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daywalker:

--- Quote from: G. Driggs on June 05, 2009, 01:42:52 PM ---For whatever reason I just want to share what I've learned from bible-truths.com.

I think the biggest thing Iam learning lately is the more I read Scriptures and Rays teaching and all the posts on here is, I really dont know much at all. It seems almost everything I read is like a new revelation. Even after re-reading there is something that either makes me really happy or makes me feel really humble. It is truly humbling either way.

Peace to all, G.Driggs

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Hello G.Driggs,

I know what you mean. I am reading the LOF Series for the 3rd time now [currently on the Lucifer Hoax--part 9 section], and it's still happening to me...

What? Wow! I can't believe I missed that the FIRST time! Huh? Wow! I can't believe I missed that the SECOND time, too!


- Daywalker.  8)
 

G. Driggs:
I just noticed that somehow my topic, "What Have I learned?" somehow got merged with the topic, "2 or 3 Things Learned (still) Learning". Did I goof something somehow? Oh well its all good I suppose.

mharrell08:

--- Quote from: G. Driggs on June 05, 2009, 02:06:44 PM ---I just noticed that somehow my topic, "What Have I learned?" somehow got merged with the topic, "2 or 3 Things Learned (still) Learning". Did I goof something somehow? Oh well its all good I suppose.
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Check your PM box...topics related, so they were merged...left you a message.


Marques

hillsbororiver:
Hi Everyone,

There are some really good additions posted here! Thank you all.

As I was reading through them one of the articles came to mind;

From; The Lake of Fire - PART VI (TWO JUDGMENTS BY FIRE)


 THE LIFE OF A BELIEVER

Let’s see again just what is involved in living the live of a believer:

"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. For we are HIS workmanship [Gk: achievement], created in Christ Jesus unto [unto what?] … unto GOOD WORKS, which God has before ordained that we should walk in them" (Eph. 2:10). We are not saved by OUR WORKS, but we are preordained to walk in GOD’S GOOD WORKS, nonetheless.

"Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be BORN AGAIN, he cannot see the kingdom of God." (John 3;3). Notice that Eph. 2:10 says that we are "created IN Christ." Something new happens when we are "IN" Christ. There is a NEW birth and there is a NEW creation, "Therefore if any man be IN Christ, he is a NEW CREATURE [Gk: creation]: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new" (II Cor. 5:17). Albeit, this new creation has its perils as we will see in the next verse.

"Yea, and ALL that will live godly in Christ Jesus [as a new and different creature] SHALL SUFFER PERSECUTION." (II Tim. 3:12). This is not just a possibility; it is an absolute PROMISE.

"Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through MUCH TRIBULATION [pressure, afflictions] enter into the kingdom of God" (Acts 14:22).

"For if we would JUDGE OURSELVES, we should not be judged. But when we ARE JUDGED, we are CHASTENED [Greek: paideuo, to train, educate, discipline, punish, chastise, instruct, learn, and teach] of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world [at the great white throne judgment]" (I Cor. 11:31-32).

"And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks unto you as unto children, My Son, despise not you the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of Him. For whom the Lord loves He CHASTENS [Prov. 13:24] AND SCOURGES [see I Pet. 5:9] EVERY SON WHOM HE RECEIVES. But if you be without chastisement, whereof ALL are partakers, then are you ********, and not sons" (Heb. 12:5-8). "Every man’s work shall be made manifest; for the day shall declare it, because it shall be REVEALED BY FIRE; and the fire shall try EVERY MAN’S WORK of what sort it is" (I Cor. 3;13).

"Fear NONE of those things which you shall suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that you may be tried; and you shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give you a CROWN OF LIFE" (Rev. 2:10). "To him that overcomes will I give to eat of the TREE OF LIFE [eternal, immortal life]" (Rev. 2:7), "He that overcomes shall not be hurt of the second death" (Rev. 2:11), "And he that overcomes, and keeps my works unto the end, to him will I give POWER OVER THE NATIONS" (Rev. 2;26), "He that overcomes, the same shall be clothed in white raiment [righteousness] and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life [Christ is the book of life] but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels" (Rev. 3:5), "Him that overcomes will I make a PILLAR [a main and vital support in the very government of Almighty God] IN THE TEMPLE OF MY GOD…" (Rev. 3:12), "To him that overcomes will I grant to SIT WITH ME IN MY THRONE, even as I also overcame [see John 16:33], and am set down with My Father in His throne" (Rev. 3:21).

There we have a very brief overview of the life of a believer. Is it not obvious that the life of a believer consists of a whole lot more than just "believing" that Jesus is the Christ? God has bigger plans for the human race than just "saving" them. God can "save" chickens, but God doesn’t want chickens for sons! God wants sons that are PERFECT as He is perfect! Wouldn’t you all agree that becoming perfect might just require a whole lot more than singing gospel music once a week? Perfection requires many things that only God can perform in our lives. We are, after all, His workmanship, His achievement. Having ALL OUR WORKS tried in the fire of His Holy Spirit is no small part of becoming perfect.

http://bible-truths.com/lake6.html

Peace,

Joe

arion:

--- Quote ---"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. For we are HIS workmanship [Gk: achievement], created in Christ Jesus unto [unto what?] … unto GOOD WORKS, which God has before ordained that we should walk in them" (Eph. 2:10). We are not saved by OUR WORKS, but we are preordained to walk in GOD’S GOOD WORKS, nonetheless.
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This is along the lines of what has been impacting me lately.  How often in the babalonian walk in the past have we tried to pull ourselves up by our own spiritual bootstraps as it were...'I've got to pray more, fast more, read the scriptures more, be kinder, ect.'  I have always felt that these are things that I somehow have to accomplish although I would admit that of course God has to do it through me but the reality of that always escaped me.

If God doesn't do it then it's not going to get done!!  The flesh can not accomplish something spiritual.  WIthout Jesus Christ we truly can do nothing.  That isn't just a quaint saying....it's a fact.  How often I had read the scriptures along the lines of that He is the potter and we are the clay but the reality of that truly escaped me.  It's very humbling that if God isn't the one doing it in me then it's not going to get done at all.  Truly it's working out our own salvation with fear and trembling because it all depends on God and if he has not chosen me to be one of the elect then I won't be one of the elect.  I truly have nothing to do with the process and this is the thing that the flesh doesn't want to hear.  But the impact of this truth has also been a relief to me as well.  I really can't mess it up because it is God's good works that he is working through me....I'm just a conduit.

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