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We should always be communicating with God and basing our actions on His response to us. As you say sometimes what God requires of us goes against what we might call our own better judgment or even our own accumulated knowledge: "And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the street which...

I have also once met an illiterate man who was unable to read a Bible in any language but according to my discernment showed better fruits than many of those [probably including myself] who could and did read the Bible. A person with intelligence can used of God in special ways as in the case of...

Your logic seems good and likely the ones you mentioned specifically would be included in the other fold, but time is often a problem in communicating about the things of God. "Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham? Jesus said unto them...

The intelligence of man has little to do with knowing the truth which Jesus is. Any other truth, if it exists, could not or should not be important to a follow of Christ in any case.

Actually we can for Jesus did. The problem is that people do not fully understand what He meant for if they did then their understanding of truth would be absolute: "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." John 14:6 He is the...

Give Judas the purse is perhaps like giving a handout of money to person who claims to be a needy person, but actually he is simply too lazy to go out and work for a living. When we cannot know whether the person is really needy or simply lazy and greedy, should we go ahead and help him so as...

This may not be good if it means I need to purchase a larger size in trousers.

Reading this thread does make my mouth water...

What I have heard about happening in others and I seen some similarity in myself, is the first two have been apparently almost [?] put down to nothing, and then because they or I have been elevated so high by God that they/I let their/my head swell up as if they/I had done it themselves/myself...

Why did Jesus choose Judas? Did not God know what Judas was and what he would do? Yes, He most certainly did and what does that say to us? Let us pray that God has not chosen us because we are to be devils in the manner of Judas.

Adam is mankind works for a fallen Adam who now has the advantages provided by the sacrifice of Jesus. Prior to falling, Adam was ahead of the rest of mankind because Adam had not formed any habits of sinning. This is why a person can be "born again" and still fail. He accepts the sacrifice of...

This life to me is the testing ground for us. God through Jesus provided the means to accomplish the work that He has for each of us. Jesus spoke to us in parables to explains what would or could be happening depending on our choices and our hearts and what exactly we have at the end done with...

Yes, those words fit very well. Lots of devils who don't even seem to know that that is what they are. Sometimes, I walk in a devil spirit, but God has held me even then and drew me back to Him. Because I'm better? No, I cannot really understand why. God does.

A person can but they are seldom willing to give up what they would have to give up to do it. Can I serve God without the comfort of my home and my clothes and my car and my computer and my TV set and my Internet connections, etc.? If they receive the advice from God that Jesus gave this man...

And who has not done it altogether too often?

By that time it might too late for you to help, but I'll nonetheless keep it in mind. On a more serious note, when we first came to God we knew little and probably we were able to easily move in close to God because of our ignorance. The little child is not to be dumb, but rather quite...

In a real sense that, I believe, lines up with scripture. Every one who believes in God and expresses it positively in even a measure has already overcome, but this doesn't mean there is no more that still needs to be overcome, does it? How can anyone get to the point in overcoming where he...

Amen dear Sister, amen!

A lot of preachers have missed the mark because they were not called by God in the first place. Some preachers have missed the mark because having been called by God, they failed to follow Him as they moved in their calling. "How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and...

How does one ever move beyond what they already have if they never hear about what they do not have? Who is to tell it? Does God never put good words in the mouths of people to speak to others? Or do people only speak what comes from their own evil hearts?