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    My mother

    in Prayer Requests

    Posted

    On 3/21/2020 at 8:48 PM, john14:6 said:

    Hi Chris, this is John from CF & RF. I am posting some links to Dr Erwin Lutzer's sermons & articles. The last link is a video about predestination, which he explains, and he does not teach predestination. He explains it the way it should be understood. Hope your mother will benefit from these sermons/teachings.

    I am praying for you and for your mother.

    1. https://www.jashow.org/articles/how-can-you-be-sure-that-you-will-spend-eternity-with-godprogram-1/

    2.https://www.jashow.org/articles/how-can-you-be-sure-that-you-will-spend-eternity-with-godprogram-2/

    3.https://www.jashow.org/articles/how-can-you-be-sure-that-you-will-spend-eternity-with-godprogram-3/

    4.https://www.jashow.org/articles/how-can-you-be-sure-that-you-will-spend-eternity-with-godprogram-4/

    5.https://www.lightsource.com/ministry/running-to-win/the-gift-of-predestination-511369.html?nlsu=1

     

    John

    Thank you.

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    My mother

    in Prayer Requests

    Posted

    On 3/12/2020 at 10:44 AM, Daniel Marsh said:

    If she lives in a Senior Apartment Complex,  find out who the visiting minister is and ask them to visit her -- next time they are in the building. 

    She doesn't. She lives at home. I did share with her that our church is doing online streaming and she was receptive to that.

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    My mother

    in Prayer Requests

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    Hi everyone. My mother is having repeated fainting spells. This is her second hospital visit in a couple months' time. But the bigger issue is that she is not saved. Please, if you would, pray for her salvation. Thank you!

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    Seared conscience

    in Do you want to just ask a question?

    Posted

    On 2/11/2020 at 2:35 PM, other one said:

    Well from my point of view, either you came here to pull our chain, or you do really care.   So I personally will ask the Holy Spirit to mess with you and your life until you realize your position and ask the Father to draw you to Jesus...    If I had some major plan to make you want to spend eternity with Jesus I'd have a huge following and a mega church of real Christians that would spread all over the world.              But I don't.   All I can do is tell people about Jesus and let the Holy Spirit do his work...  

    My guess is that the time just isn't right for you...   maybe I'm wrong and you really are just here to pull my chain...    we'll see.

    So how's life in general going for you?  

    Life in general is ok, great really, except for that I spend a lot of time trying to avoid sin and thinking about how to get to Jesus, and how impossible it is in my current position.

    Seared conscience

    in Do you want to just ask a question?

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    On 2/11/2020 at 2:19 PM, maryjayne said:

    at this point, it doesnt matter.

    All that matters is your relationship with Jesus Christ. Can you give me some idea about how you are praying and what you are praying about?

    Have you told Jesus that you realise you cant stop sinning on your own, and you need Him in your life, and the strength and comfort of the Holy Spirit?

    Sometimes we can pray repeatedly, but not in a way that is heard by God. A bit like writing a letter, but sending it to the wrong address.

    Keep hanging on in there, you are doing well.

    Yes, my prayers are probably going to the wrong address. Must be the reason nothing has happened.

    Seared conscience

    in Do you want to just ask a question?

    Posted

    On 2/11/2020 at 2:35 PM, other one said:

    Well from my point of view, either you came here to pull our chain, or you do really care.   So I personally will ask the Holy Spirit to mess with you and your life until you realize your position and ask the Father to draw you to Jesus...    If I had some major plan to make you want to spend eternity with Jesus I'd have a huge following and a mega church of real Christians that would spread all over the world.              But I don't.   All I can do is tell people about Jesus and let the Holy Spirit do his work...  

    My guess is that the time just isn't right for you...   maybe I'm wrong and you really are just here to pull my chain...    we'll see.

    So how's life in general going for you?  

    When I first started doubting over a year and a half ago, I could barely sleep, I lost about 80 pounds, I quit visiting dirty websites and doing what accompanies that, etc. But all of that is in vain because my attitude towards God needs to change. Seems I am willing to do anything to avoid hell except the only thing that really can cause me to avoid hell. Which is why I am growing more certain day by day that I have committed the unpardonable sin and that I am going to hell. Because of my attitude toward God and my lack of desire to change. I suppose the only reason I have been hanging around is that, maybe, God will do something to wake me up, give me sight, and turn me around. But I have to genuinely want it. And I'm not sure I truly do. So, I guess I am whining about things I have no business whining about. I ought to be living profligately and doing things other than hanging around Worthy. But I can't put this down. Paul was a Jesus hating blasphemer and Jesus changed him. There has to be a way. I guess the only hope I have left is that God would answer someone's prayer on my behalf. But that hope is fading fast as well.

    Seared conscience

    in Do you want to just ask a question?

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    3 minutes ago, maryjayne said:

    at this point, it doesnt matter.

    All that matters is your relationship with Jesus Christ. Can you give me some idea about how you are praying and what you are praying about?

