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Amen

Amen to that!

Amen ❤️❤️ Philippians 1:6 “being confident of this that he who began a good work in you will carry it upon completion until the day of Christ”

Amen!!!oh glory to Him!

This is a sign that you don't rest in Jesus. Just relax!

Amen!

Praise the Lord God have your answer. He is FAITHFUL..AMEN.

I use to have this problem myself brother. But a godless man has no concerns of GODLY things. When true Christians are terrified of dying and going to hell, that's because we're saved and know it is a all to real place for the wicked. But the wicked don't worry of eternity in hell because they don't believe it is real, neither do they believe the GOD of the bible. ♥️🙏

Oh my goodness! I was up all night last night also, gripped with fear over this!

@Fisher of Men Ministries amen! Yes He is!

Why doesn't God just adopt everyone then? It's not like He doesn't create the people who go to Hell. He's their father too.

@@storba3860They are of their father, The Devil.

@@zacGmusik Satan doesn't create humans. God does.

This made me cry. Thank you for these words! God bless you!

God is not like humans though. His love for others and hate for others will offend human hearts.

Praise God!!

I know Exactly how and what you feel, it can scare you, it can bring in fear , anxiety , no peace , all the tools of the devil and we let it. I do know I want to see the man , that died for me, I want to tell him Thank You . I may never say anything else but my heart will ever be thankful

I feel the same way. I’ve had joy up until my baptism last Sunday, since then I’ve been in spiritual warfare. I’ve calmed down now, but I’m not happy in the Lord like I was last week and before. I forgot about God’s love for me.

Satan wants you to feel hypocritical. It's how he interferes with the gospel. Jesus already won. Just keep praising Him for HIS goodness. Jesus paid for all your sins once for all. You were not saved so long as you convert enough people or whatever. That is a works based lie.

Me too.

@@elizabethezell8749 Tell him now

Your not alone 🙏🏻 devil is in overdrive I think. Keep the faith sister but know even when we air faithless HE is faithful

@@carly-0-7 Amen. Thank you. Yes, it's so true that he is in overdrive right now. It's what I've been thinking, too.

G'day, Rhonda! "ALL have sinned and come short of the glory of God." (Rom. 3:23) In Psalm 51, David prayed, "Restore to me the JOY of your salvation," after he had committed adultery with Bathsheba and had her husband killed in battle. There IS joy in the Lord and in His salvation by grace ALONE through faith ALONE in Christ ALONE. On the other side of this proverbial coin is my journey which began a couple of years ago in late March. I was trying to focus on joy, specifically that Jesus is my joy and what that means. I kept thinking about that hymn "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" and thought, "Dear God, I want to make Jesus the joy of my desiring at all times, good or bad." The woman who anointed Jesus' feet in Luke Chapter 7 was showing the joy of salvation as she had been forgiven for her sins, which were many. So I hope this helps and encourages you in some way to not feel guilty for having joy. That's the Christian life.

You are on the right path...Just take time each day to read the Bible or talk to God ..even for just a few minutes. God bless

This describes me perfectly, except for the fact that I try saving myself by somehow mustering up faith in Christ. All I can say is seek the Lord while He may be found. You might feel like giving up on gaining assurance, but here are some promises you should hold onto: And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. Rev 22:17 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Matthew 11:28 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. Jeremiah 29:13 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. Matthew 7:8 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Hebrews 11:6 All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. John 6:37 In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. John 7:37 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. John 4:17 (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.) 2 Corinthians 6:2

I know how you feel, man. Like, is there some fine print I'm missing, so that I'm not doing it right? Am I going to get to Judgment and find some deficiency I hadn't noticed? Am I not faithing right? But here's the nice thing: Whatever the case, the answer is the same. Look to Jesus. I get discouraged when I'm looking too much at myself, and not enough at God. Not enough about how God makes it simple and easy, how he wouldn't deceive us in that, how he knows me and has compassion, and wants to save me more than I want to be saved. Christ gets glory from breaking my sin and rescuing me. He gets glory from man, but most importantly, from the Father. We have to give up looking at the things we're doing or not doing right, just completely surrender them, forget about them, and admit to God our hopelessness in ourselves. Even wondering if I'm deceived is wondering if I'm DOING something wrong. And we have to be diligent not to conflate faith and feelings. Faith is forgetting all that and *taking Christ at his word!* He said it, so just forget about your feelings and believe it: "The one who comes to me I will certainly not cast out." He's good, he's generous, he's merciful, he's truthful, he's compassionate, so take him at his word. Lord bless you, brother.

