***I have indeed heard His voice...through His word...”My sheep hear my voice and they follow me.” I follow Him, imperfectly, yes. But, I follow Him...***
Without the Church, how do you know it is not the brightest angel?
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I do believe He is the Christ, the Son of the Living God. He is the promised One of God, the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world. I read His word daily, and “work out my own salvation with fear and trembling,” taking heed according unto His word (that I, though not a young man, might cleanse my ways...)***
Good.
*** do search the scriptures, like the noble Bereans searched the scriptures, comparing scripture with scripture. I do find them all to be about the Lord Jesus Christ, from beginning to end. God’s word is a vast, measureless trove of treasure.***
Without the Church, one is as the Ethiopian eunuch, unable to make sense or understand.
***I do search the scriptures, like the noble Bereans searched the scriptures, comparing scripture with scripture. I do find them all to be about the Lord Jesus Christ, from beginning to end. God’s word is a vast, measureless trove of treasure.***
The Bereans searched the Old Testament; Christians must search the Gospels.
***To whom (else) shall I go, Lord, it is you who have the words of life. I have indeed come to Christ for salvation, convicted of my sin and prompted by His Spirit to repent and plead for mercy and forgiveness based on the atoning work of Christ Jesus’ blood that was shed on the cross of Calvary alone. In April, 1986 I became a born-again believer in my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.***
Were you baptized? Have you eaten His body and drunk His blood for life everlasting?
***No. This is why I need the Lord!***
Everyone is called to do his own imitation of Christ.
“Without the Church, how do you know it is not the brightest angel?”
I know it is His voice because He has given me His Spirit and it is His Spirit which testifies of Him.
Joh 16:7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.
Joh 16:13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come.
Joh 16:14 He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you.
Joh 16:15 All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall show it unto you.
“Without the Church, one is as the Ethiopian eunuch, unable to make sense or understand.”
1Co 2:9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
1Co 2:10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
1Co 2:11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
1Co 2:12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
1Co 2:13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
1Co 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
1Co 2:15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
1Co 2:16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
Were you baptized? Have you eaten His body and drunk His blood for life everlasting?
Act 16:26 And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one’s bands were loosed.
Act 16:27 And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled.
Act 16:28 But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm: for we are all here.
Act 16:29 Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas,
Act 16:30 And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?
Act 16:31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
And...
Joh 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
And...
Joh 3:36 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
And...
Rom 10:9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
Rom 10:10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
And...
1Jo 5:10 He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.
1Jo 5:11 And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
1Jo 5:12 He that hath the Son hath life: and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.
1Jo 5:13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.