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Ps 81:13 “Oh that My people would listen to Me, That Israel would walk in My ways! God wants His people to listen to Him - that is not the same thing as reading the Bible - even though He will ask you to read your Bible and He will go over it with you. Yet He is not the Bible - He is the Word...

First - we don't read the Word of God we listen to Him!! Now the first words I heard from the Word of God were: "Read Your Bible!" So I did. I read it from front to back a bit each day and it took about nine months to finish it. Of course that was not the end of reading it. Better yet the...

You don't become a disciple of anyone by some baptism - you become someone's disciple/pupil by listening to them as someone would listen to their teacher!! So how does someone miss this very simple fact? Answer - they are not listening to the Teacher! If you don't listen to Jesus Christ as...

Really? I wonder why Jesus did say "Baptismal regeneration" instead of "Born Again"? In the story about Nicodemus the Pharisee and Jesus Christ and Jesus telling him that we must be born again - what you have is a man following religion instead of listening to God and Jesus Christ who is as a...

My church had a school of ministry they did. The Lord asked me to go through the school of ministry. I didn't want to, but what are you going to do if He starts asking you to do something you don't want. Yeah - I tried reason with Him and get out of it, but He kept telling me He really wanted me...

Is it not the Kingdom of God that is the nation of God? To me there seems to be a short-sidedness in this whole thread, and it has to do with worldly thinking!!! “You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself. Now therefore, if you...

We hear Him by "Faith"!!! Gal 3:2 This is the only thing I want to find out from you: did you receive the Spirit by the works of [he Law, or by hearing with faith? So if in fact you do actually hear from Him you do so because you believe that He is there to be heard from!! That hear Him by...

We are saved by faith - as proven by the Scriptures - yet what does a person's faith do to help others? The answer is much indeed!! Simply because if you have faith in Jesus Christ He has you do things - things which help others!! Helping others can mean reproof!! Rev 3:19 Those whom I love, I...

Jn 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. YEAH - there it is - "faith alone". And I can bring up a number of other verses But if you just look at those two verses and put them into logic...

The topic was "Born Again" not baptism!!!! But perhaps someone is confused? Christians are not made by baptism!! Christian are made by Jesus Christ!! In fact all people are made by Jesus Christ because all things were created through Him! Jn 1:10 He was in the world, and the world was made...

First of all is being born the same thing as being baptized???? Answer of course is "No" God created the heavens and then the earth - so we have the spiritual or heavenly realm and we have the physical or earthly realm. Jesus told Pilot that His kingdom was not of this realm! God is spirit so...

the wind is just air????? This is the sad part - that we have no understanding! If the wind talked about in Jn 3 is just air then everyone with physical ears who can pick up sound waves is born again!!!! Ps 78:1,2 A Maskil of Asaph. Listen, O my people, to my instruction; Incline your ears to...

So where does it come in? Is if from reading your Bible - alone without the influence of other men - does it come from opening up to the Lord and hearing Him - Does it happen when a person believes and what does that belief mean? Maybe it only comes if you got the gift of tongues, but I know...

Saying "without mans interference" is not the same things as saying "The Lord was teaching me"! I was not going to church when I heard "READ YOUR BIBLE" - right after I woke up one morning back in 1999. Those were the first words I ever had heard from the Lord. I did read my Bible (which my...

Yes - praying (which is simply seeking Him and asking Him) about a matter and then listening to the answer by his Spirit is "speaking with Him"!! As for the comment about "it should be" that our thoughts and ways are like His - well just forget that unless we are simply talking about doing what...

Are we making this way too hard?? Rev 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me. If we decide to open up to Jesus Christ He sends His Holy Spirit and comes into us! So we are then a new...

If we take a class at school do we read whatever chapters come to mind or do we read the chapters the teacher says??? If we know Jesus Christ like we say we do, how is it we don't find out from Him what and How He wants us to read and study the Scriptures? In the OP I put down something the...

Pearl wrote about Christians - seemingly meaning the real Christians who are in fact following the Holy Spirit - which excludes all the verses you quote above!! Now Paul was writing to many "Christians" who are not in fact following the Holy Spirt!!! To be sure, there is nothing new under the...

We use all sorts of phrases in every time! Basically they are writings that people who knew the Lord wrote, even at His command, and He has preserved to this day for our benefit. So if a person can read and they have access to them they should read/study them. It we want to say we should "mark...

Pearl has it right!!! However, who is really a Christian? Pearl seems to say it is those born again, and that sound right but it's still vague as to who is a Christian. Who is born again? It is those who believe in Jesus Christ, but even that can be vague! So there is a bit more in the Bible...