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Willa

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  1. 6 hours ago, farouk said:

    Hi @Willa Patience seems to be a key word in the NT, right? and you have proved it.............

    In Greek patience means patient endurance.  I am not sure I endured cheerfully without complaining and all that the word means.  Probably not.  God may have been trying to move me in that direction but I didn't get very far.  Wasn't waiting cheerfully but I didn't fall away.  I stubbornly trusted in God's promises and somehow endured due to God's grace.

    G5281   (Strong) ὑπομονή

    hupomonē hoop-om-on-ay'

    From G5278; cheerful (or hopeful) endurance, constancy: - enduring, patience, patient continuance (waiting).

    G5281   (Word Study)  ὑπομονή

    hupomonḗ; gen. hupomonḗs, fem. noun from hupoménō (G5278), to persevere, remain under. A bearing up under, patience, endurance as to things or circumstances.

    VINE  Patience, Patient, Patiently

    A. Nouns.

    1. hupomone (G5281), lit., "an abiding under" (hupo, "under," meno, "to abide"), is almost invariably rendered "patience." "Patience, which grows only in trial, Jas 1:3 may be passive, i.e., = "endurance," as, (a) in trials, generally, Luk 21:19 (which is to be understood by Mat 24:13), cf. Rom 12:12; Jas 1:12; (b) in trials incident to service in the gospel, 2Co 6:4; 2Co 12:12; 2Ti 3:10; (c) under chastisement, which is trial viewed as coming from the hand of God our Father, Heb 12:7; (d) under undeserved affliction, 1Pe 2:20; or active, i.e. = "persistence, perseverance," as (e) in well doing, Rom 2:7 (KJV, "patient continuance"); (f) in fruit bearing, Luk 8:15; (g) in running the appointed race, Heb 12:1.

    "Patience perfects Christian character, Jas 1:4, and fellowship in the patience of Christ is therefore the condition upon which believers are to be admitted to reign with Him, 2Ti 2:12; Rev 1:9. For this patience believers are 'strengthened with all power,' Col 1:11, 'through His Spirit in the inward man,' Eph 3:16.

    "In 2Th 3:5, the phrase 'the patience of Christ,' RV, is possible of three interpretations, (a) the patient waiting for Christ, so KJV paraphrases the words, (b) that they might be patient in their sufferings as Christ was in His, see Heb 12:2, (c) that since Christ is 'expecting till His enemies be made the footstool of His feet,' Heb 10:13, so they might be patient also in their hopes of His triumph and their deliverance. While a too rigid exegesis is to be avoided it may, perhaps, be permissible to paraphrase: 'the Lord teach and enable you to love as God loves, and to be patient as Christ is patient.'"** From Notes on Thessalonians by Hogg and Vine pp. 222, 285.

    In Rev 3:10, "the word of My patience" is the word which tells of Christ's patience, and its effects in producing "patience" on the part of those who are His (see above on 2Th 3:5).

    B. Verbs.

    1. hupomeno (G5278), akin to A, No. 1, (a) used intransitively, means "to tarry behind, still abide," Luk 2:43; Act 17:14; (b) transitively, "to wait for," Rom 8:24 (in some mss.), "to bear patiently, endure," translated "patient" (present participle) in Rom 12:12; "ye take it patiently," 1Pe 2:20 (twice). See also under A, No. 1.

     

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  2. Do to my spiritual immaturity I married a non believer in 1963.  It was 11 years before he received Christ.  During at least 6 of those years I compromised my values and beliefs and backslid.  Then I realized that my kids would follow my example so I needed to come back to the Lord.  So I adopted an attitude that even if I were the only one in the family to go to heaven, then I would do it alone.  That is the attitude a secret disciple has.

    Early in my marriage I had suffered abuse for attending church and he had often taken my keys away from me so I couldn't drive the 7 miles to church.  Now in 1969 his abuse was mostly verbal.  He was saved in 1974.  During that time God arranged circumstances and brought people into his life at work that he was forced to listen to.  It wore down his resistance.  However, the more I prayed that God change him, the more God changed me and enabled me to love and accept him just as he was.

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  3. I always think of Jesus restoring Peter after the resurrection. " Peter, do you AGAPE-love me."  God's love.  Peter replied twice that he PHILEO-loved Jesus.  Brotherly love.  So often my human love falls so short of God's perfect love.   So often I fall on my face before God and ask Him to refill me with His perfect love for the lost, the obnoxious, the ugly, the repulsive.  He died for them too and loves them.

    The extent that I love others shows me the extent that I love God. 

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  4. 13 hours ago, RdJ said:

    Yeah the man's part is a lot harder. But not all men do that and then you still have to obey. My dad was not saved. When we got saved he ran away to an old female friend from school. My mom fasted and prayed 3 days and he came back. He hated it there. He has hit her once or twice when she had the nerve to tell his dad that he had to get saved. He could be nasty to her and she asked God to change him and God said: You change. She had to obey him and forgive and bless. He said he first had to believe in her before he could believe in God. She did that. She laid down her life. But to be fair he wasn't some drug addicted mooch. He did a lot for her too. But he got saved thanks to her.

    Her dad saved Jews and had to go to a concentration camp, which was so bad that afterwards he became an alcoholic and when he was mad they were all afraid of him and my mom was the youngest and his sweet little girl and they would push her to go to him while in such an agressive mood to 'make daddy happy again". Her mother didn't divorce him. He also got saved before he died.

    You just told my testimony!  Wow,. Hard to believe they could be so similar.  The more I prayed for him to change the more God changed me.  He didn't say it, He just did it.  It took 4 years for God to make me the wife that my husband needed.  We were married for 54 years.  

