We're living in an unprecedented day (when) evil is no longer evil. We've changed the terminology-- iniquity is now infirmity; wickedness is now weakness; devilry is now deficiency. ~Ravenhill~
35Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning; 36And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately. 37Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them. 38And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find themso, blessed are those servants.
39And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through. 40Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.
41Then Peter said unto him, Lord, speakest thou this parable unto us, or even to all? 42And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season? 43Blessedis that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing. 44Of a truth I say unto you, that he will make him ruler over all that he hath. 45But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken; 46The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers. 47And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. 48But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
Just a note to hopefully clear a couple of things up. Though I disagree with you on the single point that I have stated in the forum I consider you a sister in Christ. I never considered banning you from AAG, my comment was if you were the single irritant I would have banned you. I do not ban people because of differing views, unless they are outside the context of Christianity (and of course that is subjected, at least to some degree). I acknowledge that I failed to maintain order in the forum, and that is my responsibility here on AAG. For that I am sorry. If I have wronged you I ask you forgive me. If there is a specific way you feel I wronged you please email through AAG so that I may address it privately.
Im not sure how, but you do. :-). Thank you for your kind words. You made my day. Well you and my son. He is here now.... but he is on his laptop . I tried talking him into shutting it down. he wouldn't so I started listening to Christian videos : He is the one who claims to be atheist, so I cranked my music up lol. He just very softly and politely said... mom, would you like to borrow my earphones. LOL I very politely said no thank you son. LOL he is so cute I love him so much. It is my hope someday I will be asking him to turn his godly type music down. I hope he falls so deeply inlove with the Lord.
I am sorry you have been hurt. I understand the ugly cry's. I think I make a bellering noise when I cry.. I remember those verses. Well all of them except 19 and 20. Thank you for sharing them. Im glad you didn't sink in a hole. I hope you continue to post here on AAG. Yall have been encouraging me to read more scripture even without yall knowing it. Hugs to you. You mean a lot to me too. You seem familiar even though I don't know your real name. <3
I watched the video you posted today. I have heard Leonard Ravenhills' sermons before. I recognized two more pastors names but didn't know which ones they were. I agree with the things they all said. The churches that Ive gone to all mainly preached how great we are and how we shouldn't worry about what we do and don't do... that God loves you anyway. I believe God does love His own but as these pastors stated.... the fear of the Lord should be taught also. Some how , by following the forum topic yall are active in I have been giving much more thought to Gods word. That's a good thing for me. I have read more scripture in the last few days than I have in months. My bad but anyway its true. I have bibles and I need to open them. Reading the verses yall posted are helping me to think about biblical things. Thank you for posting the video. Im going to post it on my page too. I lpost things on my page so if I forget , later on I will see it when I sign in on my page and can be reminded to read or listen to them again,
Salvation comes not by "accepting the finished work" or "deciding for Christ." It comes by believing on the Lord Jesus Christ, the whole, living, victorious Lord who, as God and man, fought our fight and won it, accepted our debt as His own and paid it, took our sins and died under them and rose again to set us free. This is the true Christ, and nothing less will do.
But something less is among us, nevertheless, and we do well to identify it so that we may repudiate it. That something is a poetic fiction, a product of the romantic imagination and maudlin religious fancy. It is a Jesus, gentle, dreamy, shy, sweet and feminine, almost effeminate, and marvelously adaptable to whatever society He may find Himself in. He is cooed over by women disappointed in love, patronized by pro tem celebrities and recommended by psychiatrists as a model of a well-integrated personality. He is used as a means to almost any carnal end, but he is never acknowledged as Lord. These quasi Christians follow a quasi Christ. They want his help but not his interference. They will flatter him but never obey him.
Verse
Why do you call me, 'Lord, Lord,' and do not do what I say? Luke 6:46
Thought
To confess Christ as "Lord" without obeying Him reveals a shallow understanding of who He is. It is to live as the foolish builder (Luke 6:49) and ultimately experience complete destruction. Our obedience demonstrates our commitment to Christ's Lordship.
Prayer
I declare that You are my Lord. May my life express obedience to You.
