Today is your encounter with a holy God

[Rick C. Hodgin]

This message is for those who will be saved. Listen to the
contrast between the false Christian, and the true, circumcised
heart, of the life changed from within by Jesus Christ:

From 15:10+
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5baWgvEqbeg&t=15m10s

God has a new relationship in store for you. No longer the
God you've mocked. He is opening your eyes to see Him as
He is, with a consuming fire that will purge your soul, and
bring about real change that will endure.

God awaits you, oh sleeper.

--
Rick C. Hodgin

[Juha Nieminen]

Rick C. Hodgin <rick.c...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This message is for those who will be saved.

So you are spamming this newsgroup by preaching to the choir.

Your hypocrisy knows no bounds.

[Rick C. Hodgin]

On Tuesday, October 31, 2017 at 1:56:32 AM UTC-4, Juha Nieminen wrote:
> Your hypocrisy knows no bounds.

It's why I need a savior. You do too, Juha. We al do, and that's why Jesus
entered this world: to save all who will be saved.

Be one of them, Juha. You are precious and priceless and God wants you
to be a part of His Kingdom. He looks at you with awe and wonder, and He
sent His Son to make a way for you.

--
Rick C. Hodgin

[Rick C. Hodgin]

I was asked this today by someone in email:

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> Xyz wrote:
> If God can do everything why does He need any of us to do something?

My reply:

He doesn't. We are invited to be a part of His Kingdom. It is a gift,
but it is also part of His plan.

Consider: If you were wealthy, and had great skill, you could build vast
buildings, large campuses, fill them with machines and devices to build all
manner of things from chairs and shoes to superconductors and everything in-
between. But, you would not want to build everything and do everything all
by yourself alone. You would want to hire people to come and do work in
your buildings, with your machines. It would be to your credit what you did
in building everything, but it would also be lonely to do it alone. You
would want companionship, fellowship, and for people to see what you have
done.

God created the whole universe. He has purposes for fellowship with us on
those scales.

We (mankind) were the only beings of all creation made in His image and
likeness. We literally look like God, just as your child would look like
you. Your child wouldn't look like a dog or a deer or a fish, and even
though God created angels and planets and gold and dolphins and horses and
everything else, we were the only creation made in His own image and
likeness.

God is creating for Himself a family. He made Adam first, and he was alone.
God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone," so He put Adam to sleep
and took a rib and made a woman for Adam and brought her to him... the first
marriage. Flash-forward to Jesus' death at the cross, and the thing He did
there on the cross was take away the sin of those who put their faith in
Him, so that they could be saved. The last thing that was done to Him
before He was taken down from that cross was for Him to be poked in the side
after He died, and out came blood and water, the very thing that comes out
during a new birth. Jesus, by His own death at the cross, birthed all of
those who believe in Him to eternity. We are called "the bride of Christ"
in the Bible, which means He made for Himself a bride, which was also taken
out of His own side at the cross in His death. He purified us and made us
spotless by His own grace and mercy, so that we could be with Him rightly
in Heaven.

We are all sinful wicked evil people. Even if we're not that way all the
time, there are times when we do horrible things. But God is and remains
perfect. He could not have a bride for Himself that was basically a cheap
woman, one undeserving of honor because of her bad behavior. So, God has
made His own bride completely spotless by His own sanctification.

There is such a teaching here, Xyz. It's the greatest conveyance of love
and creation we could ever know. It is God Himself making Himself a bride,
and making her full of honor and glory and chastity, which is that which
Christ gives us at the cross.

--
Rick C. Hodgin

[Juha Nieminen]

Rick C. Hodgin <rick.c...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday, October 31, 2017 at 1:56:32 AM UTC-4, Juha Nieminen wrote:
>> Your hypocrisy knows no bounds.
>
> It's why I need a savior.

Then stop being a hypocrite. It's easy.

[Rick C. Hodgin]

I've asked you repeatedly, Juha ... how am I a hypocrite? I tell you
I too need a savior for my sin. I tell you Jesus is the only way.

I live what I teach as best I'm able. It is a real, purposeful choice.

So, for the last time, how am I a hypocrite? Please explain.

--
Rick C. Hodgin

[Mr Flibble]

Holy? Rick's god is certainly full of holes as is his religion.

/Flibble

[rickchod...@gmail.com]

Psalm 100

http://biblehub.com/kjv/psalms/100.htm

Shout for Joy to the Lord, All You Lands!

1 {A Psalm of praise.} Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands.

2 Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.

3 Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not
we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with
praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.

5 For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth
endureth to all generations.

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There is love, peace, and joy in the house of the Lord, but only when
you keep your eyes focused on Him. If you begin looking around at the
things of the world, they will quickly pull you under. But when you
look up to Him, and keep looking up, there you find your peace, because
only there is your salvation.

Remember also ... Peter walked on water too, but only when he was
looking at the Lord!

http://biblehub.com/kjv/matthew/14.htm

28 And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me
come unto thee on the water.
29 And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship,
he walked on the water, to go to Jesus.
30 But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning
to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me.
31 And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him,
and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou
doubt?
32 And when they were come into the ship, the wind ceased.
33 Then they that were in the ship came and worshipped him, saying,
Of a truth thou art the Son of God.

Jesus will save your eternal soul, and give you eternal life. All you
have to do is trust and believe.

Best regards,
Rick C. Hodgin

[rickchod...@gmail.com]

you mother fucker, go fuck yourself

[Rick C. Hodgin]

On Sunday, November 12, 2017 at 7:23:30 AM UTC-5, rickchod...@gmail.com wrote:
> you mother .., go .. yourself

Peter, Jesus is not a joke. He really will forgive your sin and
give you eternal life for free. All you have to do is ask Him.

--
Rick C. Hodgin