Truth

[aspen]

I have been advocating for the legitimacy of the Truth for months now. And I realize I am am spinning my wheels! Are we, as Christians, required to defend the Truth? Doesn't the Truth stand on it's own? Com'mon guys! Jesus is God! God is a Trinity! the Bible is inspired! God is our hope and salvation! So who cares what heretics and agnostics have to say about our faith! We place our trust in Jesus!

 

[UppsalaDragby]

That's a good point worth contemplating.

I think it is a question of working together with God.

We are urged to contending for the faith (Jude 1:3), but we also need to rely on God's Spirit to confirm to those that listen that what we say is true.

 

[Angelina]

Amen!...the Spirit of God gives us the revelation, that what is being said is true because the Spirit of God is the Spirit of Truth.

John 16:13
However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come

 

[justaname]

Complacency in the face of lies allows others to be mislead.

 

[Hollyrock]

I have been advocating for the legitimacy of the Truth for months now. And I realize I am am spinning my wheels! Are we, as Christians, required to defend the Truth? Doesn't the Truth stand on it's own? Com'mon guys! Jesus is God! God is a Trinity! the Bible is inspired! God is our hope and salvation! So who cares what heretics and agnostics have to say about our faith! We place our trust in Jesus!

aspen, you are right. God's truth does not need to be defended... just presented. As a matter of fact, the Bible instructs us not to get involved in quarrels and debates. Just share the Gospel and trust the Holy Spirit to do the rest.

 

[paul1234]

I have been advocating for the legitimacy of the Truth for months now. And I realize I am am spinning my wheels! Are we, as Christians, required to defend the Truth? Doesn't the Truth stand on it's own? Com'mon guys! Jesus is God! God is a Trinity! the Bible is inspired! God is our hope and salvation! So who cares what heretics and agnostics have to say about our faith! We place our trust in Jesus!

Truth

1 Peter 1:22 Seeing you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto sincere love of the brethren, see that you love one another with a pure heart fervently:

John 15:12 This is my commandment, That you love one another, as I have loved you.

John 15:13Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

John 10.11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

John 17:19 For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified.

1 John 3:16 This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

I gave up everthing in my life to followed Jesus, only doing the will of God the father in heaven.

Amen!...the Spirit of God gives us the revelation, that what is being said is true because the Spirit of God is the Spirit of Truth.

John 16:13
However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come

Becouse you said john 16.13 I wanted to share with you,what God shown me.
Then I started to read the word of God, my spirit was gently awakened in me, spiritually my eyes and ears were started to open just a fraction.

God showed me I am on the path that leads to hell

It was in 1985 one night as I lay in bed, eyes closed, just about to fall asleep, I was suddenly, literally, frozen in fear. I tried to move my body but I could not move anything. I then tried to move one of my fingers but I could not move that either. I was paralysed with fear. I continued trying to move but it was futile. My body wouldn’t respond to any commands my brain gave. I could hear a whirlwind. It was a terrifying sound, in the darkness. God’s wrath was on me. Next thing I knew I was no longer in bed. I was cast out of my body into outer darkness, a black darkness. I knew I was there for a reason, I was going to hell, I was on my own. And I knew there was something on its way to me, each time it got closer to me, I became more terrified. As it came really close I knew who it was, it was the devil horror overwhelmed me. Terror took a hold of me, I was shacking and trembling in fear, the intensity of the fear it was so intense I fainted.

KJV Psalm 58:9 before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.

KJV Matthew 25:30 And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.



I ended up homeless everybody deserted me I felt hurt, I felt crushed on the inside I could not take any more I was at my lowest depth in life the only one there for me was God and he let me know it here I am, I then realised his love is love, he guided my feet he then put a roof over my head and uplifted me.

I was very close to my brother and he died, Jesus came to me in my sorrow, he picked me up and he carried me, Jesus said gently to me, it’s just his shall that has died that’s all, his soul has gone back home to God from where he came, and death it is only a temporary separation, and when you die your be reunited with him. Those words Jesus told me it really helped me at the time, and it made me look at my brothers passing in another way, it is only a temporary separation.