I wanted to comment on the comment that seemed ,IMO, cowardly, calling you a liar and using scripture to do it. But, I didn't want the forum topic closed so I didn't. I have enjoyed the topic and reading yalls back and forths. I don't think you have done anything wrong. You are doing just as everybody else is doing and that is stating what you know to be true. I am glad you are here. You quote a lot of scripture with your belief and I need that. Somewhere in one of the forum post. I think it was LT said to someone... not exact words but said something like some folk say they want more what is spiritual but yet they are just doing lip servous because they aren't doing anything. I need to find it again because what I wrote doesn't look like what he said but that is how I read it. I am saying that even though he wasn't talking to me and even though yall are talking to each other I learm. I am one that can give lip servous but yet I am not doing anything to grow more spiritual. I got way off subject. I am sorry. Just wanted you to know that I am here.
All things are possible to him that believeth (Mark 9:23).
The "all things" do not always come simply for the asking, for the reason that God is ever seeking to teach us the way of faith, and in our training in the faith life there must be room for the trial of faith, the discipline of faith, the patience of faith, the courage of faith, and often many stages are passed before we really realize what is the end of faith, namely, the victory of faith.
Real moral fibre is developed through discipline of faith. You have made your request of God, but the answer does not come. What are you to do?
Keep on believing God's Word; never be moved away from it by what you see or feel, and thus as you stand steady, enlarged power and experience is being developed. The fact of looking at the apparent contradiction as to God's Word and being unmoved from your position of faith make you stronger on every other line.
Often God delays purposely, and the delay is just as much an answer to your prayer as is the fulfillment when it comes.
In the lives of all the great Bible characters, God worked thus. Abraham, Moses and Elijah were not great in the beginning, but were made great through the discipline of their faith, and only thus were they fitted for the positions to which God had called them.
For example, in the case of Joseph whom the Lord was training for the throne of Egypt, we read in the Psalms:
"The word of the Lord tried him." It was not the prison life with its hard beds or poor food that tried him, but it was the word God had spoken into his heart in the early years concerning elevation and honor which were greater than his brethren were to receive; it was this which was ever before him, when every step in his career made it seem more and more impossible of fulfillment, until he was there imprisoned, and all in innocence, while others who were perhaps justly incarcerated, were released, and he was left to languish alone.
These were hours that tried his soul, but hours of spiritual growth and development, that, "when his word came" (the word of release), found him fitted for the delicate task of dealing with his wayward brethren, with a love and patience only surpassed by God Himself.
No amount of persecution tries like such experiences as these. When God has spoken of His purpose to do, and yet the days go on and He does not do it, that is truly hard; but it is a discipline of faith that will bring us into a knowledge of God which would otherwise be impossible.
We are under constant temptation these days to substitute another Christ for the Christ of the New Testament. The whole drift of modern religion is toward such a substitution.
To avoid this we must hold steadfastly to the concept of Christ as set forth so clearly and plainly in the Scriptures of truth. Though an angel from heaven should preach anything less than the Christ of the apostles let him be forthrightly and fearlessly rejected.
The mighty, revolutionary message of the Early Church was that a man named Jesus who had been crucified was now raised from the dead and exalted to the right hand of God. "Therefore let all Israel be assured of this: God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ" (Acts 2:36).
Less than 300 years after Pentecost the hard-pressed defenders of the faith drew up a manifesto condensing those teachings of the New Testament having to do with the nature of Christ. This manifesto declares that Christ is God of the substance of His Father, begotten before all ages: Man of the substance of His mother, born in the world: perfect God and perfect Man, of a reasonable soul and human flesh subsisting: Equal to His Father, as touching His Godhead: less than the Father, as touching His manhood. Who, although He be God and man, yet He is not two, but one Christ. One, not by conversion of the Godhead into flesh, but by the taking of the manhood into God. One altogether, not by the confusion of substance, but by the unity of Person. For as the reasonable soul and flesh is one man, so God and man is one Christ (Athanasian Creed, nos. 31–37).
Verse
For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all men—the testimony given in its proper time. First Timothy 2:5
Thought
To be our mediator Christ had to be fully man and fully God. Jesus Christ is the God Man!
Prayer
Lord, You who are the Eternal God took on full humanhood. You are my mediator. You are the God Man.
