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God bless you, brother! :)

Did we somehow come to expecting the world to love us and embrace us? It hated our master, and it hates us, if we are his. I think it should come as no surprise. Let us turn the other cheek in love, and show a better way, as our Lord did for us. :)

Agreed! :) We must speak the truth in love, as it says.

I don't mean it in the sense of making judgment on an individual. Only the church generally doesn't believe what he has said, or walk in it. :) Blessings

Agreed. We do not have to be part of the what calls itself the church, but is not. Like Comm.Arnold once told me, 'church (building) isn't a good place to practice what Jesus taught, unless they're exchanging money and you feel like kicking some tables over' :lol: But the Church of Christ has...

Thank you for caring brother, I am taking the time because I care for you too ;) :) If it weren't true, why would Jesus say that the servant who doesn't bear fruit is cut-off? Robbie, Christ's calling is not about our feeling of security, it is about his glory and giving our life for it.

I would agree that this is how must churches are used, and it is not to the glory of God. Only when we understand that MAN is God's Holy temple, and not a building, we realize that whatever the world has made and called 'church' is simply a deception. As in the days of Elijah, there is a...

God bless you, Robbie. :)

To endure in saying one is saved does not make one any more or less 'saved'. The fact of the matter is, salavation has NOTHING do wo with us justifying ourselves. We are to endure in the same way as him. Men try to save their lives, get assurance, or 'fire insurance'... But that is not how God...

Peace to you also, brother :) I've heard what you're it before, only I've found that when I searched for myself, it wasn't true, but used one part of truth to contradict another. God bless you!

God saves us, but we must be faithful... Otherwise everyone is saved! ... Or God has favorites! But both these things are not true.

Again, it comes back to the same thing... Do we have to endure, as it says? There is a free gift, that is the forgiveness of our past life and new life, Christ in us. But that new life and that free gift is a tool, not an end, so that we can become like him. If a man hires you, and gives...

Yes, Christ does want us to see who we are and who he is. And once we see it, he is mighty to put to death what we were, and by the new creation make us like him. Peter denied him the first time, and saw who he was. But then, when Peter himself was threatened with the cross, he asked to be...

I am not my, brother. If you would believe my honesty, I am trying to tell you that we can indeed move forward to walk in the same life Christ did and be conformed to him, and that he can transform us into his liking by the new creation. If we endure and persevere, and show ourselves worthy...

Yes. Through him we overcome. It is through him, but it is us. Not that it is any glory to us! Of course not! But glory to him, because he can take wretches, and patiently teach them in love, and if they learn, they can be like him! :) To believe means to obey also, if you believe what a man...

I make it about me only in the sense that God doesn't think I'm any more special than anyone else, so if I am not faithful with what he gave me, I will be rejected. Our walk is about him, it's about our death, and his life, in us. We are to follow Christ to the cross, and die daily. :)

Thanks for the encouragment, sister. Your gentleness and love is a blessing and an example to the body of believers! :) Brother, I don't mind going back and forth with you, and am not deterred. But I do stand by what I have said to this moment. :) May the Lord bless you!

We can be like him, Robbie. It is nothing of ourselves, but he can live through us! That is the power of the Gospel, that through him our old life can be put to death and we can walk by the new creation! But we have no assurance we will remain faithful in that, as he says, 'to he who...

If you wish to make yourself judge over my life, then let it be so. :)

Yes, our work is to believe in Him! If a man came by and said 'you are in danger of death, follow me, and I will bring you safely to a haven (pun intended :lol:)', who, if they believed him, wouldn't follow him? "Oh, thanks for warning me, now that I know, I'll be safe here." That man would...