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Even some of those that say they realize too often do not act as though they do. People like clear cut black and white answers to every question in every situation. Man without God does not have such answers. Man with God has access to the right answer, but often does not realize that another...

What is in your heart if it came from God is truth if you received it because you loved the truth no matter I say about it one way or the other. And if a person did not love the truth what would he receive from God? "And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because...

Neither am I when it comes to the original written languages. In my own ballpark I know there is a quirk in German regarding capitalization. [All nouns, not only proper nouns, are always capitalized.] The quirks, if there are any, in those languages must be translated [if translation is needed...

By the Spirit of God in us. Are we not His sheep? Do we not recognize His voice? Do not obey His voice? Who else but God? Man will often speak his peace but every man that I have known including yours truly has at times spoke out of turn. I am when I am paying attention and I am obedient...

@bbyrd009 Follow Him! How does one do that? If we really have the Holy Spirit in us then therein lies the answer. I read and study the scriptures daily and I always pray in tongues before, during, and after. When I know I am going to need Him and sometimes when I do not know, I also pray...

Well I would hesitate to say it was purposely blasphemous since I never met any of the translators, but some people who go strongly with the literal might miss, or at least be delayed, in encountering something important for them as a result. Maybe God had it done that way on purpose even as...

Would you believe that I am listening for and striving to follow the lead of the Master's voice? Are we not His sheep? "My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:" John 10:27

Must I always have physical evidence? Is not the evidence God put in me enough for me? Did I ever tell you about the man I met who spoke only Spanish and was illiterate in that language, yet he stood up and gave a great testimony with regard to the God he served? [I speak and understand...

"Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong." II Cor 12:10 How much pleasure do we take in the things listed? Help us dear Lord!

Of course man is already in the picture. The really nicest ones would stand our for their lack of the influences of man: "And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day." Gen 1:31

Ah the literal versus the not so literal, the latter being called figurative or spiritual or who knows what. Back when I thought if I just studied the Bible enough I would get it all right. It did not work. What does work? I have an answer but I found that my answer will often provoke an attack...

We are not supposed to but... consider what James wrote: "But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God. Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and...

That my dear sister is the help that God provides. Anything good comes from Him. Anything NOT good comes from the old man of flesh of me.

A signed contract may and often does indicate there is a problem as God doesn't require such things. But... having said that are there not some men who in spite of having signed still have their hearts toward God? Consider King David and a couple of the kings of the southern kingdom of Judah...

"But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question. And when he had so said, there arose a dissension between...

Ah, if we were speaking of a physical place perhaps, but are we?

I am no student of Jewish beliefs and customs outside of scripture, but consider these verses: "For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:" Job 19:25-26

I can wish it were better, but the truth is that he, my old pastor, is too much like Jesus. Thousands thronged Jesus and one said, "man never spake like this man", but then where were the thousands when he was accused falsely before Pilate? Who was that called out to release Barabbas and to...

When I go to a church assembly now it is to share what I can with someone who is hungry. Most places would not allow me to speak from the pulpit because of their own order but there are exceptions, and sometimes there are hungry individuals who God will bring to me even if the pulpit is closed...

"And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners? But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick. But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not...