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Pope John Paul II was Polish.

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Yeppers

I seem to have heard Holt talking about stepping down from that demanding position in an interview a couple of months ago. Holt is not a youngster...he's old enough to completely retire.

J 8:

3 The scribes and Pharisees, however, brought to Him a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before them 4and said, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. 5 In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such a woman. So what do You say?”
6 They said this to test Him, in order to have a basis for accusing Him.

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Their intention was to create a dilemma for Jesus:

1. If Jesus said to stone her, they would accuse him of disregarding Roman law, which reserved the right of capital punishment for the Roman authorities.
2. If he said not to stone her, they would accuse him of breaking the Law of Moses.

They hoped to accuse Jesus either of breaking the Roman law or the Mosaic law.

Jesus Christ is to be our Only Lord and Savior and King. We are to have no other king, and no other savior but the Lord, and Him alone! So please do not be looking to any humans, no matter who they are, to be the ones to save you, as a people, and you, as the nations of this world, out of the mess that our world is presently in. Do not put your trust in “princes” who cannot save, which includes kings and queens and presidents and chancellors, et al. And don’t put your trust in your military, either, for they are not our heroes.

Especially in the times in which we now live, if we are at all spiritually discerning as to the times, we should recognize the signs of these last days before our Savior’s return. And please do not put your trust in any particular person or news site to tell you the truth, for lies and liars abound, and the news media lies to us, even if they might tell some of the truth, and so do pastors and politicians and actors, etc. For deception is all over the place now, especially with AI and the ability to make anything look real.

We get deceived, though, when we make men our “gods” and when we look to them for truth and for answers instead of looking only to God – Father, Son Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit. We get deceived when we put our trust in any particular human source and we convince ourselves that they have the truth, and others don’t. One of the biggest deceptions today is to teach us that only certain things are truth and if we hear anything else, we are to call it “conspiracy theory,” because they don’t want the people hearing the truth.

Now I am not suggesting that everything called “conspiracy theory” is, indeed, the truth, but that we, the people, are being trained when we hear certain things to shut them out and to disregard them as lies when, in fact, they may be the truth. This is happening in the church, as well, where they are calling the true gospel “works salvation” and while they are teaching an altered gospel message out of context which they are convincing people is the truth. And it appears the multitudes are believing the lie and not truth.

So, as people of God, who profess Jesus as Lord and as Savior of our lives, we should be looking only to God and to his word for truth, and we should be relying on the Spirit living within us to point us to all truth. Now the Lord may lead us to read other people’s writings on various topics, but we must read everything with spiritual discernment, praying for the Lord to show us what is truth and what are lies. But for this to work we must be walking in fellowship with the Lord in obedience to him and no longer in deliberate sin.

For if our minds are cluttered with the chatter of the world and of worldly minds and attitudes and belief systems, we are not going to hear clearly that inner voice which warns us against the lies and the liars and which leads us to what is truth. But all of us should be in the habit of not putting our trust in any one particular person or group of people or political party, but we must evaluate all that we hear and read in prayer and in the study of the Scriptures and with willing hearts and minds to unbelieve lies we believe.

With regard to salvation from sin, the Lord saves those who bow the knee to him in humble surrender to him as Lord of their lives, who willingly submit themselves to dying with Christ to sin and walking in obedience to his commands, in practice, by God’s grace, through faith, in the power of God. For if we profess faith in Christ, but then we continue living sinful lifestyles in direct opposition to the Lord and in defiance of his commands, and so we do not obey him, in practice, we will not inherit eternal life with God.

[Matt 7:13-14,21-23; Lu 9:23-26; Jn 10:27-30; Ac 26:18; Rom 2:6-8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14; Rom 12:1-2; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Co 10:1-22; 2 Co 5:10,15,21; Gal 5:16-24; Gal 6:7-8; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:17-32; Eph 5:3-6; Col 1:21-23; Col 3:1-17; Tit 2:11-14; Heb 3:1-19; Heb 4:1-13; Heb 10:23-31; Heb 12:1-2; 1 Pet 2:24; 1 Jn 1:5-10; 1 Jn 2:3-6,15-17; 1 Jn 3:4-10]

And with regard to the Lord saving us from our enemies, in the New Testament we are taught that if we follow Jesus with our lives that we will have enemies, and that we will be hated and persecuted as he was. And some of us they will put in prison, and they will beat us, and they will try all manner of evil against us to get us to renounce our faith in the Lord Jesus, and some of us they will put to death because we would not deny our Lord. But he will keep us from falling if we will remain steadfast in faith in him.

