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17th January 2003, 10:54 PM
|  | In perfect orbit they have circled...
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Reps: 10 (power: 0) | | | Not up to me
It is a great thing. Because if it were up to me, I would have failed today with my sharing, because they openly rejected it, almost violently. But God will do whatever, I am here to ride along em.
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He is not silent. The reason we have the answer is because the infinite-personal God, the full Trinitarian God, has not been silent. He has told us who He is. Couch your concept of inspiration and revelation in these terms, and you will see how it cuts down into the warp and woof of modern thinking. He is not silent. That is the reason we know. It is because He has spoken. What has He told us? Has He told us only about other things? No, He has told us truth about Himself -- and because He has told us truth about Himself -- that He is the infinite-personal, triune God -- we have the answer to existence.
(Francis A. Schaeffer, He Is There and He Is Not Silent, Ch. 1)
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18th January 2003, 03:49 AM
|  | a long journey ahead
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Reps: 1,971,904 (power: 1,995) | | | yep, let God take control and let's ride on His shoulder!
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"Rich? More like mired in minutiae ..... In this case it was an indolence characterised by a pursuit of knowledge, a frenzied search for answers to everything, no matter the value of such answers. A civilisation can as easily drown in what it knows as in what it doesn't know."
- Deadhouse Gates by Steven Erikson |
18th January 2003, 09:54 AM
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Reps: 22 (power: 0) | | | Alone I am nearly a complete failure. Whenever I put God in charge, things start to go smooth as silk.
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18th January 2003, 10:07 AM
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God said it, that settles it, whether you believe it or not!
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18th January 2003, 02:29 PM
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Reps: 42 (power: 0) | | | This makes me think of Ezekiel, God told him to speak to Israel and also told him that they would not listen.
May we always allow God to have full control of our lives.
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Sing glory to God he is coming!
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If tomorrow, you should find that I'm gone.
Sing praises to Jesus! I'll be with him, where I belong.
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18th January 2003, 03:47 PM
|  | God's Accoustic
| | Join Date: 16th January 2003
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Reps: 15 (power: 0) | | Yknow, in addition to the fact that God makes things fall His way, i find that He adds in a huge element of humour as well. Irony, humour....mischeif even! I think people who dont know how good God is will not realise how funny life can be sometimes.
One fine example is my experience with a certain language. Ever since the day I started learning it, Ive been terrible at it. Teachers worry like mad and I barely scrape through all my tests. Learning this language is compulsory, btw, so i didnt really have a huge choice. But in all the major exams ive sat for [4 over the course of 12 years of education ] ive actually got distinctions! i mean... like WHAT!? i remember the looks on my teacher's faces...its so hilarious, its priceless! And many times, I worry so much for that subject that thats really all I pray for during the course of my exams. I tell you, nothing but God's grace could have done that and when you look into the irony of it, its seriously funny. maximum humour! haha... all praise to God who has the hugest sense of humour!! 
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God's accoustic. Nothing great, nothing fancy....but still His creation.
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18th January 2003, 04:50 PM
| | In perfect orbit they have circled...
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Reps: 10 (power: 0) | | | I know. Things I notice lately are about the Law of Right and Wrong. A little kid things that the rules of a game do not matter, but the moment he is wronged, what does he do?
"Thats unfair!"
Same with everyone. There is some sort of standard that we know of, and we try and to use it. But then they turn around and say it a matter of opinion!
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He is not silent. The reason we have the answer is because the infinite-personal God, the full Trinitarian God, has not been silent. He has told us who He is. Couch your concept of inspiration and revelation in these terms, and you will see how it cuts down into the warp and woof of modern thinking. He is not silent. That is the reason we know. It is because He has spoken. What has He told us? Has He told us only about other things? No, He has told us truth about Himself -- and because He has told us truth about Himself -- that He is the infinite-personal, triune God -- we have the answer to existence.
(Francis A. Schaeffer, He Is There and He Is Not Silent, Ch. 1)
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