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To: MHGinTN

I would not argue with that.

Now, Jesus came to divide. What is our role in those 4 groups? Group by group. Sincere Question.


110 posted on 12/10/2022 9:49:11 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: PeterPrinciple
With the first group, fellowship and work to aid others in whatever stage of life they are. With the other three I would START by emphasizing the three tenses of salvation: justified (and at that stage SEALED), sanctified and glorified.

The first, justified, is the tense of a past moment when one believes God's Promise and the One He sent for their salvation from the inevitable fate of their sin-laden soul. God does the work that separates the soul and spirit (Heb 4:12) and then GOD via His Holy spirit abides therein the newborn spirit forever (1 John 3:9).

The second tense is the present tense of sanctification, as GOD changes the behavior mechanism soul to the extent the believer allows Him to identify and change in the behaviors. The changes are that of relatiionship not change of position, since the first tense has God's unbreakable Seal upon the newborn spirit of the believer.

The third is the glorified stage or tense, the future point when GOD removes ALL believers from the very presence of sin, the Man of Sin, the antiChrist, called euphemistically the Rapture.

In teaching on these three tenses of salvation, the extensive repetitions with different perspectives can effect the heart, convicting where needed, to bring confession unto salvation, or convicting to change behaviors by letting go and letting God do it. The third tense is strictly in GOD's purview. No man knows the day or hour of the instantaneous disappearance and subsequent departure into the clouds to meet the Lord in the air and see Him as He is now in His glorified body for we shall be like Him then, transformed in the twinkling of an eye (1 John 3:2 and 1 Cor 15;51-58).

111 posted on 12/10/2022 10:14:05 AM PST by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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