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  1. I would like to say why I really liked your post. Because you acknowledge what the other person said and then you are stating the balance in the issue at hand. Yes we are united in Jesus Christ because we are in him inspite of doctrinal issues which has divided us in different groups. The fact is in styling the scriptures we will find out that when the people were united God did something that caused a division between them. Abraham is a good example. Abraham and then we gave Abraham and the rest of the world. Before that we have God and the people at the time of Babel. God did something that seperated the people who were united. God and the Covenant of Cirumcision. After the Cross the division among the jews because of the faith in Jesus Christ and the unification of all people in the world who believe in Jesus Christ. When God sent Peter to Cornelius as a result the disciples of Jesus Christ were divided in that issue. Not everyone accepted what Peter told it happened.
  2. The post about colors is very interesting because it mentions that we use color intensification for many different proposes. As color for different races, color for different moods and in our time colors to identify gender as the rainbow 🌈. Remember Noah when God promised to. Make peace with all the people of the world inclusive everyone and he did that through Jesus Christ when he died on the Cross to include all people on the world. And he foretold that to us when he first included the Ethiopian Enuch in his flock in Jesus Christ and he went away as an Evangelist as he understood that God had accepted him in Jesus Christ in equal terms as his disciples in a big surprise to Philip who was hesitant to water baptized him in the name of Jesus. Amen. For us to be careful and we would be not talking in his name if we say that he does not accept the faith of all colors of people and all the combinations of colors that designate the different people as in Jesus Christ everyone is welcome not matter what kind of color flag is raised in front of his house because he died for all and in his Love he accepts every one who believes in him. As He also accepts sinners who believe in him because He accepts the faith in him of everyone because he died for all people in the world and he knew before hand what all people of the world includes. In his Love. We should never forbid any one to believe as they are but rather encourage.
  3. @PATrobas I am not sure what you are asking. Perhaps I should have commended about the scriptures but Paul has done this already. His reference to scriptures must have been the scriptures he referred to the Bereans and the Bereans proposed to study and search to find out if what Paul was telling them about Jesus it was the true, that he was the Lamb of God that had to be Slain. That the Christ of God had to died. The promised Lamb of God to Abraham was not the Lamb God provided to Abraham that day and it was not Issac his Son and the Lamb of God it had to be a man as Issac was a man and not another man from Abraham as John the Baptist who was born in a similar fashion as Issac. And not another sacrificial Lamb. The sacrificial Lambs will not do because God promised to Abraham a Lamb as in the single form and not in the plural form and the Lambs offered in the Temple were provided by the Shepherds who breed them and raised them up and they needed to buy them. And God asked Abraham to sacrifice a man his Son Issac.
  4. Brother @Mr. M yes this happened before the Cross and when God wanted to show who were his people as a witness to them and everyone else who wanted to be his God but was not from the Israelites because he was their God only. To let the world know that they are his people and He protects them and He was there to Help them, that they had to deal with him and are not fighting them but him. The light that time had only one color included only the Israelites and that's before the Cross. After the Cross it includes all colors all combinations of colors Amen. There is another sign from God at the time of Jesus Christ death on the Cross that this time the darkness fell upon everyone on at that time, there was not light every where because the Jews had put to death the light of the world. And the light of the world left the earth for the first time when Jesus descended at death to the place of the dead in the heart of the earth. The darkness lasted for about three hours because after three days the light will come back, Jesus will raised from the dead.