@@malijames12 Thanks for the kind words and scriptures, brother

@@DoulosEudoxus Thank you. You’ve said it right, friend

Nice comment, Suzanne.

Amen sister 🙏👍

You should go to Bible comments and read Charles Simeon’s commentary on the Bible. Paul washer put me on to him. Very good. Must read. It literally won’t let me put the “oh Are G” in single letter form after the website Bible comments. But just change it to that.

Same for me!! I need this!!

Amen and amen!!

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G'day, Aussie Girl! A huge Amen to that!

@@lindacowles756 G'Day Linda !! Have a great day... 😊💛✝️

That's a big problem with many people is that they go days without thinking of God..It can be challenging for sure but try to remember to spend time with God even for just a few minutes each day. God bless

Read Romans chapter 7 when you become anxious. It will help. Philippians chapter 2 or 3 Paul talks about how he himself is not perfect and how our confidence is not in our flesh.

@@nickw3463 thank you for your encouraging words. God's grace is sufficient.

@@michaelE3569 God's grace surely is sufficient. Don't fall into the trap of looking at your shortcomings, bad feelings, or wrongdoings. That is not the gospel that is works. I've fallen into it before and I hate seeing fellow believers suffer the same. We've GOT to focus on how powerful Jesus and his sacrifice/resurrection is to save. Hebrews 10:10 says, "we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus once for all." And Hebrews 10:14 says, "for by one offering he hath perfected FOR EVER them that are sanctified. We conquer by the blood of the lamb and our testimony. Revelation 12:11 Sometimes we have to testify, not only to others, but to ourselves that we have trusted/believed in Jesus sacrifice and resurrection.

@@nickw3463 you are a true brother in Christ brother , encourage with love , amen and God bless you always 🙏👍

I know exactly what you are saying brother , it gets better just gravitate to true brothers who encourage you and offer support. Message me anytime for both , love you brother stay strong , peace be with you always and God bless 👍🙏

It's only natural to doubt that God loves you if you think that he doesn't love most people (predestining someone to damnation is not loving). The lack of assurance and trust are the bad fruit of bad teaching. God loves everyone. Those sermons about predestination and election are deceptive. They use out-of-context Bible verses to firmly establish ideas, then they use glib excuses to escape the contradictions they create. You don't have to be a victim of the people who besmirch God's character by saying that he doesn't love everyone enough to actually save them. When you let go of the idea of individual predestination to heaven/hell, it's easier to trust God, because you don't have the troubling thought in the back of your mind - "I'm glad I was one of the lucky ones."

Jerry Walls is the last one I would recommend. He is to much given to philosophy.

Same here.

I find that Calvinism has helped me with knowing I am saved, Lutheranism did the opposite. I was taught that you can lose your salvation in the LCMS. Also that babies were saved when baptized and a few other things that I couldn’t reconcile with scripture.

When each comes up repent to the Lord in prayer. The Holy Spirit corrects me with the pain of the clear memory. I have to make time to get on my knees and understand how that sin separated me from God and repent with the belief in the power and promises of Christ. I have to do that. I think Sanctification gets rough sometimes

I think it was Martyn Lloyd Jones who said the older hes gotten, the more of a sinner he knew himself to be, but also that Gods grace grew also, if you get what I'm saying. If you are in Christ, your sins are completely forgiven past present and future. :) because of Christ you are justified, just as if you'd never sin. That's how God sees you. Praise king Jesus for saving sinners like you and me

Your past is in the past...If you are saved...all that matters is God.

guilt or conviction? there is a difference

That’s an interesting. While I believe and understand everything Todd is sayin, assurance is still an issue for me BECAUSE I know that’s true. I know my salvation is through Christ alone and I cannot earn it. I don’t deserve it and I never can or will. Mh knowledge of these truths actually makes it a little more difficult to deal with assurance issues because only the elect go to heaven, essentially. There’s no way I can know if I’m in that group.

@@safersephiroth943 if you don’t take pleasure in sin, I think you’re probably good. That’s your born again heart speaking to you.

@@amazingjables I’d tend to agree with you. Because it’s true. I don’t take pleasure in sin. Some are more difficult to bare than others, but generally, when I’ve sinned or realized I’ve sinned, that’s when I know I need to seek forgiveness.

