tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-316647162024-03-15T18:11:04.371-07:00Surph's SideI believe in God. I also believe God. “Discernment is not simply a matter of telling the difference between what is right and wrong; rather it is the difference between right and almost right.” -Charles Spurgeon. Scripture is my authority for all things regarding to life and godliness. 2 Cor.10:5 We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of ChristDenisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14770822482205703050noreply@blogger.comBlogger3626125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31664716.post-11533877998652488032024-02-10T17:14:00.000-08:002024-02-10T17:14:35.432-08:00New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) and Politics<p> Here's a glimpse into what the NAR is about:</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #4e4e4e; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">One of the New Apostolic
Reformation’s (NAR) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>founders, </span>C.
Peter <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://herescope.blogspot.com/2011/10/c-peter-wagner.html"><span style="background: white; color: #3885a8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Wagner, </span></a><span style="background: white; color: #4e4e4e;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">and its leaders like HRock’s Che Ahn, deny the
absolute sufficiency and authority of Scripture. </span></span><span style="background: white; color: #214265; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Built on false
prophets and prophecies, it has an occultic aspect (personal psychic
readings aka "personal prophetic word")<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">, along with the "signs",
"wonders", "prophets", "apostles" and their
"authority" over people not in their own churches.</span> They also believe
in grave soaking (going to graves to get an anointing from the dead). It was
born out of the Charismatic Movement and the Word of Faith Movement. </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #4e4e4e; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">NAR believes that by influencing
every area (as they see it) of society, it will bring Jesus down to earth
(hence their "7 Mountains" of influence they seek to take dominion in:
</span><span style="background: white; color: #081c2a; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">government, arts, finances, education,
religion, family, and entertainment/media</span>).</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://herescope.net/2011/10/c-peter-wagner.html " target="_blank">Herescope reported</a>:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="background: white;"><span style="color: #181516; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">"Wagner’s eschatology is also based on <b>marketing’s
“critical mass” theory</b> — he believes that when they (his NAR) “restore” this
“kingdom” and enforce “his will be done on earth”<i> </i>that<i> </i>then the
paradigm will shift.<b> He says “<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">when</i> that
happens enough, Jesus will return.”</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin-block: 0px 0.9rem; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #181516; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">This is parallel to the esoteric (New Age) idea that there will
be a cosmic <a href="http://www.crossroad.to/glossary/church/na_terms.htm" style="box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: var( --e-global-color-7f81d15 );"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">spiritual shift</span></a> where
man becomes a co-creator in his own destiny, and a co-redeemer of the planet
earth. <a href="https://herescope.net/2007/07/as-in-heaven-so-on-earth.html" style="box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: var( --e-global-color-7f81d15 );"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Elsewhere</span></a> on
this blog we have <a href="https://herescope.net/2010/10/emerging-order.html" style="box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: var( --e-global-color-7f81d15 );"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">written extensively</span></a> about this view.
<b>In this eschatology the return of Jesus hinges upon everyone on the planet
become aligned to <a href="https://herescope.net/2008/03/great-heretical-idea.html" style="box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: var( --e-global-color-7f81d15 );"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">the kingdom shift</span></a>.
</b>The NAR’s impotent Jesus is stuck in heaven. He can’t act until we reach a
planetary “critical mass.” Which also accounts for the frenetic prayer warfare
activity to try to bring heaven to earth."<br /><br />But the biblical Christ Jesus said:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">John 18:36<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"> Jesus answered, </span>“My kingdom is not of this world. If
my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I
might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world.”<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"> <br /><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">2Co 10:3 For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. </p><p class="MsoNormal">2Co 10:4 For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">The book of Revelations also shows how utterly degenerate and destructive the Tribulation will be at the very end of history. The last three and a half years of the Tribulation under the rule of the Lawless One will be horrific as he commands all people to take the mark of the beast and worship him. The judgements of God will fall down on all humanity, and even then, they will refuse to submit to God and repent, and instead gnash their teeth in rage against Him. We also see the slaughter of the believers during the Tribulation, for the sake of the testimony of Jesus---this is hardly the pagan utopia NAR is trying to sell people. <br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">2Ti 3:12 Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, 13 while evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. <br /><br />Feminist occultic mystics have no place to lead our country (I saw one trying in the state of California, running for state senator as a Republican). Their minds are not working properly as they have openly submitted to the occult and mystic practices and are deceitful on many levels. </p>Denisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14770822482205703050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31664716.post-44761353657811283482024-01-31T09:38:00.000-08:002024-01-31T09:38:23.754-08:00Compromise and Lose Your Testimony Later<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">You lose your ability & integrity to stand for truth later, if you compromise with wickedness now.</span></p>Denisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14770822482205703050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31664716.post-48232265769506229872024-01-30T09:16:00.000-08:002024-01-30T09:16:51.512-08:00Lot, Jude, Peter, and Paul: the disposition of the Christian toward sodomy<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Rom 1:32 <b>Though they know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.</b> </span> </span></p><p><br /></p><p>The true Christian's disposition toward sodomy should align with Peter's, Lot's and Jude's:<br /><br /></p><p>Jud 1:22 And have mercy on those who doubt; 23 save others by snatching them out of the fire; to others show mercy <b>with fear, hating even the garment stained by the flesh. </b></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">2Pe 2:7 and if he rescued righteous <b>Lot, greatly distressed </b>by the sensual conduct of the wicked 8 (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, <b>he was tormenting his righteous soul </b>over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">He did not celebrate nor have compassion on them. Instead he gave a warning to stop their evil behavior </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Gen <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>19:7 and said, “I beg you, my brothers, <b>do not act so wickedly.</b> </div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Gen 19:9 But they said, “Stand back!” And they said, <b>“This fellow came to sojourn, and he has become the judge! Now we will deal worse with you than with them.</b>” Then they pressed hard against the man Lot, and drew near to break the door down.</div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">
Those who stand with the righteous men of faith of old:
<br /></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Heb 11:7 By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith. </span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">
2Ti 3:12 Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, 13 while evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
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Eph 5:6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
Eph 5:7 <b>Therefore do not become partners with them</b>;
Eph 5:8 for at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light
Eph 5:9 (for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true),
Eph 5:10 and try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord.
Eph 5:11 <b>Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. </b>
Eph 5:12 <b>For it is shameful even to speak of the things that they do in secret.</b>
</div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div></div>Denisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14770822482205703050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31664716.post-38294137210317400792024-01-29T19:20:00.000-08:002024-01-29T19:20:31.656-08:00Alistair Begg Triples Down Alistair Begg triples down on his wicked foolish advice to a professing Christian grandmother to go to a grandchild's transgender/gay "wedding" and bring a gift. <a href="https://twitter.com/Protestia/status/1752136800011771910" target="_blank">Here</a> is most of the response. . <a href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/ZDXQXjugfpMK/" target="_blank">Here </a>is the full response.<div><br /></div><div>Begg entirely mishandled the Scripture regarding the prodigal son. There's nothing in common between him and a transgender/gay "wedding". The prodigal son repented in humility and returned to his father. Transgender/gay ceremonies are defiant against God and His created order and institution of marriage.<br /><br />That Begg now cannot rightly handle the Word of God, but is instead, apostatizing away from the Truth he professed necessarily means he's unfit as an elder and should've been fired. Truth is simple. Complications arise when one tries to compromise on the Truth. </div>Denisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14770822482205703050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31664716.post-35333852629534984872024-01-29T08:49:00.000-08:002024-01-29T08:49:00.816-08:00TGC Women's 2024 Conference Includes Kristie Anyabwile<p> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.03); font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">TGC is corrupt both spiritually & morally. Anyone attached to TGC is unsound & dangerous. </span></p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.03); font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Nancy Guthrie,Jen Wilkin, David Platt, Anne Voskamp are <a href="https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/tgcw24/speakers/">speakers</a> at this year's TGC women's conference. Voskamp promotes spiritual sex with her god.</span><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.03); font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.03); font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://surphside.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-fast-change-of-doctrine-grace.html">In 2018 Grace Community Church </a>showed their hand at their trajectory of joining hands with TGC. The backlash forced them to cancel, but next month the Shepherds Conference is hosting three top TGC speakers, so it shows they're still on the same track.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.03); font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.03); font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiYHJV1Tg4jTwj18GoMxlWm-TrGjvYG2Hx6w1ZgTcdxDQ3d2ZcMyRK1tA5dalM7wKCJps5anyzo9f9tInBP5P1PX6i0CaQkPemxYCSl9lB5mD9cbER3soNWsPbZpdVfWCR4dAlONlh6_YEh9OVIXF1RsB5RouICQvgDMa-rXGd1WwUWo9qnpbov" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="229" data-original-width="320" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiYHJV1Tg4jTwj18GoMxlWm-TrGjvYG2Hx6w1ZgTcdxDQ3d2ZcMyRK1tA5dalM7wKCJps5anyzo9f9tInBP5P1PX6i0CaQkPemxYCSl9lB5mD9cbER3soNWsPbZpdVfWCR4dAlONlh6_YEh9OVIXF1RsB5RouICQvgDMa-rXGd1WwUWo9qnpbov" width="320" /></a></div><br />
As I said in my post about this unification with corrupt TGC back in 2018 (it's worse now):
</span><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px;">I'm so old that I remember when MacArthur taught & wrote against evolution and for Creation in 6 literal days by God's Word.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">I'm so old that I remember when MacArthur spoke and wrote against looking to politics to change a culture.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">I'm so old that I remember when MacArthur honored law enforcement at GCC & taught on the honor and respect needed toward our government as Scripture dictates.</div><div class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 6px;">I'm so old that I remember when MacArthur wrote that down through the ages in all of Scripture (Law, Prophets, the Gospels & Epistles) God condemns homosexuality.</div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">I'm so old that I remember when MacArthur taught against the RCC.</div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">I'm so old that I remember when MacArthur and GCC taught against the Charismatic Movement and had an entire conference and book against it.</div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">Yet TGC promotes evolution, social justice, Marxism, Black Liberation theology, sodomy, Catholicism and more.</div></div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.03); font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">
