This is misleading. We mainly lack faith. That's not an accomplishment.Faith is faith.
No matter how much one has.
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This is misleading. We mainly lack faith. That's not an accomplishment.Faith is faith.
No matter how much one has.
faith in CHRIST even the size of a mustard seed will grow .Faith is faith.
No matter how much one has.
1 Corinthians 3:1-4 "And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal, as to babes in Christ. 2 I fed you with milk and not with solid food; for until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able; 3 for you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like mere men? 4 For when one says, “I am of Paul,” and another, “I am of Apollos,” are you not carnal?"Well then allow me to ask you a question .
DO you beleive its not necessary to have to FIRST BELIEVE ON JESUS the CHRIST .
Now before you do answer i want to bring you a reminder that proved something .
Lets examine a man whose heart was after God , who was doing much good
and even giving much alms to the poor .
Now notice when the angel of GOD did appear to this man named cornelious
HE did remind him of the good he was doing .
THEN TOLD HE WHAT HE ACTUALLY HAD TO DO .
And when that man heard the gospel , HE BLEIEVED IT .
So if anyone is going around trying to silence the mouths of those who DO preach the dire necessity
to BELEIVE ON JESUS , the death , burial and ressurection
I would not heed such a man . inclusivity is a lie . cloaked to sound loving
cloaked to seem to mean well for humanity . OH but its a delusion meant to never once
pull them out of the darkness as it allows UNBELIEF IN JESUS CHRIST to not only remain upon them
WELL it considers preaching the dire need to believe on JESUS , to atheist and false religoins , AS RELIGIOUS extremism .
And you wanna be a co helper to THAT . i higly suggest
that all start reminding of the absolute dire need TO first BELEIVE ON JESUS
and to keep all things HE taught . not those who try and omit the dire need to first beleive .
cause that sister , IS NOT THE TRUE FAITH at all .
only in part could it be misleading . Its why i wrote to her what i did .This is misleading. We mainly lack faith. That's not an accomplishment.
you do realize one is not a babe even1 Corinthians 3:1-4 "And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal, as to babes in Christ. 2 I fed you with milk and not with solid food; for until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able; 3 for you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like mere men? 4 For when one says, “I am of Paul,” and another, “I am of Apollos,” are you not carnal?"
ME oh my , i just had a real terrifiying thought about you .1 Corinthians 3:1-4 "And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal, as to babes in Christ. 2 I fed you with milk and not with solid food; for until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able; 3 for you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like mere men? 4 For when one says, “I am of Paul,” and another, “I am of Apollos,” are you not carnal?"
The subject of this OP is meat. Not all can handle it, because they want to STAY nursing. But there is more than the bottle if you want to go to heaven. Epi knows that. You want to argue to stay on milk.you do realize one is not a babe even
IF THEY not only go against those who preach the simplicity of having to BELIEVE ON JESUS
and treat us who do so as though we are religous extremists .
Men who buy the lie of incluisivty , as epi has . They are not mere babes that need learning .
They are men who bring another gosple sister . and that there gospel is NO GOSPEL OF GOD .
It is the same gospel. One is kindergarten; and the other is university. Two levels of faith. The OP is university and for those who are ready to excel.ME oh my , i just had a real terrifiying thought about you .
SURELY you did not write this to me because i do not agree with EPI .
Surely you have not bought into that other gospel that is no Gospel and has made
void the dire necessity to FIRST BELIEVE ON JESUS .
DO answer . let me know . I hope that was not the case for you .
It's not just that they want to stay on milk it's that there is an rebellious uprising in he nursery. Like we are seeing in France with the protests. It's the champions of the flesh that hate the cross. They want to justify themselves with an initial grace...and they bury their talent in self-defense....from other people AND GOD.The subject of this OP is meat. Not all can handle it, because they want to STAY nursing. But there is more than the bottle if you want to go to heaven. Epi knows that. You want to argue to stay on milk.
cc: amigo de christo; @Episkopos and @Lizbeth
It sounds like the same gospel...but the decoy gospel has no power. They get their strength from the lip service of other carnal believers who band together to fight against the cross. They are enemies of the cross because they resist obedience to Christ in favour of beliefs ABOUT Jesus that they claim justifies them. Jesus, for them is seen as an idol to worship...not a Lord to obey and follow.It is the same gospel. One is kindergarten; and the other is university. Two levels of faith. The OP is university and for those who are ready to excel.
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. 17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “The just shall live by faith.”
cc: amigo de christo; @Episkopos and @Lizbeth
We all need to respect each other's ministries. @amigo de christo is teaching milk, and @Lizbeth is his student. The problem is he is arguing that you are not teaching kindergarten doctrine, and you are arguing that he is not nursing his students with meat they refuse to want, let alone digest. The second problem is those in the nursery do not want to grow up to the next level of faith.It's not just that they want to stay on milk it's that there is an rebellious uprising in he nursery. Like we are seeing in France with the protests. It's the champions of the flesh that hate the cross. They want to justify themselves with an initial grace...and they bury their talent in self-defense....from other people AND GOD.
Yes, they need to believe more than the demons know. To not grow and bear fruit shows a lack of abiding in Christ, slipping off the road and maybe over the cliff if their love for Christ is not all consuming.It sounds like the same gospel...but the decoy gospel has no power. They get their strength from the lip service of other carnal believers who band together to fight against the cross. They are enemies of the cross because they resist obedience to Christ in favour of beliefs ABOUT Jesus that they claim justifies them. Jesus, for them is seen as an idol to worship...not a Lord to obey and follow.
