I'm a new Catholic and just learnt about burning last year's palms on ash wednesday in tonight's class. Next year I will bring mine. Exciting stuff. Lots to learn.
In the Latin Rite Catholic imposition of ashes, the person applying the ashes has 2 options for what to say. The better-known "Remember you are dust, and to dust you shall return" as well as the less commonly used but equally meaningful, "Repent and believe the Gospel." My priests today said the latter. The latter really speaks to something that is the whole message of the Lenten season - repentance.
In about 20 or so Ash Wednesday's, I've heard "Repent and believe the Gospel" exactly once. I wasn't sure if the person giving me ashes had accidentally screwed up because I'd never heard it before.
I like Repent and Believe in the Gospel well enough, but I dont think I have ever had ashes given with Remember you are dust. Which is really annoying, because it's the one that speaks to me more.
I am Episcopalian and the Ash Wednesday services are important reminders for us; as our priest places the ashes on our forehead, we are reminded “from dust you were formed and to dust you shall return”. Growing up in a Baptist household, where we did not observe Ash Wednesday and Lent, these solemn parts of the faith have become very important to me in my faith.
I was Baptized in 83 in the Episcopalian when my daughter was a infant. I felt it was the right thing to do. However I was rebaptized last Sunday under submersion. The Church is a offshoot of the Baptist Church. The Pastor told everyone go get ashes if you feel Inclined. I wish I had. This explained it to me. Thank you.
I’m Catholic and I didn’t know our Lutherans, Anglicans and Episcopalians brothers and sisters also practice Ash Wednesday! Somehow makes me happy! Thank you Matt!
You’ll be surprised and delighted to learn even more about what the broader Church practices. Mostly similar to the RC and, of course, some divergence. Anglican here. 😊
In the Lutheran Church where I grew up in, we not only had Ash Wednesday services; we had weekly lenton soup suppers and fellowship on the Wednesday evenings during Lent. (It was long ago, so I don't remember much detail.)
For Catholics, Ash Wednesday is also encouraged to be a day of abstinence (from meat) and fasting as a form of prayer and self-denial to help us make more room for following Christ's will for us.
Ashes in Catholic tradition are sacramentals. And this makes them considerably different in Lutheran tradition (of pastor Rev. Brown), despite some aesthetic proximity. As Catholics understand them, even if they are not sacraments, they are still further from a sociological tradition of ecclesiastical importance or a theatrical enactment; sacramentals really _”are sacred signs instituted by the Church. They prepare men to receive the fruit of the sacraments and sanctify different circumstances of life”_ (CCC, par. 1677). The ashes, by the way, are created by burning palms from the previous year’s Palm Sunday celebration. It’s done that way not only because the church received that as customary, but because the dispensation of God’s mysteries through the Church comes from the Paschal conquer of death on the cross. Palm Sunday is the last Sunday of Lent and leads into Holy Week: therefore, the very efficacy of (both) sacramentals and sacraments is derived from the life-giving mystery of the cross. In that we recognize through the ashes our mortality and our sinful condition, which means we thus recall Jesus is our savior, the one who rescues us from both our physical and spiritual deaths. Even so, it’s important to remember that _”Sacramentals do not confer the grace of the Holy Spirit in the way that the sacraments do, but by the Church's prayer, they prepare us to receive grace and dispose us to cooperate with it”_ (CCC, par 1670). Therefore, while sacraments - which are instituted by Christ Jesus - confer graces by the mere operation of it ("ex opere operato") and are not in any means conditioned by the worthiness of the minister and even the recipient, even though the fruitfulness of its reception can vary conforming personal dispositions (of the one who gets them ministered to), sacramentals - which are instituted by the Church - can only confer graces from the work of the ones both actively and passively performing the action ("ex opere operantis"). _"Here the grace received is determined by the spiritual disposition or worthiness of the individual and the intercessory prayer of the Church"_ (v. Christopher M. Buckner, Theology Of The Sacraments, Part Two [Hamilton, Virginia: The Catholic Distance University, 1995], Lesson 9-2). God bless you all!