</span></div>Denisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14770822482205703050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31664716.post-70276032737360910262024-01-27T08:52:00.000-08:002024-01-27T08:52:02.773-08:00Alistair Begg update<p>Excellent summary by <a href="https://disntr.com/2024/01/26/ten-reasons-why-a-christian-should-never-attend-a-homosexual-wedding/" target="_blank">Disntr </a>of why biblical Christians are opposing Alistair Begg's blasphemy of telling a grandmother to go to a transgender's homosexual "wedding" and give them a gift, as long as he knows her belief in Jesus. </p>Denisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14770822482205703050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31664716.post-84265373145140491972024-01-25T12:03:00.000-08:002024-01-25T12:03:38.912-08:00Alistair Begg Update: he remains defiant<p> The American Family Radio network reached out to Begg and his team to see if he'd repent of his blasphemous foolishness to Christians that they can and should attend a transgender gay "wedding" and give them a gift, as long as their disapproval because of Jesus, is proclaimed. <br /><br />As <a href="https://disntr.com/2024/01/25/alistair-begg-doubles-down-on-gay-wedding-remarks-gets-the-boot-from-american-family-radio/" target="_blank">Disntr </a>reported:<br /><br />"<span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">But we did press the issue multiple, multiple times. And we even asked point blank, “So are you guys stating that Pastor Alistair Begg is standing by his original comment? He has no regrets? He didn’t misspeak? He doesn’t want to further clarify? Nothing?” and they said, “Yes, he’s standing by his original comment.” So very disappointing."<br /><br /><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">What message does such a "Christian" send when they SAY they don't approve of a transgender's gay "wedding" but then attends the ceremony (which means they DO approve) and brings a gift (celebrates)? Is that not the heart of saying one thing but doing another? Is this not the type of hypocrisy (not to mention blasphemy) condemned in Scripture? Both Begg (and his team) and anyone who listens to him stand condemned by such rank hypocrisy. This is a BAD testimony of Christ </span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Jesus. This maligns the way of the Truth. God's way is not confusing or unknowable. It is clear and is to be obeyed.
Moreover, Begg IS approving of blasphemous "weddings" and lifestyles by telling people to go to the ceremony and give the two wicked people a "wedding" gift. And it will only be a short time before Begg is just consistent with this view and comes out in support of sodomy "weddings". He's already defied Scripture's stance on women teaching men. He's barely hanging on to a thread of sound doctrine. At the moment, it's mere words, much like the Pharisees. In time, it will be with action.
Consider this: Begg encouraged "Christians" to sin. Let that sink in.</span></span></p>Denisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14770822482205703050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31664716.post-13157392737351678362024-01-18T09:01:00.000-08:002024-01-18T09:01:19.959-08:00Alistair Begg Approves Of Attending Homosexual "Weddings" And Giving Them Gifts<p> Alistair Begg now approves of attending and giving a gift to a homosexual "wedding" to "build bridges" and avoid being labeled as "judgmental".<br /><br />"<span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">I asked the grandmother, does your grandson understand your belief in Jesus? Yes. Does your grandson understand that your belief in Jesus makes it such that you can’t countenance in any affirming way the choices that he has made in life? Yes. I said, well, then, okay. As long as he knows that, then I suggest that you do go to the ceremony, and I suggest that you buy them a gift."<br /><br />~ <a href="https://disntr.com/2024/01/18/alistair-begg-caves-to-lgbtq-movement-suggests-christians-attend-lgbtq-wedding-ceremonies/">Disntr</a></span></p><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">You could not be more wrong, anti-biblical, unholy, man-centered, and pragmatic if you tried with this one. Biblical Christians are NOT called to "build bridges" with unbelievers, because:</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">2Co 6:14 Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. <b>For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness</b>? </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">2Co 6:15 <b>What accord has Christ with Belial?</b> Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever? </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">2Co 6:16 <b>What agreement</b> has the <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">2Co 6:17 <b>Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them</b>, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you, </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Begg is promoting the mockery of marriage which Christ Jesus created and to which He likens the relationship of Himself to His church. This is utter evil. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">BUT....</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">This is NO surprise. <a href="https://surphside.blogspot.com/search?q=Alistair+Begg">I warned of this man years and years</a> ago because he raised red flags:</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">In 2004 he played Bobby Jones' golf instructor in the movie of the same name where he cussed. A pastor taking on an acting role which cusses? Hello?</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">In 2015 Begg brought in false teacher and heretic Tim Keller as his "Basics" pastors conference.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">In 2018 Begg joined compromisers and heretics at the Getty's Sing! which included Ravi Zacharias, John Piper, Ligon Duncan, JD Greear, music group Shane and Shane.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">In 2019 Begg joined gnostic feminist heretic Beth Moore to preach at the National Preaching Conference at liberal Baylor University's Truett Seminary.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">For many years he was on TGC's Council Board.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">All that said, Begg is not much different than John MacArthur who himself answered in 2017 Ligonier's Conference to the question if it's sinful to bake a cake for a homosexual "wedding":</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">"No, it's not sinful for a cake maker to make a cake for a gay wedding anymore than its sinful for a guy who runs a restaurant to serve dinner to somebody who is gay, sits in a booth and eats the food, or goes to the market and buys a loaf of bread and you own the market," he argued. "What the issue is, is not whether that's sinful. It's weather the federal government can demand that people do certain things, which goes against their Christian conscience."</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">"I actually think that we need to show love to everyone and particularly, we need to do good to all those that are outside the kingdom, as well as inside the kingdom, as much as possible — a gesture of kindness toward some unregenerate person is in itself not a sin" . - CP article</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I said this in response to MacArthur's compromise, but will say it to Begg's too:
"<b>Doing good" doesn't include promoting their sinful behavior. </b>He's mixing the idea of the Good Samaritan (meeting a TRUE need and doing good) with selling meat for idol worship (which is not a need and is helping them sin against the Holy One of Israel) and it just can't be done biblically. How is it showing kindness and love by aiding and abetting a pagan do continue in his abominations and doing so as a Christian? How?</div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Rom 1:32 Though they know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them. </span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Rom 3:5 But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? The God who inflicts wrath is not unrighteous, is He? (I am speaking in human terms.)</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Rom 3:6 May it never be! For otherwise, how will God judge the world?</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Rom 3:7 But if through my lie the truth of God abounded to His glory, why am I also still being judged as a sinner?</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Rom 3:8 And why not say (as we are slanderously reported and as some claim that we say), "Let us do evil that good may come"? Their condemnation is just.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">1Th 5:22 Abstain from every form of evil. </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Isa 31:2 Yet He also is wise and will bring disaster And does not retract His words, But will arise against the house of evildoers <b>and against the help of the workers of iniquity</b>. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Isa 31:3 Now the Egyptians are men and not God, And their horses are flesh and not spirit; So the LORD will stretch out His hand, And he who helps will stumble And he who is helped will fall, And all of them will come to an end together.</div></div>Denisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14770822482205703050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31664716.post-83108440115519476392023-10-10T21:49:00.002-07:002023-10-10T21:55:07.813-07:00Priscilla Shirer Update<p>Priscilla Shirer is now teaching modalism--the heresy that denies the biblical triunity of God. She says in the clip that God the FATHER puts on flesh and comes to earth. That's wholly inaccurate. God the Son, who is distinct from the Father and Holy Spirit, came and took on flesh (John 1, Hebrews 1, Col. 1, and Matthew 1). This is a doctrine that necessitates PRECISION. To be wrong on who God is, is to have a false God and therefore a false gospel and a false salvation. <br /><br />I warned about her years ago <a href="https://surphside.blogspot.com/search?q=priscilla+shirer" target="_blank">here</a>, starting in <a href="https://surphside.blogspot.com/2009/06/women-teachers-kay-arthur-beth-moore.html" target="_blank">2009</a> and now you can see where that has all led. Here is <a href="https://disntr.com/2023/10/10/like-her-father-tony-evans-priscilla-shirer-preaches-trinitarian-heresy-from-the-pulpit/" target="_blank">Distnr's article</a>. </p>Denisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14770822482205703050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31664716.post-18523695904810436322023-10-06T08:28:00.002-07:002023-10-06T08:28:30.096-07:00The Local Church vs "Community"<p>There is a difference between the local church and what so many call "community". These are just thoughts I had as I was studying Ephesians and is in no way meant to be a full treatment of the texts.<br /><br /></p><p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #8d7221; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Eph 5:22</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> Wives, submit to your own
husbands, as to the Lord. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #218282; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Eph 5:23</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the
head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #218282; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Eph 5:24</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit
in everything to their husbands. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #218282; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Eph 5:25</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave
himself up for her, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #218282; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Eph 5:26</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing
of water with the word, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #218282; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Eph 5:27</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> so that he might present the church to himself in splendor,
without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without
blemish. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #218282; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Eph 5:28</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> In the same way husbands should love their wives as their <b>own
</b>bodies. <b>He who loves his wife loves himself. </b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #218282; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Eph 5:29</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> For no one ever hated<b> his own flesh</b>, but nourishes and cherishes
it, just as Christ does the church, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #218282; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Eph 5:30</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> because we are members of his body. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #218282; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Eph 5:31</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">“Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his
wife, and<b> the two</b> shall become <b>one flesh.</b>” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #218282; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Eph 5:32</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to
Christ and the church. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #218282; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Eph 5:33</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let
the wife see that she respects her husband. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">1 Cor 12<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The local body of Christ is made of
many parts while it also one unit. True Christians are the body of Christ with
each individual being important and necessary for the proper functioning of the
body.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The Lord Loves His Body as each person
loves his own flesh; that is, as a husband loves his wife as he loves his very
own flesh. There are distinct individuals within marriage, but they make one
unit or “one flesh”. Even within marriage, the two are still individuals before God as 1 Peter 3 discusses. They are a unit but they are also and foremost, individuals. We know Christ said there is no marriage in heaven, but there are a multitude of individuals.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">There is value for every single true
Christian—each is important and necessary because God made them and gifted them
and grafted them into the body as He saw fit. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">1Co 12:7 To <b>each</b> is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. </span><br />1Co 12:11 All these are empowered by <b>one and the same Spirit</b>, who apportions to <b>each one</b> individually as He wills. </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The building up to maturity of the
local body of believers is crucial as God set it up that way and has commanded
the church(es) to believe and function according to Scripture in distinct ways.
