Whom He Wills, He Hardens

[Your closest friendnt]

1 hour ago, Mr. M said:

Or, how to be blessed in our lives, as the beatitudes propose. "they will be called" means that is how they are recognized by others, as in "you will know them by their fruit".  

Impossible. Only found in Christ. You are the only one proposing that someone should "look inside themselves".

This is exactly what the apostles and the prophets preached. It is called "the Way of Peace". Look it up.

James 3:18 Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

Acts 2:38 Then Peter said to them, Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Romans 8:16 The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,

Galatians 3:26 For you are all children of God through faith in Christ Jesus. 

In Christ, we have the authority to become the children of God.

John 1:12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the authority to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: 

So what must others see in us that they would call us "children of God"?

Or is it just because we say so?

You can call yourself a Christian,

but only the Holy Spirit identifies the children. 

Romans 8:19 For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. 

I do not like messages without clarity...posted without the context...may you have the context in your head....and the reader has his own context in his head...and I spoke about someone who does not know the correct context because it is not comunicated in the post...this is why you need to post the context ...

And your personal judgment towards me it is poor...we need to avoid personal remarks rather talk about the issues at hand. 

Please do so...

To the children of God of the old Testament under the Covenant of Sinai and before the New Covenant Jesus said those words because he cannot tell them what Peter told them on the day of Pentecost because he had not die yet.

Because he could foresee that they will become violent towards him and his disciples. 

And they were expecting him as the promised King as the son of David to be swift to shed blood like David did to his enemies...they wanted him to kill the Romans to drive them away from Judaea the way David did to the Philippines...they wanted revenge and wanted to see blood the blood of Romans Shed. By their swords...well they see blood and blood was shed on the Cross and that was the redeeming blood of Jesus Christ the blood of the New Covenant...shed for the forgiveness of their sins even the sins of those who crisified him.

And Jesus practiced what he preached he prayed for them and he let them know that God will not hold against them what they had done to him. That he also died for them. 

But instead Jesus heal the Romas children and their servants and he never refused something they asked from him.

That's why some wonder why he did say "love your enemies and pray for them " when they were expecting from him to tell them how he will drive the Romans out of the Land and how he is going to fortify the city and the  country when the bulk of the army of the Roman Empire comes to retake back Jerusalem..

That's why Pilate never felt any fear from Jesus Christ...

He had heard the reports that Jesus was a healer and was also healing the Romans...and was preaching "love your enemies ".

God bless 

Edited June 24, 2023 by Your closest friendnt

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There is "one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all." (Ephesians 4:6)

And in our Lord's prayer in John 17, Jesus says He had glory with our one God and Father > "before the world was" > John 17:5.

Therefore, not only was our God and Father present during the early scripture time, but he shared in glory with Jesus His own Son "before the world was".

He has been the same God, all along. But during earlier scripture times God was preparing for Jesus to come in the flesh through the Jews. So, He kept the Jews separate from others so their national identity would not be swallowed up by inter-ethnic marriage before Jesus came through Jewish geneology.

And so He hardened Pharaoh in order to show His power > Romans 9:17. And I see showing His power includes how He was making sure the Jews did not erase themselves by marrying with Egyptians before Jesus came through them.

Therefore, God hardening Pharaoh was related to bringing grace through Jesus . . . making sure Pharaoh and his did not swallow up the Jews in marriage before Jesus brought grace through the Jews.

He will harden and/or resist people (James 4:6, 1 Peter 5:5), in order to keep illegitimates from interfering with what He has us His children doing.

So, it all has to do with grace, somehow. All has God's grace purpose.

But not all benefit from grace.

And we see how things can be for people without Jesus. They do not get very good standing. Even Jews not obeying God could get in quite a mess, before Jesus came. We see how even God's great wonders and perfect laws did not work, without Jesus. 

Therefore the early scripture events do have to do with grace > serving as a foil to bring out how things go, without Jesus, so we can appreciate how much of a difference grace makes now.