Jewish people understand wave offering, adults baptizing and re-baptizing themselves(mizpha promise and tvilah is the act of immersion in naturally sourced pool of water, called a mikva.), and burnt offering, it’s not a Catholic thing, it’s a Judeo Christian thing. But the idea of Ash Wednesday is a very Catholic and Lutheran thing not in Scripture, just a beautiful symbolic tradition.
@@SRose-vp6ew we call it the Judeo Christian tradition because Catholicism is the continuation of Judaism. Jews that convert to Catholicism call themselves fulfilled Jews. Check out Roy Schoeman.
@@elliotdavies1418 They are seven, if you consider the sacraments in the strictest sense of the term. But in the more loose terminology, one can say the Church is “the universal sacrament of salvation” or other applications. Maybe you thought about the sacramentals, right? 1117 _”As she has done for the canon of Sacred Scripture and for the doctrine of the faith, the Church, by the power of the Spirit who guides her "into all truth," has gradually recognized this treasure received from Christ and, as the faithful steward of God's mysteries, has determined its "dispensation."34 _*_Thus the Church has discerned over the centuries that among liturgical celebrations there are seven that are, in the strict sense of the term, sacraments_*_ instituted by the Lord_ (CCC, par. 1117).
I am a Baptist who attends a church in the Mid-Atlantic USA affiliated with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (CBF). Our congregation has an evening service for the imposition of the ashes. The service is quiet, sans choir but with hymns, sober but not dour, and is one of the only times the window curtains are drawn closed, to help mute out the traffic on the adjacent road (normally the windows are open for all the world to see and be drawn in). I find it to be one of the most moving services, and the one I feel most important for me to attend outside of Christmas and Holy Week, ranking alongside its contrasting counterpart of Advent. I don't recall whether the Baptist congregation I grew up in had such a service (as we didn't attend it either way). I suspect the practice was recovered in the last few decades as part of the ecumenical movement and with it a general interest in restoring elements of the faith that were perhaps over-enthusiastically discarded once upon a time. Indeed, the ecumenical inclusion of major church traditions was one of my criteria when searching for a new church home.
I am Episcopalian and we always burn the palms from last Palm Sunday for Ash Wednesday. I love this tradition because I feel like I'm wearing the hosannas I sung to our Lord on Palm Sunday! Hosanna to the Son of David!
Thank you so much for everything Matt, wonderful video. I was baptised & confirmed in 2021here in the CofE in UK, you have been a part of my journey. I love Ash Wednesday and All Souls Day in November. I embrace my ash cross with love and pride
An Episcopalian church had a sign that said drive through blessings, my husband I decided to stop. The priest put the ashes in the shape of a cross on pur forhead and then prayed. It was a first for us however I've given up soda and he's given up energy drinks and are avoiding meat on Fridays because we might as well go all in since we got the blessings. I think that was an amazing way for churches to bring more people to repentance.
The ash tradition was not something I really noticed until I became Chaplain Assistant in the Air Force. Helping prepare the different services from Catholic and other high church traditions to the contemporary and gospel services was like getting an overview of Christian history every week. It helped me appreciate my Christianity seeing the through-line of the gospel from the different traditions. As a note, Chaplain Assistants (now called Religious Affairs Airmen) do not need to have any religious affiliation. The career field is there to directly provide or indirectly provide for the free exercise of religion. They also advise leaders at all levels on ethical, moral, and morale issues especially for the enlisted force.
Anglicans have a whole liturgy for Ash Wednesday! And the idea of ashes is also found in the Old Testament 😊. BTW - the Anglican Book of Common Prayer ( a.k.a. BCP) contains all of our liturgies as well as the daily office, and a whole host of other things, So if you’re curious as to what Anglicans celebrate and believe, the prayer book says it all!