[Matthew 5:10-12; Matthew 10:16-39; Matthew 24:9-14; Luke 6:22-23; Luke 21:12-17; John 15:18-21; John 17:14; Rom 5:3-5; Phil 3:7-11; 1 Pet 1:6-7; 1 Pet 4:12-17; 2 Tim 3:12; 1 Thess 3:1-5; Jas 1:2-4; 2 Co 1:3-11; Heb 12:3-12; 1 Jn 3:13; Revelation 6:9-11; Revelation 7:9-17; Revelation 11:1-3; Revelation 12:17; Revelation 13:1-18; Revelation 14:1-13]

The Rock of My Heart

Lyricist: Bassford, Matthew W.; Psalm 73
Composer: Schales, Glenda Barnhart

My Lord, I need nothing beside You;
Without You, I could not have stood.
Your promise is my hope and my refuge;
Your nearness, my strength and my good.

When I was distressed and embittered,
By things I could not understand,
Your presence was continually with me;
You always took hold of my hand.

I know that Your counsel will guide me
In wisdom, devotion, and love,
And afterward You’ll call me to glory
To dwell in Your presence above.

My heart may be broken within me;
My earthly strength may depart.
But You are my portion forever,
You are the Rock of my heart.

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Some Boast in Chariots
An Original Work / February 27, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Valletta said:

Identify the students and deport them.

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I don't think you can deport American citizens (at least, under current law). Imprison, possibly, if the protest crossed the line into physical violence, or require community service.

There is a righteous anger. However, if you feel angry frequently and for a long duration each time, something is wrong. It's not good for your blood pressure. You are hurting your health.

1. Acknowledge the anger to yourself and, if possible, to the person you are angry with.
2. Step back from the angry situation.
3. Close your eyes and take a deep breath. Focus on the Paraclete who dwells in your spirit. He is real and he gives you peace.
4. Replace your anger with forgiveness and love. Try to understand the other person's perspective and history. Cultivate empathy. That's better for your blood pressure.

If you have a chronic anger issue, try this.

One good news is that your angry hormones usually calm down as you get older.

Proverbs 14:

29 Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

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Be smart. Don't get angry so easily.

Christopher Range said:

I actually have encountered this a number of times. The first time, was. About ten years ago. I was living with my elderly mother(she is not a Christian), when. Her sister n' Brother-In-Law(they are Christians) had come for Christmas. I begrudgingly went with them to a non-denominational church.

I have been a Christian since I was 19(1986). I became an ELCA Lutheran, beginning in 1989. In 1997, I switched to LCMS congregation. In 2022, I joined a local LCMS congregation. Recently, My mother asked me, if I would attend church with her. Just for the sake of it and, more than once. I stood my ground, and said "No", that. I would never be doing that.

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Despite what others have said, I doubt I would attend. I won't say anymore since this site unfortunately mod hats certain discussions.

Ps 120:

5 Woe to me that I dwell in Meshech,
that I live among the tents of Kedar! 6 Too long have I dwelt
among those who hate peace. 7 I am in favor of peace;
but when I speak, they want war.

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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers:

(5) Mesech.--This name is generally identified with Moschi, mentioned by Herodotus (iii. 94), a tribe on the borders of Colchis and Armenia.

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Colchis was located in modern day Georgia on the eastern coast of the Black Sea.

It appears again in the prophet Ezekiel 27:13; Ezekiel 38:3; Ezekiel 39:1. The only reason for suspecting the accuracy of this identification is the remoteness from Kedar, who were a nomad tribe of Arabia. (See Genesis 25:13; Song of Solomon 1:5.) But in the absence of any other indication of the motive for the mention of these tribes here, this very remoteness affords a sufficiently plausible one; or they may be types of savage life, selected the one from the north, and the other from the south, as poetry dictated. It is quite possible that the circumstances amid which the poet wrote made it necessary for him to veil in this way his allusion to powerful tribes, from whose violence the nation was suffering. At all events, the two concluding verses leave no doubt that some troubled state of affairs, in which the choice of courses was not easy, and affecting the whole nation. not an individual, is here presented.

