Posted on 02/27/2015 9:51:00 AM PST by RnMomof7
The face of the devil, the occult, the cults, and religions tend to have issues of domination, control freaks.
God in his love through Jesus Christ in grace offers us freedom in love, for where ever the spirit of God is ? There is liberty.
Religions, cults, the occult, the devil love domination, possessiveness, controlling.
Don’t worry, the scoofers will have their day in court with the too judge at judgement day.
They will feel God’s full fury, so now ? Whos are the real fools ? The real crazies ?
Just because they do not believe, does not make it not so.
The Lord on his throne laughs at them.....
But if they repent His hand of mercy is always extended to them...... Get in the boat before judgement day.
And those “ ordained unto eternal life believed “ .... Yes, it’s in the bible in the book of acts.
It’s a question that those who don’t believe in election have a hard time with.
Grace and the doctrine of election go hand in hand.
Those non elect will say “ Lord ! Lord ! Did we not !? “ and the Lord will say “ Depart from me, I never knew you “....
“For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.”
—Romans 9:15-16
Men can whine and try to explain it away, but the Word is clear on election.
Oh?
The bible tends to indicate something a wee bit different...
1 Corinthians 15:12-14
Now if Christ is preached, that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
But if there is no resurrection of the dead, not even Christ has been raised; and if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain, your faith also is vain.
Is it the thread jumpers that have you upset; or their FREEDOM to jump into threads that galls you?
He is Risen! Truly Risen!
But he had to die first.
Don't we ALL!
(Except Mary; that is.)
The Lord allows a certain amount of leeway in a Christian’s life to learn by experience. That has been my frequent observation. Authoritarian denominations are like this: you have to get it ALL right, the way WE deem it, NOW, or by George you are only anathema.
You wind up sticking a Dymo label on some demon which isn’t even a demon, it’s a theory.
Theories survive or perish on their own merit. An earlier age would not have given Darwinism more than a passing look, because it is impossibly weak.
In which begs the question then ?
If we were to be made to get it all right ?
Why then ?
Does the bible tell us that when we were dead in our tresspasses, enemies of God,
that ?
God sent his son to save us ?
Surely is wasn’t our sins, and our lack of performance that would have, or could have kept God’s grace, God’s love, God’s salvation from us ?
In spite of our sins, in spite of our trespasses,
Not that we loved God, for we were the enemies of God,
But GOD !
Who is rich in mercy showed his love towards us in that ?
He sent his son TO BE the propitiation of our sins.
It had nothing to do with any inherent so called “ goodness “ on our part, for we were already dead in our trespasses and sins.
The crux, the meat of the gospel, is ?
We are sinners,
Dead spiritually,
Separated from God,
Alienated from God,
Condemned already without Christ,
Powerless to save ourselves,
Needed a savoir to save us,
And even though we were enemies of God and never seeked after him ?
God in his mercy and grace came to seek those that were lost and saved them in Jesus Christ.
The “ Tares “ ... The “ Goats “ i.e. Satyrs .,. The Nephellium, are those who will be on the left side who rejected God’s Salvation in Jesus Christ by his Grace and trust in their own works and their own self righteousness.
They are the tares among the wheat.
For the Lord knows those who are his.
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