That’s why factions and favoritism is so bad and corrupt, because it dismisses
the value, use, and importance for a part of Christ’s body. He died for that
person, for that part of His body. No one can sit in judgement and value that
individual based on their usefulness or advantage to a person in leadership for
their position, agenda, career or any other advancement or preservation. This
is not “community” but rather His body, the church, the called out ones into
fellowship and fellowship is based on the same faith and doctrine of the Lord
Jesus Christ. <br />
<br />
1 Cor. 12:18,22-26 talks about how if one individual in the body suffers, all
the members suffer. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This demonstrates
how each person affects the local body of believers. In 1Cor 12 uses words like “each individual”, “to another”, “each” “own
bodies”, demonstrating that God is the God of individuals and its those individuals,
the elect, for whom He purchased with His own blood. <br /><br />The reason the individual is essential to the local body of believers:<br /><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Eph 4:10 He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.) </p><p class="MsoNormal">Eph 4:11 And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, </p><p class="MsoNormal">Eph 4:12 <b>to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,</b> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Eph 4:13 <b>until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, </b></p><p class="MsoNormal">Eph 4:14 <b><span style="color: red;">so that we may no longer be children</span>,</b> <b>tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. </b></p><p class="MsoNormal">Eph 4:15 Rather, speaking the truth in love, <b>we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, </b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Eph 4:16 from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, <b><span style="color: red;">when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.</span></b> </p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">On the other hand “community” isn’t biblical, but rather secular.
The notion of the “greater good” over the individual is strictly unbiblical.
<b>That is what the “collective” of socialism is.</b> <b>But the biblical triune God of
Scripture is the God of Israel always being the God of each individual and He
judges, saves, blesses, and punishes individuals, not collectively. And when an entire nation has rebelled against Him as Israel did, then He who is just, justly punishes the whole nation. But His children who are saved have His wrath satisfied by the atonement of Christ Jesus.</b><br />
<br />Now, <i>fellowship</i> is unity in the Holy Spirit and doctrine with one Lord, one baptism,
one faith.<br /><br /></span></p><p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Eph 4:1 I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, </span></p><p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Eph 4:2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with <b>one another</b> in love, </span></p><p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Eph 4:3 eager to <b>maintain the unity of the Spirit</b> in the bond of peace. </span></p><p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Eph 4:4 There is <b>one body and one Spirit</b>—just as you were called to the <b>one hope</b> that belongs to your call— </span></p><p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Eph 4:5 <b>one Lord, one faith, one baptism</b>, </span></p><p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Eph 4:6 <b>one God and Father </b>of all, who is over all and through all and in all. </span></p><p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Eph 4:7 But grace was given to <b><span style="color: red;">each one</span></b> of us according to the measure of Christ's gift. </span></p><p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">
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“Community” de-humanizes individuals by seeing them as and object and means to
an end. </b>Often this is seen in how churches refer to the individuals or families
as “giving units”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Elders and “pastors”
who treat their people as such are using pragmatic and worldly views condemned
by Scripture (James 3:15-18 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and the
widow’s mite Jesus dealt with in Luke 21:1-4). <br />
<br /><b>
“Community” is from socialism and humanism</b> and is, in my opinion connected to
evolution as they are anti-Christ and anti-Scripture, <b>as they devalue the
individual God created</b>, among other things. <b>It relies on the flesh and is not
only worldly but divisive (James 3:15-16) and the source (worldly and demonic)
can’t bring unity of faith in Christ by the Holy Spirit, but rather ONLY division,
selfish ambition, jealousy, and envy as James 3 states.</b> This is what happened
to the Corinthian church—the factions were destroying that church and it’s
unity.<br /><br /></span></p><p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Jas 3:13 Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom. </span></p><p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Jas 3:14 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth. </span></p><p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Jas 3:15 This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. </span></p><p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Jas 3:16 For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice. </span></p><p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Jas 3:17 But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere. </span></p><p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></p><p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">“Community” shields individuals<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and their
sins and elevates the hierarchy. It also hides or dismisses the individual’s gifts and
proper functioning. It is vague and so men like to hide behind that. How often we've heard "we as a church teach or believe this" but within that church are many who do not. <br /><br /></span></p><p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><b>“Community”
is without biblical purpose</b>, whereas the local church is the assemblying together
of called-out ones to function in a set proper order with a set proper purpose:
the maturity of each person and then the whole body, to protect them from error
and to glorify Christ and encourage each other to functioning even better, to
God’s sole glory and honor. See Eph. 4:10-16 above.<br />
<br />
Another passage which </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">destroys the collectivism notion of “the
greater good” is this:<br />
</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">1Co 8:9</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> But take care that this right of yours does not somehow become a
stumbling block to the weak. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">1Co 8:10</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> For if <b>anyone</b> sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol's
temple, will <b>he</b> not be encouraged, if his conscience is weak, to eat food
offered to idols? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">1Co 8:11</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> And so by your knowledge this weak <b>person</b> is destroyed, <b>the
brother</b> for whom Christ died. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">1Co 8:12</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> Thus, sinning against your brothers and wounding their
conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">1Co 8:13</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> <b>Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat
meat, lest I make my brother stumble. </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">
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God calls each star by it’s own name. He has each hair on our head counted. He
died for individuals and grafted each one into His body. We all stand before
God individually Who judges all (Heb. 9:27). <o:p></o:p></span></p>Denisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14770822482205703050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31664716.post-59826228786443725962023-07-30T19:13:00.003-07:002023-07-30T19:13:26.198-07:00You're Not A Christian If.....<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">If the cross of Christ has not radically disrupted the very epicenter and citadel of your life, from self-righteousness, self-esteem, self-worth, self-promotion, self-accomplishment, self-confidence, self-rule, self-glory, self-satisfaction, self-desire, self-will, self-honor, self-praise, self-regard, self-pity, self-sufficiency, self-love, self-admiration, and a host of the many disguised manifestations of the abomination of selfhood....friend, you're not a Christian.</span></p><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">If only you have experienced but a minor shift in a few of your ethical, moral and religious values neurotically tickled by the sensual excitement of idolatry masquerading as "worship", that proves nothing but simply a sewing together the fig-leaves of humanism to both inadequately cover the nakedness of our sinfulness and adorn & indulge the wretchedness of our fleshly nature....friend, you're not a Christian.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">If the engorged egotism and flatulent narcissism that plagues the ir</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">reverent and mediocre religion of disobediently postmodern evangelicals is all that you have clung to by the vainglorious tendrils of smoke in the popularity of false religion and thereby have held to many Scripturally untenable positions by a false carnal hope, whilst emphatically calling Jesus your 'Lord, Lord'....friend, you're not a Christian.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">If you did not die with Christ Jesus, and if you do not die daily to self, and if you are not living a crucified life in Christ: my dear friend, I lovingly plead with you to hear me when I soberly tell you....you are not a Christian.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">"I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me." -- Galatians 2:20</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">(Thanks for posting Doron Gladden from Chris O via Facebook)<br /><br />Originally posted <a href="https://surphside.blogspot.com/2012/11/you-are-not-christian.html">here</a> in 2021.</span>Denisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14770822482205703050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31664716.post-71728518501810026302023-07-18T07:27:00.003-07:002023-07-18T07:27:26.080-07:00<p>Ps 139 exalts God and praises Him as personal Creator. It shows that He creates individuals with vast incomprehensible knowledge, power, skill, care, and purpose. This is not what evolution does. God our personal Creator cares for man, especially His elect whom He leads personally. This causes believers to praise Him, thank Him, be in awe of Him, and trust Him. Those who deny the sound doctrine of a literal six day Creation week do none of those things and instead devalues not only God and His absolute sovereign right over all creation, but also devalues man and sin. This is why those who deny Creation justify and tolerate sexual immorality.</p><br />Psa 139:13 For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. <br />Psa 139:14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. <br />Psa 139:15 My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. <br />Psa 139:16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them. Denisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14770822482205703050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31664716.post-77273473741928634042023-07-03T07:13:00.004-07:002023-07-03T07:13:40.960-07:00God's Creation<p> Ps. 104 shows God's personal creation, care, maintenance and sustaining of His creation.