I'm part of the Dutch Reformed church in South Africa, and as a specific congregation we have always practiced Ash Wednesday, much in the exact same way as this pastor in the video described. We usually have our service in the evening, and we also allow people to make the cross mark on their hands. In our congregation, we put down Communion (bread and wine) for the participants to take themselves. The past two years, we had a "silent" service, where we would display various scriptures on the projection board, with soft music playing in the background, and simple instructions to guide the participants in going through all of it themselves, either individually or with a friend or as a family. Regarding the ashes themselves - every year we intend to keep the palms from Palm Sunday, but then we forget 😜 so we just burn some new dry leaves and mix them with oil instead. It's a special start to Lent 😎.
Wow!! What a great insight, I didn't know anything about Ash Wednesday, and now (although it is not commanded) I absolutely love the tradition. Over the last year or so, I've come to realize that the physical things we do, even just traditions, are more important than I gave them credit for in the past. No, the ashes do not bestow special grace in themselves, but they remind us of our humanity and our sin, and point us toward our needy condition (helpless estate) that brought Jesus to die that we could have life.
Good for you. Continue to stay open to some of these wonderful traditions that the church has offered her people. We want to worship God with our whole being, not just our intellect. I grew up Evangelical, but now I’m in an Anglican. I love the incense, the beautiful colors, the church calendar and seasons, celebrations like Ash Wednesday, Holy Week, Lent, Epiphany, etc. Rather than the “excarnation” of the world that the Enlightenment brought, we see in such Scriptures as Psalm 19 that the world declares/points to the glory of God. So we should not shy away from seeing the world as “enchanted” and look for ways that God used the material to reveal the immaterial (think Eucharist). 😊
@nchunter8918, I grew up Pentecostal so I didn’t learn about Christian traditions until l was in my 20s back in the 80s. There is so much beauty, solemnity and reverence in the old practices and hymnody that I cannot go back to less structured worship. A huge plus is the greater reference to Scripture itself. Employing the 5 senses that God gave us in worship is to honor His creation. Body language in worship is another way to focus on what it is we are hearing and praying and singing.
Anything that helps us to remember that repentance and contriteness of heart is an everyday thing. The traditional liturgical calendar is a blessing to help us along the way, whether the sign on the door is Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican, Methodist, etc.
How true. There are wonderful traditions that the church has offered her people. I want to worship God with my whole being, not just my intellect. I grew even Evangelical, but now I’m in an Anglican. I love the incense, the beautiful colors, the church calendar and seasons, celebrations like Ash Wednesday, Holy Week, lent, epiphany, etc.
I have always appreciated your willingness to step out of your own comfort zone and ask insightful questions that lead to shared understanding with other forms of Christianity. I was struck by the comment about shedding and rediscovering various forms of practice and expressions of faith. I am wholeheartedly of the belief that we need to seek more understanding with others and deeply bury the "I'm right and you're wrong" mentality in so many parts of our daily lives. Thanks!
I got to participate in such a service at another LCMS church similar to this one, even the same name for the church. I also grew up in an evangelical/nondenominational church. It was quite an experience. Very solemn.
The Catholic tradition of ashes on Ash Wednesday goes back pretty far. The earliest mention of the practice can be found in the Gregorian Sacramentary (a book with directives for the liturgy) where this particular mass makes use of blessed ashes from the previous year's Palm Sunday palms to begin the Lent season. That book was published in the 8th century, but it is most likely that the practice went back much further than that and probably dates to a centuries earlier practice.
The New Catholic Encyclopedia states: “The practice of the faithful receiving ashes on Ash Wednesday has been universal since the Synod of Benevento in 1091.” The encyclopedia also says that Lent was established “in the fourth century, over 200 years after the Bible was completed.”
Very good video! I'm a lutheran in Brazil and we do not have this practice here. I think it's quite interesting that lutherans are bringing this tradiction back in the US!
I miss it so much. I go to a non denomination with hubby but these rites are so important. They are traditions that won’t save you but they remind you of the cost
I appreciate the response from the Lutheran pastor.. I'm not one to celebrate or partake in Ash Wednesday but I respect the liberty on Christ of those who want to do that. I recently found a post online where I saw a particular individual really go hard against those who do practice ash Wednesday and I felt it was just not a charitable conversation overall. Like I said, I'm not feeling drawn to get ashes on my forehead but I don't want to look down upon a neighbor of mine who does this.
