honey :-).
Well its easy when its true;-).
I love you baby.
TTYS
Random ramblings from an amateur rock-n-roll historian and critic,self-professed bourbon aficionado, blackberry growin', jam makin', sometime tie-die shirt makin', ex hippie wannabe, turned punk rock lovein', blues festival going, middle aged pudgy bald white guy who loves to wear Hawaiian shirts in the summertime and happens to be more Stax than Motown, more Alman Brothers than Skynard, more Stones than Beatles, more NASCAR than Baseball, more freeware than license keys...
so just to be clear.
More with Wesley than Calvin on everything except, Unconditional Election:
Also, Unconditional election only applies to The Elect.
John Calvin* Foundation laid by Augustine | John Wesley Foundation laid by Arminius | |
| T | Total Depravity - Human beings are so affected by the negative consequences of original sin that they are incapable of being righteous, and are always and unchangeably sinful; human freedom is totally enslaved by sin so we can only choose evil. | Deprivation - Human beings are sinful and without God, incapable (deprived) on their own of being righteous; however, they are not irredeemably sinful and can be transformed by God’s grace; God's prevenient grace restores to humanity the freedom of will. |
| U | Unconditional Election - Since human beings can only choose evil, God by His eternal decree has chosen or elected some to be counted as righteous, without any conditions being placed on that election. | Conditional Election - God has chosen that all humanity be righteous by His grace, yet has called us to respond to that grace by exercising our God-restored human freedom as a condition of fulfilling election. |
| L | Limited Atonement - The effects of the Atonement, by which God forgave sinful humanity, are limited only to those whom He has chosen. | Unlimited Atonement - The effects of the Atonement are freely available to all those whom He has chosen, which includes all humanity, "whosoever will." |
| I | Irresistible Grace - The grace that God extends to human beings to effect their election cannot be refused, since it has been decreed by God. | Resistible Grace - God’s grace is free and offered without merit; however, human beings have been granted freedom by God and can refuse His grace. |
| P | Perseverance of the Saints - Since God has decreed the elect, and they cannot resist grace, they are unconditionally and eternally secure in that election. | Assurance and Security - There is security in God’s grace that allows assurance of salvation, but that security is in relation to continued faithfulness; we can still defiantly reject God. |
I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.
Kind been ringing my bell for years on end now. Like a tuning fork that just won't quit. I always said it was like a vibration, a frequency if you will.
Sadly there are many false believers who will be expecting to go to Heaven and will be denied entrance. The best way to avoid being one is to make sure you have truly put your trust in Christ alone for salvation.
When you have repented and put your faith in Christ that will lead to a change of life. Follow God and educate yourself with his Word.
25 Important Bible Verses About Fake Christians
Many people follow false teachings from the Bible given by false preachers or they just refuse to obey instructions from God and follow their own minds.
There are many people who throw on the Christian name tag and think by just going to church they will be granted Heaven, which is false. You know there are people like that in your church and especially in the youth today.
You know there are people still having sex outside of marriage, still going to clubs, they still have a continuous willful potty mouth. Hell will be worse for these people than atheists. They are just Sunday Christians and they don’t care about Christ. Am I saying that a Christian is perfect? No. Can a Christian backslide? Yes, but there will be growth and maturity in a true believers life because it is God working in them. They won’t just remain in darkness if they are the Lord’s sheep because God will discipline them and also His sheep hear His voice.
Quotes
Laurence J Peter – “Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car.”
“Don’t let your lips and your lives preach two different messages.”
“Your most powerful testimony is how you treat others after the church service is over.”
“What a heartbreak it would be to live an “almost” Christian life, then “almost” get into heaven.”
Beware there are many.
1. Matthew 15:8 These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.
2. Isaiah 29:13 And so the Lord says, “These people say they are mine. They honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. And their worship of me is nothing but man-made rules learned by rote.
3. James 1:26 If a person thinks that he is religious but can’t control his tongue, he is fooling himself. That person’s religion is worthless. (We all got work to do :-)
4 1 John 2:9 Those who say that they are in the light but hate other believers are still in the dark.
5. Titus 1:16 They claim to know God, but they deny him by what they do. They are detestable, disobedient, and unfit to do anything good.
Fake Christians sin on purpose saying, “I’ll just repent later” and disobey God’s teachings. Even though we are all sinners Christians don’t sin willfully and deliberately.