</p><br />Psa 104:9 You set a boundary that they may not pass, so that they might not again cover the earth. <br /><br />There won't be a global warming that causes the oceans to rise and destroy the coastlands. Climate change won't be drastic because God promised to maintain the weather and sovereignly reign over it (Gen. 8:22 as well). <br /><br />Psa 104:24 O LORD, how manifold are your works! In wisdom have you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures. <br /><br />Evolution denies God created all things in WISDOM. It denies God's due glory, worship, and fear, and it denies God's personal creation and sustaining of it, as well as His coming destruction of it in righteous judgment. <br /><br />Evolution is illogical, <b>without wisdom, purpose, and order,</b> is deadly, and theoretically develops things frivolously resulting (glorifying) death without reason.<br /><br />Evolution denies the value and high rank of mankind made in God's image.Denisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14770822482205703050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31664716.post-26683560713966109742023-04-22T21:51:00.003-07:002023-04-22T22:04:53.404-07:00Disntr Agrees With My Observation: "Conservatives" aren't conservative<p> Finally I'm not the only one seeing and saying this.<br /><br />Excerpts from <a href="https://disntr.com/2023/04/21/bruce-jenner-is-not-a-woman-dave-rubin-is-not-a-father-and-these-clowns-are-not-conservatives/" target="_blank">Disntr</a>:</p><div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Merriweather; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> "<i>A distressingly growing number of people who claim to be conservative are being taken captive by the LGBTQ movement and led to believe that sexual deviants, simply because they share a dislike of certain Democrat politics, have become our allies."</i><br /><br /><i>Indeed, there are many who have been deceived in this way—groups like “Gays Against Groomers” or Bruce Jenner, a cross-dresser and a contributor to Fox News, are now somehow the talking heads of the new conservative movement.</i></p></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Merriweather;"><i>None of these people are conservatives, and none of these people are our allies. These people represent the very essence of progressivism, and <b>simply because they don’t agree with some pet Democrat political issue, we are quick to rush and join hands with these circus clowns as a way to virtue signal our “big tent” mentality</b> and, all in the name of diversity and inclusion, conservatives are now LGBTQ-friendly....<br /><br /></i></span><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Merriweather; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><i>Can we genuinely claim to believe that same-sex marriage and the erosion of the traditional nuclear family precipitate society’s decline, while allying ourselves with “Gays Against Groomers” <b>solely because their approach to their destructive lifestyle is slightly less radical?</b></i></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Merriweather;">End quote. (Bold, my emphasis, italics, mine).</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Merriweather;">It then goes on, "</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Merriweather;">We shouldn’t be a big tent. We should be exclusive. True conservatives have morals, convictions, and should be unwilling to compromise them this way." </i><a href="https://disntr.com/republication-policy/" style="color: #222222; font-family: Merriweather; font-style: italic;" target="_blank">Continue reading here</a><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Merriweather;">.</i><br /><br /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Merriweather;">I've been saying this for while now. I'm glad Disntr is seeing it and saying something about it too. </span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">My belief of why "conservatives" are doing this is because they are desperate and want heroes, and want validity at best; at worst they were never conservative but only less liberal. Either way, this is the mentality of "voting for the lesser evil" outworking from politics into society.</span></p></div><br />They're ok with transgenders as long as they don't prey on children. <br /><br />They're ok with homosexuals, especially the "conservative" types. <br /><br />Seriously? <br /><br />"Conservativism" is suppose to conserve traditional values and principles, not the least of which is God-ordained marriage and family. <br /><br />Conservatives aren't even pro-life now. <br /><br />Conservatives applaud Democrat leaders who leave the DNC, not understanding that they are typically <b>still liberal</b>. The neo-conservatives' pragmatic view is, "the enemy of my enemy is my friend". That's corrupt, desperate, and pathetic. And it'll come back to destroy them, or more likely, assimilate them into their side. <br /><br />More importantly, biblical Christians are truly and unwaveringly conservative, not by man's standard by solely by Scripture's standard. <b>We are not pragmatic, nor desperate</b>, therefore we do not violate Scripture and make allies with people which Yahweh (the Self Existent One (Ex. 3:14-15)) never sanctioned. <b>We don't evaluate things by the flesh, but spiritually and according to the Word through the Holy Spirit</b>. <br /><br />2Co 10:3 For though we walk in the flesh, <b>we do not war according to the flesh, 4 for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful </b>for the destruction of fortresses. <br /><br />1Co 3:19 <b> For the wisdom of this world is foolishness before God</b>. For it is written, "He is THE ONE WHO CATCHES THE WISE IN THEIR CRAFTINESS"; 20 and again, "THE LORD KNOWS <b>THE REASONINGS of the wise, THAT THEY ARE USELESS</b>." <div><br /></div><div>Jas 4:4 You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.<br /><br /><div>Isa 30:1 "Woe to the rebellious children," declares the LORD, "<b>Who execute a plan, but not Mine, And make an alliance, but not of My Spirit,</b> In order to add sin to sin; </div><div>Isa 30:2 Who proceed down to Egypt, <b>Without consulting Me</b>, To take refuge in the safety of Pharaoh, And to seek shelter in the shadow of Egypt! </div><div>Isa 30:3 "<b>Therefore the safety of Pharaoh will be your shame, And the shelter in the shadow of Egypt, your humiliation. </b></div><br /> If it didn't work for Israel, neither will it work for those today who use the name of Christ Jesus while seeking shelter in men---especially "less evil", but nonetheless, evil men. Seek shelter in the ONLY Rock that is eternal: God Himself.<br /><br />Php 3:20 For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; <br /><div><br /></div></div>Denisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14770822482205703050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31664716.post-51386150584691294012023-02-27T08:13:00.001-08:002023-02-27T08:13:38.742-08:00Apostate Hank Hanegraaff Endorses Homosexual Author For Defending The West<p><span style="font-family: inherit;">The former "Bible Answer Man" and apostate Hank Hanegraff (now Greek Orthodox which is a works-righteousness religion), now <a href="https://disntr.com/2023/02/27/bible-answer-man-hank-hanegraaff-platforms-open-homosexual-to-help-save-the-west/" target="_blank">promotes a homosexual </a>for answers to saving the West. Never mind that a huge part of the West's downfall is it's sodomy. <br /><br />This started when he read Spencer Klavan's book. Be careful of what you read! Romans 1-3 makes it clear WHY we're at this point in the West: the rejection of the biblical God and His Word. Deny the Creation account, then you'll deny that the sin of homosexuality is especially heinous because that's a sin that goes against God's created order of nature and is dishonoring and deviant behavior, with its lusts as unnatural. An apostate like Hanegraaff will of course now consider these things to be of personal opinion, as he inferred in the clip. But he's not the first to go to the world for answers. <a href="https://surphside.blogspot.com/2013/11/mohler-goes-down-to-egypt-brigham-young.html" target="_blank">Al Mohler has done the same but with Romanist author Flannery O'Connor and the cult of Mormonism</a>. <a href="https://surphside.blogspot.com/2017/04/marxism-is-infiltrating-evangelicalism.html" target="_blank">He also did the same with Marxist authors he read in college which he still goes back to.</a> (Interesting that Mohler's discussion on Marxism was with Eastern Orthodox Rod Dreher.)<br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;">Be careful of the books you read. This was started by the apostate reading a book by the homosexual. The world's wisdom is absolute foolishness, useless, earthly, and demonic according to Scripture. </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;">1Co 3:19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness before God. For it is written, "He is THE ONE WHO CATCHES THE WISE IN THEIR CRAFTINESS"; </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">20 and again, "THE LORD KNOWS THE <b>REASONINGS of the wise, THAT THEY ARE USELESS</b>."</span></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mal 3:13 "Your words have been arrogant against Me," says the LORD. "Yet you say, 'What have we spoken against Thee?' </span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mal 3:14 "<b>You have said, 'It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we have kept His charge, and that we have walked in mourning before the <span style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><a style="animation-name: none !important; color: #385898; cursor: pointer; transition-property: none !important;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>LORD of hosts? </b></span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mal 3:15 '<b>So now we call the arrogant blessed; not only are the doers of wickedness built up, but they also test God and escape.'"</b> </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">1Co 1:18 For the word of the cross is to those who are perishing foolishness, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">1Co 1:19 <b>For it is written, "I WILL DESTROY THE WISDOM OF THE WISE, AND THE CLEVERNESS OF THE CLEVER I WILL SET ASIDE."</b> </span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">1Co 1:20 Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? </span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">1Co 1:21 For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not come to know God, God was well-pleased through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe. </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><br /></div></div>Denisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14770822482205703050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31664716.post-4185545488849267832023-02-06T08:55:00.003-08:002023-02-06T09:02:52.009-08:00Elyse Fitzpatrick Joins Matt Chandler, Beth Moore, and Gay promoter Preston Sprinkle At Conference<p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Elyse Fitzpatrick is to join heretical teachers like <a href="https://disntr.com/2023/01/26/matt-chandler-to-join-revoice-gay-christianity-founder-for-conference/" target="_blank">Matt Chandler and Preston Sprinkle</a>, a homosexual and promoter of the gay "Revoice" movement at "Theology In The Raw" (the same name of Sprinkle's podcast) conference in March. This is about promoting debates on various issues, contrary to Scripture. She continues to show embracing of heretics and their heresies, if at BEST, as a mere optional opinion rather than sound biblical doctrine that the true Christian not only is told to believe, but we're also told to not welcome nor greet false teachers who do not hold to the sound teaching of Christ Jesus (2 John 9-11). </span><a href="https://theologyintheraw.com/about-us/" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">Preston Sprinkle, by the way, has taught at Cedarville University and Francis Chan's Eternity Bible college</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">. He is a huge pusher of sodomy within Evangelicalism.