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That's why we should rather say we are Ambassadors of Jesus Christ of the Gospel of reconciliation something Paul also talked about. Because it was something that had happened and continues to happen and will continue to happen. Something that was offered to people in the past and is being offered in the present and will continue to be offered in the future and will never seized. The forgiveness of sins in the name of Jesus Christ.

Not all God's people win. Not all of them are in the same equation. Many of the Israelites died in the wars to conquer the promish land. There were casualties. They never had the chance to enjoy the fruits of the land of milk and honey. Some they did and some they never got the chance. Some they spent their lives fighting. Some of them were wiped away by the plague. Some were not given the chance to grow older. It was never the same for everyone. All in good fortune or all in bad fortune or all in grave fortune. ALWAYS THE THINGS ON EARTH WILL BE IN THE SAME MODE. WILL NEVER BE THE SAME FOR EVERYONE. And only need to read the travel advisory. It's not only about wars. It also is about plague, natural disasters, about decent, about political and ethnically motivated reasons and not to forget the religious and political reasons right now as we speak. Unless you want to live in isolation that God is with us and He is going to wipe away all our enemies. Which will never happen. Because God is not in control The Lamb of God is in control who died for all mankind and wish no one perish but to have the chance for everyone to have the chance to receive the eternal life. God has put JESUS CHRIST IN CONTROL. we are not in the Old. All things are made NEW. WE DO NOT HAVE HADES since two thousand years ago.

@LastDaysJames You are walking a very difficult road with mind. To tell Jesus not to baptized the people with the Holy Spirit and to tell people not to asked Jesus for the gift that is theirs. You are telling them not to have faith, not to asked for the advocate the companion. Paul was filled with the Holy Spirit without the water baptism. And he did the same thing in his ministry he only baptized people with the Holy Spirit. Don't you know that the disciples were not baptized? No one was baptized of the people in the upper room.

No more death. No more judgment. For the believers in Jesus Christ only eternal life with Jesus and the Heavenly Father.

@LastDaysJames It's obvious that you are quided by this belief and it sounds that you are defending what you believe or WHAT YOUR TEACHERS TAUGHT YOU and you choose to honor them by defending what they teach. Anyone who does not have this bias in him and does a stait forwards reading of the passage he will tell you that Peter when he started talking to the crowd in the house he SAID I STILL DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU WANT FROM ME and he started speaking to them about the events in Jerusalem and when he said: Acts 42-45 it's about Jesus telling the disciples how to preach the Gospel to all people. 42 He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one whom God appointed as judge of the living and the dead. 43 All the prophets testify about him that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.” 44 While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit came on all who heard the message. 45 The circumcised believers who had come with Peter were astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on Gentiles.

In Acts ten we have Peter's words, from the time he enter the house of Cornelius till the time when Jesus baptized them with the Holy Spirit and till that time Peter had said nothing about the Holy Spirit. Peter's words are written down and there is nothing in them to Justified your wishful thinking that Jesus needed the words of Peter for faith to be built in the people if not Jesus could not baptized them with the Holy Spirit. Peter said they were baptized by the same Spirit as we were baptized on the day of Pentecost. They were unbaptized and they had only believed and Jesus did something of his own to teach Peter and everyone a lesson. That Jesus can baptized believers with the Holy Goast who are not baptized in water. Nothing can stopped him or the water or the water baptism cannot stopped him. To require someone to be water baptized first before he seek the baptism of the Holy Spirit is not correct. Paul was teaching the same thing and he did not baptized people with water. To believe in Jesus Christ that's the only prerequisite for the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

Mathew 28:18-20 18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” Jesus sends the disciples to the whole world to preach the good news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ the forgiveness of sins in his blood. This is my blood, the blood of the New Covenant which is going to be shed for the forgiveness of sins of many. And the blood of the New Covenant was shed on the same day. The author of Hebrews understood that and he called the offsprings of Jacob Hebrews and not Israelites. in the name they were called before God changed the name of Jacob to Israel.

This happens while Peter was yet speaking. The Holy Spirit fell on unbaptized uncircumcised Romans and other nations people who were gathered in Cornelius house. There were new believers and Peter did not say anything about the Holy Spirit. They did not ask. Jesus Christ did it on his own and He must have plans for them. Evangelist, Disciples, Apostles, Prophets is from acts 10:44 and Peter and some of the deacons were with him. And they heard them speaking in tongues and praising God. Acts 10:44 While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit came on all who heard the message. 45 The circumcised believers who had come with Peter were astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on Gentiles. 46 For they heard them speaking in tongues and praising God.

