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And there is also a time to gather the stones that clog the road to allow people to pass... "Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people." Isaiah 62:10

Those last underlined two words of yours I never learned in high school or college. When I came to the Internet many years ago someone used them and I had to look them up. I still don't remember their definitions. I have to look them up each time. As to my learning of God's Word I have always...

Nah, I remember from my early youth. When I got home from school before we had a TV set, I would turn on the radio and listen my favorite programs. There was the "Lone Ranger", the "Shadow" and, of course, "Big John and Sparky". Sparky if I remember correctly was an imaginary boy who wanted more...

You have an explanation, which is fine, but I have another explanation. It is simply that satan is simply the adversary in the unredeemed man that tempts him to sin. When we have been redeemed by Jesus, we have then something in us that is greater than that adversary.

Salvation is simply a process. I have been saved, I am being saved and I shall be saved. In the end, if we are really faithful and trusting in Him continuously, He will help us overcome those temptations that keep leading us back to commit sin. God does not throw us aside. We do that to...

Consider also the other version of I Chron 21:1 in scripture here: "And again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah." II Sam 24:1 It would certain seem that the Lord was called satan in Chronicles, but Jehovah in...

The one to whom you address your post is no longer on the forum to defend. You should hold fast.

So then apparently people who have been saved no longer have the choice to serve God or not. I cannot believe that. God wants people who when given another alternative choose Him because they love Him. No one else can snatch us out of His hand, but until and if we have finished the work we are...

No other man or spirit or power can separate us from the love of God, but we can still walk away from it. That had always been our choice. The sacrifice of Jesus did not remove from us our right to choose God's Way or our own ways. Yes it is God who will keep us if we will allow it. Whenever...

If it is not true, telling what is true would be important, would it not? If Samuel had told Saul as he anointed him King of Israel that as a result of that anointing everything would always be OK between Saul and God what good would such a twisting of the truth have done for Saul? A...

Welcome to the forum! Perhaps you meant Ephesians 4:30 since the 4th chapter of Hebrews contains only 16 verses. In any case sealing something is good only if the seal is not broken too soon by grieving the Holy Spirit. "And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day...

We should not straddle between two affections, but as James states many of us do. They/we are double minded. We all are until we have overcome all of the things of the old man. I believe that we are or at least should be growing. If we are not eventually, the old man will regain what he lost in...

OK.

The trouble with the flesh is it contains the world of the old man still and until all of that is dead, even an old man of 90 can still be affected adversely: "For all that is in the world, the (1) lust of the flesh, and the (2) lust of the eyes, and the (3) pride of life, is not of the Father...

Consider also what happened to Peter and others in Acts chapter 2. He not only stood his ground but opened his mouth as for example: "Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ. Now when they heard...

I agree that God did not declare, but the effect was the end of mercy for them. He would forgive them no more for their rebellions. They were barred from entrance into the Promised Land. Was this for them not the end of mercy? My point is simply that God Himself does not change. In the NT as I...

Here is one place we differ. Although I admit difficulty with at least one verse, I see those "not born again", the unbelievers who remain so until the end of their course [natural death] as being already condemned and dead in the eyes of God. There is not additional judgment for them. The...

Thanks Helen! Give God the glory! May He keep you in blessings in 2018!

Very simply, Helen, has God ever changed? If it was ever possible for many to limit Him , how would that have changed. We are all descendants of Adam and Eve, no matter which covenant we were under. Mal 3:6 For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. Jas 1:17...

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