Reprobate mind???

[SharonL]

The Bible will only call you so many times and if you keep turning your back on God the Bible says that God will turn you over to a "Reprobate Mind."

1. 2 Timothy 3:8
   Now just as Jannes and Jambres were hostile to and resisted Moses, so these men also are hostile to and oppose the Truth. They have depraved and distorted minds, and are reprobate and counterfeit and to be rejected as far as the faith is concerned.
   2 Timothy 3:7-9 (in Context) 2 Timothy 3 (Whole Chapter)

Now - my question is - is this the end for someone that God turns over to a reprobate mind or is there a path back to salvation?

I have a friend whose son is into everything over and over again - he has been given a word that he has a calling on his life to work with the downtrodden, drugs, drinking and immoral living - he comes back to his mom and makes all kinds of promises - last about 2 days and each time he is off and into worse than before - I fear that God has turned him over to his reprobate mind - but pray that there is still hope.

He is into everything, drugs, drunk, prostitution either way, lies all the time, steals, and on and on -my prayers are with his mother who is very strong in the Lord.

I just pray in tongues as I don't have a clue how to pray.

 

[JimB]

I was saved when I was 16 years old. It lasted about six months until my “friends” tempted me back into a hardy-partying lifestyle. I did not return to my first love for another five years.

During those five years I plunged deep in sin—immorality, drunkenness, violence, hate. I even reached the point by the time I was in university that I no longer believed (at least intellectually) in God much less Jesus Christ, and loved to shock my Christian friends by ridiculing their faith. My aunt, a Christian in the AOG tribe, was praying for me all those years but when I went off into my atheism period and became so vocal about it, she admitted to me later that she quit praying for me. She said she thought I had gone too far, became reprobate concerning the faith, sinned away my day of grace and committed the unpardonable sin.

But the Lord and I surprised her!! One Sunday in February while I was attending a church in which a girl I had targeted for conquest, attended, I encountered the Lord. I now know that all the while I was away from God I was still on a journey toward Him. It just took some strange detours but it eventually led back to the Cross. Jesus said that He is drawing all men to Himself. ALL men. EVERYone.

So, don’t write your friend off too soon. Sometimes when God works hardest on us is when we resist the most and it comes out in some pretty awful ways. His current descent into sin may very well be his reaction to the guilt/conviction He is feeling. But the Hound of Heaven will find him and Gentle Shepherd will bring him home (sometimes kicking and screaming most of the way). When addictions are involved it is more difficult for people and that's where a loving church offers its love and acceptance. At least that’s the way I think you should look at it.

~Jim

To do is to be – Karl Marx.

Do be do be do – Frank Sinatra​

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[SharonL]

Jim M - thank you soooo very much for sharing that - I am encouraged - I just pray he will come to his senses soon. His mother needs his help so very bad - her husband has deminsha - and soon will not be able to stay alone - she has to work - that is all the income they have - she was so excited when he came home this past week thinking he was getting his act together - that lasted 2 days and he was off - not to be found again until he showed up in the gay bars - still no help for the mother.

 

[KingZzub]

I sense a great working going on in his life, Sharon. Will you judge this, and share it with the mother if you deem appropriate:

This man will come back to the Lord and preach a strong message of deliverance to those around him.

Great will be His peace and He will be taught of the Lord. The Lord will teach Him wisdom, and peace. And he shall work with his hands and build and create. And the anointing shall be upon him to do this. And he shall mentor people in how to build and how to create, and as he teaches them in a craft, he will mentor them in how to walk in the ways of the Lord.

Even at times he will be washing dishes and another shall dry and they shall converse about the Lord and build each other up.

This man has always been a generous person, and his seed will not go unnoticed on the earth. I will send my favourite workers and put them in his path. I will lead him in paths of righteousness for my own names' sake declares the Lord of heaven and earth.

Deep down he dreams of freedom, and I am the God who turns dreams to reality. I am capable of more than he dreams, more than he imagines. I am not holding his sin against him - I will not destroy him, I will not kill him. He will be restored. He will be free. He will be at peace.

The seed of the Lord will not be denied.

Cheers.
|ZZ|

 

[SharonL]

I sense a great working going on in his life, Sharon. Will you judge this, and share it with the mother if you deem appropriate:

This man will come back to the Lord and preach a strong message of deliverance to those around him.

Great will be His peace and He will be taught of the Lord. The Lord will teach Him wisdom, and peace. And he shall work with his hands and build and create. And the anointing shall be upon him to do this. And he shall mentor people in how to build and how to create, and as he teaches them in a craft, he will mentor them in how to walk in the ways of the Lord.

