Marathoner Posted March 22, 2023 Group: Royal Member Followers: 16 Topic Count: 73 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 10,388 Content Per Day: 7.12 Reputation: 13,477 Days Won: 99 Joined: 05/24/2020 Status: Offline Share Posted March 22, 2023 ............. ..................................................................... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vine Abider Posted March 22, 2023 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 6 Topic Count: 207 Topics Per Day: 0.36 Content Count: 3,506 Content Per Day: 6.12 Reputation: 2,354 Days Won: 3 Joined: 10/25/2022 Status: Offline Birthday: 04/01/2024 Author Share Posted March 22, 2023 51 minutes ago, Marathoner said: ............. ..................................................................... Does this mean my pontifications put you to sleep? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alive Posted March 22, 2023 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 22 Topic Count: 194 Topics Per Day: 0.11 Content Count: 11,054 Content Per Day: 6.46 Reputation: 9,018 Days Won: 36 Joined: 09/12/2019 Status: Offline Birthday: 01/09/1956 Share Posted March 22, 2023 13 minutes ago, Vine Abider said: Does this mean my pontifications put you to sleep? I like theway the last one wraps up the others. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnOrangeCat Posted March 22, 2023 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 5 Topic Count: 57 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1,422 Content Per Day: 0.27 Reputation: 1,849 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/24/2009 Status: Online Share Posted March 22, 2023 6 hours ago, Vine Abider said: This morning in my "quiet time" (not always so quiet . . .) I considered what are the main facts that I should live by in this Christian life. I came up with five facts that I can, so to speak, "take to the bank." Here they are: 1. He loves us beyond measure! 2. He died to set us free! 3. He now lives in us! 4. My job is simply learning to let Him live and operate in and through me! 5. He will return soon in bodily form to fully manifest His kingdom on earth - with and through His saints! Amen to this. I like to focus on a lot of this stuff when speaking to people who believe the Bible has suffered from translation issues and the like over the ages. Even if someone wants to believe that I feel like there's a strong core narrative to be found that's so consistent you can't miss it. Your five facts nail that core narrative IMO. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vine Abider Posted March 22, 2023 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 6 Topic Count: 207 Topics Per Day: 0.36 Content Count: 3,506 Content Per Day: 6.12 Reputation: 2,354 Days Won: 3 Joined: 10/25/2022 Status: Offline Birthday: 04/01/2024 Author Share Posted March 22, 2023 6 hours ago, Vine Abider said: 4. My job is simply learning to let Him live and operate in and through me! 4 hours ago, Marathoner said: There is so much to the above that some could write dissertations for months using this simple statement as a starting point. Here are some scriptural truths seeded in that statement: Walking in the Spirit is there; Loving the Lord is certainly included; Loving our neighbor as ourselves is expressed; Being conformed to the image of the Son of God is implied; Serving others as Christ serves us is contained therein; All without the need to delve into any of the above with painstaking detail. An economy of words is pleasing to the Lord! Yes, all true. That point (#4) is much of what is written about in the epistles - leaning to see who He has really made us, and how to walk in that reality! Much, much unpacking here, to be sure! But I like concise summary statements that I can get my noodle of a brain around . . . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marathoner Posted March 22, 2023 Group: Royal Member Followers: 16 Topic Count: 73 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 10,388 Content Per Day: 7.12 Reputation: 13,477 Days Won: 99 Joined: 05/24/2020 Status: Offline Share Posted March 22, 2023 3 hours ago, Vine Abider said: Does this mean my pontifications put you to sleep? On the contrary! That was a humorous nod to the "8 CD set" you referred to in a different topic. The five points you made in the OP are brief, concise, and frugal where words are concerned. Isn't this how the Lord Himself leads and teaches us? One step at a time, Precept upon precept, From glory to glory, conforming us to His image through the Spirit of the Lord. One lesson at a time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tristen Posted March 23, 2023 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 9 Topic Count: 3 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 2,388 Content Per Day: 0.63 Reputation: 1,361 Days Won: 1 Joined: 01/26/2014 Status: Offline Share Posted March 23, 2023 6 hours ago, Marathoner said: There is so much to the above that some could write dissertations for months using this simple statement as a starting point. Pretty sure there's already a certain "dissertation" containing all the relevant information. A very good source of study and reflection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sower Posted March 23, 2023 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 14 Topic Count: 32 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 5,275 Content Per Day: 0.97 Reputation: 5,901 Days Won: 1 Joined: 07/09/2009 Status: Online Share Posted March 23, 2023 5 Main Irrefutable Facts (for me) Good stuff, Vine Abider. But that one verse I hid in my heart so long ago keeps coming to mind. “If you love Me, keep My commandments … He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me" … Basic and simple. How/what to do this is also simple; (well, mostly:) Love the Lord Love my Neighbors On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.” 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vine Abider Posted March 23, 2023 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 6 Topic Count: 207 Topics Per Day: 0.36 Content Count: 3,506 Content Per Day: 6.12 Reputation: 2,354 Days Won: 3 Joined: 10/25/2022 Status: Offline Birthday: 04/01/2024 Author Share Posted March 23, 2023 12 hours ago, Sower said: 5 Main Irrefutable Facts (for me) Good stuff, Vine Abider. But that one verse I hid in my heart so long ago keeps coming to mind. “If you love Me, keep My commandments … He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me" … Basic and simple. How/what to do this is also simple; (well, mostly:) Love the Lord Love my Neighbors On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.” Amen! I see this in the learning to let His life operate in and through me. I know I can't live the Christian life or keep His commandments apart from Him - that is, is Spirit operating in me. Only one person ever successfully lived the Christian life, Jesus Christ. And now He's in us to live that life through us! It's ALL of Him and apart from Him . . . well we know! (but we have to be constantly reminded of this - or at least I do) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sower Posted March 23, 2023 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 14 Topic Count: 32 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 5,275 Content Per Day: 0.97 Reputation: 5,901 Days Won: 1 Joined: 07/09/2009 Status: Online Share Posted March 23, 2023 39 minutes ago, Vine Abider said: Only one person ever successfully lived the Christian life, Jesus Christ. And now He's in us to live that life through us! If I could only remember, (and know it), death is the emancipation, we/I died to sin. "Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?" KJV ("Or have you forgotten that when we were joined with Christ Jesus in baptism, we joined him in his death?") NLT Romans 6, 3 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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