Jesus died and he went in the paradise of Abraham ahead of Dismas who died right after him. Jesus body from the Cross was place in the tomb. Who said buried? Was John or Perer or one of the women or Jesus Christ. Sorry I see the reference to Paul. My apologies.

There is no special way or recipe for the "baptism of the Holy Spirit". First of all stop judging your self because all believers had the benefit of the Holy Spirit to open their understanding and the need to believe. Before they believed. And it continues after. This is why we speak the word we believe is blessed by Jesus Christ. From now on you should only used the words Jesus Christ. Like I believe in Jesus Christ instead of I believe in God. When you say the first one you promote the need for a Mediator and suggest that any one who says I believe in God do not have God unless they have the forgiveness of sins in Jesus Christ. We are Jesus Christ children. He is with God and his children are with God. When we believe in Jesus Christ we received the spirit of adaptation something from Jesus Christ. From his Spirit. From his life. We are recognized in the spiritual world by his spirit in us. After the resurrection Jesus Christ breath in his disciples and they received from his Spirit. The Spirit of Life eternal. That's what is happening to anyone who believes. Jesus did not do that to all the other believers. You do not have to have the baptism of the Holy Spirit in your life. The Holy Spirit is not the one who died for you to saved you. Jesus Christ is. But we can always could have the living word of the Holy Spirit in us. The gifts of healing is one of them. The prayer of faith is another thing. Gifts of healing is another it is a gift even the person doesn't understand. We have the Bible read the book of acts or just asked Jesus tell him I want to experience this in my life. Seek nock and the door will be open. It is available to any one who wants to and is patient and who does not give up. Visit some Pentecostal churches. They are not going to harm you. They do not need to have everything right. Because is given by faith. I do not need to be right in everything, just post an overview. I know someone with the gifts of the Holy Spirit who had to go and take his daughter out of the hands of a strange cult. He said the Holy Spirit told that he is equipped enough and the Holy Spirit will be in control and not to be afraid and nothing will harm him. He said things happened in there of the Ocullt world and he felt the fear alive all over him and to make him run away and he said I stayed because nothing will hurt me that what was told from the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit said to him his daughter is protected and anything that comes against her will not succeed. An underage girl. He said: This is my daughter and I am taking her home. He said I did not plan to say those words they just came out of me without thinking about them. He said I only planned to asked her if she wanted to come home. This is the part when Jesus said the Holy Spirit will put the right words in your mouth what you need to say.

I want to thank Jesus Christ for the most testing times in my life that brought me severe depression because there it was that I found him. He had chosen that how he would reveal himself to me. He taught me something that is not easily accepted and later he show it to me in the scriptures. That is the following " not to rebuke in a hurry what comes in my life because I do not like it or I do not agree with it or my spiritual supervisors do not endorse". And he took me to Revelation chapter 2: and 3: and he said: those are some of my best children. They are part of my Golden lampstands in chapter 1:. They are closing the door of their hearts to me when I am trying to correct something they have and they do not want to let go. And they erroneously perceived me as the enemy and they rebuke me (Jesus me) in the name of Jesus Christ.

It's not whether you are right on in some things and not in others. We should consider that feelings are the center of our faith and they are sometimes most important than everything else and this is why God made us to feel so our feelings can overpower our stubborn mind sometimes. And feelings can help us to see our self of being in the wrong or quilts of something and when the Holy Spirit is letting us know about the wrong we have done there is no way that we can find a place to hide. I am going to stop here. The peace and serenity and warmth in our heart Jesus Christ gives like no other in the world. The security we have in Jesus Christ gives a peace in our heart and Joy unspeakable full of glory. And thanksgiving for the Cross.

John 21:25 is saying that all the miracle Jesus Christ did during his ministry before the Cross are not recorded in the Gospel of John. And the disciples and a lot of other people were the witnesses. Jesus Christ did the miracles in open space in public in the presence of many witnesses. @LastDaysJames said that Jesus Christ did not make miracles before his baptism in the Jordan River and the descending of the Holy Spirit upon him. What does he want to say with that? One of the things is that Jesus Christ did not have the power to do miracles before his baptism in the Jordan River. And his baptism by the Holy Spirit at the Jordan River. For one thing we do not have any record of Jesus Christ doing a public miracle before these events at the Jordan River. What we have is that Jesus preach from place to place "repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand". And without reference to any miracles. And we do not have any knowledge of what Jesus was telling them at that time. Now. We come to the other suggestion of him trying to apply that to the believers of Jesus Christ. Which needs to be discussed.

