What does it mean to be born again?

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Lizbeth

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Wrong is not determined by your feelings and emotions.
When someone speaks truth, they are not throwing things at you Or being mean to you. It just FEELS that way to you.
A tree is known by its FRUITS sister. Rather than going by my own emotions, I just accept the Word of God. It's not complicated. There has been ample fruit being thrown and thus exposed on this thread to be able to judge it.

You are ensnared in a snare and not able to be objective. I just pray it is not a permanent state with you and that it will turn out to be a phase.

Pride goeth before a fall. I've seen new age type thinking before and how people just sit around showing off their knowledge/wisdom of the scriptures to one another and get more and more puffed up. There's no Life in that, it leads to a dead end. I know because I was trying that out at one time. And God lets people do that. Just like He gave Solomon all the wisdom and knowledge that he asked for. But for all his wisdom it did not keep him from falling....and what was that fall, essentially, friendship with the world. We need to be sure our motive for seeking knowledge and wisdom are not based in things of the flesh like pride and feeding our curiosity.
 
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As one draws closer to Jesus, the deeper the work of sanctification becomes. One becomes more aware of the depth of the roots of wickedness one has in his character, and surrenders more earnestly and hungers and thirsts for the promised righteousness.
I can think of examples of things that didn't used to be on my radar as being a problem, but then I came to see that they were. Things I didn't think of sin, but now I do.

I don't think we realize always what is and isn't of the flesh, and like you say, as we mature, we become more aware. So we've grown more spiritual, and in becoming more spiritual, we see more of what is yet fleshy about us.

Much love!
 
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Go and see if you are interested in truth, otherwise, I suppose you will keep repeating your lie. Every thread? Proveably untrue.

Much love!
Oh…yeah, sorry, I should probably qualify that statement…
Every thread, EXCEPT for when you become SO angry and SO offended and receive such a tremendous narcissistic injury that you announce he is going back on ignore and then, for a brief amount of time, you make no comments in his threads. Then, you enter one and post something slightly conciliatory and want conversation with him and the whole pattern repeats.
 
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amigo de christo

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Yes, I see that. The calling of God is irrevocable AND He chooses who He will AND He died for the whole world AND He isn’t desirous that any perish AND He says whosoever will.
I see all the ands. Most men seem to choose parts and ignore all the other ands.
God will never contradict himself . YES indeed HE has already said WHO will perish .
HE who believeth not the SON . God aint gonna contradict HIS OWN testimony of HIS OWN SON .
no matter how hard the all inclusive generation thinks he will .
It will be worse for those who rejected Christ on the day of judgement than EVER IT was or shall be for even sodom .
Nor will GOD be mocked by men who present a false love that entertains the idea that somehow
under the new covennant the dark rainbow is accepted . JESUS didnt come so we could celebrate our sin
I used to honor my sin , I DIDNT NEED JESUS TO TEACH ME HOW TO DO IT OR that it was GOOD .
I lived that life . BUT it was not life , but death awaiting the second death . JESUS came to set the captives
FREE . To give liberty to the oppressed soul under the bondage of man and of sin .
Not to have prideful men and prideful women tell us , HOLD THY RAINBOW HIGH for YOUR SINS ARE GOOD TO GOD NOW .
NOR to have prideful men and prideful women holler and say , Your path and religoin is fine
so long as you as you join together and have unity as one and have this so called love they call love , which is darkness .
How come some of you wont love your neighbor . WHY do some of you do unto others what you would never have done to you .
WHY do you leave others in darkness and honor their path and their sin when in the end that is the second death .
WHY do folks honor the love of money and sit under preachers who heap n steap and fleece the flocks .
OR why do folks sit under preachers who honor other sins and call them good . YOU KNOW , LIKE MAN WITH MAN
or woman with woman . AND they holler and say ALL is fine all is good , do as thou wilt , MARRY that same sex
honor that persons pronouns , or get that money , name it and claim it .
FOLKS DONT KNOW JESUS who do this wicked crap and i am gonna expose them . For two reasons .
ONE cause i do love them and desire them NOT to perish and TWO cause i got a duty of LOVE to look out for MY NEIGHBOR .
WOLVES GET EXPOSED on my watch no matter how well they can deck themselves up as agents of light and of Christ . THEY LIE
and i will expose them and their lie for the sake of the people whom i do love , though the more i do love the less i be loved .
GOD will honored on my watch , and thus CHRIST will be honored on my watch . And thus i shall expose the all inclusive
false love many path lie to GOD . AND shall do so no matter how many mockings you or others bring .
Because i care for your souls . And the souls of all and thus the lies must be exposed . What is light exposes darkness
and will not make its bed in or with the darkness but will expose it by procliaming the truth . Go and learn what that means
before you decide to bring another goat or cat to mock those who love you and desire good for you and others .
 

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Genesis 22:12 And He said, “Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.”

Proverbs 9:10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
What do you know, she types!
 
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Might as well give it up sir. The gig is up. You are as obvious as if you were wearing cellophane. I no longer even entertain the possibility that you might be sincere.

And I would warn others:

2Co 11:13-15

For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ.

