Posted on 01/10/2008 8:24:22 AM PST by Manfred the Wonder Dawg
January 10, 2008
ESV Acts 8:26 ¶ Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, "Rise and go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza." This is a desert place.
I had a divine appointment to start off the day today. I got up early and went down to drink coffee and this lady walks through the lobby. I have seen her the past few days but had not spoke to her. I said hello to her and we begin to talk. She asked me what I was doing in Lima and I told her I was a pastor and I was teaching pastors. I told her I was Baptist. She then asked me what the difference between Catholic and Baptist was. I told her to get a cup of coffee and we would sit down and talk about it. Get this, she is from Chili. God has taken a man from Texas to Lima, Peru to run across a lady from Chili. She tells me that in her country they do not care about God. Her mother was Catholic and her daddy was a Theist. I took her straight to the law and showed her that she was a liar, thief, and she had committed idolatry. I took her before the judge of heaven and she was found guilty and deserved to go to hell. I then told her of Jesus for I could tell she was humble. She began to weep and said, “I am sorry that I am weeping.” I said, “You need to weep and cry out to God to save you.” I told her about the cross. I told her that not everyone goes to heaven. I told her of hell. I told her of heaven. I told her she could only go to heaven if she repented and believed in Christ. I then gave her this illustration. I told her if you take a fish out of the water and put him on a slab of gold, surround him with pretty flowers, and sing beautiful music to him that he would hate it. I asked her why the fish would hate it. She said because the fish only wants to be back in the water. I told her that if she could go to heaven with the heart that she has and walk on streets of gold, see beauty beyond description, and hear the music of angels that she would hate it and she would hate God. I then told her she needed a new heart and a new spirit. She then said, “I have never heard this before in my life (she is crying at this point).” She had to leave for work, but begged (genuinely) that I would meet with her tomorrow because she wanted to hear more on this matter. Her name is Claudia Venuzela. By the way, the conversation was so intense with the presence of God that neither one of us ever drank our coffee. She just left her cold coffee there on the table and said please come back and talk to me tomorrow. I went to my room and talked to God about her and I believe I will share John 3 tomorrow. I have her email address and if I do not see her I will be able to write her.
I have written extremely fast so I may have missed some things, but I am out of time.
Because of the truth: Pastor: J. Randall Easter II Timothy 2:19 "Our God is in heaven and does whatever He pleases."(Ps. 115:3) "He predestined us according to the good pleasure of His will."(Eph. 1:5) Those who have been saved have been saved for His glory and they are being made holy for this is the will of God. Are you being made holy? Spurgeon says, "If your religion does not make you holy it will damn you to hell."
Who is Randall Easter?
Admin Moderator, this is a posting from the same source that caused a thread to be deleted yesterday.
Randall Easter is a friend who is a preacher of the Word of God, on a short mission trip to other pastors in Lima, Peru.
Such edifying feedback. Please examine your motives and your language.
The truth is always edifying. Even the sad truth about Easter, which is that he is a lying dirtbag.
Please examine your motives and your language.
Easter needs to examine his motives for telling lies and slandering other Christians.
My language is direct and accurate, whereas Easter's is false and dissimulating.
Either you cannot detect sarcasm or you are consumed with only making your point.
Name calling does not persuade people.
Is it a tenant of your world view that everyone must esteem your religion, and those who do not are dirtbags or worse?
Well you do know that anyone who tells unwelcome truth about Roman Catholicism or Mormonism is a lying, bashing hater, right?
Individuals of Easter's low caliber do not put me in a laughing mood.
Name calling does not persuade people.
My goal is not to persuade people, but to alert them.
Is it a tenant of your world view that everyone must esteem your religion, and those who do not are dirtbags or worse?
No, it is a tenet of mine that people who tell scurrilous lies about other people out of sheer malice are dirtbags. And Easter is just such a dirtbag.
There are plenty of people who don't agree with me in religious matters, but not all of them choose to make up lies the way Easter does.
I see - now you can assess the motives of people that you’ve never met, allowing you to judge them. How quaint.
If a person's job is nominally that of a pastor, yet they demonstrably tell lies and slander other people, then it is clear that they have low motives.
Who slanders people with a good motive?
Why would a professed Christian tell lies about the history of other Christians? What possible good motive could explain such vile behavior?
Con carne or con queso?
You perceive and allege slander without showing that it was, then go a tear and pose as a victim, seeking protection of the moderator. A man of God will tell Truth from Scripture without regard to the offense taken by man. Many religions and religious practices - protestant included - need to repent.
Somebody need to share John 6 with Mr. Easter.
LOL! I’ll ask him next time I think of it. :-)
>>A man of God will tell Truth from Scripture without regard to the offense taken by man<<
Likewise, one who objects to the comment should be able to make a case for their faith, as Scripture commands us.
Many can’t. They just argue what they feel, or what they’ve been taught by RCC tradition. However, scripture alone is the basis for all debate, and the foundation of all truth.
Not much of a man to cause a woman to weep. There are better ways. In John 8:3-10, did Jesus cause the woman who was about to be stoned to death to weep? No.
I agree with you. Sometimes get weary with the programmed responses from some who apparently have been well prepared and inoculated from the Truth by their religion.
The man did not cause the lady to weep - her conviction over her sin did that. As Peter was broken over his sin (Matt 26:69 - 75) and wept, so did this woman. All who love the Lord should be willing to pray for her to be saved.
Bill Clinton is a man who makes women weep, and he’s not much of a man :-)
You know as well as I do that that slander was demonstrated by me at great length, point by point, on yesterday's thread.
That thread is now gone and deleted by the moderator.
On the yesterday's thread, posted by you, Randall Easter made all kinds of slanderous allegations: that Catholics murdered hundreds of thousands of indigenous Peruvians in cold blood, that Catholic priests in Peru tortured and murdered men women and children, that Catholic churches and friaries in Peru conceal mass graves of murdered victims, along with other lies.
A man of God will tell Truth from Scripture without regard to the offense taken by man.
None of these lies about the history of Peru are found in Scripture - they are lies invented by Randall Easter.
Using the Scriptures as a shield for Easter's scurrilous lies is a new low - the Word of God is not a plaything.Many religions and religious practices - protestant included - need to repent.
Randall Easter needs to repent of being a liar and a slanderer.
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