Posted on 09/13/2019 10:13:47 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Welcome Home!! - Redeemed, Justified, and Adopted.
My first thought also was II Timothy, “...there shall come a falling away first..”
God saved 8 people before the first judgement.
He couldn’t find one righteous in Sodom.
As it was in the days of Noah....
When the rapture happens, nobody will notice.
Thanks for the reminder. I remember the “yukkin’” clip well but could not remember who Clinton was with.
Selflessness vs Selfishness
“I have had several miracles happen to me in my life.”
Me too.
Matthew 6:6 -
But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
At times in my life when I faced insurmountable problems, I did as Jesus said.
And God answered, and I somehow I found my way out.
Do it - God WILL hear your prayer.
Thanks Impact! I’m so glad that He called me. :)
Exactly. With him as a father, the son had a difficult row to hoe.
Most seminaries have long since been infiltrated by Marxists as part of the Frankfurt School’s Long March Through the Institutions.
Many of the so-called Non-Denominational Evangelical and Mega-Church crowd are products of those. I call them Heresy Factories.
The Path to Restoration
7/21/19
We were created to live forever – forever at one with God – to walk with Him in the garden in the cool of the evening. But we blew it, and there was no way we could ever get back, because we were completely incompatible with the Holiness of God. We did not know this of course, believing that our efforts could earn a place with God – but it could not. It took over two thousand years for some to see this, but in the end, most did not. And even now, we still try. Only God could restore us, and though it happens all at once, there are three miracles embedded within our salvation: redemption, justification and adoption.
The story of redemption goes back to the land of Israel. God owned the land and gave it the tribes of Israel, who divided it among the families. A father may get in a hard way and sell his land, but it could be redeemed – purchased back – by a member of the family. No one else could do this – only a member of the family. In the same way, we are God’s, and we can be redeemed – purchased back – by a member of His family. It was for this reason that Jesus came – to pay the price of our redemption.
Justification is a legal term used in a court of law. To be justified is to be found without guilt and set free. Through justification, we are not only found to be without guilt – we are truly without guilt. Our sins are as far away from us as the East is from the West.
So now that we have been redeemed and justified, what more could we possibly want or need? Adoption goes way beyond anything we could ever imagine! We are now adopted into God’s family! This is even better than our position following our original creation – we never had the status of God’s sons. Yet this is exactly what has happened.
We could never accomplish any of this – it all had to be done by God. So, where does this leave us? Are we really living a redeemed, justified life as a true son of God? The world tries to convince us this is not true, that we have to continually strive to be worthy, to be Holy. When we fail (as we surely will), then, of course, we are deemed unworthy. What a waste of time. Accept your eternal value before God and begin living a fully restored life. Jesus came that we might have life, and have it in abundance. Only He could make this happen. Alleluia!
Atheists don’t share a monolithic belief system any more than the 40,000-ish differernt Christian denominations do. Trying to stuff them all into the same pigeon hole is little more than a vanity and an exercise in confirmation bias.
That's the only reasonable way to look at it.
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