Formula for Life 6-28-21

[Guest]

16 minutes ago, AandW_Rootbeer said:

What amazes me about your number one and first rule being Faith, is that we know God gave us this Faith to first believe in Him and then we are to use it.   

 

But I just looked up some statistics pertaining to those around the world professing to be Christian.   In 2020, the polls indicated that out of 8 billion+ people, only 31.11% identify as Christian.   That is 1/3 of the current modern day population claiming that God gave them the Faith to believe and to utilize.   

Christianity

2.382 billion

31.11%

 

Why I feel this number/percentage is important.   

If there are actually 31% of the total population having the Faith to believe in God, it also proves the numbers/percentage are even lower of those living by Faith and utilizing Faith in this world.   31% of true Believers utilizing their Faith in God would most definitely move mountains and the world would not be in the current condition that it is.   That is a Testimonial I am sure that saddens God very deeply!

Without faith, it is impossible to please Him.

[AandW_Rootbeer]

13 minutes ago, Saved.One.by.Grace said:

Without faith, it is impossible to please Him.

If all 2.382 billion people professing to be Christian ever utilized the Faith God gave unto them, this world would be on fire for God and the number of Christians would be doubled.   But since we know not every Believer in Christ is utilizing the Faith given unto them, God is definitely not pleased.   Unfortunately, only a few of the 2.382 billion professing believers are actually Pleasing God with their Faith.

[Arrabon]

58 minutes ago, AandW_Rootbeer said:

What amazes me about your number one and first rule being Faith, is that we know God gave us this Faith to first believe in Him and then we are to use it.   

But I just looked up some statistics pertaining to those around the world professing to be Christian.   In 2020, the polls indicated that out of 8 billion+ people, only 31.11% identify as Christian.   That is 1/3 of the current modern day population claiming that God gave them the Faith to believe and to utilize.   

Christianity

2.382 billion

31.11%

 

Why I feel this number/percentage is important.   

If there are actually 31% of the total population having the Faith to believe in God, it also proves the numbers/percentage are even lower of those living by Faith and utilizing Faith in this world.   31% of true Believers utilizing their Faith in God would most definitely move mountains and the world would not be in the current condition that it is.   That is a Testimonial I am sure that saddens God very deeply!

@AandW_Rootbeer my brother.

Matthew 7:13-14

The Narrow and Wide Gates

13 “Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. 14 For the gate is narrow and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are FEW who find it." 

Luke 13:23-24

23 "And someone said to Him, “Lord, are there just a few who are being saved?” And He said to them, 24 “Strive to enter through the narrow door; for "MANY" I tell you, will seek and will not be able."

What you hear the world say about what the statistics are about who is a Christian, and what even the church says mistakenly, are mostly opposed to what God says above in those 2 verses.

That one word "FEW" many hate, and won't even talk about it.

 

Hebrews 4:12

12 "For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart."

 

 

[AandW_Rootbeer]

41 minutes ago, Arrabon said:

@AandW_Rootbeer my brother.

Matthew 7:13-14

The Narrow and Wide Gates

13 “Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. 14 For the gate is narrow and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are FEW who find it." 

Luke 13:23-24

23 "And someone said to Him, “Lord, are there just a few who are being saved?” And He said to them, 24 “Strive to enter through the narrow door; for "MANY" I tell you, will seek and will not be able."

What you hear the world say about what the statistics are about who is a Christian, and what even the church says mistakenly, are mostly opposed to what God says above in those 2 verses.

That one word "FEW" many hate, and won't even talk about it.

 

Hebrews 4:12

12 "For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart."

 

 

Wonderful Scriptural References indeed.

And sadly enough, those Verses confirm that those 2.382 billion professing Christians aren't really true Followers of Christ in every sense of what a Believer should be.

[Arrabon]

@AandW_Rootbeer

Your so right.

The sadist of all, is they are missing out on the greatest gift mankind has ever been given, the gift to personally know and to honestly and genuinely love God, and be loved so kindly in return by Him.

It's sometimes hard to believe I was one of them at one time, and yet at times my own actions or thoughts will betray my feelings of gratitude and blessings from God, when the man of flesh rises up in me, and I am reminded how hard it is to stay on that "narrow path."

1 Peter 4:18

18 "And, “If it is with great difficulty for the righteous to be saved,
    what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?"

It's so easy to become settled in to the confidence of our faith, and then be suddenly knocked of our pins of that confidence, by a temptation or trial that challenges everything in our faith, and we are back to enduring and growing again.

Like a lady in my neighborhood said to me just after her mom passed, and she was dealing with the pain of her loss- "What do people do without the Lord?" AMEN AND AMEN!! I would be totally "LOST."!!

Blessings in the lord my friend.

My name is Arrabon

 

Edited June 29, 2021 by Arrabon