    Have you told Jesus that you realise you cant stop sinning on your own, and you need Him in your life, and the strength and comfort of the Holy Spirit?

    Sometimes we can pray repeatedly, but not in a way that is heard by God. A bit like writing a letter, but sending it to the wrong address.

    Keep hanging on in there, you are doing well.

    I guess all that's left for me to sin it up and pay the price when it's all over. I don't have the attitudes that @Thess described, I don't know whether I really give a hoot as @other one was mentioning. Without these correct attitudes, I cannot be heard by God, and if I cannot be heard, then it's all over unless by some miracle He intervenes, but He won't because I have free will to choose, but I don't have free will since I cannot come unless I am drawn...

    Seared conscience

    in Do you want to just ask a question?

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    14 minutes ago, maryjayne said:

    How have you been asking, and how long have you been asking?

    Sometimes it is a gradual change of mind and heart. Not everyone has a big moment of instant realisation.

    A bit over a year and a half. All kinds of prayers. Trying hard to quit sins (and a lot of failing). The problem must be me. I really don't know what to do. He isn't listening.

    Seared conscience

    in Do you want to just ask a question?

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    1 minute ago, Thess said:

    The only way a person can come to God is if God enables him. Pray that God would enable you. Pray that God would teach you all Truth, and asap.

    True prayer with the right intentions is impossible too. I have been asking for this for over a year and nothing. I am praying to the wall. God isn't listening because I don't think I want to leave my sin. Which also boggles me because I don't think I really enjoy it all that much. Or maybe I am suppressing my sinful desires. I don't know. But this is a bad place.

    Seared conscience

    in Do you want to just ask a question?

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    5 hours ago, missmuffet said:

    I will address the topic of a seared conscience.

    Question: "What does it mean to have a seared conscience?"

    Answer:     The Bible speaks of a seared conscience in 1 Timothy 4:2. The conscience is the God-given moral consciousness within each of us (Romans 2:15). If the conscience is “seared”—literally “cauterized”—then it has been rendered insensitive. Such a conscience does not work properly; it’s as if “spiritual scar tissue” has dulled the sense of right and wrong. Just as the hide of an animal scarred with a branding iron becomes numb to further pain, so the heart of an individual with a seared conscience is desensitized to moral pangs.

    Paul identifies those who have a seared conscience in 1 Timothy 4:1–2: “The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron.” In this passage, we learn three things about false teachers who lead others into apostasy: 1) they are mouthpieces for evil spirits, since they promulgate “things taught by demons”; 2) they are hypocritical liars, since they wear a mask of holiness but are full of falsehood; and 3) they are unscrupulous, since their consciences have been cauterized. This explains much. How can false teachers lie with no shame and spread deception with no compunction? Because they have seared consciences. They are past feeling that lying is wrong.

    Earlier in the epistle, Paul speaks of the “good conscience” as opposed to the seared conscience. “Advancing God’s work,” he says, comes by faith, and love “comes from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith” (1 Timothy 1:4–5). A good conscience has the capability to tell right from wrong and is free from guilt. A person with a good conscience maintains his integrity. He enjoys fellowship with those who “walk in the light, as [Jesus] is in the light” (1 John 1:7). The lies of the devil are anathema to the one with a good conscience. Rather than follow the lies of apostates, he will “fight the battle well, holding on to faith and a good conscience” (1 Timothy 1:18–19).

    Proverbs 6:27 asks a rhetorical question to illustrate the consequences of adultery: “Can a man scoop fire into his lap / without his clothes being burned?” To paraphrase the question in relation to false teaching, “Can an apostate dispense the fiery lies of hell without his conscience being seared?”

    https://www.gotquestions.org/seared-conscience.html

    I didn't see the date on this. Whoops. Didn't realize it was that old. But how does one with a seared conscience even truly seek God? Or even want to? Because if I am honest with myself, that is where I am. And that is the sign that someone has crossed God's line and there is no way back, even while they still draw breath.

    Seared conscience

    in Do you want to just ask a question?

    Posted

    On 7/27/2017 at 10:20 AM, Tyler22 said:

    I have a seared conscience.  There's no ifs and or buts.  But I'm still a human being.  I would like to ask a few questions.  Why did God give us free will?  I know I'm going to hell.  I am just seeking what I'm headed for.  Can you tell me?  Will I at least have the comfort of knowing that I deserved this?

    Following. I'm there too.

    To Those Who Blasphemed Against the HS..

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    On 2/4/2020 at 5:47 AM, Sonshine said:

    ....and here is yet another place where I believe the unpardonable sin is being discussed, regarding those who would fall away after once being enlightened and convicted by the Holy Spirit.  

    Hebrews 6:4-6 King James Version (KJV)

    4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,

    5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,

    6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

    And this is what I believe I have done and that it is impossible to repent. Why? Because I fell away and put Him to open shame. The desire is gone. All of it. Which is why I have been posting about my wife and kids. There is hopefully a chance for them, but I don't think I am among those God elected.