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Pulpit Commentary:

Verse 5. - Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech. This is scarcely to be understood literally. Israel never "sojourned in Mesech," i.e. among the Moschi, who dwelt in Cappadocia,

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Cappadocia was located in modern day Turkey on the southern coast of the Black Sea.

nor dwelt among the tents of Kedar, a people of Northern Arabia. The writer means that he dwells among hostile and barbarous people, who are to him as Kedar and Mesech. Possibly the Samaritans and Ammonites are intended. That I dwell in the tents of Kedar; rather, among the tents (see the Revised Version).

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Meshech symbolized the people north of Israel, and Kedar symbolized the people south of Israel. Both Meshech and Kedar were places or peoples far removed from the psalmist's own community and values. He lamented that Israel was surrounded by warlike tribes. He longed for peace and safety.

The Salvation Army relies a lot on volunteers. A lot. It's possible that that particular person was a volunteer and was overworked and did not act in a Christian way. It's up to the local leadership to vet their volunteers and it's up to the public to report bad behavior so they can correct it. It doesn't matter what church your go to, a lot of people can be overworked and can be tired and when someone comes up to the door for help, sometimes you're not at your best. That's not an excuse though.

"The deep ties between the Biden-Harris administration, their donors, advisers, and grant recipients are a staggering wake-up call," EPA administrator Lee Zeldin told the Free Beacon in a statement. "There will be zero tolerance for waste or abuse at EPA under the Trump administration."
"Being a good steward of American hard-earned tax dollars to protect human health and the environment is my top priority, not following the corrupt example of those who funneled funds through kickbacks and pass throughs to far-left activists," Zeldin said.

The major media should have been doing actual investigative journalism and revealed some of the fraud and corruption.

jamiec said:

There is not the slightest prospect anywhere of any turnaround in the dire condition of the Catholic Church in England. And its dire state is very largely the works of the popes and bishops. It now has exactly one seminary, because that is all that is needed, because there are hardly any candidates for the priesthood in England. In Scotland, there are no seminaries at all. I believe that the inhabitants of the Vatican refer to this as renewal. The Church is demoralised, divided, doctrinally confused, scandal-ridden, completely innocent of any desire to spread the Catholic Faith, and, in short, utterly Godforsaken. It has comprehensively destroyed its credibility.

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Your argument is a case of the pot calling the kettle black.

I notice you are Scottish. In 2001, 42.5 percent of Scots identified as Presbyterian (which is the recognised "official" church). 15.9% identified as Catholic.

In 2022, 20.2% identified as Presbyterian, a 52.5% drop. 13.2% identified as Catholic, about a 17% drop.


The relative decline in the number of Presbyterian adherents was 3 times that of Catholic adherents.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer saw this coming - a "secular Christianity" in a "world come of age".

jamiec said:

The Douay-Reims was anything but infallible.

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That was my bad, I meant "inerrant."

jamiec said:

The Douay-Reims was anything but infallible. Catholic attempts to make out that it, or the more recent English Challoner Bible which is often confused with it, or the Latin Vulgate, are free of all error or are infallible, are nothing more than the Catholic equivalent of Protestant KJV-onlyism. There is no such thing as an infallible or inerrant Bible, or translation of it; and there never has been.

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The Douay-Rheims, being a slavish of the Vulgate, only inplicates itself in the innerance of the text, rather than the infallibility, as the Church cannot hold [and cannot use] a Scripture that contradicts its teaching. Note Thomas Worthington, DD, whom was responsible for many of the annotations for the 1609 and 1610 volumes, who states in the preface of the Douay-Rheims: "we have again conferred this English translation and conformed it to the most perfect Latin Edition" (See Bernard Orchard, "A Catholic Commentary on Holy Scripture." Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1951, Page 36).

