Posted on 07/22/2007 7:40:38 PM PDT by xzins
Oooooooh!!!
Do I hear a balloon deflating?
I do not value even my own sensory perceptions and reasoning - much less "feelings" - above the revelations of God the Father in (1) Jesus Christ His only begotten Son, (2) the indwelling Holy Spirit, (3) Scriptures and (4) Creation, both spiritual and physical.
So I'll be trusting Him no matter what you say.
Truly, I cannot possibly provide proof of Christ to anyone who does not already have the "ears to hear." And if they have the "ears to hear" they will hear Him no matter who is doing the speaking or in what venue.
Why do ye not understand my speech? [even] because ye cannot hear my word. - John 8:43
But if Christ tells you that I am one of His, listen to Him and welcome me as your sister in Him.
If you hear Christ then follow Him.
I am not a hyper-denominationalist, nor the follower of any man except Christ.
Any believer throughout all time is part of His Church. The unseen things of this world are those that are eternal.
2 Co 4:12 So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you. 13 It is written: "I believed; therefore I have spoken." With that same spirit of faith we also believe and therefore speak, 14 because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you in his presence. 15 All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is reaching more and more people may cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God. 16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. 17 For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. 18 So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
The "US" in the passage is the body of believers at Corinth. Yet, this is a message Paul would speak to any Christian.
The old timers would shout, "Glory! Glory!" I believe they knew, and with "joy unspeakable and full of GLORY" they would fix their eyes on Jesus, the Author and finisher of their faith.
Away. Away with the works of man. Away with the pettiness and the strife. Away with the divisions and the insipient special pleadings for one's own little group.
We are Christians and our calling is heavenward. So let us "press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus."
This is the true ecumenism. This is the family of God, the body of Christ in which 26 You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus, 27 for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
Alamo-Girl calls you "Dear Adiaireton8." Let me call you brother or sister and exhort you to the true ecumenism of God.
Col 3:Colossians 3:8-11 8 But now you must rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. 9 Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices 10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. 11 Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.
ping to #804
You seem to continue to mix Jesus and the Spirit, but be it as it may you have not answered if you’d believe me if I tell you that the Spirit tells me that Protestants & al. are being misled by the devil...do you?
Praise God!!!
Acts 9:
[17] So Anani'as departed and entered the house. And laying his hands on him he said, "Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus who appeared to you on the road by which you came, has sent me that you may regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit."
Please read Acts 13 again. This was not an Ordination much less, an Ordination by Apostles.
Glory to God and to the Comforter!
Then you are not in conformity with Hebrews 13:17 -- "Obey your leaders and submit to them; for they keep watch over your souls, as those who will give an account."
Away with the divisions
I agree. Away with the Protests and the Schisms. Let those who have been doing so all return to the one fold from which they all came: the one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church that Christ founded.
This is the true ecumenism.
Kumbaya ecumenicism is the mereological equivalent of calling good 'evil'.
"Hence they err in a matter of divine truth, who imagine the Church to be invisible, intangible, a something merely "pneumatological," as they say, by which many Christian communities, though they differ from each other in their profession of faith, are united by a bond that eludes the sense." (Mystici Corporis Christi, 15)
-A8
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-A8
Study of the Holy Spirit!!
That is one of scripture's most concise studies of the Trinity in Romans 8:9.
What a blessing is this discussion today, A-G. I must depart shortly for our Wednesday evening fellowship and services. I had only shortly ago returned from our daily morning service at the church.
On arriving home this afternoon, I had to go to our family garden to pick some of the squash and cucumbers that had gotten to size. I glanced into the back section of our upper 4 acres, and I noticed that the Japanese beetle trap was again full.
The Lord taught me last week through those beetles.
They can fly. When I find them on the vegetables, I'll shooo them away, and they'll up into the air with that magic of flight that the Designer has engineered for them. It's a meandering path they fly, but up into the sky they go, and earthbound me can simply watch and wonder.
Invariably, though, they fly toward the beetle trap set 50 yards or so back from the garden. I've stood beside it and watched as they fly into the upper yellow boards that hold the scent that attracts them. They drop into the bag and are unable to get out.
I had always thought they couldn't get out because of the narrowness of the neck of the bag and the slickness of the bag's plastic, but last week the bag was full to within an inch of the top.
There was no reason that these flying creatures could not have simply spread their wings and lofted again into the sky to find one of my plants for a juicy meal. But instead, as I watched I noticed that when they landed into the mass of other beetles that they clambered to get atop one another. They would HOLD EACH OTHER BACK in their effort to be #1. Had they cooperated they could have owned the garden. They could have launched one another to freedom. They could...could have flown again!
Because of the full bag, I went to get another bag to empty the mass of thousands of beetles into. I had cut the bottom of the trap and closed it with a snap clothespin so I could open my homemade exit and empty the dead beetles into the trash bag.
It was putrid. The decaying rotting carcasses of beetles that had striven with their brothers to their deaths were liquidy and the stench was breath-taking.
And I was taught of the Lord about His human creatures who can fly if they'll just spread their spiritual wings. I was taught about a church that could enable the captives to be free, who could repair the captives and launch them again to the freedom of flight.
Yet, so often in their clamoring to be #1 they become a stench.
And I was convicted.
See kosta, you have met another Montanus.
-A8
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