If you watch the reaction to my call to obedience to Christ....I get strong opposition...in favour of a beginner's acceptance that has no hint of any obedience, let alone the power of grace that facilitates that obedience. For these it's all dogmatic beliefs and religious ideology....these are twice dead if they have ever been regenerated.
The milk costs them nothing. The meat is very expensive...so it an economic spiritual revolt against the ways of God. They refuse to let go their rights they think they deserve. No humility, no fear of the Lord.
All sin is sin. There is no distinction between sins (except in regard to blasphemy of the Spirit). All sin results in death for the person who has chosen to make whatever sin it is that they are indulging a matter of a conscious and deliberate lifestyle. For example, purposely living a lifestyle of rage and foul language (what you call trespasses) will condemn a person the same as a person purposely living a lifestyle of adultery and lying (what you call lawlessness).Because it says so at the beginning of the chapter.
4 Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness. 5 And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin. 6 Whoever abides in Him does not sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him. 7 Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous. 8 He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. 9 Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.
Therefore, the type of sin that someone born again of the Spirit cannot commit is lawlessness. That is against the commandments of God. Verse 24 Now he who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. And by this we know that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.
Yes you will be able to until you are completely spiritually mature, because trespasses are unintentional. Leviticus 5:15 “If a person commits a trespass, and sins unintentionally ..." Here is another verse to ponder, 1 John 1:7. What type of sin is being cleansed as we walk in the Spirit? "But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin." Unintentional sins, that's what! Seeing as lawlessness is always willful and are sins unto death as in Galatians 5:19-21, 1 John 1:7 is NOT speaking of lawless sins of the flesh which can only be committed intentionally and in rebellion against God. That leaves trespasses which is the only type of sin in the Lord's Prayer.
The Old Testament is our schoolmaster. Read the sacrifice in Numbers 15:22-29. Then in verses 30-36 see that there is no sacrifice for someone committing lawlessness. They stone him to death.
Correct. 1 John 3:9 says we won't.
When you read 2 Peter 1:5-7 you will see a process we go through after all our past sins unto death have been cleansed from our nature where we can now partake of the divine nature of God (in the verses 2-4). These are matured in us by Jesus as the Finisher of our faith, IF we abide in Him. John 15:1-4.
Living according to the fruit of the Spirit is what it means to have intimacy with God and be obedient to him. Ministry is not a measure of ones relationship with God. The fruit of the Spirit is.I never said I was sinless. Practice your own honesty. My testimony is that of the sinless walk as one enters into the kingdom realm of the Spirit...being translated into Zion to walk as Jesus walked in HIS resurrection life.
That is my testimony. The only reason why I'm online is because I am NOT presently walking in that power. I am "between" such higher walks so to speak. When I was in the Spirit I couldn't look at a TV screen or computer screen....it didn't make any sense. I was too busy with the revival of people coming from all over the world to interact with. God is not wasteful...and during our revival period we had guests constantly. So when the revival hits again, all I have to say will already be online in the form of a podcast and the forum.
I suspect the opposition comes from the impression that you are endorsing a works justification gospel in which the righteousness that gets you into the kingdom is the righteousness of your obedient works. Since it is impossible to get into the kingdom that way, we rely on the righteousness that God credits a person when they believe and trust in God's promise of a Son through whom they are forgiven and are made righteous in God's sight that way. No, that doesn't mean you can purposely live in unrighteousness. That means your righteousness - when you are righteous - is not the righteousness that actually gets you declared righteous so as to be eligible to enter into the kingdom of God. The moment you sin, you ruin that way to be righteous in God's sight.If you watch the reaction to my call to obedience to Christ....I get strong opposition...
well i see you bought it hook line and sinker . sinker being the key word .The subject of this OP is meat. Not all can handle it, because they want to STAY nursing. But there is more than the bottle if you want to go to heaven. Epi knows that. You want to argue to stay on milk.
cc: amigo de christo; @Episkopos and @Lizbeth
If all sin is sin, then what did Christ come to do? What did Jesus accomplish by dying to get sinners to heaven.All sin is sin. There is no distinction between sins (except in regard to blasphemy of the Spirit). All sin results in death for the person who has chosen to make whatever sin it is that they are indulging a matter of a conscious and deliberate lifestyle. For example, purposely living a lifestyle of rage and foul language (what you call trespasses) will condemn a person the same as a person purposely living a lifestyle of adultery and lying (what you call lawlessness).
1 John 3:4-9well i see you bought it hook line and sinker . sinker being the key word .
Cause that rope of inclusvism epi offers will not only save none but damn all .
As for me i shall continue to preach the absolute dire necessity to Believe on JESUS the Christ
while also correcting all sin and error . You all can cling to the line that allows
UNBELEIF in JESUS . but do be warned that is a false gospel and while i am sure
epi can talk about aspects of holiness and righteousness its all in vain .
WHO and what did the apostels preach . And that who and what was the same that i preached
to an atheist and was called a religious extremist .
But you and epi are teachers probably even believing you were called by GOD
to show us all this higher walk . Kinda odd how that higher walk
REJECTS the original gospel of YE MUST BELIEVE IN J ESUS and even calls that religious extremism .
Dont hold your b reath waiting for me to accept it . That i do shun . And for good reason . ITs a false g ospel .
oh i assume you mean what james said . of course there is such a t hing as dead faith .Yes, they need to believe more than the demons know. To not grow and bear fruit shows a lack of abiding in Christ, slipping off the road and maybe over the cliff if their love for Christ is not all consuming.
i have long known a nd long beleived that .1 John 3:4-9
4 Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness. 5 And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin. 6 Whoever abides in Him does not sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him.
7 Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous. 8 He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. 9 Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.