I attend a small Anglican Church in South Louisiana (Trinity). At the beginning of the Ash Wednesday service, we receive the ashes on our foreheads. Before we leave the church, we turn & line back up, but this time facing the back of the church. The priest stands next to the baptismal with rags. As we step forward to the priest, the dips the rag into the fount. As he says, “You are dead to sin & alive to God in Christ.” Hearing it repeated over & over again is incredibly powerful. Take a trip down to south Louisiana & get to know our little Anglican church!
Excellent video. Our non-denominational evangelical church has had Ash Wednesday services from time to time. Mostly, as you both stated, as a preparation of the heart and soul for the Lent and Easter. I also think we do this because as a non-denominational church we have alot of faith backgrounds in our congregation and some may expect or like Ash Wednesday traditions.
Great video Matt, very informative for an Orthodox Christian that is not too familiar with this. Consider looking into the Forgiveness Sunday vespers that kicks off Orthodox lent sometime. Thanks!
The church I am part of is non-denominational, we started having Ash Wednesday services 3 years ago. Our church is affiliated with the Soma Family of Churches. Our lead pastor grew up Southern Baptist. I grew up Church of Christ.
It is something optional but it’s nice to do. It won’t save you but it may help live a better life for our Saviour, Christ, the Way, the Truth and the Life. Amen. ✝️
That’s like saying eating cake on your birthday won’t make you younger but it’s a nice tradition. Eating cake and your age have nothing to do with each other. the cake is just a reminder of our birthday and to celebrate that day. Just like ashes won’t save you. Ashes remind us of our mortality, and our need for ongoing repentance.
Just a foot note. Ash Wednesday is not a Holy Day of Obligation, though many Priests will attest it is the third highest day of attendance at most churches. Though not a day of obligation, the rules of fasting and abstinence do apply to it. Many Catholics wear the ashes till evening cleanup, mainly not to get strange looks when ordering the fish sandwich on a wednesday. Though The Church has relaxed the rules on fasting, it is much healthier for your body if you can try doing a full fast on the days prescribed. Nothing to do with Spirituality, abstinence can do that if you really are penetant. It has been found through research that a 24 hour fast is really good for ones body.
We received the ashes at my LCMS school chapel service. We have a large percentage of non-Lutheran students (and some staff) and everyone was welcome to receive the ashes. I think the sign of the cross on our forehead also reminds us of our baptism when we were marked as one redeemed by God our Father through Jesus His Son with the Holy Spirit working faith in our heart.
Trying to repeat my comment on the last version, I think it'd be interesting for next year to check with a Roman Catholic priest, to see what differences there are and aren't in the practice and theology. As someone who in the past has helped put the ashes on (and who just got back from a noon Mass with ashes! big smear on my forehead, and our Deacon accidentally also nailed the bridge of my nose, lol), in the Catholic church, the Priest does bless the ashes, both in words and with holy water, before they're used. So I'd be interested in knowing how those are supposed to be disposed of. Which leads to another potential idea for a (shorter) video - looking into what the Catholics, and maybe multiple faiths, are supposed to do when cleaning the vessels used for Communion. (Believing that the bread and wine have become Christ's genuine body and blood means you shouldn't just wash it down the municipal sewer, after all...)
The Catholic priest doesn’t just drain the wine into the sewer. He finishes the wine and if there is too much the Church has a separate drain where the wine can spill out on the dirt or grass outside the church so it doesn’t go into the sewer
@@catholicguy1073 Even more so there's an initial cleansing of the chalice with water along with the ciborium so that any particles of the Body or the Blood are either consuming when the priest drinks from them OR by breaking up the physical properties of bread and wine to the point that they are no longer the Sacrament. Then there's the secondary cleansing in which the water used goes down the sacrarium, as you mention, where the water goes into the earth and not into the sewer. That gets into the nerd-level details but nonetheless shows the reverence in which we hold the Sacrament.