Should anyone doubt that Christians, even Bible Christians, habitually ignore the teachings of Christ, let him rise in a business meeting of his church or denomination and quote a passage from the sayings of our Lord as the final authority on a question before the house. He will soon learn how little the words of Christ influence the thinking of the average delegate.
Christians today have developed the perilous habit of accepting the authority of the New Testament on matters that do not concern them and rejecting it on matters that do. And so with too many churches also Jesus is popular but impotent. Surely another reformation is indicated.
Verse
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.Second Timothy 2:15
Thought
There is the dangerous tendency among us to treat Scripture passages that condemn our practice as non-universal, restricted in application to the historical and cultural context in which they occur. Therefore they are not applicable to us in our cultural context. At issue is the identification of universal principles in the Word and accurate application of them to us today.
Prayer
Help me, O Lord, to discipline myself to seriously study Your Word, accurately interpreting and applying it to my own situation no matter what others do.
But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanders, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, prideful, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. - 2 Timothy 3:1-5 (NKJV)
In the working out of God's eternal purpose the society of the first Adam and the society of the last Adam, though utterly opposed, may for a while coexist, but not for long (Hebrews 12:26–27). The flesh may admire the spirit while refusing to go along with it, or it may misunderstand the spirit and believe that it is itself spiritual while actually sunk in corruption.
The latter, I believe, explains the present popularity of Christ in the world. The contradiction between Christ and unregenerate society is sharp and irreconcilable, but the contrast between society and its own mistaken conception of Him is scarcely noticeable. So the world can cherish its image of Christ and ignore His commandments without a qualm of conscience.
What should seriously concern us, however, is not that the world praises Christ without obeying Him, but that the church does. The men of this world go their way careless of the teachings of Christ, but in doing so they are consistent with their position. They have made no vows to the Lord nor taken His name upon them. But when a Christian ignores the commandment of Christ, he is guilty of sin doubly compounded. He violates holy vows, is guilty of rebellion against God and commits the grotesque sin of calling Jesus Lord with his words and denying His Lordship with his deeds.
Verse
If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. John 15:18–19
Thought
Does the world hate us or have we so acculturated ourselves to the world that it sees no difference in us? If we are closely following our Lord, there will be a difference from the world in our lifestyle, our values, our attitudes and our life commitment.
Prayer
Spirit of God, reveal to me the inconsistencies between my words and deeds and enable me to be consistent even if the world hates me.
"The man that believes will obey; failure to obey is convincing proof that there is no true faith present. To attempt the impossible God must give faith or there will be none, and He gives faith to the obedient heart only." Man the Dwelling Place of God, 33. ~A.W. Tozer~
"The idea that God will pardon a rebel who has not given up his rebellion is contrary both to the Scriptures and to common sense." The Root of the Righteous, 43. ~A.W. TOZER~
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Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves.Philippians 2:3
We're living in an unprecedented day (when) evil is no longer evil. We've changed the terminology-- iniquity is now infirmity; wickedness is now weakness; devilry is now deficiency. ~Ravenhill~
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35Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning; 36And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately. 37Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them. 38And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find themso, blessed are those servants.
39And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through. 40Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.
41Then Peter said unto him, Lord, speakest thou this parable unto us, or even to all? 42And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season? 43Blessedis that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing. 44Of a truth I say unto you, that he will make him ruler over all that he hath. 45But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken; 46The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers. 47And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. 48But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
http://e-christian.info/sites/default/files/books_to_read/TheRootoftheRighteous.pdf
Just a note to hopefully clear a couple of things up. Though I disagree with you on the single point that I have stated in the forum I consider you a sister in Christ. I never considered banning you from AAG, my comment was if you were the single irritant I would have banned you. I do not ban people because of differing views, unless they are outside the context of Christianity (and of course that is subjected, at least to some degree). I acknowledge that I failed to maintain order in the forum, and that is my responsibility here on AAG. For that I am sorry. If I have wronged you I ask you forgive me. If there is a specific way you feel I wronged you please email through AAG so that I may address it privately.
Lord Bless,
LT
Thank you much. I will . I so am grateful for your prayers...
