being.

The same is true of His mercy and wrath; His grace and justice. Though they seems opposite to us, in Him the do not conflict with one another. He administers them perfectly in His creation and never makes a mistake. We can trust

His moral perfection, of which these are included in that.

Hope this helps.

Adron

Mishael and Free have spoken well here.

I will pray for you.

Dear Lord Jesus

Fill Adron with Yor Presence today as You are the only One who can be closer than a brother or a friend.

He is in need of fellowship, so that is why I ask that You be Present with him of first importance. I also ask that you will lead him to people who love and obey You, who know Your Truth and walk in it daily, who are sincere and faithful in relationships, who are available to grow a relationship with Adron, and who are serious about building one another up in each others' faith.

We ask this from You Jesus

In Your name.

Amen

Dear Chinita,

You can always take your doubts to God in prayer. This is a prayers He will always answers with what we need to remain in Him. Ask Him for more faith and clearer understanding of Who He is, what He had done for us, and how we can know Him more relationally speaking.

I will pray for you.

Dear Lord Jesus, Chinita desires to be built up in faith in You. Provide this for her every day. Answer to her doubts with Truth from Uour Word. Continue to fill her up with You Holy Spirit who dwells within her and desires to do this. Give her submission to yield to all that Your Spirit wishes to bring her and a determination of will to live in obedience to everything the Spirit leads her to think, do , and say. Remove from her all that causes her to doubt and restrain the enemy from leading her astray by false teachings, temptations, and company that is a corrupting influence on her faith and lifestyle. She is Yours and I thank You for this sister. May Your love and grace flood over her today and every day from this day forward. Bless her with good counsel from other believers, draw her to your Word every day that she may learn the truths You wish to teach her daily.

We ask this, Lord Jesus in Your

Name

Amen

Donna

Well said

I believe this, too.

It should be the primary base of beliefs for any Christian.

These are what Christians profess to God, to one another, to potential believers when they ask what we believe.

Deny yourself trust in Jesus. Matthew 16:24

Grape juice is acceptable. Communion should be at the least 2 believers, never alone. It's meant to be taken among brethren. Read 1 Corinthians 11

I would like to comment on versus 3 and down, in this chapter the Lord Jesus Christ speaks of many conditional promises, while this goes unnoticed by many Christians, we should take this thought seriously as it will ultimately bring greater blessings into our life, which we do not posses right now. If we want to enter the millennial kingdom of heaven, we first must learn we can only do so by meeting the conditions to enter that kingdom, I have thought personally that the twelve gates into the city New Jerusalem are twelve different conditional promises being met. Here the Lord Jesus speaks of one way into the kingdom of heaven in verse 3, by becoming poor in spirit. This word carries with it the understanding of being humble and also one that keeps commandments, this therefore is the condition that a Christian must have in their lives in order to enter the millennial kingdom and the final kingdom after the millennium. Another way to enter the millennial kingdom of heaven, is to be persecuted for righteousness sake, as in verse 10, this generally happens when Christians are out witnessing, preaching against sin, and lifting up righteousness, yet this too is another guarantee of entering the millennial kingdom of God. As we continue to study this chapter we soon discover there are conditions attached to the blessings that Christ speaks about, therefore, if we try to obtain the blessing without meeting the condition, we fail, and the blessing remains in the bible instead of coming into our lives. But if I would meet the condition, than the blessing can come out of the bible into my life, now or in the future as well. The bible is filled with hundreds of conditional promises, we Christians ew need to become awake on this subject, for the purpose of being far more blessed than we are today. Knowing, there is no other way to obtain these blessings, we must strive to pursue them diligently, that we might obtain.

Hi Chris;

I appreciate your questions and sincerity, I am glad that during those days of my life when I struggled to know clarity, for the zeal of the truth, it was able to help someone else as well. If you have questions that I might help with on the bible in general, I would be more than willing to share whatever light God has given to me on various subjects, and we could compare thoughts as well.

This is what happens after we are born again. I will comment on this after you read this.

Matthew 12

43 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walks through dry places, seeking rest, and finds none.

44 Then he saith, I will return into my house (You) from whence I came out; and when he is come, he finds it EMPTY, swept, and garnished.

45 Then goeth he, and takes with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and They enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.

This is no reflection on you ok? You're a new Christian and sometimes if you don't get into the Bible and find out what's available to you as a Believer, evil spirits will come back and try to make you doubt your Salvation. We have to grow up and fit inside the Armor spoken of in Ephesians 6. That's Your Goal. Your faith has to be fed spiritual food EVERY DAY.

The fact that those spirits are troubling you is Proof of your Salvation. You have Jesus as your savior and he has given you the Holy Spirit as your teacher. Call on the Holy Spirit to help reveal who you are in Jesus Christ. You will learn to be aware when He is speaking to your new Alive Spirit that Jesus turned on full power the day you were Saved.