@@safersephiroth943 lack of assurance is the bad fruit of bad theology. You can count on God's love precisely because he isn't the kind of God who walks by (like the Levite and Pharisee) when he sees someone in trouble. He stops and helps (like the good Samaritan). He doesn't want anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentence. He doesn't delight in the death of the wicked. He takes no glory in damning souls- in fact, the Bible tells us what glorifies God most in Phillipians ch. 2. It describes Christ's great humility and says "therefore God exalted him". God exalts the humble and brings low the proud. Christ's glory comes from laying down his life and taking it up again. Jesus didn't leave anyone out when he died for the world. He took on human flesh, so everyone who has human flesh shares in the offer to be reconciled to God. So you don't have to worry about not being elect. No one does.

@@josephbrandenburg4373 Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to make your calling and choosing sure; for in doing these things, you will never stumble

@philaardsma7058, BINGO! A Calvinist hope is in if they are 'truly' picked... or not. And they can never know for sure. Their hope is not in Christ but whether or not they were Chosen before they were ever born. Because if they're not 'picked' it doesn't matter what they think about Jesus today... it may not be 'predestined' to last until tomorrow. They have no assurance. they can only measure their 'Christian' activities and hope it's enough evidence to suffice. RUN AWAY from Calvinism/Reformed theology. That's the problem. You have discovered the fly in the ointment which he's trying to ignore. Any 'former Calvinist' who has abandoned their Christianity, (and there are many), was previously just as assured of their 'election' as this man and so many others... until they abandoned their belief.... which all Calvinists would have to agree was just as much by God's decree as their previous claim to Christianity.... It's nonsense. Augustinian Total Depravity=Total Inability "from birth" is not Biblically established by an verse or passage in proper context. God saves those who will believe... and anyone can believe. That's it! God is faithful and has not withheld his mercy from anyone by virtue of their 'birth' or a decree from before they were even conceived in the womb. YOU CAN TRUST GOD... An honest Calvinist can not. Their doctrine prohibits it. If their profession of faith is only by God's decree... then those who later deny the faith also deny God.... by God's decree. Because he never really loved them anyway... If God will do that to some.... no one can ever know if he already has plans to do it to you...'Evanescent Grace' hangs over them all like the Sword of Damocles. They are encouraged to worship a God who cannot be trusted to genuinely love anyone specific individual... only the mysterious, nameless, 'elect' as they define them.

I know the feeling! Pretty much identical, what I go through as well! And yet, Jesus ALWAYS finds special/personal ways to remind me I'm His forever, and that'll NEVER change!

the fact that you are worried (or doubting) about your salvation means you care about it. unbelievers never have this kind of worry. repent and believe that Jesus saved you and you will bear fruit of the Spirit for the glory of God.

I understand

Romans 10 9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. 11 For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame.” If we struggle with sin, God may discipline you ( you are a disciple after all) and you may have doubts and feel remorse. But God never lies. This is His promise. He will never leave you or forsake you. Romans 8:31-37 !!!

@@exivilon I take comfort that when I’m reading or on my own, I should expect the fiery darts of the darkness at me. But when I speak out loud about Christ, especially during witnessing encounters, I am so strongly believing and passionate about or Christ. I know I believe and I know I am His, I just wish those doubts and darts would stop. Would make my own personal internal believing or secure, if that makes sense

*Jesus Christ is Lord & He’s coming soon. Don’t take that vaccine* ‼️🙏🏽

It’s possible to go more than 5 minutes without sinning

@@UDGMTVLINK but is it really? We commit sins that we don't even know about

If you’re worried about it, then it’s FAR more likely that you’re saved. Maybe not walking in perfect surrender and his strength, but you’re still saved. He is super close to those of us who struggle with our sin. Knowing of and being ASSURED the blessed assurance he paid for brings joy, and his joy is our strength. Hope the Lord speaks comfort to your heart today, because that’s what we need in order to overcome sin. Condemnation is from Satan.

All sins are in the past, so is the finished work of Christ, what do u mean sins in the past

God is more faithful than you think. Even if you're living in unrepentant sin, if the Spirit is at work in you, he will convict you when the time is right. This is very dangerous, and may come with terrible consequences, so I don't recommend it. It's a really dreadful thing to presume on God's grace. But it's an enormous blessing to see that God was nevee absent even through all that time. He will sanctify you in the places where you let him work, and he won't leave you alone if you resist him in the places where you really need him. He will break you, if he has to. And that is a special blessing, but it comes through excruciating pain. All in all, it's really better to repent!

You want a list? How about every war that's transpired over recorded history ? Every disease that's claimed the lives of innocent people throughout time? Every crime, murder, rape, genocide, famine, or upheaval ever known? Shall I go on there Skippy or do you need to get a freaking clue?

