Our Father does the chastening...do you have any spiritual gifts that He has used you to manifest His power through? I would pray and ask for the gift of discernment...it might help you see clearer.
The Lord Jesus Christ never drank alcohol - THE CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOL IN ANY FORM IS A SIN!
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Why are you now tempting me to boast?
Why are you thinking to chasten me, if you believe what you just wrote?
Do you understand how the unnamed prophet and also Adam and the sabbaths and the feast of unleavened bread are speaking of Christ and He is fulfilling those types and shadows formerly set forth when He allows Satan to test Him in the wilderness?
Have you repented of trying to stop me from studying the Bible and helping others to understand it?
OK post, I reviewed my posts on the matter and looked up the exact definition of boasting and found that I wasn't boasting. The real question is why don't you understand what boasting is. See the definition below. It includes excessive pride and self satisfaction. Why don't you prove your point by explaining to me how I had excessive pride and self satisfaction in my own achievements, possession or abilities for God visiting me and blessing me with prophecies. I would understand that I was boasting if I had said that I made myself righteous enough to receive these things of God, which I didn't, but had I chastened another member saying I was righteous enough to chastise them (let he who is without sin cast the first stone) then I would understand your statement.
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verb: boast; 3rd person present: boasts; past tense: boasted; past participle: boasted; gerund or present participle: boasting
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talk with excessive pride and self-satisfaction about one's achievements, possessions, or abilities
1 Corinthians 1:31 Therefore, as it is written: “Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord.”
I was boasting of God's glory with one exception. I did say I may have more authority than the RCC since I receive direct communication with God and I cannot confirm that they do. So then @post what exactly are you insinuating? How is it you feel they have more authority. If I was simply stating fact and truth, then that doesn't mean I'm boasting. Boasting again is excessive pride and self satisfaction about one's achievements, possessions or abilities. Or maybe you feel you know my heart and thoughts? So you can discern what I had in them as some sort of excessive pride and self satisfaction. Then you are in error.
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The definition of 'excessive' is "beyond what is proper"
So what is proper for a Christian regarding self-acclimation?
Proverbs 27:2
Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; A stranger, and not your own lips.
Hmm.
@post please don't make up your own definition of boast. I can boast in God's achievements either which way. But excessive is not the definition of boasting, it was excessive pride or excessive self satisfaction.
Okay...either back this accusation up with my exact words telling you to stop studying the Bible or be exposed as a false accuser of the brethren.
And be prepared for these kind of false accusations to be reported and see where it goes.
You were quick to report a member for attacking you with false accusations....and now you walk in those same shoes.
@Heart2Soul was right. You're mocking my self authority with Christ to be my own church if I so choose and to be my own authority under Christ. Which is something we should all do so that we don't get deceived by a false church. Praise has a definition also. It is express warm approval or admiration of. Neither of which I was feeling, you appear to think you know my thoughts and feelings, but you keep getting it wrong. I simply stated facts and truth, not boasting and not praising myself.
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That is not telling you to stop studying the Bible.
Your post and comment will be reported to allow the moderators to determine if any action should be taken.
@Heart2Soul Abstinence or moderation are excellent, but sometimes Fundamentalists do tie themselves into knots to try to "prove" that it wasn't into wine that the Lord at Cana turned the water.
Yes I remember the pastor trying to explain this saying it wasn't wine like the kind with alcohol but then stumble when explaining the rest of the story about them being well drunk before receiving the best wine.
@Heart2Soul Yes, it gets increasingly difficult to read into the Middle East the culture of Midwestern/Southern baptist churches, although some keen Fundamentalists do try...
Telling me not to compare Christ to the people in the OT who are pictures of Him, when He told us to study those people precisely because they are comparable shadows of Him, is absolutely tantamount to you discouraging me from studying the Bible.
The problem here is that you're being petty and personal about it instead of recognizing and admitting that you didn't even know that is what studying the Bible is, and until I brought it up it had never even crossed your mind that 1Kings 13 and 2 Kings 23 are a together a picture of Jesus Christ!
Why do you think I started a whole thread about 'what is Bible study?' do you think it's because I don't know? It's to equip the Saints! Most of the church today has no idea how to read the OT - who is teaching them?? - they don't look for Christ in it at all! And that's the attitude you replied to me with, dismissing the typology of Him in it like it was something disrespectful! I don't hold that against you, but I don't ignore it; it's something you apparently were, like so many people in our age, ignorant of.
And now you'd rather try to get me kicked off the forum than look into the real points in this little discussion the 3 of us are having:
- We should not boast in gifts
- Christ is the authority of the church, not 'each of us independently' and not the papacy
- The OT is a testimony of Christ, according to Christ Himself, and He Himself commands us to study it with that in mind, looking for Him in it, finding comparisons to Him and His life and work in the things written
This isn't about you and its not about Devin and its not about me. It's about Jesus!!
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WOW!
Did you read what you wrote??
You are absolutely NOT your own authority or church, that is absolutely contrary to sound doctrine!
No scripture is of private Interpretation and JESUS CHRIST is the head of HIS church!
Types are valid
Queen Esther was a type of Queen Mary!
Queen Esther
Fair Esther 2:7
Mary all fair Song of Solomon 4:12
Found Favor Esther 2:17
Mary found favor with God Lk 1:30
Esther saves her people interceding with the king
Mary provides the savior of the world!
Lk 2:10-11
Mother of our salvation Lk 1:30 Lk 1:38 Lk 2:30
You understand scripture?. But in the USA (who broke off from the church long ago to pursue the right to freedom of religion) we should all guard ourselves against false churches and doctrines. We have our own minds and use them to discern. So in fact I am in charge of my own house similar to being my own church with full authority as head of the house. I also reserve Jesus to be my leader.
Please remember you were asserting that the RCC had more authority than me in my own house, yet they have not houses of their own:
1 Timothy 3:5
“(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)”
The scriptures appear to spell out that a pastor should have a family of their own. I've seen this repeatedly in scripture.
What's this:
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You don't really sound like you understand scripture. But in the USA (who broke off from the church long ago to pursue the right to freedom of religion) we should all guard ourselves against false churches and doctrines. We have our own minds and use them to discern. So in fact I am in charge of my own house similar to being my own church with full authority as head of the house. I also reserve Jesus to be my leader.
Please remember you were asserting that the RCC had more authority than me in my own house, yet they have not houses of their own:
1 Timothy 3:5
“(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)”
The scriptures appear to spell out that a pastor should have a family of their own. I've seen this repeatedly in scripture.
What's this:
no you have no authority
Christ appointed the apostles and they only have authority
Don’t confuse the apostate Vatican 2 counterfeit with the one true church founded by Christ on Peter
I have ultimate authority in my house. To lead my house in any direction, whether it be to one church or the next, or to no church on earth. This is my God given right.
oh sorry
In your house yes priest prophet and king
But I speaking of the church
Only the apostles and their successors have authority
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