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parkling water (view profile)

Posted 6:32 pm, 03/21/2019

Not through any effort. Only through surrender.
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Who did you surrender to?
If it's Jesus don't you think you should obey him?
Listen to these words from Christ.
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John 6:24 “I tell you the truth, those who listen to my message and believe in God who sent me have eternal life. They will never be condemned for their sins, but they have already passed from death into life.
John 8:51
Very truly I tell you, whoever obeys my word will never see death

Simple question: Surrender to who???

Son, your rhetoric is wasted.
Here’s the deal. Man is messed up beyond his own ability to fix himself. That includes the best of people. It also includes me and you.
God has engineered a world and a system to redeem man. God figured a way to honor his own holiness and punish the sin that broke the relationship between himself and his creation. He himself did all the heavy lifting. The penultimate expression of God’s effort was to slaughter his own son in our place and to give us the holy character his son had. All he required on our partcwas to believe into that plan and accept his gift.
God has moved heaven and earth to get us into his kingdom. Petty theologians have worked ever since to exclude those chosen by God for salvation.
It wonk work, Michael. That’s not your calling. God does not need you to reinterpret what he has made so pkain. Jesus condemned line drawers like you in Matthew 23. Read it.

Surrender to who?

Not through any effort. Only through surrender.

sparkling water (view profile)

Posted 6:20 pm, 03/21/2019

I imagine God will take each of us aside for a few moments of private instruction to clear up our misunderstandings.

In fact, I’m depending on it. That’s called grace
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How do you receive Grace from Jesus?

I imagine God will take each of us aside for a few moments of private instruction to clear up our misunderstandings.

In fact, I’m depending on it. That’s called grace.

...not agreeing with Michael’s “private interpretation” of Jesus that stands opposed to scripture and the entirety of church history.

Seems they do, by following traditions of the Catholic Pagan Christian Religion and by Not staying with Jesus.

No one here has disagreed with Jesus.

That's what Jesus said by the way.
Plus John 12:44-50

26 Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father will honor the one who serves me.

When you do that you change the emphasis. That isn’t permitted.

sparkling water (view profile)

Posted 2:35 pm, 03/21/2019

What right do you have using all caps for some words and lowercase for others
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Seems some people CAN'T see..

Let and 1047 John 8:51

As Jesus was starting out on his way to Jerusalem, a man came running up to him, knelt down, and asked, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

18 “Why do you call me good?” Jesus asked. “Only God is truly good. 19 But to answer your question, you know the commandments: ‘You must not murder. You must not commit adultery. You must not steal. You must not testify falsely. You must not cheat anyone. Honor your father and mother.’[e]”

True and False Prophets

15“Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. 16By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? 17Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. 19Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.

True and False Disciples

21“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ 23Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’

The Wise and Foolish Builders

24“Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. 26But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. 27The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.”

28When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were amazed at his teaching, 29because he taught as one who had authority, and not as their teachers of the law.

Actually mhjsr thinks he or she is a celebrity on GW. and graves the attention. It is not about being scripturally correct, it is about getting as many people as possible to engage him, to build shim's ego. That is why there is no open discussion, just running from one thing to the next, and trolling with condemnation and insults. The god of this world has taught shim well.

What right do you have using all caps for some words and lowercase for others?

John 8:51