  5. This individual who wrote this wants people who read the word "Brother" to assume that he is a "Brother" according to their faith. And attempts to reinforce that assumption by saying "Brother Bob" wanting the reader to assume that he is a man and a brother in the faith of the reader. The rest figure them for yourself. "New Yoke", "Study Bible" (do not assume it is about a Christian Bible, "Almighty" again without a specific identification and Beth-Hell isn't about Bethel..and there is not a municipal address of business this place is one of the drawer in a PO address. The whole thing is a joke and we do not know that this is a register non for profit organization the words Tax Deductible do not make it one. From assumption to assumption and so on. Who are the "We" do you want the reader to think that you represent or you speak as an authorized representative of some specific group(s)? And without identifying the group(s) and something about those individuals, what is their position and who they are , and who you are, and if you have express permission to speak on their behalf. Have they in that group read and endorse what you posted. Or just assuming that they are in agreement without reading your thesis and without their express permission to include that they have read and endorse
  6. @faithfull-prophet4040 One thing is for sure that Jesus has called you to be in his ministry. The other thing is that you have misconstrued what he is asking you or what he wants from you and this is made known to you by the way you feel that it let's you know that is not accomplished yet and that's because you have not correctly understood what He is asking you. He wants you to remove the things that needs to be removed from his yard. He wants you to be his instrument to sweep away from his house things that you will see that they do not belong there and need to be removed but other people do not understand that and they brought them in their misunderstanding . He wants to make you knowledgeable of deep truths which you will learn from him so you can clean his house. The fact that you have come to understand "not that's not what he is asking me" and I have to understand what he is asking me, as I need to be in tune with him is a big step in the right direction. This is why and because he wants to comunicate direct with you, you must wait for him and depend on him. And that includes to stop seeking to find Him in the books and in the counsel of others. But to wait on him and he may used others but keep in mind that you are not the one to choose who thay are. The point is that He wants to comunicate one with one with you but you need to learn and He will teach you to correctly perceived what he is telling you. So far you have learn that He was asking you something but you thought that he was asking you something else, because he was telling you that not what I asking from you. and that will happen again till you learn to correctly perceived what he is asking you and he will teach you, but how? And that you will know when it happens. It's like that, somehow. When Samuel was a boy and He heard someone calling his name in his sleep, he thought that was Eli the High Priest calling him. But it was the Lord who was calling him. We need to learn what Jesus or the Holy Spirit is asking us because often it is not strait forward. Like when we read some Scripture and we say what does it want to say, where before reading the same scripture we had said that what is saying without searching any further.
  7. International Standard Version Mathew 11:25 25. At that time Jesus said, "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from wise and intelligent people and have revealed them to infants. 1 Corinthians 3:1-3 English Standard Version 2016 (ESV)But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready, for you are still of the flesh. Hebrews 5:13-14 NIV Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.
  8. @Mr. M greetings to you Mr.M. Paul said the mystery of Christ in the Gentiles and the Gentiles in Christ. How could that be knowing the full context about how God had spoken about them. The mystery all this to be able to happen just by the Gentiles believing that Jesus Christ also died for them for the forgiveness of their sins. Having forgiveness of their sins in the same way as the Jews by believing in Jesus Christ. I almost gave it away when I said having their sins forgiven in the same way as the Jews.
  9. @Mr. M greetings to you Mr.M. Definitely Paul was speaking to Athenians and by extension to all the Nations of the world who had other Gods than the divine who created the world and man in Paul's speech who till that time he had said by an oath to Abraham that he only will be his God and the God of his descendants after him. And that excluded all the other Nations of the world. And that was not hidden from them. And those people were strong believers in life after death and that life in the place of the dead under the authority of the God of the dead Hades. And the place was well guarded and everyone went there and no one could escape from there and their Judge was the God of the dead who kept them, He was the one who Lord it over them and decide for the place where they were to be kept. And they had their Own Gods who created the sun and the moon and the stars and the things in earth and had control of the elements of their jurisdiction. And they were not Jewish prosylites.
  10. You are having a lot of context in your mind about what Daniel said. And I am a friend. Daniel prophesied the last days of the Sinai Covenant and we are here in the times of the Gospel and all things have been made new that needed to be made new. Daniel knew that he would not be living when that will happen. It would not happen in his time. Like John the Baptist who said many things that will happen during his life time and they did indeed happened. Thank you and God bless, or I should say Jesus bless you.
  11. He was not a natural man as he was in Jesus Christ but he had not come to understand the Gospel of Jesus Christ as Paul explained it the Gospel of Grace. Perhaps he was from a legalistic kind of background. Definitely saved by his believing Jesus Christ died for the forgiveness of his sins, if that what he preached and he must have preached that if not you would never ended up going there and or remaining there in the first place. I have also met people leader a of the church group And one time he call me to his office supposed to lecture me and then ask me to leave the office like an order without hearing what I had to say or before I finished saying something. I proposed to him to meet in the Mall and there he cannot tell me that the meeting is over before hearing what I had to say and if he did not want to hear what I had to say he had to get up and leave himself. On a second thought I should have said to him to come and visit me in my home and meet my family who like to meet him so he does not think of me as a vulnerable person or someone without the support of a family and his words or his actions will be accountable to my family. That time if I had say that he would have be free from himself who was seeking to harass me...because we did not think the same but I liked the kind and hospitable and friendly people there and I loved the worship a lot.
