Bible Discussion Thread

John 14:11

I love Jesus Christ my personal Lord and Savior.

Sent to earth by the Father. The only begotten Son of God. Born of a virgin. Crucified on a cross for the sins of the world. Rose up out of the grave on the 3rd day. Ascended up to Heaven and soon to return. This is my Jesus. The ONE who's blood with my testimony makes me an over comer. In Him do I trust. THANK YOU JESUS. To God be the glory!

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.

Kent, you're such a blessing to this site. I pray the Lord will uplift you and give you the strength that you need daily.

:-).

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.

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

Jesus is building his church , it's not a denomination or institution. It's a Spiritual invisible church , until he comes for it on resurrection day . Praying for you Donna and the rest of you too !

Donna, I agree, we need to preach and teach the whole counsel of God in the Word. I have spent so many years in various church fellowships and rarely heard about repentance (correctly defined and encouraged), sin (mostly defined as an infirmity or weakness rather than evil), and hell (can't think of the last time I heard a sermon on this!). But most often the preaching and teaching have been about "easy grace" and "accepting Jesus into your heart" instead of "Repent of your sins and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ so that you may be saved." Nor did I hear preached or practice the invitation, purpose, and meaning of baptism. All of these three actions were spoken to the apostles to preach and do in their commission of taking the gospel to all nations. He could have said other things as "first things", but His last words spoke on these. HMMM.

When i got delivered from smoking cigarettes, I pretty much dusted off my Bible. To read consecutively. I started in Matthew. In Chapter 4:17, I read Jesus preaching " repent! The kingdom of Heaven is at hand!"

Jesus taught and preached some hard stuff. Today, most of the church world wouldn't tolerate what Jesus himself taught and preached

2 timothy 4:3

Say that to someone today and them come undone. It's tough, because no one's preaching it except maybe some old school holiness preachers and the Mennonites etc.I was reading and imagining the reaction Jesus would get today. I get that reaction from my people a lot too.

We gotta lay down our sinful habits thoughts and deeds. Jesus is coming back soon I believe we are in the last days!

Donna

You are correct, most people who claim to be believers cringe when they hear preaching or correction concerning repentance as meaning turning away from sin because many are taught an easy to swallow definition of repentance and also do not think believers need to repent since they have 'come to Jesus'.

But the reality is, we as believers need to repent every time we fall into sin, especially if it is a sinful habit. If we do not repent, then our hearts become hardened and we drift farther and farther into sinful ways.

That is why young people who leave the church (I read that 70-80% of young church going kids will leave the church as teens or young adults) often speak of the hypocrisy of adults as a reason. They say that the people in the church behave like the people outside of the church, and there is much truth to that.

Even so, there are many church fellowships that try to teach about godly living (not just the ones you mentioned) but the members don't heed the teaching or do not attend classes about it.