Recent content by Lizbeth

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    Uncovering the Devil's Strategy

    Sister, it's great if anyone is leading believers to be walking without sin and to be baptized in the Spirit. I don't know anything about the Orthodox, just a general impression that it is unfortunately couched in ways that are of man and flesh and not the Spirit. That doesn't mean they don't...
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    Uncovering the Devil's Strategy

    Well, Paul said to let all those things be done unto edifying. As well as decently in order by taking turns and not monopolizing the floor, yes. No need to sit around doing nothing but waiting the whole time, rather to pray and worship and enter into His courts with praise and thanksgiving...
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    THE CHURCH IS NOT THE BRIDE OF CHRIST

    I very much agree....being in the kingdom means to be in Christ, there is no contradiction. Walking in the kingdom is the same thing as walking in Christ, in His Spirit. I hadn't thought of the promised land as being an allegory for being in Christ before....it is a wonderful revelation in my...
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    THE CHURCH IS NOT THE BRIDE OF CHRIST

    He speaks to us in parables brother. Allegories. That is a very important key to understanding. Israel in scripture is an allegory for the church. The promised land is an allegory TO THE CHURCH for the kingdom of heaven with Christ as its king. Scripture says "these things happened unto...
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    THE CHURCH IS NOT THE BRIDE OF CHRIST

    Oh my, this is confusion.
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    THE CHURCH IS NOT THE BRIDE OF CHRIST

    Amen, exactly. People often try to over-analyze and dissect allegories and parables and end up making more out of them and going further with them than the Author intended. Most of the time we just need to see/grasp the general picture He is painting with them, with the Holy Spirit giving us...
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    Uncovering the Devil's Strategy

    Oh dear, I don't think so sister.....not if we look at the whole context and what Paul was teaching about spiritual gifts. He was even instructing them how to do this decently and in order....with everyone taking turns and yielding the floor to other members of the body, and how if there was a...
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    THE CHURCH IS NOT THE BRIDE OF CHRIST

    Amen! Well said and totally agree! "All things HAVE been put under the feet of Christ but we do not yet SEE all things put under Him."Amen.
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    A bit of a mess in the White House.

    Agree with you here brother...think it's a good point. A healthy functioning economy and society depends on having a certain level of optimism and illusion. I think this might be one reason the Epstein file is being held back......if people knew everyone who is involved and suddenly knew the...
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    Uncovering the Devil's Strategy

    I think you might not be understanding me.....I agree that Paul was entirely sanctified, walking in the spirit, and amen counting all things as loss to gain Christ, but that his race wasn't finished yet in another more literal sense. Words of scripture are speaking in spirit and often speaking...
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    Uncovering the Devil's Strategy

    Here I believe is God's idea of "church services", in the simplicity of Christ. In the simplicity of Christ, it is simply this: 1Co 14:26 How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation...
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    THE CHURCH IS NOT THE BRIDE OF CHRIST

    Well in this case, the truth that I put forth in my post. Christ is head of His body, as a husband is head of his wife, which shows that body and bride/wife are two allegories for the same thing.
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    THE CHURCH IS NOT THE BRIDE OF CHRIST

    Not at all......they fulfill God's purpose when they receive their Messiah/Christ and not apart from Him. God's word and prophecies for Israel need to be seen through the lens of the gospel, comparing spiritual with spiritual. The Key of David (Jesus) unlocks their true meaning, which had...
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    THE CHURCH IS NOT THE BRIDE OF CHRIST

    ok, I'll do my best to show this. First I want to point out where we see “the Israel of God” as opposed to “Israel after the flesh”, for any who haven’t noticed this, and how the Israel of God is made up of citizens who are “new creatures”, while Israel after the flesh is made up of unbelieving...
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    Parade? One of pride as sinful as LGBT parade

    I'm not a girl. I'm a grandmother in my late 60's and I've known the Lord since 1986. All I did was reference something Paul wrote since that was the subject some of us were bantering about. And it was just bantering my friend........you're making an issue out of something that is not an...