Im not sure how, but you do. :-). Thank you for your kind words. You made my day. Well you and my son. He is here now.... but he is on his laptop . I tried talking him into shutting it down. he wouldn't so I started listening to Christian videos : He is the one who claims to be atheist, so I cranked my music up lol. He just very softly and politely said... mom, would you like to borrow my earphones. LOL I very politely said no thank you son. LOL he is so cute I love him so much. It is my hope someday I will be asking him to turn his godly type music down. I hope he falls so deeply inlove with the Lord.
I am sorry you have been hurt. I understand the ugly cry's. I think I make a bellering noise when I cry.. I remember those verses. Well all of them except 19 and 20. Thank you for sharing them. Im glad you didn't sink in a hole. I hope you continue to post here on AAG. Yall have been encouraging me to read more scripture even without yall knowing it. Hugs to you. You mean a lot to me too. You seem familiar even though I don't know your real name. <3
I watched the video you posted today. I have heard Leonard Ravenhills' sermons before. I recognized two more pastors names but didn't know which ones they were. I agree with the things they all said. The churches that Ive gone to all mainly preached how great we are and how we shouldn't worry about what we do and don't do... that God loves you anyway. I believe God does love His own but as these pastors stated.... the fear of the Lord should be taught also. Some how , by following the forum topic yall are active in I have been giving much more thought to Gods word. That's a good thing for me. I have read more scripture in the last few days than I have in months. My bad but anyway its true. I have bibles and I need to open them. Reading the verses yall posted are helping me to think about biblical things. Thank you for posting the video. Im going to post it on my page too. I lpost things on my page so if I forget , later on I will see it when I sign in on my page and can be reminded to read or listen to them again,
May 16, 2014
Bowing to Christ's Lordship
Salvation comes not by "accepting the finished work" or "deciding for Christ." It comes by believing on the Lord Jesus Christ, the whole, living, victorious Lord who, as God and man, fought our fight and won it, accepted our debt as His own and paid it, took our sins and died under them and rose again to set us free. This is the true Christ, and nothing less will do.
But something less is among us, nevertheless, and we do well to identify it so that we may repudiate it. That something is a poetic fiction, a product of the romantic imagination and maudlin religious fancy. It is a Jesus, gentle, dreamy, shy, sweet and feminine, almost effeminate, and marvelously adaptable to whatever society He may find Himself in. He is cooed over by women disappointed in love, patronized by pro tem celebrities and recommended by psychiatrists as a model of a well-integrated personality. He is used as a means to almost any carnal end, but he is never acknowledged as Lord. These quasi Christians follow a quasi Christ. They want his help but not his interference. They will flatter him but never obey him.
Verse
Why do you call me, 'Lord, Lord,' and do not do what I say? Luke 6:46
Thought
To confess Christ as "Lord" without obeying Him reveals a shallow understanding of who He is. It is to live as the foolish builder (Luke 6:49) and ultimately experience complete destruction. Our obedience demonstrates our commitment to Christ's Lordship.
Prayer
I declare that You are my Lord. May my life express obedience to You.
http://www.cmalliance.org/devotions/tozer
I wanted to comment on the comment that seemed ,IMO, cowardly, calling you a liar and using scripture to do it. But, I didn't want the forum topic closed so I didn't. I have enjoyed the topic and reading yalls back and forths. I don't think you have done anything wrong. You are doing just as everybody else is doing and that is stating what you know to be true. I am glad you are here. You quote a lot of scripture with your belief and I need that. Somewhere in one of the forum post. I think it was LT said to someone... not exact words but said something like some folk say they want more what is spiritual but yet they are just doing lip servous because they aren't doing anything. I need to find it again because what I wrote doesn't look like what he said but that is how I read it. I am saying that even though he wasn't talking to me and even though yall are talking to each other I learm. I am one that can give lip servous but yet I am not doing anything to grow more spiritual. I got way off subject. I am sorry. Just wanted you to know that I am here.
All things are possible to him that believeth (Mark 9:23).
May 14, 2014
Christ the God Man
We are under constant temptation these days to substitute another Christ for the Christ of the New Testament. The whole drift of modern religion is toward such a substitution.
To avoid this we must hold steadfastly to the concept of Christ as set forth so clearly and plainly in the Scriptures of truth. Though an angel from heaven should preach anything less than the Christ of the apostles let him be forthrightly and fearlessly rejected.