Biblically sound facts

Yes, this concerns me also. Plus seeing too many Christian videos where preachers act like if you struggle with recurring sin then you might be a "false convert" -- which I certainly hope I am not. I'd love it if @Wretched would make a video specifically addressing these 2 points.

I hope this helps, He did promise in His Word that you would find him if you seek Him with the whole heart. (Jeremiah 29:13). Being worried about That scripture in Hebrews, and in Matthew 7 could be a healthy fear, that y'all are taking the Word of God seriously. I have found that it just takes spending time in the Word, reading prayerfully. And remember, we have the Holy Spirit here on Earth, to reveal Jesus to us (John 15:26) also remember the promise, blessed is he who hungers and thirsts after righteousness for they will be filled that was from Matthew 5

@@rob_9876 Ray Comfort's sermon 'True and False Conversion' at Living Waters would be good to listen to.

The apostle Paul said the following: "For not he who commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth." 2 Cor. 10:18. There are innumerable people who will commend themselves, but the number who are commended by the Lord will be small in comparison. “Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.” Matthew 7:14 A study of the parables gives a true likeness of what is to happen at the end. The good fish must be separated from the bad, the tares must be separated from the wheat, the goats must be separated from the sheep, those at the marriage supper will have their garments inspected, not to mention the wise and foolish virgins. The foolish virgins are those who did not gather oil for their lamps. The separation process is not the believers from the unbelievers, but it is of the false converts from the true; it is indeed a separation of all those within the church who believe in Christ, it is of those that have a faith that works, from those who do not.

Read or Audible the books Reformers refer to sometimes in expounding the Word if you find time. Your comment sounds familiar in my life and I was blessed by reading the old guys like St. Augustine, etc. Real people and easily read to my great surprise.

@@robertmize327 I recently reread Augustine on Predestination and read him on the Trinity years ago. I'm currently reading Gary Long's "Definite Atonement" and highly recommend it.....

Most anti-calvinists haven't actually read any of Calvin. I think anti-Calvinism and doubts of the doctrine of the sovereignty of God is a way to criticize God's dealing with us, without openly expressing anger at God.

@@timothykeith1367 I normally don't engage them anymore. Most have the same talking points "you don't believe in freewill, we're all robots" , "you believe God sends babies to hell" "Calvinisms God is no better than the devil" etc, etc

@@de629 try beyond the fundamentals predestination is nothing like you were told and also what is Calvinism

"Thou shalt not take the lord's name in vain". In original hebrew it translated as thalt shall not represent God's character falsely. For his name is his character and his character was revealed to Isreal. I recommend Jeff A Benner. Ancient hebrew research. Not using God's name as a curse simply takes practice. It involves NOT doing something. You'll work it out and repent of it. God bless you.

I find it pretty easy

@@keepthechange2811 Thank you for posting..

Oh Lord forgive me. May it be you're will

Before you speak, always think, be slow to speak! and when you blaspheme, repent and confess your sin!

"And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand." John 10:28-29 KJV

@@John5TwentyFour can you answer the verse i provided?

Yes he does and it’s not a false doctrine, otherwise none of us would make it to heaven. The text you quote is referring to a church, not individual salvation. The first three rules of sound biblical exegesis is context, context, context. Also, scripture interprets scripture and clear passages govern unclear passages.

@@JesusChristISGodtheFather "As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent." "Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

@@John5TwentyFour work out your salvation and remain in faith or you’ll lose it and perish … religion won’t save you

Nope. Christ paid the penalty for all sins at the cross. Once for all sins. We who believe are sealed by the holy spirit until the day of redemption. If you can lose eternal life then it's not eternal life. Sin in a believers life results in loss of heavenly reward and chastisement on earth including death.

@@nickw3463 are you sure? i thought beliebers can backslide into worldliness (therefore forfeiting their salvation)?

