On Wednesday, October 26, 2016 at 6:09:27 PM UTC-4, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
> On 10/24/2016 5:18 PM, Rick C. Hodgin wrote:
> > Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
> >> Moron
> > You dip very quickly into name calling and insults, Chris.
> > Does it help your cause?
>
> Ummm... What is my cause?
That was my question for you. What is your cause? How does calling
people names advance your cause?
> What are you talking about? I know that
> calling us all sinners does that help your cause.
I do not call people sinners. I warn you that you are sinners, and that
there is punishment coming for people who die without their sins being
forgiven. The assessment comes from God, and is defined by what He has
determined is a sin, and in the same way a person in a particular State
committing a transgression of the law that exists there. If they were
in another State it might not be a law, but wherever they are, each
person is subject to the laws therein ... and we are here in this world
living as men under God's Creation. We are all sinners, and the standard
to examine ourselves by is the Bible.
Consider only a few of the 10 Commandments. Have you ever violated any
of these?
1) Taken the Lord's name in vain (used it as a cuss word)?
That's the sin of blasphemy.
2) Stolen anything? Even once at any point, no matter the $ value?
That's the sin of thievery.
3) Committed adultery, or as Jesus refined the statement, ever looked
after a member of the opposite sex with lustful thoughts?
That's the sin of adultery.
4) Told a lie? Even one lie at any point, no mater how small?
That's the sin of lying.
5) Wanted something another person has?
That's the sin of covetousness.
All of us have sinned. I'm guilty of every one of those. I am a sinner.
And I need a savior. And I have found Him in Jesus Christ.
> You are very strange!
> ;^o
We all are, Chris, and each of us in our own unique ways. It's what
makes us all the same as well. Consider that thought ... that we are
all the same in that we are all different, that we are all the same in
that we all need a savior and that path from where we are in our lives
begins wherever we are, but leads directly from where we are to where
He is. We all begin at different places, but are on the same journey.
We all have different needs, but find the same Source to fill them
(Jesus Christ), because the Source is able to meet us well beyond the
point of our needs.
Jesus is life. He's the Creator of it. He's also the wellspring of it.
Without Him, life would not be. But in Him is life, and that life is
more abundant because of who He is.
God is not withholding things from us, but He is protecting us from
ourselves here in this sinful world. What if He gave us everything and
we were yet sinners before Him? What ongoing corruption would we sow
over time without ever seeing our sin being as we have everything we
need? This is actually a warning Jesus gave one of the churches in the
book of Revelation:
http://biblehub.com/kjv/revelation/3.htm
Message to the Church in Laodicea
14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These
things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning
of the creation of God;
15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou
wert cold or hot.
16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will
spue thee out of my mouth.
17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have
need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and
miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest
be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that
the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with
eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and
repent.
20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice,
and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him,
and he with me.
21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne,
even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his
throne.
22 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the
churches.
God is teaching us what we lost in sin. When we died spiritually, our
ability to understand eternal things died. We became focused on only the
temporal things of this world, and Satan has used that ongoingly to
deceive us into more and more sin. God has stepped in at various times
to correct that movement of the enemy. He did this routinely since the
beginning up to the time of Pentecost. At Pentecost, He gave man His own
Holy Spirit, so that we could then know and discern the things of God,
being guided from within by His own (figurative) hand.
Not many people are born again, and those who are speak as I do on these
things and are shunned by others because of that speaking, and because
we choose to live our lives differently. And Satan has come into the
churches and muddied the waters and stirred up strife and hate and
animosity and violence within people so that they, in their sin, following
after him (Satan) rather than God, have gone out and done heinous things
believing they are doing things for the Lord, but they are not. We have
been taught very clearly in scripture what the fruits of a true born again
Christian will be, and they can be summed up in a few words:
http://biblehub.com/kjv/galatians/5.htm
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering,
gentleness, goodness, faith,
23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the
affections and lusts.
Born again Christians are still buffeted by their sin-loving bodies, but
they will not control us. We are in pursuit of spiritual things, and
those spiritual things call us to God in a way our body never will. It's
why a person must be born again to be able to seek the Kingdom of God, or
to enter in to Heaven. Corruption cannot stand in incorruption, and sin
cannot dwell in the presence of God. We must shed our sin before we enter
into that place, which is what Jesus did by dying for us at the cross, so
that our sin died with Him and we are set free from our sin. Only then
can we be restored to eternal life, which is spiritual life.
Chris ... I've asked you many times to reflect upon these things I write.
To not immediately respond in the moment, but read them a few times and
get an understanding. Give yourself time to think it over before
responding. You have made so many mistakes in misunderstanding what I've
written, either legitimately or deliberately, but it is a pattern.
There's a verse which tells us how to approach things. It asks us to move
slower, calmer. The devil is always at work with our flesh trying to amp
us up into flesh-based sensations. Music with a particular beat which
keeps our flesh pumping. Other audio and visual stimuli. The urge to
always have a radio on, or something feeding into our flesh. God is that
"still small voice" on the inside. We must approach Him by seeking after
Him, and that means putting off other things.
http://biblehub.com/kjv/psalms/46-10.htm
10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the
heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
When you come to Him as He is, you find Him. When you approach Him with
that pursuit of the truth, He reveals Himself to you, such that He will
be exalted by those attributes you discover of Him.
It takes a pursuit, a real effort. God cannot be understood with a
casual glance. That is the domain of sin and lies, both of which exist
only within the quick examination, because if you took the time to examine
it more thoroughly the lie would be discovered for what it is, just as the
sin would be known for the harm it ultimately does.
Give care and attention to your eternal soul, Chris. Pursue God with a
real pursuit. Don't be a quick responder to the initial drives and
impulses you feel, for these are being injected into you by an enemy who
wants you to quickly conclude, "Nutjob!" and then move on, because then
you won't take the time to consider the things I teach you, which are the
things He's teaching you through me, which are spirit and they are life,
and you then won't encounter that life and be saved.
Satan wants you bouncing around in the flesh, not contemplating God in
your spirit.
I pray this makes sense to you. And I pray you give God a real
consideration. You'll be forever grateful if you do.