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Jesus also told Peter elsewhere to "feed my lambs".....Does that mean only Peter and his "successors" could feed the lambs?

Peter and the other apostles, along with the prophets, formed the rock foundation. And I read those verses as Jesus delegating His keys and authority to the CHURCH He was/is building on that rock foundation....as well as Himself as Rock (chief cornerstone). Binding and loosing according to...

Yes, the gates of hell will not prevail against HIS church. Which is not the same thing as churches made with hands of man. His kingdom comes not with observation that you may say lo here it is or there.

I just know and observe that overthinking things leads astray. The carnal mind is enmity with God, and the natural man can't perceive the things of the Spirit. God's word has a way of avoiding the complex mazes of men's thinking and going directly to the heart of every matter in a simple way...

We should also realize that the scattering of the (true) sheep is scriptural.....God holds the false shepherds (wolves and hirelings) to account for that. And as Paul said wolves would come in not sparing the flock after he departed. What happens then.....the true sheep scatter, once they wise...

The Indian Sikhs are also at war with India and want to secede. A lot of them have immigrated to Canada and brought their war over here. They've infiltrated the halls of power here as well, in order to further their cause. (I don't think I've ever heard of a more stupid country than this one...

Where is the simple teaching of Jesus in all this.......truth is still hid from the wise and learned and revealed to little children, who we must become as to enter the kingdom of heaven.

Amen, wow. It's very concerning for many. And may we not be tempted to go back to Egypt as some of them were getting weary of the wilderness and hankering for the leeks and onions of Egypt.

We don't need authority to have understanding sister. Or to simply discuss what we understand. Unless we think women are excluded from growing into the full stature of Christ....? Should we abdicate our free agency to men....but then I don't know how we can be helpmeets if we remain as...

No need to be qualified.....ask God for wisdom and understanding, because He has promised to give liberally to those who ask. Jesus didn't come to bring us a religion, He came to demonstrate and bring us a new Way. Religion is what man makes out of things. God's true house/temple is not made...

Actually we are told to judge those inside the church, who claim Christ, but not those outside. But in the sense of condemning, no we are not to condemn others but we certainly can and do need to DISCERN.

I believe in the priesthood of all believers, and that there is to be no schism in the body between the spiritual gifts/members of it (no clergy/laity division like under the old covenant). God's ways are not man's ways. People can find ways to rationalize absolutely anything to make it...

He was speaking to the Jew first, then the Gentile. There is nothing new under the sun, what has been will be again, said wise old Solomon. All flesh is the same....prone to the same tendencies, whether Jew or Gentile.

Unfortunately he does lead souls to forms of godliness that deny the power....and he leads them to seek to establish their own righteousness (Godliness) rather than submitting to the righteousness of God in Christ. Fruits can be and need to be discerned, whether they are of God or of self.

This scripture came to mind sister, it is how the old covenant Israelites viewed God, and only the priests could enter the holy of holies on behalf of the people, and that at such peril they had to have a rope tied to their ankle in case they died there. But now we who know the Lord may come...

Yes, but the devil is a counterfeiter. He counterfeits things that are true and are God's.

Amen, it's heartbreaking to see Jews coming to faith in Christ and His new covenant, only to fall into deception of going back to the old covenant...along with many Gentile believers too. As it says in Galations, it is a fall from grace. As for the rest, I don't think unbelieving Israel is off...

Is that because of not knowing Him intimately face to face....? Old covenant Jews had that awe as well, who were not born of the Spirit.

Sure, we can study one group and another group and pit one against the other......or we could just look into God's word and ask Him to open our eyes to HIS vision for His church, looking neither to the right nor the left.

The ancient paths that the bible speaks of is not talking about a return to old covenant forms of worship and godliness. That way lies a fall from grace, I'm afraid. The devil has ancient paths of his own, I've seen and felt it and I understand how it can be quite alluring. Entertaining even...