The mighty, revolutionary message of the Early Church was that a man named Jesus who had been crucified was now raised from the dead and exalted to the right hand of God. "Therefore let all Israel be assured of this: God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ" (Acts 2:36).
Less than 300 years after Pentecost the hard-pressed defenders of the faith drew up a manifesto condensing those teachings of the New Testament having to do with the nature of Christ. This manifesto declares that Christ is God of the substance of His Father, begotten before all ages: Man of the substance of His mother, born in the world: perfect God and perfect Man, of a reasonable soul and human flesh subsisting: Equal to His Father, as touching His Godhead: less than the Father, as touching His manhood. Who, although He be God and man, yet He is not two, but one Christ. One, not by conversion of the Godhead into flesh, but by the taking of the manhood into God. One altogether, not by the confusion of substance, but by the unity of Person. For as the reasonable soul and flesh is one man, so God and man is one Christ (Athanasian Creed, nos. 31–37).
Verse
For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all men—the testimony given in its proper time. First Timothy 2:5
Thought
To be our mediator Christ had to be fully man and fully God. Jesus Christ is the God Man!
Prayer
Lord, You who are the Eternal God took on full humanhood. You are my mediator. You are the God Man.
http://www.cmalliance.org/devotions/tozer
May 13, 2014
Correctly Handling the Word of Truth
Should anyone doubt that Christians, even Bible Christians, habitually ignore the teachings of Christ, let him rise in a business meeting of his church or denomination and quote a passage from the sayings of our Lord as the final authority on a question before the house. He will soon learn how little the words of Christ influence the thinking of the average delegate.
Christians today have developed the perilous habit of accepting the authority of the New Testament on matters that do not concern them and rejecting it on matters that do. And so with too many churches also Jesus is popular but impotent. Surely another reformation is indicated.
Verse
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.Second Timothy 2:15
Thought
There is the dangerous tendency among us to treat Scripture passages that condemn our practice as non-universal, restricted in application to the historical and cultural context in which they occur. Therefore they are not applicable to us in our cultural context. At issue is the identification of universal principles in the Word and accurate application of them to us today.
Prayer
Help me, O Lord, to discipline myself to seriously study Your Word, accurately interpreting and applying it to my own situation no matter what others do.
~A.W. Tozer~
http://www.cmalliance.org/devotions/tozer?id=1279
But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanders, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, prideful, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. - 2 Timothy 3:1-5 (NKJV)
Mon. May 12
When Words and Deeds Conflict
In the working out of God's eternal purpose the society of the first Adam and the society of the last Adam, though utterly opposed, may for a while coexist, but not for long (Hebrews 12:26–27). The flesh may admire the spirit while refusing to go along with it, or it may misunderstand the spirit and believe that it is itself spiritual while actually sunk in corruption.
The latter, I believe, explains the present popularity of Christ in the world. The contradiction between Christ and unregenerate society is sharp and irreconcilable, but the contrast between society and its own mistaken conception of Him is scarcely noticeable. So the world can cherish its image of Christ and ignore His commandments without a qualm of conscience.
What should seriously concern us, however, is not that the world praises Christ without obeying Him, but that the church does. The men of this world go their way careless of the teachings of Christ, but in doing so they are consistent with their position. They have made no vows to the Lord nor taken His name upon them. But when a Christian ignores the commandment of Christ, he is guilty of sin doubly compounded. He violates holy vows, is guilty of rebellion against God and commits the grotesque sin of calling Jesus Lord with his words and denying His Lordship with his deeds.
Verse
If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. John 15:18–19
Thought
Does the world hate us or have we so acculturated ourselves to the world that it sees no difference in us? If we are closely following our Lord, there will be a difference from the world in our lifestyle, our values, our attitudes and our life commitment.
Prayer
Spirit of God, reveal to me the inconsistencies between my words and deeds and enable me to be consistent even if the world hates me.
http://www.cmalliance.org/devotions/tozer
"The man that believes will obey; failure to obey is convincing proof that there is no true faith present. To attempt the impossible God must give faith or there will be none, and He gives faith to the obedient heart only."
Man the Dwelling Place of God, 33. ~A.W. Tozer~
"The idea that God will pardon a rebel who has not given up his rebellion is contrary both to the Scriptures and to common sense."
The Root of the Righteous, 43. ~A.W. TOZER~
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