As such, the Douay-Rheims is the only slavish that, by its nature of being a slavish, reflects absolutely to Catholic dogma that has and will be exist (such as the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception).

jamiec said:

As for the authority of the Vulgate, that has nothing to do with its text, and everything to do with its authenticity as the Bible used by the Latin Rite.

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The Vulgate is shown to be infallible through its properties, being the only Bible that does not contradict the dogmas of the Church in one way or another. Moreover, in the situations such as the giving of the Rosary to St. Dominic, the only translation being referred to as the originator of the phrase (that is thus made infallible) is from the Vulgate, implicating it in being infallible by its property of being the safeguard and origin of infallible statements.

I would suggest also checking out my thread Genesis 3:15 Invalidates All Non-Vulgate Translations (and Exalts the Douay-Rheims) for more information on how the only translation left (after weeding out other translations for errors) is the 1609 Douay-Rheims. God bless!

Gov. Gavin Newsom Announces New Podcast Where He Interviews MAGA Leaders

The bully has apologised to DH on multiple counts.

Thank you to Jesus Christ and all who heard the call in this thread.

As human beings, we are going to have days of trouble and hardships. And as followers of Jesus Christ we will have trials and tribulations to test our faith to help us to grow to maturity in Christ and to be stronger in our faith and in our determination to follow our Lord in walks of obedience to his commands. And we will have persecutions and afflictions, but out of them we should learn more to depend upon the Lord and on his strength.

[Matthew 5:10-12; Matthew 10:16-39; Matthew 24:9-14; Luke 6:22-23; Luke 21:12-17; John 15:18-21; John 17:14; Rom 5:3-5; Phil 3:7-11; 1 Pet 1:6-7; 1 Pet 4:12-17; 2 Tim 3:12; 1 Thess 3:1-5; Jas 1:2-4; 2 Co 1:3-11; Heb 12:3-12; 1 Jn 3:13; Revelation 6:9-11; Revelation 7:9-17; Revelation 11:1-3; Revelation 12:17; Revelation 13:1-18; Revelation 14:1-13]

Now we should pray all the time, and I don’t mean that we should be praying 24 hours a day, 7 days a week (24/7), but that we should always be in an attitude of prayer in open communication with our Lord so that, at any given moment, we can hear from him, and we can speak to him, and we can call out to him in our times of difficulty and trials and persecutions, and he will hear us and he will answer if we call on him in faith without doubting.

But we need to pray according to the will of God, and if we don’t know his will in any given situation, we should pray and ask him to show us his will, or we should pray as Jesus prayed, “Nevertheless, not my will but Thine be done.” And we should learn to accept whatever God’s will is for us in any given situation, for sometimes he will be silent, and other times he will say, “wait,” “trust me,” “be patient.” And other times, “Just keep praying.”

Now the Lord will never refuse to deliver us out of our addiction to sin if we are honest and sincere in our desire to be delivered. He may allow us to go through trials, like he did with Job, and he may say “No” to delivering us from an affliction, because he wants to humble us, like he did with Paul. But we know it is God’s will to deliver us from bondage to sin, and to empower us to live holy lives, for his praise and glory, in his power, strength, and wisdom, and that we live to please him in all that we are and do and say.

For that purpose Jesus sacrificed his life for us on that cross, and God the Father raised him from the dead, and he ascended back to heaven, and he sent his Holy Spirit to indwell his followers, to help us to do just that. He died on that cross to rescue us from our slavery to sin so that we will now serve him with our lives in walks of obedience to his commands. And if we are willing, humble, and obedient, he will help us to do that, too.

Now, if we are walking by the faith God provided, and we are living to please our Lord, in his power, he will grant our heart’s desire because his desire has now become our desire. He is not going to grant selfish and sinful and worldly desires so that we can continue to live to the flesh and not to God. Our will now must align with his will and purpose for our lives, and we must be living to obey him, and we must pray to know and to do his will.

And the best way to know his will is for us to be serious students of the Scriptures (read in a reliable translation, studied in the appropriate context) who not only read them, but who make it our practice to put what we are learning into practice in our daily lives, by the grace of God, in the power of God at work within us. And context is very critical because so many people are teaching the Scriptures out of context and are misinterpreting them.

