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I AM AN 80 YEAR OLD MALE, BORN AGAIN, CHRISTIAN WITH A LOVE FOR JESUS. I DO NOT GET OUT MUCH ANYMORE BUT FIND THAT TELLING PEOPLE ABOUT THE LOVE JESUS HAS FOR THEM IS NOT ONLY WHAT WE ARE SUPPOSED TO DO BUT SOMETHING THAT THE WORLD NEEDS.
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"GRACE, SUCH A BEAUTIFUL WORD" BY DAVID MCMILLEN
WHAT IS GRACE? THE DICTIONARY DEFINES IT AS "Mercy and clemency". I LIKE THE DEFINITION "THE UNMERITED FAVOR OF GOD". THAT IS REALLY WHAT WE HAVE THROUGH SALVATION. BY GRACE ARE WE SAVED THROUGH FAITH. WE DID NOT DESERVE IT AND THERE WAS NOTHING WE COULD DO TO GET IT. I HAVE HEARD SOMEONE SAY THEY DESERVED IT BECAUSE OF THEIR RIGHTEOUSNESS. GIVE ME A BREAK. THE BIBLE TELL US WHAT OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS IS IN ISAIAH 64:6 WHERE IT SAYS "But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away." NO ONE CAN BE RIGHTEOUS ENOUGH TO BE SAVED AND THAT IS WHY WE NEED A SAVIOR.
HI WAYNE,
YOU ARE EXACTLY RIGHT, ALL WE CAN DO FOR THOSE WHO WILL NOT BELIEVE THE TRUTH IN GOD'S WORD IS TURN THEM OVER TO THE LORD TO DEAL WITH. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS AND GOD BLESS YOU. HAVE A BLESSED DAY.
DAVID
I've talked to one of them and they called the bible "stupid" which they think biblical principals are stupid while they are deceived and following NOT the truth but some other gospel. The truth that can set them free is not in them at all and they live a lie of deception/devil. God gave them up and he extended grace but they are not free as the bible warns not to add or subtract from it. Wearing the armor of God we have to be peacemakers and we can pray but hearing the gospel is good because it is a living word. Hardened hearts/heads/deprived minds are hard to preach & reach. If their ears can only hear the lies of the enemy that appears to be truth to them its hard to reach them when they are with deprived minds. The truth can set them free but they worship the creature more than the creator of heaven & earth. They are deceived by man but also by the world they know not of/are ignorant to them as they are not of the truth.
The bible warns about inheriting the plagues of the book
Revelation 18:4 King James Version (KJV)
4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
THEY DID NOT LOVE THE TRUTH and could have been saved "I NEVER KNEW YOU"
Hosea 4:6 says, “ My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge .” This is reference to Israel and God's people but not only are the lost and deceived lacking knowledge and understanding but they have been so deprived in some cases for centuries along with their families that when the truth comes knocking they lock the door even tighter as they are told everything else is either Satin or lies when it is THEM that have been deceived. What a wake up call they are going to get when they pass ON. So what will happen. Well some people maybe few will be saved as God is greater than the great deceiver but many will not make it into heaven but find outer darkness their homes one day. Its one thing to be merciful and have compassion and heart but another to worship another Christ and be totally deceived living a lie.