6. 1 John 2:4 Whoever says, “I know him,” but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in that person.
7. 1 John 3:6 Those who live in Christ don’t go on sinning. Those who go on sinning haven’t seen or known Christ.
8. 1 John 3:8-10 The person who practices sin belongs to the evil one, because the Devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason that the Son of God was revealed was to destroy what the Devil has been doing. No one who has been born from God practices sin, because God’s seed abides in him. Indeed, he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born from God. This is how God’s children and the Devil’s children are distinguished. No person who fails to practice righteousness and to love his brother is from God.
9. 3 John 1:11 Dear friend, do not imitate what is evil but what is good. Anyone who does what is good is from God. Anyone who does what is evil has not seen God.
10. Luke 6:46 Why do you call me Lord but don’t do what I tell you?
11. John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.“
True Christians have new affections and love Jesus.
12. John 14:23-24 Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them. Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father’s who sent me.”
13. 1 John 2:3 We know that we have come to know him if we keep his commands.
14. 2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
They are hypocrites. Even though the Bible says we are to lovingly, kindly, and gently go to our brothers and sisters alone to correct them of their sins, how can you do that, but you’re doing the same thing as them just as much or even more than them? People who do things for show such as give to the poor and other acts of kindness to be seen by others are also hypocrites.
15. Matthew 7:3-5 Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.
16. Matthew 6:1-2 Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.
17. Matthew 12:34 You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.
They will not enter into Heaven. False converts will be denied.
18. Matthew 7:21-23 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’
19. 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
20. Revelation 22:15 Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
Fake Christians are false preachers and false prophets just like the cast of Preachers of LA.
21. 2 Corinthians 11:13-15 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds.
22. Jude 1:4 For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
23. 2 Peter 2:1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
24. Romans 16:18 For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
Reminder
25. 2 Timothy 4:3-4 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.
/äˈmen,āˈmen/
exclamation
uttered at the end of a prayer or hymn, meaning
‘so be it.’.
used to express agreement or assent.
"amen to that!"
noun
noun: amen; plural noun: amens
an utterance of “amen.”.
Origin
Old English, from ecclesiastical Latin, from Greek amēn, from Hebrew 'āmēn
‘truth, certainty’,
/ˈsäləm/
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adjective
adjective: solemn
formal and dignified.
"a solemn procession"
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majestic
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important
august
formal
not cheerful or smiling; serious.
"Tim looked very solemn"
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thoughtful
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characterized by deep sincerity.
"he swore a solemn oath to keep faith"
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Origin
Middle English (in the sense ‘associated with religious rites’): from Old French solemne, from Latin sollemnis ‘customary, celebrated at a fixed date’, from sollus ‘entire’.
What is solemn?
/ˈblasfəmē/
noun
noun: blasphemy; plural noun: blasphemies
the act or offense of speaking sacrilegiously about God or sacred things; profane talk.
"he was detained on charges of blasphemy"
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Origin
Middle English: from Old French, via ecclesiastical Latin from Greek blasphēmia ‘slander, blasphemy’.
What is blasphemy in simple terms?
1a : the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence for God accused of blasphemy. b : the act of claiming the attributes of a deity for a mere man to suggest that he was … divine could only be viewed … as blasphemy— John Bright †1889. 2 : irreverence toward something considered sacred or inviolable.
not all that hard to connect the dots.
Oh and BTW I got a few lunch dates open just in case anybody is interested. Some how I don't think they're interested Lucy :-).
reiterate:
(Word of the day BTW Lucy, now referred to as WOD for short.
There will be no pity or sympathy in the time of justice, none, zero:
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’
The only way he doesn't know you is if your don't know him.
It's kinda special message to all the pretenders, posers and imposters out there of which there are plenty.
Its:
Truly I tell you, people can be forgiven all their sins and every slander they utter, but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; they are guilty of an eternal sin.”
So, shouldn't have been pretending, hence:
When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are:
The master is God and the door is the gateway to heaven.
There will be no pity or sympathy in the time of justice, none, zero:
If you knew how big of a bloodbath it actually is you would have accepted Christ a long time ago. Promise ya.
