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    Work out your own Salvation?

    The scriptures are so wonderfully harmonious aren't they! Amen!
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    Work out your own Salvation?

    Amen, totally agree brother.
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    Work out your own Salvation?

    Amen, I agree. Walking it out, walking in what the Lord has done and is doing in our life/heart. Need to look at the whole passage and context there to see what Paul is exhorting. It’s the Greek word katergazomai that is being translated as “work out”…..anyone can look it up themselves, but...
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    WW3 : How to start it.

    Amen Amigo. We must not follow men who belong to the world, they will only lead astray. But only follow the Lord. The word of God teaches that our eyes, affections, thoughts, and hopes need to be fixed on things above, not things below. People of the world will do what people of the world...
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    WW3 : How to start it.

    Amen brother. Sin is the reason. Captivity by Nebbuchadnezzar/Babylon was and is God's judgment. I'm in mourning and so depressed in finding out the various recent scandals afflicting both Christendom and the world these days. And nobody is taking the Lord seriously any more. He is NOT our...
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    WW3 : How to start it.

    "The people of God are gathered." That just caught my attention. What does it mean to be gathered to Him? There was a gathering of the Israel of God to Jesus in the first century..........and with His second coming I seem to be seeing with this a completion of the good work He began in us...
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    WW3 : How to start it.

    We better not underestimate the slyness and subtlety of the devil, and be not ignorant of his wiles. Take heed who thinks he stands lest he fall. We most certainly are in a spiritual war....the devil prowls around seeking who he may devour. There are churches that have brought in Muslims to...
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    WW3 : How to start it.

    Jesus said the love of money is the root of all evil, and I believe it. Won't be terribly sorry to leave this world when my time comes.
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    WW3 : How to start it.

    You might know it by the name of ecumenicalism. It is a way of the world and nominal Christianity. A way that seemeth right to man but isn't. There is a huge difference between using "common ground" simply for the sake of expediency so as to have a foot in the door in order to have a...
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    WW3 : How to start it.

    No doubt in my mind that Biden wanted this war to begin with. I can only guess as to his motives. Maybe now he is hoping to finish it with a decisive victory over Russia as concerns the Ukraine so he can leave with that as his legacy...? But Putin knows Trump is going to negotiate a stop to...
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    Entering by the Narrow Gate

    And to finish the thought, what the Lord commands/prescribes is that all men everywhere repent and believe on His Son to be saved. Any other way is strange fire.
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    Entering by the Narrow Gate

    Amen. Offering strange fire before the Lord is the way that seemeth right to man....it isn't the true fire from heaven. We must worship God the way HE prescribes, not the way we feel we want to or that seems right to us.
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    Entering by the Narrow Gate

    Goodness, where have I ever said or implied that we are therefore in need of nothing and don't need to seek the Lord? You know that is not my attitude. As the scripture says we are to run this race so as to win it, and work out our salvation and perfect holiness in the fear of the Lord. We...
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    Entering by the Narrow Gate

    Yes faith and spirit, I believe. (The two go hand in hand.) Jesus came preaching and speaking to the Jews/Israel under the Law. The parable of the ten virgins says the five wise (wise unto salvation) brought oil in their vessels with them, while the five unwise did not. This aligns with...
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    Entering by the Narrow Gate

    Yes, Satan....but indwelling a man perhaps? The number of the beast is the number of a man. Bible says men are like beasts that perish.
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    Entering by the Narrow Gate

    Amen! And not through idol worshiping rituals and practices of other religions and belief systems either. Jesus said if any man climb in by any other way, he is a thief and a robber.
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    Entering by the Narrow Gate

    The parable of the ten virgins agrees with "Whoever HAS will be given more....". Think it's very important to acknowledge, understand and believe what we HAVE been given.
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    Entering by the Narrow Gate

    For the born again believer our spirit IS in heavenly places through the spirit of Christ that we have received. We have been reconciled/reconnected to God (who is spirit and dwells in heavenly places, ie, in the heavenly spiritual realm) through faith in Christ. Jesus long ago "went away" to...
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    14 IRRESOLVABLE CONTRADICTIONS WHICH RESULT FROM A LITERAL RICH MAN AND LAZARUS

    d I believe the parable may be alluding to the ultimate judgment and destination of the soul, one to be punished and the other to his reward and compensation for his suffering in this life. Both are presumed to be God's people but one is a picture of being judged in this life so that he will...
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    Entering by the Narrow Gate

    It is GOD who justifies. That there are those who justify themselves I don't doubt. But not everyone who believes by faith that GOD has justified us through faith in the blood of Christ (as scripture does teach) are justifying themselves. Some of us do understand or are learning the...