Anglican here. My church does have a little post-service service where we burn the palms, and a little prayer is said over them. If the weather's good enough we do it outside in a little fire pit that we have. It's a nice little service. I've only been Anglican for nearly three years so I've yet to see what happens if the weather isn't good enough for burning haha. I attended the morning Ash Wednesday service at my church. I had to take public transit to get back home, and I left the ashes on. No one said anything though. I live in a city, so maybe people have seen stranger things on public transit than a dirty forehead lol. It's a really nice service though. My priest says that Ash Wednesday is the service that made him Anglican. It's a little weird, but it's good to be humbled and reminded of your mortality once in a while.
From a Catholic perspective the ashes on ash Wednesday are a sacramental, nt a sacrament, like holy water. A sacramental, when used with devotion, can impart grace but not salvation/the forgiveness of sin, but can strengthen a Christian to greater faith and good works.
From an Orthodox perspective, to make sure we share all sides of the coin [it's similar though]: The more ancient and traditional practice is not to isolate seven Sacraments from the many other actions in the Church which also possess a sacramental character. Some of these sacramental activities are: the service for the burial of the dead the rites for a monastic profession the blessing of waters at Epiphany the anointing of a monarch. These also contain a combination of outward, visible signs and inward, spiritual grace. Even the blessings of homes, fields, fruits, cars, and pets have a sacramental nature.
The imposition of ashes is commonly observed in Lutheran and Anglican churches and increasingly so in other traditions, such as some Methodists and Presbyterians.
The 40 days and 40 nights of Lent are also meant to remind us of Christ's time of fasting & temptation in the wilderness, in preparation for His sufferings on the cross. We follow Him into that season of fasting and prayer, as well as repentance.
Hi Matt, I'm Jason. We met briefly at the gas station in Rapid City last year. I'm the technology teacher at Creekside Christian at OBC. I'm also a Confessional Lutheran and regularly do Greek exegeticals with my brother Pastor Brown. I'm still quite interested in having you visit my class and talk about being a RU-vidr and podcaster.
I’m a Lutheran, maybe not LCMS but Lutheran nonetheless, Ash Wednesday is important. The ashes remind us of our earthly mortality and the sacrifice Christ made for us, we are to focus on repenting of our sins.
Ashes can be given out many places. I have seen news articles of them being given at train stations and on sidewalks. In my city it is not unusual to find a chaplain giving them out at fire & police stations, for those that can't get off shift. To me there is a real sense of fellowship when you walk up to a stranger and you both have ashes. Thanks for this video.
Article in the NY Times featured a vignette of KC Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker regarding Ash Wednesday and the Super Bowl parade. (An event which also, sadly, reminded us all that death is a part of life.) "The team’s kicker, Harrison Butker, who speaks often about his Catholic faith, said that he would be attending Mass in the morning with his wife and children. Though he’ll participate in the parade, he added in an email to The New York Times, “I won’t be celebrating in the usual way with food and drink since it’s a day of fasting as well as abstinence from meat.” For Mr. Butker, the trade-off is worth it. “Just like there is no Super Bowl without sacrifice, there is no Resurrection without our Lord’s sacrifice,” he wrote. “This will be tough, but I have to remember that if I want to celebrate our Lord’s Resurrection on Easter I have to participate in his suffering during Lent.”"
Matt where have you been? I watch all the time and you have not posted in a while. I’m glad that you are back. You stopped off in my hometown of Saint Joseph Missouri about 18 months ago. I went through a grand Baptist Church.
My independent restoration church has recently in the past 10 years picked up the practice of an Ash Wednesday service. We also burn our palm branches from the previous year. Quite a change from that same church of my youth.
An interesting interview on this topic and just in general would be Western Rite Orthodox Christianity (typically under the jurisdiction of Antioch). Fr. Mark Mcnary from St. Peter’s in Fort Worth, TX would be awesome. He’s super knowledgeable and very pastoral.
Hi Matt! I re visiting this video a few months later in paschal time while we have been reading Jesus' bread of life sermon in John 6. We have been talking about the concept of comensality, of communal eating. As you have expressed that you value communion very much as an expression of christian union, I dare to suggest a deep dive into this concept of commensality in christianity.