I have a thirst for Jesus and still do when I go into a church. I felt at home, I belonged there. I started reading the holy bible for the first time in my life, first the gospels of Jesus-Christ. Sometimes Jesus spoke in parables. I was reading a parable and I was trying to digest it, I realised that I understood the parable and my heart jumped for joy. I thought to myself: “It’s never done that before.” Reading further I become scared and suddenly understood what the evil one is up to with me. He wants me to sin and rebel against God, he is out to corrupt me through sin, and he’s doing it to destroy me, to take me from God.

These are just a few examples how this corrupt world has corrupted me, the way I used to be towards other people,and how I treated them was rude, selfish, arrogant, spiteful, malicious, I used profanity, got into punch-ups, bullying, was sarcastic and threatening.

I never cared about people, only ever caring about my own needs, my greed and my wants.



It was now 1988 when this happened to me, My biggest weakness, was watching pornography and on the internet, my heart was so perverse I felt dirty; so dirty I felt defiled. It felt as if I had a demonic snake in the form of people wrapped around my body,every time I tried to read the holy bible they stopped me, and every time they stopped me from getting on with my life, the time is lasted for over twenty three years.



Satan’s demons attacked me through my weaknesses, through sin. And God made me an escape route.




After I realized what the evil one was up to, I closed every door in my life to do with sin. I changed the choices I made and for the first time in a long time I feel happy. I drew closer to God and he drew closer to me. When I pray, if I ask anything according to his will, he hears me. I struggle daily so when I am tempted I pray and within seconds God takes away the temptation.

. Reading further I realized that every sinful way in me is because of the evil one, I was in a state of shock, I thought to myself every bad thing in me is because of him, I felt extreme anguish, I needed to spend time with God in prayer.

The sun I saw was the colour of fire, in my line of sight the sun was lower down in position, and the sun was twice as far back. In the link I have sent you, it’s exactly what I saw in my vision with those differences.



Hit the link and see exactly what I saw in my vision.

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/gods-vision-jaiteg-singh.html

It is now November 2010.And being in anguish I prayed more earnestly, closed my eyes and cried out to Jesus, by saying the Lord’s Prayer. I said to Him: “I am chained to Satan and his ways because of my sins.” I prayed to the Lord and asked: “Break the chain Lord and free me of all his ways.” I screamed in extreme anguish, and then something extraordinary happened. As I had my eyes closed I saw a sun there were no clouds and in front of my eyes were a mist, as I stared at this sun, I felt glorious joy and happiness a flash of it, and there with God I did not need anything to eat or drink. The only thing that mattered was the relationship I had with him, nothing else. And this world and everything it has to offer is absolutely nothing compared to what God has in store for us, and as I am starring at this sun I realized how much I loved Jesus. I love Him more than anybody on this earth.

And then when I finished praying I heard a still small voice it echoed telling me (you don’t need it) I understood those words, I was then sitting on the floor in shock because what I wanted to do with my life (it is not the will of God my heart desire,)

there were two doors and I could go throw either, I had to make a choice and it scared me a little, Keeping the house was about seeking money and wealth, the other was about giving up worldly possessions so I sold the house and the money went to those who needed it. Everything I ever wanted for myself, I gave it all up, to follow Jesus.

God change me on the inside quickly, I hated the person I had been. I wanted to change, but I couldn’t stop sinning and I needed help and now I have the Holy Spirit dwelling within me.

The devil caused me to desire wealth, so to distance myself from him, rejecting him; I had to give up materialistic way.

As I had my vision, I was in the presence of God, to become holy it brought me so much joy and happiness my cup was over flowing, my sin brought me nothing but misery, I surrendered my life completely to God

The vision only lasted seconds, but it had a profound effect on me

I cannot blame anyone for my sins only myself.

After the vision I become hyper sensitive to evil, I could recognise sin whereas before I was blind to it?


The Holy Spirit was convicting me of my sin, as I was praying I wept with intense sorrow remorse, every time I sinned I offended God. I was so sorrowful for what I had done, and for the way I had treated other people in the past. I wept so much I was exhausted.



God knows me, he knows my heart there is nothing I can hide from him.