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Truth is never to be debated alongside error. Rather, Truth is to be proclaimed and error and false doctrines are to be destroyed and demolished by Scripture. Reject all these people if you value Christ Jesus and Scripture.</b></span><br /><br />2Co 10:5 We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ, </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">1Co 1:18 For the word of the cross is to those who are perishing foolishness, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">1Co 1:19 For it is written, "I WILL DESTROY THE WISDOM OF THE WISE, AND THE CLEVERNESS OF THE CLEVER I WILL SET ASIDE." </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">1Co 1:20 Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe?<b> Where is the debater of this age? </b>Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">1Co 1:21 For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not come to know God, God was well-pleased through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Eph 4:17 This I say therefore, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, 18 being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart; 19 and they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality, for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness. 20 But you did not learn Christ in this way, 21 if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in Him, just as truth is in Jesus, </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">1Co 1:10 Now I exhort you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,<b> that you all agree, and there be no divisions among you</b>, but you be made complete in the <b>same mind</b> and in the<b> same judgment. </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Eph 4:4 There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling; 5 <b>one Lord</b>, <b>one faith</b>, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all. </span></p>Denisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14770822482205703050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31664716.post-11754442078735720592023-01-28T20:12:00.006-08:002023-01-28T20:42:57.175-08:00 Rebranding Jesus<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">We're getting blasted with the notorious "He Gets Us" campaign that promotes an anti-Christ Jesus with woke values, which has spent $20 million for a Super Bowl Sunday ad. Their funds are up to $100 million right now and one report states that the business expects $1 Billion in two years. But if you can't pay for cable or the internet, or pay for enough food or heating this winter, or pay for medication or other things, never you mind. </span></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: #050505; transition-property: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This is about a <span style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><a style="animation-name: none; color: #385898; cursor: pointer; transition-property: none;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>Jesus that the world just loves; one that winks at their sin; one that tolerates wickedness, is non-judgmental, fights for social justice, and has no holiness nor righteous standard. A Jesus Satan loves.
<br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">2Co 11:3 But I am afraid, lest as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds should be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ.
2Co 11:4 For if one comes and preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted, you bear this beautifully. </span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: #050505; transition-property: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
John 7:7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil.
</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">1Jn 4:1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: #050505; transition-property: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">1Jn 2:15 Do not love the world, nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: #050505; transition-property: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">1Jn 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: #050505; transition-property: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">1Jn 2:17 And the world is passing away, and also its lusts; but the one who does the will of God abides forever. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: #050505; transition-property: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">1Jn 2:18 Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen; from this we know that it is the last hour.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: #050505; transition-property: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The true Jesus "gets you" alright:</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Joh 2:23 Now when He was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in His name, beholding His signs which He was doing.
Joh 2:24 But Jesus, on His part,<b> was not entrusting Himself to them, for He knew all men,</b>
Joh 2:25 <b>and because He did not need anyone to bear witness concerning man for He Himself knew what was in man. </b></span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Heb 4:12 For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. </span></span><br /><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Heb 4:13 <b>And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do. </b></span></span></span></div></div>Denisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14770822482205703050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31664716.post-26427805177401345142023-01-23T09:37:00.003-08:002023-01-23T09:37:48.458-08:00Veganism Is Anti-biblical<p>Today's veganism (and vegetarianism) is yesterday's ascetism: to "not taste!" It is part of the corrupt world and its doctrines and commandments of mere men, going against Scripture. In essence it is today's new paganism, that has a low view of man and a high view of the earth and animals. God commanded that rams, heifers, pigeon, goats doves and lambs for example, to be sacrifice to God. Moreover, Yahweh would not command us to eat meat if it was unsuitable for human consumption. </p><p>Col 2:20 I<b>f you have died with Christ to the elementary principles of the world, why, as if you were living in the world, do you submit yourself to decrees, such as</b>, 21 "Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!" 22 (which all refer to things destined to perish with the using)—in accordance with the commandments and teachings of men? 23 <b> These are matters which have, to be sure, the appearance of wisdom in self-made religion and self-abasement and severe treatment of the body, but are of no value against fleshly indulgence. </b></p><p>Yahweh gives Man animals for food:</p><div><div>Gen 9:2 "And the fear of you and the terror of you shall be on every beast of the earth and on every bird of the sky; with everything that creeps on the ground, and all the fish of the sea,<b> into your hand they are given. </b></div><div>Gen 9:3 "<b><span style="color: red;">Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you</span></b>; I give all to you, as I gave the green plant. 4 "Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. </div></div><div><br /></div><div>Abraham fed the Lord and His angels curds, milk, and meat:<br /><br /><div>Gen 18:7 Abraham also ran to the herd, and took a tender and choice <b>calf</b>, and gave it to the servant; and he hurried to prepare it. 8 And he took <b>curds and milk and the calf</b> which he had prepared, and placed it before them; and he was standing by them under the tree as they ate. </div></div><div><br /></div><div>Passover lamb:<br /><br /></div><div>Exo 12:8 'And<b> they shall eat the flesh</b> that same night, roasted with fire, and <b>they shall eat it </b>with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. </div><div><br /></div><div>Exo 16:8 And Moses said, "This will happen when the <b>LORD gives you meat to eat</b> in the evening, and bread to the full in the morning; for the LORD hears your grumblings which you grumble against Him. And what are we? Your grumblings are not against us but against the LORD." </div><div><br /></div><div><div>Exo 16:11 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, </div><div>Exo 16:12 "I have heard the grumblings of the sons of Israel; speak to them, saying, '<b>At twilight you shall eat meat</b>, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread; and you shall know that I am the LORD your God.'" </div><div>Exo 16:13 So it came about at evening that the<b> quails</b> came up and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp. </div></div><div><br /></div><div>Deu 12:6 "And there you shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the contribution of your hand, your votive offerings, your freewill offerings, and the first-born of your <b>herd</b> and of your <b>flock</b>. </div><div><br /></div><div><div>Deu 12:14 but in the place which the LORD chooses in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you. </div><div>Deu 12:15 "However,<b> you may slaughter and eat meat </b>within any of your gates, whatever you desire, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which He has given you; the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and the deer. </div><div>Deu 12:16 "Only you shall not eat the blood; you are to pour it out on the ground like water. </div></div><div><br /></div><div>He repeats this in verses 20- 23.</div><div><br /></div><div><div>Lev 11:2 "Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, 'These are the creatures which you may eat from all the animals that are on the earth. 3 'Whatever divides a hoof, thus making split hoofs, and chews the cud, among the animals, that you may eat. </div></div><div><br /></div><div>Lev 11:9 'These you may eat, whatever is in the water: all that have fins and scales, those in the water, in the seas or in the rivers, you may eat. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div>Lev 11:45 'For I am the LORD, who brought you up from the land of Egypt, to be your God; thus you shall be holy for I am holy.'" </div><div>Lev 11:46 This is the law regarding the animal, and the bird, and every living thing that moves in the waters, and everything that swarms on the earth, </div><div>Lev 11:47 to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean, and between the edible creature and the creature which is not to be eaten. </div></div><div><br /></div><div>Jesus feeds the multitudes bread and fish:<br /><br />Mat 14:19 And ordering the multitudes to recline on the grass, He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up toward heaven, He blessed the food, and breaking the loaves He gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave to the multitudes, </div><div><br /></div><div>Jesus feeds the disciples after the resurrection:<br /><br />Joh 21:13 Jesus came and *took the bread, and *gave them, and the fish likewise. </div><div><br /></div><div>The change in food commandments (see Acts 21:25 that holds to the prohibition of not eating strangled meat or meat with its blood):<br /><br /><div>Act 10:11 and he beheld the sky opened up, and a certain object like a great sheet coming down, lowered by four corners to the ground, </div><div>Act 10:12 and there were in it all kinds of four-footed animals and crawling creatures of the earth and birds of the air. </div><div>Act 10:13 And a voice came to him, "Arise, Peter, kill and eat!" </div><div>Act 10:14 But Peter said, "By no means, Lord, for I have never eaten anything unholy and unclean." </div><div>Act 10:15 And again a voice came to him a second time, "What God has cleansed, no longer consider unholy." </div><div>Act 10:16 And this happened three times; and immediately the object was taken up into the sky. </div></div><div><br /></div><div>The freedom to eat anything with thankfulness to God:</div><div><br /></div><div><div>1Co 10:25 <b>Eat anything that is sold in the meat market</b>, without asking questions for conscience' sake; </div><div>1Co 10:26 <b>FOR THE EARTH IS THE LORD'S, AND ALL IT CONTAINS.