AnOrangeCat Posted November 14, 2022 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 5 Topic Count: 57 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1,422 Content Per Day: 0.27 Reputation: 1,848 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/24/2009 Status: Offline Share Posted November 14, 2022 God didn't promise us an easy time here on earth and don't expect things to change overnight. We're all works in progress. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not of the World Posted November 14, 2022 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 86 Topics Per Day: 0.15 Content Count: 1,060 Content Per Day: 1.81 Reputation: 456 Days Won: 1 Joined: 10/12/2022 Status: Offline Share Posted November 14, 2022 25 minutes ago, AnOrangeCat said: God didn't promise us an easy time here on earth... I suspect that a majority of believers in Christ are not aware of this. I certainly wasn't until a few years ago. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selah7 Posted November 14, 2022 Group: Royal Member Followers: 11 Topic Count: 56 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 2,610 Content Per Day: 2.39 Reputation: 3,183 Days Won: 11 Joined: 05/25/2021 Status: Offline Share Posted November 14, 2022 2 hours ago, Not of the World said: I suspect that a majority of believers in Christ are not aware of this. I certainly wasn't until a few years ago. I believe that most of us discover this in our toughest times. The hope of eternal life begins to take center stage. Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses. - 1 Timothy 6:12 (NKJV) Selah 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennis1209 Posted November 14, 2022 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 18 Topic Count: 349 Topics Per Day: 0.13 Content Count: 7,519 Content Per Day: 2.69 Reputation: 5,415 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/27/2016 Status: Offline Share Posted November 14, 2022 11 hours ago, Ghostdog said: what kind of advise would you give a new believer? i would tell them to not just take a christians word just because they are an older christian, look at what the bible says, pray for guidence and then decide what to follow. My advice: Acts 17:11 (KJV) These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missmuffet Posted November 14, 2022 Group: Royal Member Followers: 34 Topic Count: 1,994 Topics Per Day: 0.48 Content Count: 48,692 Content Per Day: 11.74 Reputation: 30,343 Days Won: 226 Joined: 01/11/2013 Status: Offline Share Posted November 14, 2022 11 hours ago, JohnR7 said: Satan is not really an issue because of the Blood of Jesus. All of creation is being redeemed so we are a part of that. There is a lot more involved in this than just ourselves. Satan is always as issue. But it is easy for us to go back to living in the flesh. It takes a lot of time to become a born again Christian and devote your whole life to Jesus. It was gradual for me. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not of the World Posted November 14, 2022 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 86 Topics Per Day: 0.15 Content Count: 1,060 Content Per Day: 1.81 Reputation: 456 Days Won: 1 Joined: 10/12/2022 Status: Offline Share Posted November 14, 2022 3 hours ago, Dennis1209 said: ...and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so. I find myself doing this all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not of the World Posted November 14, 2022 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 86 Topics Per Day: 0.15 Content Count: 1,060 Content Per Day: 1.81 Reputation: 456 Days Won: 1 Joined: 10/12/2022 Status: Offline Share Posted November 14, 2022 19 minutes ago, missmuffet said: Satan is always as issue. But it is easy for us to go back to living in the flesh. It takes a lot of time to become a born again Christian and devote your whole life to Jesus. It was gradual for me. You're so right. It's not easy for me to stay on the narrow path prescribed by Christ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marathoner Posted November 14, 2022 Group: Royal Member Followers: 16 Topic Count: 72 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 10,373 Content Per Day: 7.12 Reputation: 13,435 Days Won: 99 Joined: 05/24/2020 Status: Offline Share Posted November 14, 2022 17 hours ago, Ghostdog said: what kind of advise would you give a new believer? i would tell them to not just take a christians word just because they are an older christian, look at what the bible says, pray for guidence and then decide what to follow. Empty themselves out and die. It took a very long time and no small measure of tribulation to finally grasp what the Lord required of me: everything. I didn't comprehend this in the beginning. I didn't understand... and I must say that it was good that I didn't. It was better that way. The Lord has His way with us all. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selah7 Posted November 14, 2022 Group: Royal Member Followers: 11 Topic Count: 56 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 2,610 Content Per Day: 2.39 Reputation: 3,183 Days Won: 11 Joined: 05/25/2021 Status: Offline Share Posted November 14, 2022 18 hours ago, Ghostdog said: what kind of advise would you give a new believer? i would tell them to not just take a christians word just because they are an older christian, look at what the bible says, pray for guidence and then decide what to follow. Amen, Ghostdog, and Luke 24:46-47 is an incredible verse because Jesus, our great Teacher, even specifies what we are to teach a new believer: Then He said to them, "Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. - Luke 24:46-47 Selah 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not of the World Posted November 15, 2022 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 86 Topics Per Day: 0.15 Content Count: 1,060 Content Per Day: 1.81 Reputation: 456 Days Won: 1 Joined: 10/12/2022 Status: Offline Share Posted November 15, 2022 I've used this on various social media sites and it has been my hope that this message will intrigue readers to look further into this. We don't live for this life or this world but, rather, the life and world to come. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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