If you're ever weary of American Evangelicalism, the LCMS or another confessional Lutheran church would love to have you! You should preemptively read the Augsburg Confession and the Small Catechism.
When the Pastor brought up that Luther did not want to break from the Catholic church or create a new church, he saw some things he thought needed to be looked at and reigned in. Interesting, and worthy of reflection. I have had conversations with Lutherans, and this is agreed upon. I think it's worthy bc of the large prejudice and we'll let's just call it as it is, meanness Catholics are treated with by Evangelicals and Prodestants. If they did thier history homework, they would see the early Reformers did not hate so much of the good things thay were happening that do come from Jesus and the Bible. I can say this as I grew up Catholic and experienced this unkindness while seeing more of the similarities to my Prodestant friends churches and out of love had a heart for truth, and to be 1 body of believes as Christ commanded. I pray this happens 1 day, so God will smile on us believers. Matt what do you think? I attend a Non Denominational church in my 40's and know the value of reaching out in love like Christ commands. I'm still learning, always want to.❤ Blessings
The sign of the "T" is applied to remember Tamuz, which is then followed by 40 days of weeping for Tamuz. Constantine Christianized Easter and Tamuz to be for Christians, but all the same rituals were retained but the stated meaning was changed.
My EFCA church does Ash Wednesday, we just did it yesterday and we burned the old palm leaves from last year too. Now granted my EFCA pastor used to be a UCC pastor, hence the key words “used to” but that’s why we do it. The church he pastored at before we would do the same thing.
For a minute I thought he said "gods bless us" at the end there. But the transcript shows that he actually said "God's blessings". Just in case anyone else heard the same thing.
There is a really good book by Esau McCauley called "Lent: The Season of Repentance and Renewal" which very nicely explains the whole process of Lent from the perspective of someone growing up outside of the Anglican tradition, and what spiritual benefits the author has found in the experience of following Lent, which of course starts with Ash Wednesday. I highly recommend the book for those who are interested in going deeper into the topic.
Ash Wednesday is practiced in some Reformed traditions. We impose the ashes in the Evangelical Association of Reformed & Congregational Christian Churches.
I grew up LCMS and I had no idea about this. Maybe we didn't do it at our church, not sure. I definitely noticed the anti-catholic sentiment in the 80s/90s.
After the Ash Wednesday service I went to put some petrol (gas) in my car. The attendant at the petrol station asked "excuse me do you realise you have a dirty mark on your forehead"....
I enjoyed this video and the explanation of the meaning and symbolism of the distribution of the ashes on Ash Wednesday. I am Catholic and agree and appreciate the Lutheran pastor's explanation and historic symbolism given about Ash Wednesday. The only point that I found lacking was that the pastor didn't pointedly explain about the symbolism of Lent as Christ's fasting and temptations in the desert from Satan himself. This was in preparation of Christ's triumphal entrance back to Jerusalem and face His Passion at Calvary to atone for the sins of Humanity. I just wish this important reference would have been made in the explanation to compliment and totally complete why the Lenten Season is important and why it truly is a penitential and charitable season.
In the Catholic Church not only do we burn the palms, the reason for the cross is repentance as well as i either missed it or didn't hear about something. I'm not aware of in other liturgical churches. In the Catholic Church the Ash Minister can say 1 of two things in the Ash service. 1. From dust and to Dust you shall return. 2. Accept the Gospel. on why many don't on top of the reason you gave they use something that he brought up as a reason i noticed (not all) but it sounds like a common objection for the ashes. that they don't because of Jesus's talk about not doing it to make it known that u fast. not all but some on RU-vid bring up talking about what ur going to give up for lent as a problem, Again not all, i have seen some that say things of that sort in videos on Lent on here. God Bless you and keep up the videos.
Don't push. I've been following Matt for some years now and appreciate the position he's put himself in, learning about all these different variations of Christianity. Yes, I'd be excited if he came into full communion. But the exploration he's been doing is valuable to all Christians and is also part of his own journey.
Good video, though there is a definite distinction between Roman Catholic and Lutheran that should be maintained. It wasn't a mistake to reform and call for reformation.