</b> </div><div>1Co 10:27 If one of the unbelievers invites you, and you wish to go, <b>eat anything</b> that is set before you, without asking questions for conscience' sake. </div><div>1Co 10:28 But if anyone should say to you, "This is meat sacrificed to idols," do not eat it, for the sake of the one who informed you, and for conscience' sake; </div><div>1Co 10:29 I mean not your own conscience, but the other man's; for why is <b>my freedom</b> judged by another's conscience? </div><div>1Co 10:30 <b>If I partake with thankfulness, why am I slandered concerning that for which I give thanks? </b></div><div>1Co 10:31 <b>Whether, then, you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. </b></div></div><div><br /></div><div>The caveat is if it's connected to idolatry in order to not cause a true Christian to not stumble (they may have come out of that very pagan religion or want nothing to do with even the appearance of connection to the pagan religions especially in front of others), again, with the prohibition of strangled meat or meat with its blood in it. It's a spiritual connection to pagan temple worship, NOT food preference of veganism. 1Cor. 8 deals with this.<br /><br />Vegans think they're kind to animals by not killing them, but God has commanded the killing of certain animals TO be sin and burnt offerings to HIM. Man says it's "unholy" to nature; God says it's HOLY to HIM. Veganism denies the Fall of all creation, especially mankind and have elevated creation above the Creator, and has created a self-made religion and righteousness that is ONLY of the flesh and has no value in dealing with the indulgence of the flesh and sin nature. Their self-righteousness (including virtue signaling) is empty, without wisdom, without power to deal with the REAL problems of man, and only continues their condemnation. These are the ones that continue to rebel against God, their parents, and authority, and they are hypocrites. </div>Denisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14770822482205703050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31664716.post-73121179183662351702023-01-16T18:35:00.004-08:002023-01-16T18:35:54.161-08:00Amy Grant Hosts Lesbian Family Couple's Wedding<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: teal;">Rom 1:32</span> Though
they know God's decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they
not only do them but give approval to those who practice them. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://people.com/music/amy-grant-shuts-down-homophobic-criticism-niece-wedding/" target="_blank">People Magazine</a>:</span></p><p class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html" id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); counter-reset: section 0; letter-spacing: 0.0313rem; line-height: 1.75rem; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-underline-offset: 0.25rem;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The Grammy Award winner, 62, is opening up about her decision to host her niece's same-sex wedding and how she's been navigating the varying feedback that's come as a result.</span></p><div class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block" id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-3" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></div><p class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html" id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-4" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); counter-reset: section 0; letter-spacing: 0.0313rem; line-height: 1.75rem; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-underline-offset: 0.25rem;"><span style="font-family: arial;">"I never chase any of those rabbits down the rabbit hole," Grant told PEOPLE of social media responses — both good and bad. "I love my family, I love those brides. They're wonderful, our family is better, and you should be able to be who you are with your family, and be loved by them."</span></p><p class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html" id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-4" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); counter-reset: section 0; letter-spacing: 0.0313rem; line-height: 1.75rem; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-underline-offset: 0.25rem;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5008px;">"Honestly, from a faith perspective, I do always say, 'Jesus, you just narrowed it down to two things: love God and love each other,'" Grant told the </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-variation-settings: "ital" 0.75; letter-spacing: 0.5008px;">Post</em><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5008px;">. "I mean, hey — that's pretty simple."</span></span></p><p class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html" id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-4" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); counter-reset: section 0; letter-spacing: 0.0313rem; line-height: 1.75rem; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-underline-offset: 0.25rem;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5008px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">End quote.<br /><br />She judges what God states is unnatural, impure and lustful, dishonorable, shameless, contrary to nature, and doing what ought not to be done, as a mere "rabbit hole", a mere trivial, meaningless stance. <br /><br />Throughout all of Scripture, from the patriarchs, to the law, to the prophets, to the Gospels, epistles, and apostles, God has repeatedly and consistently prohibited sodomy for all people, in all times, in all cultures. It goes against His created order. Grant, who committed adultery "of the heart" unbiblically </span></span><span style="font-family: arial; letter-spacing: 0.5008px;">divorced </span><span style="font-family: arial; letter-spacing: 0.5008px;">her first husband Gary Chapman, and married Vince Gill. She has always wanted to be world famous celebrity while holding on to some piece of religion she calls "Christianity", but she's nothing more than a worldling that speaks like the world, acts like the world, and is in agreement with the world. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">Mat 11:23 And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You will be brought down to Hades. For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Luke 17:29 but on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all—30 so will it be on the day when the Son of Man is revealed. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">Deu 29:23 the whole land burned out with brimstone and salt, nothing sown and nothing growing, where no plant can sprout, an overthrow like that of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger and wrath—<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">Jude 1:7 just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.</span></p><p class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html" id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-4" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); counter-reset: section 0; letter-spacing: 0.0313rem; line-height: 1.75rem; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-underline-offset: 0.25rem;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5008px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Sodomy is the most selfish form of "love" one can have, which is to say, it's actually hatred toward another and toward God Himself. HE said that sodomites go to Hell unless they repent and get saved. She's saying it's ok to "love whoever you want". She's a lawless, unprincipled pseudo-religious zealot. She dares to sit in judgement of Scripture and its Author. She stands condemned. </span></span></p>Denisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14770822482205703050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31664716.post-40609875578138281932023-01-15T08:49:00.001-08:002023-01-15T08:49:09.988-08:00God's Love Is Action And Accomplishes All He Wills, Intends, and Purposes<p> The Love of God is action and accomplishment, not theoretical or hypothetical.</p><br />Eph 1:4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him. In love <br />Eph 1:5 He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will, <br />Eph 1:11 also we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to His purpose who works all things after the counsel of His will, <br /><br />Eph. 1-2 shows God's love is demonstrated in ACTION and ACCOMPLISHMENT toward and for the elect and therefore, the elect only (the road to eternal life is narrow and few find it). There is no theoretical or hypothetical love or desire of God toward all people. <br /><br />Eph. 1-2, Rom. 8:29-39, John 3:16-17,36, 1 John 2:1-2 & 4:9-11, it's very clear that God's love IS action and HAS accomplished His kind intention, will, purpose and counsel toward those whom He chose before time and creation, to save. Therefore not one part of our salvation is up to us. We can't self-activate salvation. It's all of Christ and in Christ and by Christ. From our election, to our predestination, to our salvation, sanctification, and glorification, it's God doing the work. Even as we're called to walk in and practice the Truth and righteousness, He's working in us and our new nature:<br /><br />Php 2:12 So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation with fear and trembling; <br />Php 2:13 for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.<br /><br />He works in us to will and then to do His good pleasure. This is why it is astounding He would reward us in Heaven, when we are only doing His will as servant:<br /><br />Luk 17:9 "He does not thank the slave because he did the things which were commanded, does he? 10 "So you too, when you do all the things which are commanded you, say, 'We are unworthy slaves; we have done only that which we ought to have done.'" Denisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14770822482205703050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31664716.post-1377268173218307852023-01-10T11:14:00.001-08:002023-01-10T11:14:04.218-08:00Doctrinal Triage Is Doctrinal Divorce<p>I came across this passage of Scripture and noticed how Christ said Scripture can't be broken:</p><p>John 10:34 Jesus answered them, "Has it not been written in your Law, 'I SAID, YOU ARE GODS'? 35 "If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (<b><span style="color: red;"><u>and the Scripture cannot be broken</u></span></b>), 6 do you say of Him, whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'? </p><p>"broken" = luo, G 3089 = to loose, release, dissolve, annul. Used in:</p><p>Joh 7:23 "If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath that the Law of Moses may not be <b>broken</b>, are you angry with Me because I made an entire man well on the Sabbath? </p><p>It's also used here: 1Co 7:27 Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be <b>released</b>. Are you<b> released</b> from a wife? Do not seek a wife. <br /><br />It is in this verse that made me think about divorce in regard to marriage, Christ, and doctrine.</p><p>Mat 5:31 "And it was said, 'WHOEVER SENDS HIS WIFE AWAY, LET HIM GIVE HER A CERTIFICATE OF <b>DIVORCE</b>'; </p><p><b><span style="color: red;">The word for "divorce" here is apostasion </span></b>G 0647= forsaking. </p><p>Matt. 19:3-9 uses the same word, different form: Mat 19:3 And some Pharisees came to Him, testing Him, and saying, "Is it lawful for a man to <b>divorce</b> his wife for any cause at all?" 4 And He answered and said, "Have you not read, that He who created them from the beginning MADE THEM MALE AND FEMALE, 5 and said, 'FOR THIS CAUSE A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER, AND SHALL CLEAVE TO HIS WIFE; AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH'? 6 "Consequently they are no longer two, but one flesh.<b> <span style="color: red;">What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.</span></b><span style="color: red;">" </span></p><p>Now while the context is marriage, the application, I believe, goes further. God is faithful, full stop. Forever. In all things. To Himself, to His Word, to His covenants, to His elect (both Jew (Rom. 11:25-29). Even in punishment, He is faithful. What He says, He will do. <i>He cannot forsake</i> <i>His Word nor His children</i> (true, not illegitimate ones--see 1John 1-3). In other words, God cannot be divorce from His children (born from God), His bride, His Word, nor Himself. What HE joins can never be separated. Christians are sealed and indwelled by the Holy Spirit, forever joined to Christ Himself. He is our sustainer (Heb. 1:3; Col. 1:17-18). Scripture is joined to God because it comes directly from Him ("the mind of Christ" 1 Cor. 2:16), and His nature. <br /><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Joh 6:37 "<b>All that
