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To: Alex Murphy; Gamecock
IMO the problem comes with watering down Christ's lordship. He's more than our Savior - we need to make Him our King in all our affairs, not just missions.

I agree, in that, if Jesus IS truly God in the flesh, if He truly sacrificially died on the cruel cross to save us, if He truly is Lord over all, then believing on Him and receiving His gift of eternal life through faith, we can't help but go all the way and surrender everything to His will. BUT...this full understanding comes over time, it is learned and is a part of a mature faith. Just as God tests our faith to strengthen and refine it, so we learn that God IS trustWORTHY.

There is NO chance at all that I will EVER reject my faith in Christ - I've seen too much, experienced too much, to ever go back to entertaining doubts. As new believers sometimes do - and it is NOT a shameful thing to acknowledge - we have to grow in grace and in the knowledge of Jesus Christ. It is when we see over and over how God provides, how He is there even in our darkest hours, how he never will leave us or forsake us, that we reach maturity in the faith. This is the kind of faith that moves mountains, that is willing to do whatever the Master commands, because God is faithful and works ALL things for our good and we KNOW it.

17 posted on 12/09/2014 12:58:52 PM PST by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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To: boatbums

“There is NO chance at all that I will EVER reject my faith in Christ”

Matthew 26
31 Then Jesus told them, “This very night you will all fall away on account of me, for it is written:
“‘I will strike the shepherd,
and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’
32 But after I have risen, I will go ahead of you into Galilee.”
33 Peter replied, “Even if all fall away on account of you, I never will.”
34 “Truly I tell you,” Jesus answered, “this very night, before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times.”
35 But Peter declared, “Even if I have to die with you, I will never disown you.” And all the other disciples said the same.


18 posted on 12/09/2014 1:05:57 PM PST by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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