Make time every day to read the Bible. Sometimes I did it at lunch. This is you furnishing your "house" with Jesus. Either it will look sparse or it will look beautiful furnished with faith.

Romans 10:17

"So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

(Jesus)

If your Bible has a concordance at the back; I would read all the New Testament scriptures under the heading of FAITH. Read, 1 John 2:20. The unction is the Holy Spirit.

Read the entire New Testament before the Old Testament. Learn how Jesus did things and preached. How he taught Faith to his followers_which is what we are :)

In Mal: 3:10 You have written that there might be meat in my storehouse. The word is mete, which means allotment or measure. A storehouse was a place where they stored crops from the harvest. It had nothing to do with mammon. That food was not just for the levites or priest either.

There were actually three different tithes also. The Families, widows, the orphans, and the poor and foreigners, were included in the tithes. Today it is mammon, mammon, mammon. Many churches today are not transparent. There has to be clarity about where God's money is going.

In Luke 6:38 many preachers and evangelist use that scripture to get people to give money. That scripture is not about money. It is about mercy. They tell the people not to take scripture out of context and yet do so themselves. I hope that was helpful.

God Israel blessed the whole world.God is real Jesus is real,the Holy Spirit is real!

There's more scriptures on that:

Proverbs 6

16 These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:

17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,

19 A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

Exodus 20:16 - Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

1 Corinthians Chapter 6

9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

James 3:

5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!

6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.

8 But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

Revelation 21:8 - But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers (aka drug dealers) and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

Iniquity has many names. This is why Jesus came to earth to save us from our sins.

If we put ourselves in the Holy Spirits hands, it gets better almost every day.

There's more scriptures on that:

Proverbs 6

16 These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:

17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,

19 A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

Exodus 20:16 - Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

1 Corinthians Chapter 6

9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

James 3:

5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!

6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.

8 But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

Revelation 21:8 - But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers (aka drug dealers) and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

Iniquity has many names. This is why Jesus came to earth to save us from our sins.

If we put ourselves in the Holy Spirits hands, it gets better almost every day.

Can you take communion at home alone and is grape juice acceptable.

Thank-you Chris for responding to me i greatly appreciate it.

King James Bible is what many of us use. Some like other versions, like the NIV.

Sometimes I find really good like new Bibles at Goodwill stores. I got a brand new Strongs Concordance one day. :D. Yay

Walmart has reasonable priced Bibles.

I think the Hardbound breaks easier. Vinyl is good. Zipper book covers shield it from damage and car heat.

A used looking Bible is Friend that sticks by you. People are curious to read what we scribbled all over our Bibles. So I donate them to nursing homes; or sometimes a Park Bench.

I pray for the Lord to send an angel to guide the next owner to the bench! :)

It's all good!

Other books in the Bible that help you understand the whole armor of God right there other parts of the armor that's not mentioned in a fusion 6

You can type your scripture on Google to see many commentaries on the same verse. Interesting. I like the BibleHub website.

Just type it like this:

1 Corinthians 13:1, commentary

Or, meaning, Or, History, Or Teaching

Learning the whole picture of a scripture is so interesting! There are dozens of different commentators. You'll figure out which ones you like best.

Tip: as a rule I don't read Wikipedia posts. It's a Google comment on Bible and I'd rather know which Bible is being used.

When we get to the place where we live our faith in full view of everybody, that's a good place to be. Jesus is loving and kind. I ask people is there anything you would like to ask Jesus for?

Ask the Holy Spirit to anoint you to be a better student and to help you to study. It will happen.

Tell others of the things in Matthew 24 and Luke 21; and scriptures that make you happy. Book of Proverbs. Stay away from angry faces or bad language.

I was a street minister 35 years and counting. Sometimes I just smile and say: is there anything you would like to ask Jesus about, today? They will smile and walk away, or they might ask for a short prayer.

I'm 70 and I never get tired of touching a life for Jesus. Even if all I can give is a smile__that touches my eyes.

Mishael

Why did the book of Enoch get removed from the Bible?

The Book of Enoch was considered as scripture in the Epistle of Barnabas (16:4) and by many of the early Church Fathers, such as Athenagoras, Clement of Alexandria, Irenaeus and Tertullian, who wrote c. 200 that the Book of Enoch had been rejected by the Jews because it contained prophecies pertaining to Christ.

You might be the only Jesus that people will see. Be kind and meek, because Jesus was. It will sooth your soul.

Pray for your neighborhood. Ask blessings to rain down on it.

I thank God that you were healed! It truly is a miracle and prayer does make all the difference! Seriously, thank you for your testimony. To God be the glory He is worthy of all of the honor glory and praise! Jesus says whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you! :-).