the Father gives Me shall come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will
certainly not cast out. </b>38 "For I have come down from
heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me. 39 "<b><span style="color: red;">And this is the will of Him who sent Me,
that of all that He has given Me I lose nothing, but raise it up on the last
day.</span></b></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> 40
"For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who beholds the Son and
believes in Him, may have eternal life; and I Myself will raise him up on the
last day." ...Joh 6:44 "<b>No one can come to Me, unless the
Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day</b>. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 8:33 </span><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">Who will bring a charge against God's elect? God is the one who
justifies; 34 who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died,
yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also
intercedes for us.</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Eph1:13 In Him, you also,
after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation—<b>having
also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p>
</p><p><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Eph4:30 And do not
grieve <b>the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of
redemption.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><br />2Ti 2:13 If we are faithless, He remains faithful; <b>for He cannot deny Himself.</b> <br /><br />Heb 13:5 Let your character be free from the love of money, being content with what you have; for He Himself has said, "<b>I WILL NEVER DESERT YOU, NOR WILL I EVER FORSAKE YOU," <br /></b><br />That's why the true Christian cannot become an apostate or divorced from God, because we were bought by Him, sealed by Him, justified by Him, and Christ is our propitiation (satisfied the wrath of God, thus fulfilled God's absolute justice). </p><p>1Jn 2:19 <b><span style="color: red;">They went out from us, but they were not really of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out, in order that it might be shown that they all are not of us</span>. </b>20 <b>But you have an anointing from the Holy One</b>, and you all know. </p><p>Moreover His Word shall be entirely fulfilled thus it cannot be broken:<br /></p><p>Mat 5:17 "Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish, but to fulfill. 18 "For truly I say to you,<b> until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass away from the Law, until all is accomplished</b>. </p><p>1Pe 1:25 <b>BUT THE WORD OF THE LORD ABIDES FOREVER." And this is the word which was preached to you. </b></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #141823;">So doctrinal triage is doctrinal </span><span style="color: red;">divorce</span><span style="color: #141823;">. It’s a severing of doctrine by man when in reality all doctrine is married not only to each other, but to God’s very nature. His doctrine is true reality and reveals His mind (1Cor. 2:16).</span></span></b></span></p><p>What God has joined or bound together, no man can separate, though he try . This is true for marriage (physical) and spiritually (Christians to Christ, doctrine to doctrine, doctrine to practice, and doctrine to God).</p><p>Just as man and wife are one unit (Matt 19), so is Scripture and it's doctrines (earthly analogies are always limited, mind you). I deal with this more in <a href="https://surphside.blogspot.com/search?q=doctrinal+triage" target="_blank">these posts</a>. But the main verses that show this are:</p><p>Jas 2:10 <span style="color: red;"><b> For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all</b>. </span></p><p>Joh 17:17 "<b>Sanctify them in the truth;</b> <b>Thy word is truth. </b></p><p>2Ti 3:16 <b>All Scripture</b> is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; 7 that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work. </p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14.85px;">Act 20:27 "</span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14.85px;">For I did not shrink from declaring to you <span style="color: red;">the whole purpose of God</span><span style="color: #4e4e4e;">. </span></b></p><div style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px; margin-bottom: 6px;"><i><b><span style="color: red;">Doctrinal fidelity in all doctrine proves one's fidelity to Christ Jesus</span><span style="color: #141823;">:</span></b></i></div><div style="display: inline; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px; margin-top: 6px;"><span style="color: #141823;">2Co 11:3 But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, </span><b><span style="color: #141823;">your minds will be led astray from the </span><span style="color: red;">simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ</span><span style="color: #141823;">.</span></b><span style="color: #141823;">4 For if one comes and preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted, you bear this beautifully.</span></div><div><span face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #141823;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><div data-block="true" data-editor="9skot" data-offset-key="932om-0-0" style="background-color: white;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="932om-0-0" style="color: #1d2129; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-offset-key="932om-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Joh 8:31 Jesus therefore was saying to those Jews who had believed Him, "If you abide in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine;</span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="932om-0-0" style="color: #1d2129; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-offset-key="932om-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="932om-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="932om-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #1d2129;">Mat 28:19 "Go therefore and make </span><b style="color: #1d2129;">disciples</b><span style="color: #1d2129;"> of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, 20 </span><b><span style="color: red;"> teaching them to observe all that I commanded you</span></b><span style="color: #1d2129;">; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." </span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="9skot" data-offset-key="eok11-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eok11-0-0" style="color: #1d2129; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-offset-key="eok11-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eok11-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eok11-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;">2Jn 1:9 <b> Anyone who goes too far and does not abide in the teaching of Christ</b>, does not have God; <b>the one who abides in the teaching</b>, he has both the Father and the Son. 10 <b>If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching</b>, do not receive him into your house, and do not give him a greeting; 11 for the one who gives him a greeting participates in his evil deeds. </div></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eok11-0-0" style="color: #1d2129; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;">
</div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="9skot" data-offset-key="c84p0-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c84p0-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="c84p0-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">That destroys doctrinal triage. His Word = His doctrine. If you treat it lightly as non-essential--any of it--you aren't His disciple. You're a mere man's disciple. You've fallen for the cult of personality and have the spirit of the Pharisees and Scribes who did the same thing (the Scribes, by the way, denied the Resurrection).</span></div></div><div><div style="color: #141823; display: inline; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px; margin-top: 6px;"><br /></div></div><div><div style="color: #141823; display: inline; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px; margin-top: 6px;"><span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14.85px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Spurgeon rightly said, "<i>Faith which accepts one word of God & rejects another is not faith in God but faith in our own judgment, faith in our own taste</i>." Indeed, this is exactly what the Scribes and Pharisees did (see for example, Matt. 15).</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14.85px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></div><div><div style="display: inline; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px; margin-top: 6px;"><span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.85px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">D</span><a href="http://surphside.blogspot.com/search?q=doctrinal+triage" style="color: #3885a8; text-decoration-line: none;">octrinal triage</a> of prioritizing <span style="color: #141823;">is sitting in one's own judgment on what doctrines of Scripture one sees as "essential" or "non-essential" and thus the "non-essentials" (aka "secondary" doctrines) are pushed aside for "unity". This is the height of arrogance to tell the King of kings His teachings are optional when they say it is!</span></span></div></div><div><div style="display: inline; line-height: 19.32px; margin-top: 6px;"><p style="background-color: white;"><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><i style="color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Doctrinal prioritizing does two things: it dulls the double-edged sword down to a butter knife and it fires blanks at the enemies of Christ Jesus and His Word. In other words, it can't save, sanctified, or protect the true Christian, nor can it fight against the arguments set up against Christ or cause spiritual growth. <b>Scripture is a UNIT OF TRUTH</b>. It all stands together or falls together. It cannot be divided into pieces and still stand. It's a body, unit, corpus of Truth. The Truth. The Faith. We are to feed on it's "whole counsel" as Paul taught to the Ephesians. He didn't shrink back for doing that. Today, most teachers or pastors do for the sake of a fake unity. This only creates division and strife.