And if we make Bible study our practice, we should learn that Jesus died to free us from our addiction to sin so that we will now serve him with our lives in walks of obedience to his commands. But, if we refuse to die to sin and to obey his commands, and so we continue to live in sin and not in walks of obedience to God, then no matter what we profess with our lips, we will not have salvation from sin nor eternal life with God in heaven.

[Matt 7:13-14,21-23; Lu 9:23-26; Jn 10:27-30; Ac 26:18; Rom 2:6-8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14; Rom 12:1-2; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Co 10:1-22; 2 Co 5:10,15,21; Gal 5:16-24; Gal 6:7-8; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:17-32; Eph 5:3-6; Col 1:21-23; Col 3:1-17; Tit 2:11-14; Heb 3:1-19; Heb 4:1-13; Heb 10:23-31; Heb 12:1-2; 1 Pet 2:24; 1 Jn 1:5-10; 1 Jn 2:3-6,15-17; 1 Jn 3:4-10]

Oh, to Be Like Thee, Blessed Redeemer

Lyrics by Thomas O. Chisholm, 1897
Music by W. J. Kirkpatrick, 1897

Oh, to be like Thee! blessèd Redeemer,
This is my constant longing and prayer;
Gladly I’ll forfeit all of earth’s treasures,
Jesus, Thy perfect likeness to wear.

Oh, to be like Thee! full of compassion,
Loving, forgiving, tender and kind,
Helping the helpless, cheering the fainting,
Seeking the wandering sinner to find.

O to be like Thee! lowly in spirit,
Holy and harmless, patient and brave;
Meekly enduring cruel reproaches,
Willing to suffer others to save.

O to be like Thee! while I am pleading,
Pour out Thy Spirit, fill with Thy love;
Make me a temple meet for Thy dwelling,
Fit me for life and Heaven above.

Oh, to be like Thee! Oh, to be like Thee,
Blessèd Redeemer, pure as Thou art;
Come in Thy sweetness, come in Thy fullness;
Stamp Thine own image deep on my heart.

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In The Day of Trouble
An Original Work / February 27, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Pommer said:

Good, we wouldn’t want to put up the poor tykes in substandard housing, would we?

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$18 million dollars a month for an empty building? How does that make any sense?

JEREMIAH 34:8-22, 33:25-26


Jeremiah is known as the “weeping prophet” because Israel had returned to idolatry, and corruption, YHVH sends him with a message to Israel, “Repent” and “turn from your sins”, one of the sins was to go back on their word. Jeremiah told them that God had said, “Release your slaves” Since they had not released them after 6 years, they did that, but afterward, they “re-captured” their slaves and returned them to captivity, this is to be “double-minded” for “appearance sake” they released the slaves/servants, but when they thought that “the prophet wasn't looking” they went back on their word. Result? Babylon came and captured Israel! And king Zedekiah was taken to Babylon as a slave.

How well do we as believers respond when someone calls our attention? When we are in the wrong, do we repent and turn from our sins? or.... when we think no one is looking, go back to our sins? Our old attitudes, our old “issues?” A thief looks ahead, in back, to the left, to the right, to ensure that no one is looking, but the thief never looks “up”! Yes, our Heavenly Father who is on high is looking down on us all, and observes ALL our actions, even in private, so, we are NEVER alone! Someone is always watching us.

God, his holy angels, Satan and his demons, all that are in the spirit realm are always watching our every move. So, make sure our lives are holy, unto God on high.

MARK 1:1-2:28

The disciple Mark writes about John the Baptist, and his ministry to prepare the people for the coming of his cousin, Yeshua, preparing hearts, and minds. Baptism was important in Jewish life, it symbolized who was once unclean, is now clean, from “Tamei” to “Tahor”, from "death to life."

When a born-again believer is baptized, the believer identifies himself or herself with Yeshua in death and life, death, burial, and resurrection. But John was just “preparing” the way for He who is THE WAY, the TRUTH, and the LIFE.

Yeshua is the WAY to eternal life, He is the TRUTH, which is the opposite of lies and deception, and He is LIFE eternal, to those who embrace Him as Savior and LORD.