A few years back, I burned the palms for Ash Wednesday. I let them dry out for almost year before I burned them, so they burned easily, and with a muddler of sorts, I made the particulate as dust. I didn't realize that I would make a lifetime supply from a typical order of palms (we didn't use them one year because of CoVID). I burned them cleanly in an old crock pot ceramic. Very easy. 10/10 would recommend.
Your old-fashioned mainstream Christian denominations do ashes. Catholics, Episcopalians, the church of England, most Lutheran, churches, Methodist, eastern, right, Catholic, as well as even orthodoxy Presbyterian do not, and I think it came about with the second shift in the church, the Calvinist and that brand of Christianity Did not do ashes nor do Baptist as you mentioned Presbyterian. I have non-Catholic friends who come to Ash Wednesday service with me. They thought of unusual they could go get ashes, but could not go and receive the holy Eucharist.
Not all LCMS churches practice Closed Communion, where only member of that church can partake in communion. My LCMS church welcomes anyone who believe communion is ‘the true body of Jesus Christ, under the form of bread and wine’.
As an ELCA Lutheran, yes, this has been my experience when visiting an LCMS congregation. The key is to visit the pastor before the service and ask to receive. If you can honestly affirm that you believe that in Holy Communion you receive the true body and blood of Christ given for the forgiveness of sin, it has been my experience that the pastor will allow you to receive.
Ephesians 2:8-9 KJV For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast. Romans 4:4-5 4 Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. 5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. Romans 3:25-26 King James Version 25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; 26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in The word of the Lord. Yes! Faith in the blood of Jesus to wash all your sins away, past ,present ,and future sins. Blessings
@@johnp.6043 Thanks.Hi from Finland. If i tomorrow marry another man and live my life till end with that lifestyle, how could my future sins be forgiven ??
@@Yaas_ok123 The question is not about your sins, nor my sins or anyone’s sins. It about salvation by having Faith in the death.burial and resurrection Of Jesus Christ who loved everyone and would of died if you were the only one. When you are saved you are spiritual circumcised, meaning your soul is cut away from your flesh. We are all sinners in our flesh until we are redeemed to him and are washed by his precious sinless blood from our sins. Once you are sealed with the Holy Spirt of promise ( Ephesians 1:13) you can’t loose it. The apostle Paul writes in Romans 7:24 ( I do the things in my body that I don’t want to do, but I do them anyways O’ wretched man that I am. Who can deliver me from this body, but only by the grace of our lord Jesus Christ. Being saved is not a license to sin, but we walk and grow in him through his word. He is my suggestion bye the authorized “King James Bible”, not one of the modern Bibles that have changed some doctrine. Get watered by the word of God. Start with the book of John ( to get to know “ Who” Jesus is) then read our Gospel through the Apostle Paul. Romans through Philemon. ( This is “What” Jesus did for us and our salvation to the us the Gentiles) Two good Bible scholars to listen to would be Robert Breaker, Michael pearl , “ the door “ on line. One more thing to be reborn you are a new creature in Christ. Let the the Holy Spirt guide you in all truths. Ephesians 4:30 Don’t grieve the Holy Spirt because your sealed until the day of redemption. Blessings!
@@Yaas_ok123 When your sealed with the Holy Spirt of promise Ephesians 1:13 It cannot get unsealed. Romans 3:25 Faith in his blood for the remission of sins. 1 Cor.15:1-4 The gospel is believe in the death,burial and resurrection do Jesus. When you are spiritual circumcised, reborn in one spirit with Christ, no one can pluck you out of his hands. Now your Spirit is at war with your sinful flesh. Read the apostle Paul to us Gentiles for our salvation doctrine . Paul writes I do the things in my body that I do not want to do, but I do them anyways O’ wretched man that I am, who can deliver me from this body, only by the grace of Jesus Christ. I like the Authorized King James Bible, there are to many changes in the modern Bibles. To be saved is not a license to sin, even though we are still sinners in the flesh, but our souls are pure before the Lord. Now we do good works for Jesus for heavenly rewards, but not for salvation. Blessings!