</i><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">1Co 1:9 God is faithful, through whom you were called <b>into fellowship with His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.</b> 10 Now <b>I exhort you</b>, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,</span></span><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;"> </span><u><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">that you all agree, and there be no divisions among you, </span>but you be made complete<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;"> in the same mind and in the same judgment.</span></u></span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><u> </u></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Act 1:14 <b>These all with one mind </b>were continually devoting themselves to prayer, along with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers. </span></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Act 2:46 And day by day <b>continuing with one mind</b> in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they were taking their meals together with gladness and sincerity of heart, </span></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Php 1:27 Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ; so that whether I come and see you or remain absent, I may hear of you that you are <b>standing firm in one spirit, with one mind </b>striving together for <b>the faith</b> of the gospel; </span></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Eph 4:1 I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, entreat you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called, </span></span><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, showing forbearance to one another in love, </span></span><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">3 being diligent to <b>preserve the unity of the Spirit</b> in the bond of peace. </span></span><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">4 There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling; </span></span><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">5 <b>one Lord, one faith, one baptism</b>, </span></span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">6 one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all. </span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jud 1:3 Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you contend earnestly for <b>the faith</b> which was once for all delivered to the saints. </span></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #050505;">And while we all grow and are at different stages of spiritual growth, we all have a new heart created in and by Christ Jesus so that our NEW DISPOSITION is one of faith, acceptance, and trust in all the Word and its doctrines. We grow in our understanding of its teachings, but we accept them by faith to be true and we are not hostile to them. In essence we do as the Thessalonians did:
1Th 2:13 And for this reason we also constantly thank God that when you</span><b><span style="color: red;"> received from us the word of God's message, you accepted it not as the word of men, but for what it really is, the word of God</span></b><span style="color: #050505;">,<b> which also performs its work in you who believe. </b>
</span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><br /></span></span></p></div></div><div><div style="color: #141823; display: inline; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px; margin-top: 6px;"><span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14.85px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></div></div>Denisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14770822482205703050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31664716.post-65095850701483997842022-12-10T08:22:00.003-08:002022-12-10T08:22:26.803-08:00Doctrinal Triage or Prioritizing Does Two Things<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Doctrinal prioritizing does two things: it dulls the double-edged sword down to a butter knife and it fires blanks at the enemies of Christ Jesus and His Word. In other words, it can't save or protect the true Christian, can't fight against the arguments set up against Christ , nor can it cause spiritual growth. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Heb 4:12 For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">2Co 10:2 I ask that when I am present I may not be bold with the confidence with which I propose to be courageous against some, who regard us as if we walked according to the flesh.
2Co 10:3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh,
2Co 10:4 for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses.
2Co 10:5 We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ,
2Co 10:6 and we are ready to punish all disobedience, whenever your obedience is complete.
2Co 10:7 You are looking at things as they are outwardly. If anyone is confident in himself that he is Christ's, let him consider this again within himself, that just as he is Christ's, so also are we. </span></span></p>Denisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14770822482205703050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31664716.post-55998248143361658832022-12-10T08:18:00.001-08:002022-12-10T08:18:43.585-08:00Doctrinal Triage Is Practicing Doubting<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;">Doctrinal triaging or prioritizing, is man sitting in judgment over the very Word of God, judging certain doctrines in Scripture to be “essential” or “non-essential”. It is actually practicing doubting (at best) and therefore not practicing its commands (Gen. 3:1-4; James 1:4-8; 3:13-18; 4:8-12). </span></span></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ignoring or downplaying sound doctrine is ignoring and downplaying the Shepherd’s voice and listening to a stranger's instead (John 10:4-5, 14). It leads one into every wind of <span style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><a style="animation-name: none !important; color: #385898; cursor: pointer; transition-property: none !important;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>doctrine by the trickery of deceitful and unprincipled men (starting with triaging doctrines) (John 10:10-13; Eph. 4). Sound doctrine is knowable.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">All biblical doctrines are never a matter of opinion (2 Peter 1:20-21; Rom. 14), but are a matter of absolute Truth and must be believed, even if not totally understood (we grow in our understanding and therefore grow in our obedience through His power). </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ignorance of Truth is never a virtue and is always a vice, since His Word sanctifies us (John 17:17; Heb. 5:11-6:1). </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">All Scripture includes all its doctrines, from the Trinity, a literal seven day Creation Week, the Flood, soteriology, ecclesiology (leadership, content, practice), holy living, the covenants and Israel, the rapture, the return of Christ, His millennial kingdom reign, the destruction of all unbelievers along with Satan, the Lawless One and his minions, all the way to the destruction of this world and the heavens and the creation of a new heavens and new earth. These are not up for an "in house" debate or "agree to disagree". </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">1Th 2:13 And for this reason we also constantly thank God that when you received from us the word of God's message, you accepted it not as the word of men, but for what it really is, the word of God, which also performs its work in you who believe. </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">2Pe 1:20 But know this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one's own interpretation, 21 for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God. </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">2Ti 3:16 All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; 17 that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work. </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Joh 17:17 "Sanctify them in the truth; Thy word is truth.</span></div></div>Denisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14770822482205703050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31664716.post-50755119247173869652022-11-09T08:46:00.003-08:002022-11-09T08:46:33.521-08:00The Silver Lining In A Blue State<p>The silver lining in the take over of Marxists here in CA, is that it's a tool of sanctification. Life of ease, freedom, and safety has the tendency to become arrogant and rely on man. When these things (ease, freedom, and safety) are at risk but you stay where the Lord has placed you, it causes the true Christian to seek the Lord daily and to see His sovereign hand in everything. When anxiety rears it's ugly head, go back to the living and active Word to renew one's mind over and over, trusting in it, and looking forward to the millennial visible and perfect reign of the risen King, the Lord Jesus Christ.</p><br />To live a life in obedience to the Lord in mind and heart, to not fear nor compromise, is a training that is happening now to those of us in Blue states and cities. It's the opportunity for spiritual growth. As things get worse and your states become Blue, you too, will have to face these things. Be assured: your escape is merely temporary since man is fickle and politics is fluid. Your hope may be in that which is very temporal and fleshly. <br /><br />Jas 1:2 Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, <br />Jas 1:3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. <br />Jas 1:4 And let endurance have its perfect result, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. <br />Jas 1:5 But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all men generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him. <div><br /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt;">Pro 29:25</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The fear of man brings a snare, But he who
trusts in the LORD will be exalted. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Jeremiah 17:5,
“Thus says the Lord, ‘Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind and makes flesh
his strength and whose heart turns away from the Lord.’” </span><span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt;">Isa 31:1</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"> Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help
and rely on horses, who trust in chariots because they are many and in horsemen
because they are very strong, but do not look to the Holy One of Israel or
consult the LORD! <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt;">Isa 31:2</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"> And yet he is wise and brings disaster; he
does not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers
and against the helpers of those who work iniquity. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.25in;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt;">Isa 31:3</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"> The Egyptians are man, and not God, and their
horses are flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD stretches out his hand, the
helper will stumble, and he who is helped will fall, and they will all perish
together. <o:p></o:p></span></p><br /></div>Denisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14770822482205703050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31664716.post-3831841975130529932022-11-07T20:10:00.001-08:002022-11-07T20:10:22.037-08:00Kanye West: a tragedy of a false conversion<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxL9_hCTaK7ipJxCUcmBOsfyfDQHHci9Li9L_p6_HFYUWP-xEiYOQ73-6KLQoxohfmbTx7vNWQs4re0wm-8iuXT_q4kUg3N6n4bwPKDVWfHg3Zi1iYgoBFtiKRNs5Lfl362wzyNB9koJp69hwcheYa8OObE5nOSZDLZX9VaB0qksVz3cgCmA/s692/Kanye%20West%20tweet%20taking%20a%20break%20from%20porn%20and%20fornication.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="692" data-original-width="598" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxL9_hCTaK7ipJxCUcmBOsfyfDQHHci9Li9L_p6_HFYUWP-xEiYOQ73-6KLQoxohfmbTx7vNWQs4re0wm-8iuXT_q4kUg3N6n4bwPKDVWfHg3Zi1iYgoBFtiKRNs5Lfl362wzyNB9koJp69hwcheYa8OObE5nOSZDLZX9VaB0qksVz3cgCmA/s320/Kanye%20West%20tweet%20taking%20a%20break%20from%20porn%20and%20fornication.jpg" width="277" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p>I said it before, and I'll say it again. Kanye West is not a Christian.</p><br />2Ti 2:19 Nevertheless, the firm foundation of God stands, having this seal, "The Lord knows those who are His," and, "Let everyone who names the name of the Lord abstain from wickedness." <br /><br />What West is involved with is not biblical Christianity. This is a fraud. This is blasphemy. Being enslaved to sin necessarily means that you can't stop sinning and there's no way to break free except by the Person and work of the biblical Lord Jesus Christ and submitting to Him alone. In fact no one DESIRES to break free unless he is first regenerated by God. Adding "Jesus" to your self idolatry is condemned by God and is not true salvation--it's a mockery. It's also sad. Clearly West feels the guilt of his sin. I don't know what he thinks a "cleanse" is or what it will do, but anything outside of biblical Christianity is all entirely vain and hopeless. This is why treating him as if he was saved was so wrong and cruel. He can't get victory over his sin because he's not in Christ. False conversions are a travesty and cause many to redefine biblical Christianity to one of justifiable sin ("we're all human", "who's perfect?" "we're under grace, not the law"). But the standard still remains: God is holy and His children are to be holy. This is no suggestion. This is a command. And this only can happen if one is truly saved by the biblical Christ Jesus and is therefore indwelled by the Holy Spirit, and as he abides in the Word, God causes him to grow into a mature man in Christ. <br /><br />Rom 6:1 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace might increase? 2 May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? <br /><br />Rom 6:16 Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness? <br />Rom 6:17 But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were committed, <br />Rom 6:18 and having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.Denisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14770822482205703050noreply@blogger.com0