On Tuesday, November 21, 2017 at 9:24:54 AM UTC-5, Mark Storkamp wrote:
> The bible also says to "Submit yourself to the ordinance of man for the
> Lord's sake" (1 Peter 2:13). The Usenet and clc charters are clear
> concerning topical posts. I trust a salesman that knows and uses what
> he's selling, but not some book thumping huckster. Go and sin no more.
You have an incomplete understanding of scripture and God, Mark.
The Bible also says to obey God ahead of men in matters where God
has spoken:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+4%3A18-19&version=KJV
18 And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all
nor teach in the name of Jesus.
19 But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be
right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto
God, judge ye.
God has given man specific commands:
(1) Love one another as He has loved us (John 13:34-35):
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+13%3A34-35&version=KJV
(2) That all authority and power have been given Him, and to
go ye therefore and teach (Matthew 28:18+):
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+28%3A18-20&version=KJV
(3) Do not take the mark of the beast (Revelation 14:9-11):
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+14%3A9-11&version=KJV
In these cases, God has given specific guidance to His disciples.
These trump and take precedence over man's guidance to the contrary,
because He is the greater authority.
It would be like if your manager tells you not to play music in your
office because it's distracting, and yet you get permission directly
from the owner of the company to play music in your office ... who
do you listen to? Where appropriate you use your own personal choice
to obey your manager, or walk in the allowance given you by the owner.
With God, and with us as Christians, we do the same thing. We make
choices about what to do, and we walk in authority when we are in
obedience to the guidance of God.
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I am not spamming this group. Many people consider it to be spam, but
it is obedience to God, giving you knowledge of God. I am living that
knowledge to the best of my ability acknowledging that I do actually
truly and really fail from time to time, but that I do not desire to
fail, and that each time I do fail I pick myself back up, regroup, and
come again with a renewed focus and purpose, increasing in the needed
discipline to prevent it from happening the second time.
What I teach you is so simple a child could understand it, yet because
of the impact it has on people's lives people refuse to hear it:
(1) You have sin.
(2) Because you have sin you will be judged by God.
(3) That judgment will find you guilty and there is only one
punishment God has prescribed for ANY sin: Damnation.
(4) Jesus is willing to forgive your sin and set you free from
that end of burning in eternal flames.
Sin's grip on this world is so strong. When each of us is set free
from these mortal, corrupt, fallen-in-sin bodies, and we are then on
the other side of death, and we are freed from that which we are now
under, then we will see clearly and know the truth. At that point,
so many of us who rejected God here in this world, even from within
our sinful understanding of things, and God meeting us there at the
point of our sinful understanding of things, to meet us where we are
and save us despite our filth and utter contamination in sin, will
find out what it was we rejected, and more importantly, WHO it was
we rejected.
People are going to weep and gnash their teeth and cry out and want
with everything within them to be a part of that which they cast away
here in this world for their moment of sinful pleasure, to satiate
their personal lusts.
I teach you that you need to put in some time researching this matter,
and to seek the truth with a real effort, to not gloss over what you
think you know, but to press in and search out the real truth, the
real heart of the matter.
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God will not fail you. If you seek Him you will find Him and He will
rock your world. He will shake you to the core. Your entire everything
will be changed by your encounter with God. It will literally breathe
new life into your existence, such that you are changed from the inside
out.
I am a messenger. I am a teacher. I am someone who has already been
saved by God, who has been shown who I am in sin, who He is toward my
salvation, and why I need Him. He has redeemed me and continued me
in "school" teaching me over time more and more about His Kingdom. I
am an eager student desiring to know more because the more I learn of
Him the more I am enthralled by Him. God is amazing beyond words!
I can only point you to the door, and tell you the things I have found.
I can give you an explanation of what it is, but to experience it for
yourself first hand is different than my words. It would be like me
telling you how good a particular flavor of ice cream tastes, compared
to you tasting it for yourself. The Bible even says that:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+34%3A8&version=KJV
8 O taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that
trusteth in him.
Jesus will not fail you. He is everything you need, more than you thought
could exist, an all-sufficient savior, and a teacher to fill even the most
curious and hard-seeking individual's lust for information about the
Kingdom of God.
Jesus is inexhaustible. He is comprehensive. He doesn't have any holes.
There aren't parts missing. There are no ungoverned areas. His teaching
is upon all things, able to be applied to every life situation, and even
to those things we have in 2017 relating to things which did not exist
when the Bible was written, or even in our own parent's day.
I lead you to Him. It's the absolute best I have to offer any of you in
this world. I point you to the One who can change your world, who can
teach you all things, who can set you free from sin, and give you eternal
life ... all for the receipt, all for the asking. No special hoops to
jump through. No rituals to perform. Just come to Him seeking the truth
and ask.
All who do this will be saved.
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Rick C. Hodgin