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Brother I don't believe in women leading church gatherings, except maybe in exceptional circumstances, like He raised up Deborah. And I know there are lots of people, men and women, who claim to have heard different things from the Lord.....but that is the very reason we are told to test...

There is a manner of thinking and approaching the scriptures that I believe is a kind of pseudo-spirituality....I call it new agey thinking. I was trying that on for size at one time but I found it to be empty....Jesus wasn't in it but pride was, or so it seemed to me, so I returned to the...

We each are sharing our perspectives. I'm not understanding what you mean about the glass half full or half empty. But those scriptures, the things that Jesus said, are for our good, so that when we take them to heart they help to "preserve" and cleanse us, to keep us from falling into that...

Think that God's true messengers walking in a manner pleasing to Him will refuse to be put on a pedestal and worshiped/adored. Like the angel in Revelation. So important to remain in the simplicity of Christ and not be seduced away from it. The church isn't supposed to be doing things the way...

Men (and women) of renown..? I believe that passage we are talking about probably speaks to such as they, sadly (though some names there I don't know anything about). Though one doesn't have to be well-known to be in the same kind of error.

I was asking how you see that scripture, actually. Yes, we will know them by their fruit.....which can and needs to be discerned. so not looking at the fruit with natural eyes. In the passage we are talking about they were boasting in their "works" that they were asserting had been "for God"...

I've been rebuked and corrected by the Lord three or four times in my Christian walk, but just not in those particular words. If we are working iniquity then we are working iniquity (and of course He might speak in different words to different people). Yes sin and error proceeds from our old...

ok sorry I missed what you were trying to say. Myself, I am not seeing that Jesus was making a distinction between old man and new man in those passages , where He said to those, "away from me I never knew you". Some from among "His people", ie, believers, are going to be rejected as...

I was making a humorous point about needing ears to hear the spiritual language of God's word....sorry, couldn't resist my little joke there. ;) You are talking to someone who takes the warnings and admonishments of scripture seriously. We certainly shouldn't be working iniquity or using and...

Certainly agree we are to seek to walk in these things. And yes, its all His, not of our own that no man may boast. What do we have that we didn't RECEIVE (from Him)? But we need to comprehend all that it means to have Christ in us...stupendous and priceless gift...unspeakable...what manner of...

God bless his heart. And amen to that song....the olive press of this life.....I'm sure many here can relate. The fellowship of His sufferings...that we may partake of His holiness.

The Lord bless all of you then......and amen to your faith. Looking ahead to a rich reward for all the suffering in this life that will far out weigh it all. You are making me ashamed of feeling sorry for myself at times with my problems! How old is your son?

I understand Johann.....feel free to PM me if you feel like talking any time. God bless.

Oh I'm so sorry for all that you've been through....there is so much evil in this world and in the church, it grieves my heart.... and God IS going to judge it one day soon. Praise the Lord for His faithfulness and kindnesses to you....shalom and blessings to you as well brother.

Hi brother....yes I do believe the Lord still does those things today...."I the Lord do not change"....that's what is coming to mind at the moment. I believe He may heal in any manner He chooses....I don't think Jesus healed the same way twice that we see in scripture, but was always led by the...

Careful not to jump to conclusions. There are different gifts for different members of the Body. And I think there needs to be this thing called grace extended to those who have been traumatized by off- the- wall cultish churches. It so often happens in places like those, that when fireworks...

.. ......keeping in mind that there are different gifts for different people (maybe at different times and circumstances as well, sometimes). Some He may lead through hearing His voice in their spirit, others may be led by an unction/impulse, or the Lord may just decide to "take over"...

Sidestepping the point again. Still not getting it, huh? Or pretending not to maybe.....well God knows either way. Yes we have been saved from our sins...that is a different point. So far as the east is from the west has He cast our sins away and remembers them no more. But does that mean...

Amen and amen to your post brother. I don't really agree with any "ism" actually, so I'm with you to some extent on that. :) I understand you have been hurt by some overzealous nuttiness and this has led you to be cautious and leery of certain things.....I can understand where you're coming...

Amen. Splitting hairs often means one is desperately trying to prop up their false doctrine. Instead of letting the word tell them and instruct what to believe some people are trying to tell the word what it is saying, lol. Words can have more than one meaning because God is speaking in...