And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.

It is not surprising, then, if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve.


The fruit of the Spirit is the good character produced by the Spirit living in us.

The fruit of the false teacher is in the poor character they exhibit, and the poor character exhibited by their disciples.

We all reveal ourselves. I guess some don't believe that, but we are sure seeing it here!

Much love!
 

amigo de christo

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I am born again fella.

I showed you your error.

Now stop calling me a heretic!

Thanks!
Anti christ , son of perdition , hater of humanity , self righteous biggot
piece of trash and some words i refuse to repeat . just a few titles i have recieved of men .
Simply speak the truth and let the insults bounce right off .
THEY PERSECUTED JESUS and called him the devil and etc , HE ALONE was RIGHTEOUS
what do you think they gonna do to his lambs . Lets not worry if we get called heretic . REJOICE .
Men do as men do and offences will surely come , but woe unto He through whom they come .
And even paul who was one of the worst and caused many offences against GOD , HIS CHRIST and HIS CHURCH
still met grace on the road to damascus . Later he too warned against the very evils , some of which he himself had done .
THE POINT is , THE END OF SIN is death , these folks NEED CHRIST . All we can do is POINT TO HIM
and warn against falsehoods and those who preach them . BUT DONT let the name calling wear you out .
WEAR IT with a badge of honor to suffer for CHRIST . THIS WORLD and worse most all in churches
despise this man as though i were the devil himself , and yet not them or their other religoins who are joining as one
against CHRIST and the lambs , can move me . Hear this world and all in it , IT WONT MATTER WHAT YOU DO TO ME
or what you say about me , I AINT CONFORMING and i aint gonna stop warning against errors . PEROID
I count not even own life dear to me . I had rather lose my life exposing sin and pointing to Christ
in hopes even some might repent , than to sit a king under the all inclusive dung pile lie which ends in the second death
 
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The fruit of the Spirit is the good character produced by the Spirit living in us.

The fruit of the false teacher is in the poor character they exhibit, and the poor character exhibited by their disciples.

We all reveal ourselves. I guess some don't believe that, but we are sure seeing it here!

Much love!
No denying that fact, and they don't even cutting straight the Scriptures but "attack" the person who is rightly dividing the written word.
As you say--we all reveal ourselves, and pride is an ugly thing.

Mat 13:25 But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
Mat 13:26 But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.
Mat 13:27 So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?
Mat 13:28 He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?
Mat 13:29 But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.
Mat 13:30
Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.

Never react, always respond

J.


 

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A tree is known by its FRUITS sister. Rather than going by my own emotions, I just accept the Word of God. It's not complicated. There has been ample fruit being thrown and thus exposed on this thread to be able to judge it.

You are ensnared in a snare and not able to be objective. I just pray it is not a permanent state with you and that it will turn out to be a phase.

Pride goeth before a fall. I've seen new age type thinking before and how people just sit around showing off their knowledge/wisdom of the scriptures to one another and get more and more puffed up. There's no Life in that, it leads to a dead end. I know because I was trying that out at one time. And God lets people do that. Just like He gave Solomon all the wisdom and knowledge that he asked for. But for all his wisdom it did not keep him from falling....and what was that fall, essentially, friendship with the world. We need to be sure our motive for seeking knowledge and wisdom are not based in things of the flesh like pride and feeding our curiosity.
If it's in our hearts to be loving, to be be pure, to be faithful, to be all the things God intends for us, whatever is the overriding concern in our hearts, it will show itself. And if we try to hide it, well, what's in the heart always has a way of showing itself.

The evidence is all there, but we have to be both humble and honest to see it. Those are kind of the same thing, really.

Yes, there is no life in it. This teaching that continues to be repeated, is that you must walk a walk that you cannot walk, unless you get something more than you got when you were born again.

Whereas the Scripture teaches a rebirth into new life that has freed us from sin and death. The constant denial of this truth is a continued attack on faith, and again, the results of that teaching is observable, faith has been shipwrecked.

Much love!
 
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Just to mention . . . "make sure" here doesn't mean to become certain, it means to fasten firmly.

Much love!
IF YE DO THESE THINGS . means exactly what it says . PROOF of whose we are .
To preach be a doer is not sin nor lack of faith . Now i know some use this in the wrong way
but james nor paul nor I do so . THE church NEEDS REMINDING . We aint the ALL in ALL
and thus let us heed the SPIRIT and ALL BIBLICAL REMINDERS which work for our good to the hearer and the doer .
Faith without works IS DEAD . BUT SO is works without faith in CHRIST .
Thus let a gringo warn or any man for that matter . Let the warnings and reminders be made
for all warnings and reminders IN THE SCRIPTURES were ALL SPIRIT INSPIRED of GOD and not of mens carnal wisdom .
WE NEED all reminders , lest we have come to the place we THINK WE TOO HIGH for such reminders .
I SURE HOPE none came to that place . I NEED ER reminder of the LORD , HIS SPIRIT , HIS GOODNESS , HIS RIGHTEOUS .
LET us embrace ALL the warnings , ALL the promises and rightly divide the word of truth .
 
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