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Christ in us is the HOPE of glory....not the certainty thereof. Jesus warned us what to do if we would be wise. Take the low seat...claim nothing for yourself. Let others praise you...not yourself. Let God exalt you...not yourself. Claim only to be an unprofitable servant (not all this sonship...

Not at all! :) The reformation opened a "Pandora"s box" of private interpretations as well as the freedom to understand the scriptures with the help of the Holy Spirit. With humanity there is always the bad coming along with the good. But the wise sort through the bad stuff and retain what is...

I just told you my position. What part of being humble did you miss? Go back and read what I wrote.

You aren't seeing yourself at all in the mix. I'm responding to you as you twist what I say...and look for the worst possible rendition of it...even adding things in that I never said. So you are very sensitive and quick with taking offense. That's why I normally just ignore the drama...and you...

Since God reserves His judgment until the end there is no way of knowing what God's judgment will be. THAT is very unsettling for the human mind. We like certainty and security above all other things...including freedom and grace. I have stated repeatedly that humility is key...to take the low...

Here again you missed the point. Do you somehow see that? What people will see is that you don't understand what I'm saying...and misrepresent what I say. I'm trying to explain things on the most basic level...but that level is still not easy enough for you to understand. So there is a...

You have an uncanny ability to miss the point entirely.o_O:eek: Laodicea..."judgment of the people," ...is the same as what the people judge to be true...the people's opinions. Or...what the people judge to be true for themselves... Basically self-delusion. Now look at the text...

I'm sorry that your philosophy has caused you to lack the basic reading skills that warn everyone who comes to the Lord about the nature of judgment that we all must pass through. So many will end up in not a compromised situation due to a lack of the fear of the Lord at this present time.

We humans have a tendency to exaggerate what we are and go too far with a suggestion. It's very human to do so. We indeed have access to God's grace. But this "ours as we believe" could also be "ours as we make believe." We are not to be as wise as children...but as innocent of evil as...

Do you think being spit out of Jesus's mouth (like a vomiting out of being in Him) is just a lack of rewards? What I see is the danger in being fully cut off...as a vessel of dishonour...saved yes, but begging in the streets. Cast into outer darkness to wander like stars forever. There will be...

I think that the word Christian has really lost any meaning in our time. At least any meaning that it used to have. We have examples of being a racist Christian or lawless Christian...to the point where Christian just means a religious person with an opinion...really. Can you say "Laodicea?"...

...to a most neglected warning concerning an evil servant (Mat. 24:48-51) Mat. 24: 48 But if that evil servant says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying his coming,’ 49 and begins to beat his fellow servants, and to eat and drink with the drunkards, 50 the master of that servant will come on...

I think that the issue with the church of Laodicea....being the modern church...is that it is describing an attempt at mixing the nature of grace from an unselfish God....with a selfish people who cling to their old human nature. The result is chaos...a volatile mixture that produces a spoiled...

Showing the gospels being under the law makes the whole paper card building come tumbling down. It requires a full misunderstanding of the gospel to do this. There is no mention of the kingdom of God that all the apostles (including Jesus) preached. We are to seek first what you have placed...

No one can judge the servant of another. So if a person says they are a Christian then we should accept them as such until they prove otherwise. The word "Christian" is casting a very wide net. There can be novice Christians...carnal Christians, spiritual Christians, religious Christians...

It's about our attitude towards the Lord. It is very popular today to think we are rich and have need of nothing. This fits in with the present culture of rich entitlement and spoiled child etiquette that has infiltrated into the churches. It's like seeking the Lord has become like a disease or...

Jesus died because of our sins. His resurrection gives us the grace to walk as He walked...so that we stop sinning before God. What Jesus did NOT do is come to earth to be mistreated by a people in order to give them a way to continue sinning. A house divided cannot stand. No, Jesus gives us...

...and if people refuse the warning that is plainly written in the bible...among the many other warnings...then it is no surprise that a thread based on those warnings would be also ignored.

This is false of course. I don't think southern white people are a race. And I don't think that all southern white people are racist. Even that generalization is part of your own racist make-up. Not my own. There is a way to be different from you...very different from you. Not everything has...

Are you saying that all white southern people are racist?