When you said there was no gospel in the mission work, I was like, WHAT?! That is the whole point of mission work. If there's no gospel in it, it ISN'T mission work!
Grow down into the mind of Christ, which we already possess right inside our new natures. Get weaker and lowlier, but know you are perfectly weak and lowly in Christ.
Once we eat the apple, we know the taste. We desire the taste to satisfy ourselves. We being the cycle of insatiable hunger. This is when our true selves die and become chained to selfish desires. After eating the apple, our identity turns from God to selfishness. Satan is the ultimate example of self-serving. Satan is our fate if we turn from Jesus Christ. It is either life (Jesus Christ) or death (Satan).
Woops! The gospel consists of 1. That I am a sinner. I was dead so I needed the new birth to see that I'm a sinner. 2. I find out who God is and what he has done with me.
I the lord created created evil that you would chose good i the lord create war and cause peace both i the lord do lol god does both good and bad why do we need a pagan blood sacrifice of virgin blood when even Davids God forgave him without are we different than David? So glad i left the cult of constitine
We have confidence to regress because we know we are already perfect in the Heavenly places and Christ needs our weakness (not sin) to work through us.
Ah! But we have died. We died to sin on the cross with Christ and life pn this earth has been death for us, because our lives are hid with Christ in God.
We are not saints on this earth, only in heavenly places, and only resting there allows Christ to work through us.yes we are frail on this earth and that is Christ's opportunity to proclaim his gospel. Learn it better and preach it better, brother Doug.
We have been there since forever and as we grow in weakness he works more fully through us. Progressive sanctification is a misnomer. Positional sanctification will never change. Humans need to know their weakness which is the most impossible thing for humans to know. Christ for neighbor.
Its not only close to biblical God's rarified love is heavenly and he loves his son in us. The whole premise of the gospel is that God only loves 18:06 perfection. God cannot love me unless he has made me perfect from the foundation of the world.
So there's alot of the word gospel in this sermon, but what IS the gospel. God already finished it in heavenly places in our perfect position in Christ's righteousness. Only as we rest there in Christ does Christ come into our new natures and lives through us.
Yes. The gospel is wonderful when it is separated out from man's power, who thinks he can actually get his dry bones to God and save in so doing, save himself.
What in heaven did that mean? It meant the finishing up of our union with Christ. We were placed into him at the ascension and he was placed in us at his glorification.
The “rapture” conjecture is an easy target, as it is constructed only of inference and conflicts with several direct Biblical statements. There is certainly a resurrection and catching up, just not the unbiblical way the rapture teaching describes it. Full disclosure, I used to believe and teach the rapture. There are several passages, like the following, that undermine support for a full-preterist position. “Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. But when these things begin to take place, straighten up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.” Luke 21:27-28 NASB95 The video touches on a few good cautions when it comes to interpreting the Bible. “Wooden,” or overly literal interpretation is a danger, but so is over-spiritualization or combing through history in search of fulfillment of certain Scriptures in the past. Overall, a good basic overview of the four major positions. Personally, I don’t fit neatly into any of those categories. I think the truth is a little bit of each position, but all within a premillennial framework. Thanks for the video.
6 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the Lord, and there is none else. 7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things. 8 Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the Lord have created it. -Isaiah 45 KJV
The only way to grow is to be satisfied with our eternal home in heaven. We were given heaven at the new birth and we are satisfied with that. Talk about earthly thinking, Toby is the best at earthly thinking.
Cutting these condition verses off from their position counterparts and relegating us to earth is not biblical. We are citizens of heaven, and we never could've gotten there without our d ath to sin on the cross with Christ and rising clear to heavenly places. Ee abide in our perfect position and growth to christlikeness is only possible as we rest in our perfect position in Christ's righteousness.8:42 is only possible
Both Pastor Jeff Durbin @ApologiaStudios and Pastor Tim Stephens @FairviewBaptistChurch have been doing messages about the OT Law. It's glorious! Oh, Lord, Jesus, come quickly!
Death is our enemy - YES! This is one of the reasons I loathe "Spooky Season." It was bad enough to have a night or a weekend of celebrating death & darkness. Now it's everywhere, for weeks. Entire front yards decorated as cemeteries. Ghosts/demons/monsters everywhere. Everything dark and evil and death-like celebrated from every corner of the culture. It makes me sick. The spiritual oppression is unbearable. And people LOVE it. I remember years and years ago, walking down my block and seeing something hanging from a tree. As I got closer I realized it was a person. Well, not a real person, but something made to look like real person. It was horrifying! Who CELEBRATES that?!
This is both terrifying and glorious! (Just like our God is.) What a needed message! It corrected an assumption of mine, that Hell will be the absence of God, in the sense of the absence of everything good that He is and He gives. But it seems more biblically correct to think of it as forever facing the unfiltered glory of God, apart from the covering of Christ's atonement for our sins. I'm not sure if I worded it exactly as he did. But that was the sense I was getting. This seems more biblically precise. And terrifying. But, again, it is JUSTICE. We DESERVE nothing but Hell! Those who object to it, even if they profess to be Christians, are those who have no sense of His moral perfection, His holiness, His completer other-ness from us. Our God is a consuming fire.