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  5. 17 hours ago, warrior12 said:

    Anyone .    How can this be futher expanded or explained in your own words ?.

    The Spiritual person has God's perspective and understanding, having His help to understand the true nature of things.   However the natural man doesn't understand him at all.  

    I once had a pastor who was not born again.  He invited me to talk with him so he could "get under my skin".  He simply couldn't understand what I was saying, where I was coming from, or why I did things the way I did.  His shelves were lined with Freud and a lot of other psych books but no Bible dictionaries or commentaries.  I asked him why he became a pastor; he said because that was what his mother wanted.

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  6. We are supposed to judge so to evaluate, but we are not to pass judgement upon to condemn.

    Luk 6:37  "Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven;

    Act 15:19  Therefore my judgment is that we should not trouble those of the Gentiles who turn to 

    1Co 10:15  I speak as to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say.

     

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  7. You can give to Israeli Christians and their families through George who owns our forum since many from the church he established in Israel are involved in the war.  You can also get accurate up to date news from him.  His church is near the Dead Sea and Gaza.  He gives an account of how the monies are distributed.  Currently he has not been there since covid & hasn't been able to return.

    I visited our local Salvation Army and was not treated well--was not impressed.  However I do know they have done good work elsewhere since I have a friend who was saved through them and delivered from alcohol abuse.  Locally we have a chaplaincy that offers grief counseling, ministers in hospitals, works in nursing homes etc.  It is interdenominational and does a very good work.  It may be under the Lutheran Church. I used to minister in a nursing home through it.   

    Just a couple of ideas.   Do go to the organization and check it out.  Personally I am eager to support God's work and like you I want to be sure the Gospel is being shared with the assistance.

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  8. I am unfamiliar with Nova. Scotia.  I am more familiar with British Columbia where Washington State has so much in common with BC both historically and today.   Both were founded by the Hudson Bay Company long before explorers arrived.  It existed for fur trappers.  When vacationing in BC we still find much in common with the area.  They raise the same crops and celebrate the same holidays.  It was more like being in another state than another country.  Where faith is concerned I am not sure.  It is probably very individual as is always.  God has no grandkids.  Only children are born again.  

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    This is  just one more place that King James really stinks.  Probably the use of condescend has changed over the centuries because I don't think we are supposed to be condescending toward anyone.  We are told to think of others as better than ourselves or at least to not be aware of any difference from ourselves in station or worth.  We are not to be heartless, arrogant or high-handed!

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  10. I have to agree that we express our love for our Father by loving one another.  

    But I test my own heart by my willingness to obey the speed limit, or being in obedience to civil authorities.  Do I try to obey exactly?  Do I become prideful for my obedience while all those no good speeders whizz past me?  Do I drive 5 over the limit or the amount I think I can get away with?  My heart can be so deceitful and wicked!

  11. One reason that I love the writings of Corry Ten Boom is that she spoke often using analogies and similes.  She spoke as Jesus spoke.  It wasn't the intellectual that feeds my spirit but the simple way she expressed truths.  She once compared God to a piece os chocolate.  It can be analyzed chemically. You can know the recipe for making it.  But until you have tasted it..........Taste and see that the Lord is good!

     Psa 34:8

    O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.

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  12. Jhn 6:48  I am the bread of life.

    Jhn 6:49  Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.

    Jhn 6:50  This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die.

    Jhn 6:51  I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."

    Jhn 6:53  So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.

    Jhn 6:54  Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.

    Jhn 6:55  For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.

    Jhn 6:56  Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.

    Jhn 6:57  As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me.

    Jhn 6:58  This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread the fathers ate, and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever."

    Jhn 6:63  It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

    AMEN!

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  13. Grandson desperately needs this job.  His present job is minimum wage and no health insurance; his wife recently lost her job.   The interview will be on the 28th.  Please pray that he does exceptionally well and that he gets the job.

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  14. On 11/14/2023 at 12:25 PM, WilliamL said:

    The souls who die in Christ go to be with Him in heaven.

     

    I don"t believe in "soul sleeping" or being in the grave till the resurrection as the 7th Day Adventists believe.    In several places Paul speaks of being immediately present with Jesus after he dies so he will always be with the Lord.  The body is reunited with the soul upon the resurrection.  

    I don't worry much about the fate of the wicked except to desire the repentance and salvation of the lost.  However, the benefit of salvation to our present life, the joy and peace we now experience, are to me the greatest selling points of the Gospel.  God's love was what won me, not threats of punishment.  The Gospel is GOOD NEWS, after all.  

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  15. We in Eastern Washington are experiences your temps.  It has been 23 F at night last week but is back up to the low 40s this week with highs close to 60.  A brief reprieve.  Our highs went from the 80s one week, the 60s the next, and then the 40s!  It just dipped down too fast and our bodies couldn't acclimatize. It always amazes me that in the spring we start shedding our jackets when it hits 50 if there is no breeze.  In fall we grab our heavy jackets when it hits 50.

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  16. I used to walk through my neighborhood playing for residents house by house.  But I have a friend with the gift of evangelism who regularly goes door to door and is quite effective.  His wife goes with him and prays silently as he speaks.  Paul's prayer:

    Eph 6:19  and also for me, that words may be given to me in opening my mouth boldly to proclaim the mystery of the gospel,  Eph 6:20  for which I am an ambassador in chains, that I may declare it boldly, as I ought to speak.

     

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  17. Augustine probably started replacement theology when he wrote "the City Of God" interpreting the Revelation in an allegorical way and indicating that Rome was then the city of God, replacing Jerusalem.  I don't believe in interpreting Scripture that way--it should be read as literally as possible. 

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