  12. @grahampaul, greetings to you the story of Rahab from Jericho is found in Joshua chapter two and six which I copy and paste below. And from Mathew 1:5-6 5 Salmon the father of Boaz, whose mother was Rahab, Boaz the father of Obed, whose mother was Ruth, Obed the father of Jesse, 6 and Jesse the father of King David. Rahab was the mother of Boaz who maried Ruth the Moabites in the book of Ruth (this is why Boaz was kind to Ruth the Moabites and maried her because his mother also was not an Israeli and he was born to a mix maried couple. I should have said Rahab the great grandmother of King David From Boaz (the son of Salmon and Rahab) to Obed (the son of Boaz and Ruth) to Jesse the Father of David-King David. Joshua 2: 1-16 2 Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim. “Go, look over the land,” he said, “especially Jericho.” So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there. 2 The king of Jericho was told, “Look, some of the Israelites have come here tonight to spy out the land.” 3 So the king of Jericho sent this message to Rahab: “Bring out the men who came to you and entered your house, because they have come to spy out the whole land.” 4 But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. She said, “Yes, the men came to me, but I did not know where they had come from. 5 At dusk, when it was time to close the city gate, they left. I don’t know which way they went. Go after them quickly. You may catch up with them.” 6 (But she had taken them up to the roof and hidden them under the stalks of flax she had laid out on the roof.) 7 So the men set out in pursuit of the spies on the road that leads to the fords of the Jordan, and as soon as the pursuers had gone out, the gate was shut. 8 Before the spies lay down for the night, she went up on the roof 9 and said to them, “I know that the Lord has given you this land and that a great fear of you has fallen on us, so that all who live in this country are melting in fear because of you. 10 We have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea[a] for you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to Sihon and Og, the two kings of the Amorites east of the Jordan, whom you completely destroyed. 11 When we heard of it, our hearts melted in fear and everyone’s courage failed because of you, for the Lord your God is God in heaven above and on the earth below. 12 “Now then, please swear to me by the Lord that you will show kindness to my family, because I have shown kindness to you. Give me a sure sign 13 that you will spare the lives of my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all who belong to them—and that you will save us from death.” 14 “Our lives for your lives!” the men assured her. “If you don’t tell what we are doing, we will treat you kindly and faithfully when the Lord gives us the land.” 15 So she let them down by a rope through the window, for the house she lived in was part of the city wall. 16 She said to them, “Go to the hills so...... Joshua 6:17 17. The city and all that is in it are to be devoted[a] to the Lord. Only Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house shall be spared, because she hid the spies we sent. Joshua 6:22-23 22 Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, “Go into the prostitute’s house and bring her out and all who belong to her, in accordance with your oath to her.” 23 So the young men who had done the spying went in and brought out Rahab, her father and mother, her brothers and sisters and all who belonged to her. They brought out her entire family and put them in a place outside the camp of Israel.
  13. @warrior12 What is righteousness in the specific sircumstances. Rahab risked her life when she deceived her own people who were looking for the spy(s) she had hidden in her home. Ans she lied to the soldiers who were looking for them and the result was that her life was spare and she did not died when Jericho fell. And she lived to married an Israelite and she was the grade grandmother of Jesus Christ. I should have said of Jesse the father of King David. And by extension the great-great-greate.....grandmother of Jesus as it was thought to be though Joseph his adopted Father.
  14. Thank you for your post, it is an excellent post and talking by examples. Jesus when he healed the man on the Sabath Day in the Synagogue he said that he did not did it on himself that it was not his doing but that the Heavenly Father asked him to do it and Knowing that he will be Judged by the people who kept the Sabath and knowing what the instructions in the Law were and that he stand in the Judgment of the Law and the people who follow the law He obeyed the Heavenly Father and healed the Man on the Sabath Day. BUT He was not Judged by the Heavenly Father He proved that He can walk with the Father and He got a big Thank you good a faithful servant from God. He did not feel Judged in himself for what he did. The people judge him and they should according to the Law but he did not accept their Judgement and he had nothing to repent for, he did not own them anything. He understood their Judgement towards him, and he expected it from them. They were obedient to the Sabath and they had to be. Same situation it can be with us and with everyone else in the world when they do something in the name of their cause (stange as it is even something that will bring judgement upon one self, but they do not accept the judgment because they carry out the act on the name of their cause. Even believing they did it because that's what God wanted them to do. They are Judged by the people but they themselves believe and expect to received a reward from God.
  15. No one can argue with those beautiful words from Paul. But Paul did not used these words to judge anyone and definitely not the Ethnic believers who were Judge by those with high standards. Paul said even those can have the blessings from Jesus Christ on account from his grace and love and not their perfection towards righteousness. Anyone can have the love of Jesus Christ because he has suffered in life and Jesus is there to pick them up. On his way to the Cross we help him cover his Cross and now He is helping us to carry our Cross. And also He had a very difficult life and suffered from other people just as it happened to Jesus Christ, He can see himself in our sufferings. Jesus loves those who suffer even he loved the women who suffered as they looked at him as he was mistreated. We need to have our peace Jesus is our righteousness we live in the Shadow of his righteousness. No one ever can get out of it. No servant is greater than his Master.
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