Yeshua went walking along the Sea of Galilee, and there he invited Peter and Andrew to come with him, and later, at K’far Nachum (Capernaum) went to the synagogue there and began to teach the people. I thank God that I visited that same synagogue back in 2015 when I went to Israel to serve the IDF with the reserve units. My friend Alon and I went by car to Capernaum, walked around, and visited the part of the lake that served as a dock for the fishing boats, that is probably where Yeshua met Kefa and Andrew.

We are all called by Yeshua through his spirit, to follow him, do we follow Him?...or...do we expect HIM to follow US? He teaches us through HIS word, are we listening?

Shalom

ARBITER01 said:

LOL.

By what is written in scripture and what has been my experience, we are able to "command" some things to a degree, but I don't think there is a scripture example of decreeing, unless I'm just overlooking it.

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Yeah, they never did record Paul actually moving mount olympus or anything. or John saying to the Isle of Patmos, a little to the left. . . yeah. didn't happen.

The wasteful spending and corruption of the government is just about everywhere we look.

RileyG said:

Friendly reminder, this is a Catholic sub forum.

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Gotcha...

DragonFox91 said:

You have a good understanding of the Word here. I like how you talk about love isn't emotion, we tell the truth b/c we love, we're not to stay in sin just b/c he forgives us, & all b/c he loves us.

Here are my thoughts on this section I've been learning:

The Jews know the 'Love your God w/ our heart, soul, & mind' well. & it was one of the first verses I learned growing up in Sunday School. I can picture learning it still. It was an essential, foundational verse for Jews in the Bible & Christians today.
But we often toss that verse out in daily life. We elevate other good things over God. We elevate other people over God. We elevate ourselves over God. We worship the creation & not the Creator. A big problem in me & the world alike are that our priorities are often not aligned w/ God's priorities.

It can be hard to love others b/c they are selfish & can take advantage of our kindness. We often have to go out of way & it's not always fun or enjoyable in the immidiate. People are just hard. There's a reason a lot of people are replacing other people w/ 'pets.'

Culture often doesn't have a problem w/ loving others. They think they are saved b/c they are loving others, it's just above loving others & being a good person. But loving others w/out loving God is empty & is missing why you love others. You're not really loving others if you don't love God, you're just imitating, & like what you were saying OP, you're going off an emotion, something that makes you feel good, it's a drug that's that's distracting you from God.

Sometimes It can be hard to love God the way he requests for the saved & the unsaved alike b/c he does not always act the way we want him to, we think are way is better. But the saved will always end up calling God good b/c he loves so much & is always doing good for us, his way is better than our way. So our hearts are changed & we always end up turning back to him.

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Thank you for reading and for sharing your thoughts on this subject.

soldier of light said:

I have terrible intrusive thoughts. They disturb my prayer. I'm hoping it's just a temporary thing.

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I'm sorry that you have been having intrusive thoughts! Here are a couple of resources that I have found helpful and encouraging: Mark DeJesus and Scrupulosity.com: Faith-based Solutions for Religious OCD - Scrupulosity.com (lots of articles on her blog, including articles about intrusive thoughts).

Confusing times with ins and outs
Are causing many folks to doubt
What they have always held as truth
From times now past when they were youth.

Emotions raging high these days
With many angry, others praise,
With life now changing every day,
Not knowing what will go or stay.

So much is now up in the air,
With many living in despair,
Not knowing what the future holds,
Especially for the weak and old.

The trusted ones cause now to doubt
If they’re sincere in what they flaunt,
If they will hold to what professed,
If they’re sincere in what confessed.

For there are changes every day,
Some disappoint, while others sway,
While some confuse, raise doubts and fears,
Cause some to rage, bring others tears.

So, what to do? How do we deal
With what is fake and what is real?
How to adjust to the unknown,
Not knowing if the truth be shown?

The only remedy I know
Is trust in God, make Him your own,
Trust in His will, believe His truth,
And let the Lord your fears now soothe.

Believe His Word, trust in His care,
Let Him now make you so aware
Of where we are in history now,
So to The Beast you do not bow.

An Original Work / February 26, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

alaric said:

In the bible, there is a verse that says whoever is in Christ, there will no longer be condemnation.