God change my heart.
Now I am no longer selfish,
I am no longer a lover of money.
I am no longer a liar.
I am no longer a con man and I am no longer a thief.
I have stopped using people to my advantage.

I am no longer spiteful towards others people.
I am no longer sarcastic towards others.
I am no longer rude towards others.

I was praying on my hands and knees, and I started praying for people around me, imagine the power of a volcano irrupting. That’s what it felt like when the Holy Spirit penetrated my heart. For He wants me to love others, to love every person as much as I love my own family. This is the will of God. He wants me to be like that. I love my family with all of my heart.

There are things I need to change in my life and I am working on them every day.

I want to change; it is not me who can control this change in me. Only God can do it, only he can make me grow in faith and love.

Hebrews 5:14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

This happened to me on each of these three separate occasions.

A person who murders a little child, now you magnify the evil by one thousand times, well that’s the intensity of what evil felt and sounded like to my ears, when I heard a person committing profanity, when I was in the company of disobedient children, one time I was in the company of a wicked person. The intense magnitude of evil they sounded to my ears, it was like listening to little Satan’s and I wondered, how much more evil do I sound to God when he hears me speak?

2 Corinthians 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

Satan blinded my mind to sin and I could not recognise sin; I sinned against my brothers and are sisters in our lord Jesus Christ I did hurt them deeply.

Sin really does hurt others because sin defiles love.

Talking to someone this person they never told me they had been hurt in their past by anyone, but I could hear it as they spoke to me, other people had sinned against her it deeply hurt her, and I could hear it and that upset me.

Did you know there are 667 different types of sin in the holy bible? The sin list

http://www.amazingbible.org/Documents/Bible_Studies/Sin_list_part_6.htm



Discern both good and evil, can you hear what’s in a man’s heart when he speaks? Soon you'll be able to.



To learn the behaviour as sin, type in a sin let’s say, murder, discern both good and evil.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/murder



Please do not let Satan blind you. One time a person asked me: “I want to be an angel, how do I become one?” I answered: “Angels have one rule. In all your words, actions, behaviours towards others show love,
we are angels, but we are lost, trying to get back home to heaven.



Sermon on the Mount

http://www.biblepath.com/beatitudes.html



NKJV Matthew 15

Defilement Comes from Within

[sup]1[/sup] Then the scribes and Pharisees who were from Jerusalem came to Jesus, saying, [sup]2[/sup] “Why do Your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.”
[sup]3[/sup] He answered and said to them, “Why do you also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition? [sup]4[/sup] For God commanded, saying, ‘Honor your father and your mother’;[sup][[/sup][sup]a[/sup][sup]][/sup] and, ‘He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.’[sup][[/sup][sup]b[/sup][sup]][/sup] [sup]5[/sup] But you say, ‘Whoever says to his father or mother, “Whatever profit you might have received from me is a gift to God”— [sup]6[/sup] then he need not honor his father or mother.’[sup][[/sup][sup]c[/sup][sup]][/sup] Thus you have made the commandment[sup][[/sup][sup]d[/sup][sup]][/sup] of God of no effect by your tradition. [sup]7[/sup] Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying:
[sup]8[/sup] ‘ These people draw near to Me with their mouth,
And[sup][[/sup][sup]e[/sup][sup]][/sup]honor Me with their lips,
But their heart is far from Me.
[sup]9[/sup] And in vain they worship Me,
Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’”[sup][[/sup][sup]f[/sup][sup]][/sup]

[sup]10[/sup] When He had called the multitude to Himself, He said to them, “Hear and understand: [sup]11[/sup] Not what goes into the mouth defiles a man; but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man.”
[sup]12[/sup] Then His disciples came and said to Him, “Do You know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?”
[sup]13[/sup] But He answered and said, “Every plant which My heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted. [sup]14[/sup] Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both will fall into a ditch.”
[sup]15[/sup] Then Peter answered and said to Him, “Explain this parable to us.”
[sup]16[/sup] So Jesus said, “Are you also still without understanding? [sup]17[/sup] Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and is eliminated? [sup]18[/sup] But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man. [sup]19[/sup] For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. [sup]20[/sup] These are the things which defile a man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man.”