Even at times he will be washing dishes and another shall dry and they shall converse about the Lord and build each other up.

This man has always been a generous person, and his seed will not go unnoticed on the earth. I will send my favourite workers and put them in his path. I will lead him in paths of righteousness for my own names' sake declares the Lord of heaven and earth.

Deep down he dreams of freedom, and I am the God who turns dreams to reality. I am capable of more than he dreams, more than he imagines. I am not holding his sin against him - I will not destroy him, I will not kill him. He will be restored. He will be free. He will be at peace.

The seed of the Lord will not be denied.

Cheers.
|ZZ|

Thank you so much Zzub - that speaks to me also - I will send it to his mom - she has been so faithful to hang on to the Words that God has him and will take care of him.

 

[SharonL]

I sense a great working going on in his life, Sharon. Will you judge this, and share it with the mother if you deem appropriate:

This man will come back to the Lord and preach a strong message of deliverance to those around him.

Great will be His peace and He will be taught of the Lord. The Lord will teach Him wisdom, and peace. And he shall work with his hands and build and create. And the anointing shall be upon him to do this. And he shall mentor people in how to build and how to create, and as he teaches them in a craft, he will mentor them in how to walk in the ways of the Lord.

Even at times he will be washing dishes and another shall dry and they shall converse about the Lord and build each other up.

This man has always been a generous person, and his seed will not go unnoticed on the earth. I will send my favourite workers and put them in his path. I will lead him in paths of righteousness for my own names' sake declares the Lord of heaven and earth.

Deep down he dreams of freedom, and I am the God who turns dreams to reality. I am capable of more than he dreams, more than he imagines. I am not holding his sin against him - I will not destroy him, I will not kill him. He will be restored. He will be free. He will be at peace.

The seed of the Lord will not be denied.

Cheers.
|ZZ|

Zzub - I sent your prophesy to my friend - here is what she wrote back - you were right on.
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This is what God has promised me for years and Bro. Howard recently spoke to me again. He said almost the same thing that Charles would be a great voice and preach the WORD of God. Praise God!!!! I think you know that I have total peace about him and always try to remember that God is in control.

I appreciate your concern. We are in a time of great restoration, healing and deliverance and the seed of the righteous shall be delivered. As bad as it looks, I have peace that God is at work and I have totally given it to the Lord. Tell the prophet that he is totally correct.
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Thank you so much for being obeident and giving that Word as a witness - it was the exact word that her Pastor had given her - this was confirmation.

 

[ANM29]

I was saved when I was 16 years old. It lasted about six months until my “friends” tempted me back into a hardy-partying lifestyle. I did not return to my first love for another five years.

During those five years I plunged deep in sin—immorality, drunkenness, violence, hate. I even reached the point by the time I was in university that I no longer believed (at least intellectually) in God much less Jesus Christ, and loved to shock my Christian friends by ridiculing their faith. My aunt, a Christian in the AOG tribe, was praying for me all those years but when I went off into my atheism period and became so vocal about it, she admitted to me later that she quit praying for me. She said she thought I had gone too far, became reprobate concerning the faith, sinned away my day of grace and committed the unpardonable sin.

But the Lord and I surprised her!! One Sunday in February while I was attending a church in which a girl I had targeted for conquest, attended, I encountered the Lord. I now know that all the while I was away from God I was still on a journey toward Him. It just took some strange detours but it eventually led back to the Cross. Jesus said that He is drawing all men to Himself. ALL men. EVERYone.

So, don’t write your friend off too soon. Sometimes when God works hardest on us is when we resist the most and it comes out in some pretty awful ways. His current descent into sin may very well be his reaction to the guilt/conviction He is feeling. But the Hound of Heaven will find him and Gentle Shepherd will bring him home (sometimes kicking and screaming most of the way). When addictions are involved it is more difficult for people and that's where a loving church offers its love and acceptance. At least that’s the way I think you should look at it.

~Jim

To do is to be – Karl Marx.

Do be do be do – Frank Sinatra


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Amen!!!

 

[Tenebrae]

Corrie Ten Boom spoke alot of about there being no hole so black that Gods love can not reach into the bottom off


From where we stand, a situation can seem darn near impossible to change, I've seen God move to many times in the lives of those people who I thought would have had a reprobate mind and they have come home.

 

[JimfromOhio]

Corrie ten Boom's life has impacted my life.

 

[TheGloryisHere]

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