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This is the test of whether we are good or bad. If I use that test on myself then I ask myself: Have I ever lied? Yes. Have I ever taken something that does not belong to me? Yes. Have I ever used God's name as a swear word or said OMG? Yes. Have I ever looked at a woman with lust or viewed...

If you analyse what these rejected ones said to the Lord, you will see that it is all centred on what "we have done" in the Lord's name. It is all centred on self, and is an attempt to get the Lord to accept them because they have done good deeds, like prophesying in His name, casting out...

I get what you are talking about, and this is true, if the definition of "faith" is trust in Christ as Saviour. If a person, like Demus, loses his faith and goes back into the world because he loves the world more than Christ, then there is every possibility that he can lose his salvation also...

Paul said that he realised he was bad when he saw in the Law that he was. He said that he didn't know sin until the Law showed him his sin. He saw the standards of the Law and though he was blameless in his outward observance of them, in his heart he wasn't following God's moral law of loving...

The Scribes and Pharisees had a set idea of who the Messiah should be. They had it that their Messiah would come in awesome power and kick the Romans out. Maybe they took it from the prophecy in Daniel 7. But they missed the wording of the prophecy in Isaiah 53 which spoke of their Messiah...

When we are living our lives in Christ, we are living by the providence of God, so that nothing happens to us by chance or accident. I had to learn the road rules in my heart and that is the way that God did it.

"Firstly we must view the verse from Daniel in its context: “Then I wanted to know the meaning of the fourth beast, which was different from all the others and most terrifying, with its iron teeth and bronze claws—the beast that crushed and devoured its victims and trampled underfoot whatever...

I learned the lesson when I used a pin to find my Scripture verse for the day. On my first attempt I got "And Judas went out and hanged himself"; but I thought that isn't right. I'll try again. On my next attempt I got, "Go and do thou likewise!" There are things that are written to the Jews...

Well, you got the drop on me there sheriff! :-)

She was our dearly loved puddy cat, Daisy, from 2001 to 2019, and has sadly passed away. We have two others - our ginger ninja, and our brown bomber Burmese. I guess that we are Cataholics! Daisy was in the process of telling me that it was about time she was fed, and why not before now?????

There are things that are written for us and others that are written to us. I guess we have to figure out which is which.

He has written them on my heart, especially after at the age of 25, going through two amber lights in a row and being fined and having to sit my licence all over again!

So a 19th Century captain calling one of his sailors, "You scurvy loafer!" must be thinking that the sailor hasn't had his vitamin C injection as instructed! :p

To answer your last sentence. They must receive either government or community funding to be able to continue and pay their employees. We do have private hospitals in NZ and it does cost an arm and a leg (pun accepted) to get hospital treatment there, but usually it is those with medical...

Oh. So I didn't! Okay, let's see which ones are quoted or reflected in the New Testament: 1. Loving God - yep. Jesus said it, and so did John. 2. Don't make idols - not loving God (as above) 3. Don't take the Lord's name in vain - using Jesus' name as a swear word - not loving God (as above)...

In 382 AD, the church was not Roman Catholic because the Bishop of Rome had not assumed the overall "chair of Peter" at that point. Each regional bishop had oversight of their own region, and the bishop of Rome was just one of them on equal par with the others. Actually the canon of Scripture...

Absolutely! Jesus is God's moral law for us, so when we follow Him, we are following His observance of His Father's moral law. Paul says, "Be followers of me, as I am a follower of Christ". So, if Christ followed His Father's moral law, and Paul followed Christ, and we follow Paul as he...

I came to know Christ through a friend who shared the gospel with me and showed me in the Bible that I needed to make a personal decision to receive Christ as my Saviour, when previous I was influenced by the Presbyterian Sunday school I went to in the 1950s, that everyone was a Christian...

No. It was the Holy Spirit through the gospels, Acts, and Paul who taught those things long before the church became the Roman Catholic church.

I just thought I would make the point just for information. Of course, we are very fortunate in New Zealand that we have a national health system that makes treatment in our hospital free of charge, so we don't have any greedy shareholders taking truckloads of money to the bank from vulnerable...