Posted on 01/06/2017 10:59:30 AM PST by Gamecock
If they are true Christians, conscience will be their master and they will stoop to the service of the next generations. No physical prison or jail will be needed.
While it is natural to try to avoid pain and discomfort, God often asks us to live 'dangerously', stepping out in faith, holding on loosely to what he has given us. Not all Believers seem to accept that what they 'possess', is merely 'on loan' from the Creator of everything and everyone, that He may ask us to relinquish our claims on our 'stuff', for the benefit of His Kingdom.
I heard Nabeel Qureshi speaking of visiting Bethel Church in Redding, CA. This charismatic church apparently has the reputation of teaching the 'prosperity gospel', yet Nabeel saw none of that. In fact, he was amazed that there was a real sense expectation that God WOULD fullfil the prayers of His people. He found it very exciting versus the typical Evangelical churches he attends. Here is a link to his comments.
But again that would require the dropping of the “Schadenfreude that feels so good.”
And those who acknowledge it is on loan, often don’t recognize how powerful it is or what purpose it has.
Or, that it is love-driven from heaven. This can seem to violate all manner of earthly laws, but earthly laws only enforce common patterns of the love for neighbor that the Lord commands. They can’t deal with every contingency case, and God does not expect them to.
See genuine Christian faith — and you see miracles. The Lion of Judah busts out of man’s cages, even the cages that God had willed to permit to exist.
On one side of the coin, I agree with you.
On the other, I don’t.
The KR were drafted at gunpoint. Comply or die was the basic recruiting slogan.
The scene described where the cadre were asked if the prisoners should be allowed to live was a standard issue ‘loyalty test’. Anyone that spoke up in favor of leniency would have been executed on the spot or held to be the center piece of a spectacle designed to terrorize any other cadre that might ever consider going soft.
A prosperity gospel can also sometimes be nearer to the truth than people might think.
If the material prosperity occurs as a distinctly secondary effect of spiritual prosperity, then now the biblical horse is pulling the biblical cart, as it ought to.
Jesus did not want people to be married to their earthly riches, as these riches’ proper role would come to an end some day. This attitude “makes it as hard to enter the kingdom of heaven as it is for a camel to go through the eye of a needle.” Many formerly poor but now wealthy and Christian people, did not get born or even born again with a silver spoon in their mouths. They had to undergo spiritual exercise under the Lord’s sovereign direction to teach them that, when they have a silver spoon, they are desired by the Lord, in love, to use that spoon to bless others. Then they too will see blessings in proper measure.
Trying to make the proper distinctions — in biblical lingo, rightly dividing the word of truth — is distinctly helpful.
Well it is certainly unfit to glorify it. The mention should be by way of confession of a yet imperfect status before the Lord. And a common mode of FR is indeed to brag of such. We can’t ignore that.
Agreed — mercy seems the order of the day as an antidote to this. If you will repent, and you show it — share the mercy freely. If you dig in, as for a grudge — meet the consequences of dogged hatred.
As a Christian, I can say this about remorse or guilt, hi-tech redneck, you can fuck off! Your goddamned douche-canoe. And I can say that with Christ in my heart.
You mean an antichrist in your heart.
You mean an antichrist in your heart.
Because you are lying — this is about repentance. Don’t be a sophist here. Sure, ditch the “remorse” and the “guilt” — but only because they are swallowed up in “repentance.”
Sod off you sanctimonious piece of shit
“If a miracle of heart was worked that turns the murderers into the exact opposite — life savers — would you STILL disdain the gift of the Lord?”
I wouldn’t.
Saul of Tarsus—Paul—was essentially a mass murderer too. But found salvation thru Jesus and did His bidding.
Address that comment to a mirror, first.
These cases are not easy to navigate.
But Jesus is not easy to accept, either. We have to let Him push our pride aside. He will be exceeding patient and exceeding merciful as He does so... but the need to do it is most 100% non-negotiable.
And once He has done so, He will replace that pride with His own glory, and when we are really versed in it, that pride will look like the little runtly thing it always was.
Listen you POS, I grew up in Montana and you can’t get more redneck than that. As far as I’m concerned you’re a poser and you have no clue what people in this country are going through under the leftists and for you to sit there judging me like a freaking twist-priest from the Vatican, aggravates me to no end! You sir, can kiss my ass!
And if you find fault with my post please give me the benefit of the doubt as it was posted while I was driving 85 miles an hour down the goddamn freeway dick!
I am under the suspicion suspicion that “high-tech redneck “means that you masturbate to VR and take pride in it. Kiss my ass
Just curious, were you born in a shack, raised on fish and rice and watched every morning as your parents walked out to the rice fields to spend the day wading in water just to harvest rice?
Did you grow up in a land that had been fighting communists since your parents were young adults?
Did you ever have to watch as some of your relatives were systematically shot in the head or taken away to "re-education camps" because they were suspected of being not loyal to the communist regime
Did you ever experience living under a regime where you, as a 14 or 15 year old child was taken away from your parents and trained to kill the very people who were your friends and neighbors?
South Vietnam was at war against the Communist N. Vietnam for over 20 years, have you yourself ever lived under such conditions?
This man's experience as both a child, young adult and ultimately an adult growing up in a country torn by war since 1954 will never be understood by anyone who has grown up living in the luxury and comfort of the United States..........
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