Some time later Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us go back and visit the believers in all the towns where we preached the word of the Lord and see how they are doing.” Barnabas wanted to take John, also called Mark, with them, but Paul did not think it wise to take him, because he had deserted them in Pamphylia and had not continued with them in the work. They had such a sharp disagreement that they parted company. Barnabas took Mark and sailed for Cyprus, but Paul chose Silas and left, commended by the believers to the grace of the Lord. He went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches.
I'm just not of the persuasion that God needs men to quarrel to get his will to be done.
"This unconditional election is essentially related to the rest of the TULIP doctrinal outline and hinges upon the supreme belief in the absolute sovereignty of God over the affairs of man. God unconditionally elects certain people even though they are sinful as an act of his saving grace apart from the shortcomings or will of man. Those chosen have done nothing to deserve this grace."
Kinda living that right in front of people so...like I said, I'm just not of the persuasion that God needs men to quarrel to get his will to be done. Never even read about the TULIP doctrine.
Romans 8:29-30
"For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified."
Speaks for itself.
I don't really care what John Wesley thought or anybody else for that matter.
I love you baby :-).
just some hocus pocus mumbo jumbo from over 2000 years ago that nobody can ever make sense of.
if you will...
The puppet did what his master said:
to create a diversion from the ongoing cyber attack that continues. Think of it as setting the trash can on fire on someone's front porch and then running around to the back door while nobody is looking.
News of the cyber attack attack broke in mid December and the Capital insurrection was on Jan 6th. Can you devise a better plan to keep attention focused elsewhere? Love to hear about if if you do.
"Details of the U.S. Treasury’s attack aren’t as clear in part because we only have the information second and third-hand. The information in the New York Times report clearly indicates that the attackers at least had “read” access on the network, which is consistent with Stage II. However, some of the details that have emerged about how the attackers may have gained access to cloud properties imply the possibility that the attackers had achieved Stage IV on the network."
If you look at this attack in terms of stages of cancer? The US treasury network is probably stage four right now. And the attack still continues.
Start thinking along the lines of a civil war with no electricity and the US treasury being drained in the middle of an ongoing pandemic and you have some idea of what the beginning of the end looks like. Thrown in some famine and some natural disasters and a world war and you start to get the idea.
But Drew? What should we do?
Be ready and praise God your book is being proved true right in front of you.
All the judgements issued by God are his way of showing man that he's not in charge and he should repent of his ways and realize just how temporal and unimportant the things of this world really are.
Just in case you haven't noticed, man isn't really getting the point just yet. There will be plenty more judgements to come until he does believe that.
continue on and put Brother Joes advice into action and "Fight from victory" not, "Fight for Victory", as the battle has already been won by Christ a long time ago.
just in case some people may have forgotten?
of talk these days about unity, healing etc.
Lets be clear.
There is no reconciliation without asking for forgiveness and showing repenttance.
None of which has been shown to this point.
The only unity should be in standing firm against the forces of darkness which seek to propagate a lie.
Period.
I'm so old I can remember when these wanna be facist fucks wouldn't quit yapping about personal responsibility and accountability.
Smart $ is checking out of here. Believe that.
What five years ago used to be a radical fringe movement outside mainstream thought now has 139 adherents in the House of Representatives and 8 in the Senate. If you are not concerned? Well? You should be.
I saw that John Hagee was a Trump supporter. I really didn't know that until few weeks ago. Hes one of only a few TV evangelist I'll actual stop and listen to on occasion. After the insurrection he asked "How did it come to this?"
Well?
What do you expect when you cozy up to evil? It spreads like a cancer, just look and you'll see it for yourself. Why in the world would Christians believe someone who consistently spreads falsehoods?
Look, if somebody is lying about everything? Why in the world would you believe them when they tell you what you want to hear?
just wanna make sure I get this right,
cause you know,
I've been told I don't think right,
I'm crazy blah blah blah...
So here goes.
If you share user accounts and passwords you can't be a Christian cause you're a cheat?
But it is perfectly acceptable for you to say that the words of Christ aren't true? In particular these words:
And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
That's no flesh, as in none. Zero. Nada. Zilch. Etc..
Well? Thanks for providing a real life example of
You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
Listen, It's either all true or none of it's true. You don't get to go through and pick what you like and what you don't. It's not how it works.
And that plank in your eye? Seems more like a sequoia.
The question becomes, exactly why would that be ?
I love you Baby.
Bugs and kisses sweetheart.
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