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God can turn anything for good... Yes, the evil of men for our spiritual growth... After all, as Paul says, He works ALL things for the best of those who love him. :) Truth cannot be the same since we are told to speak the truth in love... Speak the truth in truth... Or speak the love in...

Daniel is a good example... Yes, he was brought into slavery with the people... But was he condemned? No! Thus men may be righteous within an unrighteous system. I do agree we should come out when we see the flaws and find the brothers, those who are of the same Spirit.

Yes, revival is in a sense personal, and happens now, and all the time. But when we talk about the church as a whole, accross the whole world, it is not alive. Where are the Paul's, the Peter's? I have no doubt God still has his people, and his men, but at what level we are functioning as a...

God brings good or bad... But so does the enemy! Not every spirit is from God... If the devil appears to you as an angel of light, is that a 'good thing', and should you take his words for truth? Or is it a test? Everything is a blessing from God if you take it as such, ie a false messenger...

I agree! :)

There is a teaching in modern Christianity that says 'picture yourself on Daddy's knees' rather then telling us to get on ours. What I mean is that it teaches that we are 'already there', instead of seeing where we are and where we need to get, and beseeching the Lord to bring us. It teaches...

I think those are wise words! :) Blessings in the Lord! Compassion for the broken remains important. I think you are right that some don't want to change... I think you're wrong to say all... We should love them. I think what Shirley said was wise; you were in a situation where you SHOULDN'T...

I'm not an expert on mysticism... And so I won't pretend to be one. According to what I understand... Mysticism goes into the spiritual realm. The risk there is 'which spirit?' To me, I see christianity as a path with two ditches, we must walk by the Spirit, but the right spirit. On the one...

The obvious answer to where it did begin is with Christ, otherwise it wouldn't be his body. To teach that the body of Christ does not begin with Christ himself, and does not constitute ALL that are in him is to attempt to divide Christ, or to preach another Christ. Both are an abomination and...

We are recognized by the Spirit, the fruit, the love for each other... Whatever you call it, it constitutes one and the same. It is a religious spirit which teaches we are saved by beliefs. This is the same as teaching the letter of the law, and carries death with it. But the Spirit gives...

Rev. 21 22 But I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. 23 The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it,[j] for the glory[ of God illuminated it. The Lamb is its light. 24 And the nations of those who are saved shall walk in its light...

Welcome here Cresco! :) God bless you, man!

That is only true if we by our own opinion are saying that we have the life of Christ in us. Yes, the mind is involved, but that does not mean 'you will recognize them by their doctrine'. Rather it is by our FRUITS that we are known. When the church is truly alive it can be seen because of the...

Jesus did not come to sell fire insurance (or hellfire insurance, if you would), rather he came to save men away from what they are. It's not 'if you try to use my love for you to get yourself saved, you shall find your life', but rather 'he who loses his life for my sake shall find it'...

4 And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands...

Or one could also use it to prove denomination DOESN'T matter... Rather it is whether or not men within it are producing fruit. The way I see it, there is no such thing as denomination, either we are one, or we aren't with him at all. Brothers are recognized by the life of Christ that is in...

Kinda goes against the fact that the law was their to BRING Israel to Christ... And that he came to draw all men to himself. God doesn't need a plot to save men. Rather God desires them to be conformed to him, and so he trains them, prepares them, and then empowers them. All is going in the...