    Unpardonable?

    in Theology

    Posted

    On 11/29/2019 at 9:51 PM, Willa said:

    I was backslidden when our first son was born.   Knowing that my influence would only last a few years and then their dad would be the big influence, I first started again following Christ, and then started praying for my husband's salvation.  It took a few yeas since he had been pretty hardened and enslaved in sin.  But he first asked God to help him and then told me he didn't know why he had waited so long.  He had peace!.  He was baptized 6 months later and then our sons started begging to be baptized as well.  45 years later they and their families are serving God.

    Your family certainly will follow your leadership.  It may even influence their children.  That is why an unsaved person's sins are visited on their children down to the 3rd and 4th generations.  It is the ungodly influence on them.  So I am asking God to also make you a godly influence on your children.  So don't lie to Him, tell Him exactly how your feel and why.  Then pray "God have mercy on me, a sinner",  You only need to ask God to make you willing.  God is good at that.  

    Willa, I'm glad this worked out for your family. Would you please be willing to petition God on behalf of my family? I am an evil man, a wolf in disguise. Please pray that a godly man or person, I don't care, would be put into this family for my wife and children. I don't care if it means my life on this Earth is shortened and I go to hell. God will not listen to someone in my condition - there are many verses that attest to that. So, please ask Him on my behalf if you are willing. Thank you.

    A godly father for my children

    in Prayer Requests

    Posted

    Hi everyone, I would like to request prayer for my wife and children. My wife needs a godly husband and my children need a godly father. I lied to her about being a Christian (because I was lying to myself) and about my sexual past. This request is purely selfish, I admit. It's about trying to keep my family from going to hell (or trying to spare them the consequences of my sin), not necessarily about God or His glory. I don't care how He answers this prayer, whether He knocks me off and gives my family someone else, or if He decides to wake me up and save me. There are many verses that say that someone in my condition cannot pray and expect to be heard by God. So, I am asking for your help in petitioning God for them. Thank you. 

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    Grace: God's Grace to Nebuchadnezzar

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    On 1/29/2020 at 8:43 AM, bcbsr said:

    God's Grace to Nebuchadnezzar

    The king of Babylon was an idolator. And just as God sent Jonah to Ninevah, he sent Daniel to king Nebuchadnezzar. But Daniel went willingly and not only so, he cared about the king. Much like many people in power or rich, Nebuchadnezzar attributed his success to himself, which was the sin of pride.

    Daniel interpreted a dream God gave the king saying, "This is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree the Most High has issued against my lord the king: You will be driven away from people and will live with the wild animals; you will eat grass like cattle and be drenched with the dew of heaven. Seven times will pass by for you until you acknowledge that the Most High is sovereign over the kingdoms of men and gives them to anyone he wishes. The command to leave the stump of the tree with its roots means that your kingdom will be restored to you when you acknowledge that Heaven rules. Therefore, O king, be pleased to accept my advice: Renounce your sins by doing what is right, and your wickedness by being kind to the oppressed. It may be that then your prosperity will continue." Dan 4:23-27

    God graciously gave him a whole year to repent. But he neglected to do so, finally saying, "Is not this the great Babylon I have built as the royal residence, by my mighty power and for the glory of my majesty?" The words were still on his lips when a voice came from heaven, "This is what is decreed for you, King Nebuchadnezzar: Your royal authority has been taken from you. You will be driven away from people and will live with the wild animals; you will eat grass like cattle. Seven times (years) will pass by for you until you acknowledge that the Most High is sovereign over the kingdoms of men and gives them to anyone he wishes." Dan 4:30-32

    But after 7 years of punishment this pagan king declared, "I praised the Most High; I honored and glorified him who lives forever. His dominion is an eternal dominion; his kingdom endures from generation to generation. All the peoples of the earth are regarded as nothing. He does as he pleases with the powers of heaven and the peoples of the earth." Dan 4:34,35

    If God can do that with such a person, maybe he can do likewise for your unbelieving friends or relatives.

    The Berean Christian Bible Study Resources

    I have been hoping for a good humbling from God (at least I think I do). I can only hope He will do this to me before I die. If not...well... won't be pretty.

    Family Salvation

    in Prayer Requests

    Posted

    @Neighbor this is mostly about my family at this point. I am pretty certain it's too late for me to be saved because I lived in sin for so long after professing to believe in Jesus and now the desire to go to Him is gone. So the basic issue is that I lived for so long in a state of rejection and I've gotten so hardened that I won't go to Him. I've already discussed my issues in a couple of threads on here. One is called Unpardonable? and the other is called Hardened Beyond Repentance?. Per Hebrews 6/10 this is what happens when God has been so angered that He withdraws forever. I don't want my family to go to hell because of my influence. I don't really want to discuss anything here, just please - this is about them. I'm going to hell, I just don't want them to go with me, and only God can do anything about that. Please pray for them. I'm not struggling. I know exactly what is going on. I was wrong to say that. I don't want to discuss further, especially since this is a prayer space. Just please, know that I am a wicked man and...I don't know. 

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