Romans 8:1 = Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus

I have come to this conclusion that many Christians DO NOT believe that God has removed ALL their sins. They only believe that God removed the sins that they did before becoming a Christian. And they have to follow the law and try to live a sinless life (or try to sin less) to please God.

When they try to follow the law to please God, they are essentially arming the devil with a weapon. And whenever they break a law, the devil will use the law to condemn them. In Colossians 2:14-15, it says God disarmed the devil by Jesus’ death on the cross.

Colossians 2:14-15 = When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us ALL our sins, having cancelled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross. And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.

How did God disarm the devil?

It is written in Ezekiel 18:20 “The soul that sinneth, it shall die.”

When Jesus died on the cross, he took our sins and paid the penalty on our behalf.

2 Corinthians 5:21 = God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Having paid fully for our sins, Jesus magnified and fulfilled the law. Since Jesus has fully paid for our debts (sins), we are no longer slaves under the law.

Imagine a man who purchase a house from HDB. Because he does not have money, therefore he has to take a loan from the bank. Every month, he has to pay the bank every month until the loan + interest is 100% cleared. Then one day, his father wanted to clear the loan for his son and paid everything that the man owes to the bank. Once the loan has been fully paid, the man is no longer under debt to the bank. When the next month come, even if the man receive a letter from the bank for loan payment. He can ignore the letter and penalty for non-payment because he knows the house have already been fully paid.

How do we know that Jesus has paid for my past, present and future sins?

Hebrews 9:26 & 28 says that Jesus appeared ONCE to do away with sin.

Hebrews 9:26 = Otherwise Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world. But he has appeared once for all at the culmination of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself.

Hebrews 9:28 = so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.

God created time. Therefore, God is outside time. Most of the prophesies in the bible, God wrote them thousands of years in advance. It is written in the bible that God knows the end from the beginning.

Isaiah 46:9-10 = Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure.

Revelation 22:13 = I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.

If God knows the future, then God knows every single sin that we are going to do from the day we are born to the day we die. Therefore, Jesus’ death on the cross is payment for our past, present and future sins.

How clean are we after Jesus paid for our sins?

It is written in the bible that we are like Jesus in this world.

1 John 4:17 = This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus.

This means that if you are born again, your identity is in Christ.

If Jesus is sinless, so am I

If Jesus is righteous, so am I

If Jesus is holy, so am I

If Jesus is seated on God’s right hand, so am I

If Jesus is blessed, so am I

If Jesus has favour with the Father, so am I

Once you believed that ALL your sins have been washed away, you should not have consciousness of sin.

Hebrews 10:2 = For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.

And the devil will no power over you. And you will be able to live a life that Christ paid with his life for you to have.

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There are many vain heretics today in the church teaching that God is a liar, saying the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to life, because they don’t want to hear the truth. 2 Timothy 4.3, 4.

Romans 3:25 KJV
Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

SINS THAT ARE PAST.

Hebrews 6:4-6 KJV
For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, [5] And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, [6] If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

“It is impossible to renew those who fall away” after they have received Christ.

James 1:14-16 KJV
But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. [15] Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. [16] Do not err, my beloved brethren.

Sin brings forth death. But do you have life?

Is it not a sin to call God a liar?

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 KJV
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, [10] Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

Revelation 21:8 KJV
. . . and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

James 2:19-20 KJV
Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble. [20] But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

“O vain man”

Landon Caeli said:

that's going to be a really long wait, if they're thinking we're going to rebuild it for them to return to. It's going to be like...forever.

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Well then USA should stay out of it then.

Israel have a war with Gaza, kill massive amounts of people, destroy the infrastructure and land, and then when the dust settles USA think they can come in and claim the spoils of war?

Then Russia have a war with Ukraine, they kill each other for years, then USA wants to claim some of Ukraine for itself?

USA is seriously painting itself as some kind of scavenger, a vulture perhaps, circling above, waiting for someone to die so they can then swoop down and have a feast.

What's next? Do USA encourage China to attack Singapore so that USA can eventually swoop in and take what is left of Singapore?

What about South Korea, are they going to encourage North Korea to attack South Korea for them?

You guys feeling proud of yourselves?