@@a.kamileon my friend if you trust/believe in Jesus blood, death, and resurrection to wash away your sins and give you eternal life, then you are free from the law of sin and death (Romans 8:2). The Bible says in Ephesians 1:13 that the moment we hear and believe the gospel we are sealed by the Holy Spirit until the day of redemption. It doesn't say sealed until you sin too much. Romans 8:38-39 says NOTHING, present, or future can separate us (believers) from God's love. Hebrews 10:12 says Jesus paid for all your sins ONCE FOR ALL. We do face earthly consequences which can be fatherly discpline from God done in love for us or attacks from Satan and we will lose rewards in heaven but we don't lose our salvation.

i think it parallels Hebrews 10:26-28, like backsliding into worldliness and willfully going on sinning without caring to repent. But I’m not 100% sure though, I’m still learning as well

@@a.kamileon n Romans 11:11-24 Paul compares Israel to the natural branches of a cultivated olive tree and the Gentile believers to the branches of a wild olive tree. The natural branches (Israel) were broken off, and the wild branches (Gentiles) were grafted in (verse 17). The Gentiles, then, have been made partakers of the promises and inherit the blessings of God’s salvation. It is important to understand how God called Israel to be His people and how they failed to fulfill that calling. As the seed of Abraham, the children of Israel were chosen by God to be a separate people, holy to the Lord. God’s design was for them to be a light to the Gentiles so that they, too, might know God (Genesis 18:17-19; Isaiah 42, 49). Instead, the Israelites chased foreign gods and betrayed their calling (Ezekiel 23; Hosea 11). But God, who knew they would do this, had already promised to restore His kingdom to Israel after they rebelled and then eventually repented (Deuteronomy 30:1-10). So God sent His Son, preceded by a forerunner, to invite Israel to “repent, for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand” (Matthew 3:2; 4:17). However, when Jesus revealed Himself as the promised Davidic King who would restore Israel (Matthew 11-12; Acts 3:19-22), He was rejected by the Jews, exactly as Isaiah had prophesied (Isaiah 52-53). Jesus therefore called His disciples to fulfill Abraham’s commission to bless the nations (Genesis 12:2-3) by preaching the gospel of the Kingdom to all nations until the end of this age (Matthew 28:18-20). Paul thus preached the gospel of the Kingdom to the Jews and was repeatedly rejected (Acts 13-28); in consequence, Paul brought the good news to the Gentiles, who in turn became Abraham’s spiritual seed by faith and heirs of the promises to Abraham and his seed (Galatians 3-4). This is what Paul meant in Romans 11 by the Gentiles being “grafted” into the “olive tree” and nourished by the “root” (the promises to Abraham). The tree thus signifies the collective people of God; the “wild branches” grafted in are Gentile believers; the “natural branches” that are cut off are the Jews in unbelief. Jewish believers remain in the tree but are joined with Gentiles and “made” into a “new body,” the Church (Ephesians 2:11-22). Paul anticipated a question that would surely arise among his Gentile readers: “I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall?” (Romans 11:1)-Gentile believers would be tempted to dismiss Israel because it appeared they would never recover. Even today, there are those who advocate supersessionism or replacement theology, which holds that the Church has completely replaced Israel and will inherit the promises to be fulfilled only in a spiritual sense. In other words, according to this view, ethnic Israel is forever excluded from the promises-the Jews will not literally inherit the Promised Land. What then would happen to Israel? What about the Old Testament prophecies that Israel as a nation would repent and be re-gathered to the land in the last days as a permanent possession (Deuteronomy 30:1-10)? Romans 11 thus conclusively shows Gentile believers that God is not yet “done” with Israel, who has only temporarily lost the privilege of representing God as His people. Since “the gifts and calling of God are irrevocable” (11:29), “all Israel will be saved” in order to fulfill God’s covenant with ethnic Israel (11:25-28), including the promise of land inheritance (Deuteronomy 30:1-10). While the “natural branches” were cut off because Israel failed, God’s purposes are not complete until Israel is also grafted back into the people of God to share in the promises to Abraham and his seed. This brings full circle God’s larger redemptive plan (Romans 11:30-36) for both Jews and Gentiles as distinct populations within the people of God in the Davidic (or Millennial) Kingdom. Indeed, the prophets saw this Kingdom as the “final form” of the olive tree, so that Israel-reversing roles-would then bless the Gentiles, enabling them to join the people of God (see Zechariah 8:13, 20-23).

You're missing some very important context (which incidentally cuts the legs out from under the whole idea of individual election). Romans 9-11 is a passage explaining why God, who elected the Jews, is giving the gospel to the Gentiles (the non-elect), and the Jews are disbelieving in their own Messiah. It's not really about individuals. So it's probably not a good idea to think that the branch being cut off is a reference to individuals, since that contradicts so much of the rest of Romans. It's about the Jews and the Gentiles.

Neither Paul Washer nor John MacArthur have ever said we are saved by our works. Please examine yourself and make sure that you are in the faith. God does not want true believers to be divided by doctrines which greater men of God than I, have agreed to disagree on.