Yes and no. We can't make it an absolute that this is and this is all. That dark nights are nights of torment and anguish. I will stop there. The dark nights are the nights when someone is in so much pain more he can bear and wish that he was not born.

In this passage of scriptural facts Peter and John went to Samaria because a lot of people believed by the preaching of the Gospel by Philip who did amongs them a lot of miraculous things. Those who believed they were baptized in the name of Jesus Christ BUT non of them had received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. Then Peter and John prayed for them and when they place their hands on their heads THEY RECEIVED the HOLY SPIRIT. Acts 8:14-24 niv 14 When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John to Samaria. 15 When they arrived, they prayed for the new believers there that they might receive the Holy Spirit, 16 because the Holy Spirit had not yet come on any of them; they had simply been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. 17 Then Peter and John placed their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit. 18 When Simon saw that the Spirit was given at the laying on of the apostles’ hands, 19 said, “Give me also this ability so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit.

9 One night the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision: “Do not be afraid; keep on speaking, do not be silent. 10 For I am with you, and no one is going to attack and harm you, because I have many people in this city.” 11 So Paul stayed in Corinth for a year and a half, teaching them the word of God.

We have John 16:8 posted below active in the life of Paul during the time when he was persecuting the disciples of Jesus Christ. We can tell that from the testimony of Jesus when he said to Paul on the way to Damascus the following in Acts 9:5-6 and from Paul's response to him. 5 And he said, “Who are You, Lord?” Then the Lord said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. It is hard for you to kick against the goads.” 6 So he, trembling and astonished, said, “Lord, what do You want me to do?” Paul had heard the testimony of Jesus Christ or the Gospel from disciples whom he persecuted who knew the scriptures and the Holy Spirit was at work with him but he resisted wanting further proof. This is why Jesus told him "It is hard for you to kick against the goads" which revealed to Paul that the Lord knew his thoughts all along. Goads definition: a spiked stick used for driving cattle. Used to plow the ground. John 16:8 New Living Translation And when he comes, he will convict the world of its sin, and of God’s righteousness, and of the coming judgment. English Standard Version And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment:

Acts 9:17 And Ananias went his way and entered the house; and laying his hands on him he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you came, has sent me that you may receive your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.

When the time has come and the Lord wants to be the one to guide you or when He is trying to tell you that you are looking for him through other people trying to draw from them and you have given them the place you should gave given to him these things will happen to you to get to know that they cannot give you what you need because they do not have what Jesus has for you. Jesus is trying to get you to distance your self from them. To brake loose from your reliance to them. Jesus wants to be the one to quide you and he is trying to isolate you from anyone else and to look up only to him. He has set you apart, he wants you to be independent from your reliance to others. The seasons have change. He wants to take you away from the people you relied for your spiritual growth. He wants to be the one because they have taken his place in your life and he has something else for you and only you can find it in him.

@LastDaysJames You may have your spiritual experiences and your understanding but God also is working in mysterious ways and we are not the ones to say that he is working only in this way and not in anyother way. Jesus is free to help his children in the way they are asking. Jesus on his own is free to help his children in a way He knows it is beneficial to them without them asking. Also the Holy Spirit knows what we need and prays for us. The Holy Spirit is working in the unbelievers to help them and to bring them to faith in Jesus Christ. Also unbelievers are healed from Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit is the one who is helping unbelievers to see the need to have their sins forgiven in Jesus Christ. Judge not the work of the Holy Spirit in the life of a believer and also in the life of an unbeliever to help him to see the need to believe in Jesus Christ.

The question was when someone is born from above. Or when someone is born from God. Please make a comment about this specific matter. Born again is it the same as born from God or from above is it not. And we can use the "born from above from God" where it says "Born again". Is it correct to do that?

I like that you are bold to take up challenging questions.

We accept your testimony about your experiences as you were growing up in a Christian family and Christian community. Did you grow up in a Catholic tolerant community? Or it was something contrary to that and you had come to believe that you need to be on a mission to saved the Catholics. What the Bible says? Are not the Catholics born from above? From God?

We should continue with the issues at hand. Just make it simple and just quote the post as every other poster does. Make it simple please. I want to go back and respond to the issues at hand..

This time it's just my post. But why red. I did not have red ink.