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To: redleghunter

I apologize if the word I used, “wiredrawn,” was misunderstood. I used it like C. S. Lewis used it. It has nothing to do with schematics. It is analogous to the process used literally to draw wire, by forcing ever smaller rods of malleable metal through tapered dies.

I hope the thrust in the discussion here will be grace in the sense of “give an answer for the hope that is in you.” There’s a big God out there, wherever we go. He is inescapable. If we are sincere about letting God guide us out of the sad condition we are now in (whether or not we know all about it, and we don’t yet) to the condition He wants us to be in, then God will do His part too. In a sense, WE will be “wiredrawn.” It is all backed by ironclad promise. How good the results are, factors in our own obedience. Some people spend years and years in academic worries and doubts about the promise and play spiritual rope-a-dope. Others accept the promise and follow and are straightened and refined. I was one of the former, now I am one of the latter.


455 posted on 11/29/2013 10:24:55 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck; daniel1212
Excellent and wise post. I keep posting on this thread because I believe there is only One Body of Christ. I believe they are under one program. Which was clearly stated by Jesus Himself in Luke 24:

44 Then He said to them, “These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me.” 45 And He opened their understanding, that they might comprehend the Scriptures. 46 Then He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, 47 and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. 48 And you are witnesses of these things. 49 Behold, I send the Promise of My Father upon you; but tarry in the city of Jerusalem until you are endued with power from on high.”

473 posted on 11/29/2013 2:59:18 PM PST by redleghunter
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