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"You are not of my sheep"
Deborah-Leigh:
Hope is not in vain.
~ God is not a God that will fail the deepest fears or sufferings. How can He ~ for who has suffered more than His Son Jesus who is risen? Who is less worthy or less sinful than is Jesus Christ the perfect sinless Lamb of God in you? You know He is in you don’t you? For greater is He who is in you....1 John 4:4
Are you less sinful than He who has no sin? That’s absurd. How can anyone be?
If you see yourself less worthy of being saved than Jesus is, who is risen from death, then by implication you accuse God as being a respecter of persons that He is NOT.
God saves the world, the big, bigger and biggest sinners and the small, smaller and smallest of the unworthy. All will be saved. How many of the all? All of the all. Which part of the all? All. That’s everyone. The Salvation is of all.
God reaches into the darkest souls with His Light, He reaches into the most secure foundries of prison and sets free, He gathers the lost out of storms of deceit and He rescues the frightened from their fears and they are healed.
God is not a God that He should lie. He is savior of all who believe a lie common to all ~ for who has not fallen and who among you dare say Jesus is not risen?
Christ is True to His word and you too shall love Him as He loves you with all His heart. He sets free all for His Love that doesn’t fail.
All who are lost shall be found for indeed, how can any be lost to God who is everywhere, knows everything and sees everyone.~
Arc
daywalker:
--- Quote from: Hopeful on March 09, 2011, 06:22:50 PM ---Hi guys. I'm having some trouble with John 10:26. "but you do not believe because you are not my sheep." Christ said earlier that He laid down His life for His "sheep". So if they were not of them, then does that mean they were not covered in the Atonement? Please help me out here. This is making me very nervous as well as very sad. :'(
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Don't make the common mistake of "adding to the Word of God". This is how you continue to be deceived by false doctrines. If the Scriptures don't SAY it, then don't believe it.
...and please note I said "Scriptures" not "bibles" ;)
Marky Mark:
--- Quote from: Hopeful on March 09, 2011, 06:22:50 PM ---Hi guys. I'm having some trouble with John 10:26. "but you do not believe because you are not my sheep." Christ said earlier that He laid down His life for His "sheep". So if they were not of them, then does that mean they were not covered in the Atonement? Please help me out here. This is making me very nervous as well as very sad. :'(
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Hello Hopeful.
Joh 10:24 Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.
Joh 10:25 Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.
Joh 10:26 But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you.
Joh 10:27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
Joh 10:28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any [man] pluck them out of my hand.
Jesus was talking to the Jews who were the unbelieving Jews in these verse,it states nowhere that you will never be of His sheep and that you will burn in a literal hellhole for all eternity.
This is why Christ said that to His own people,the people to whom He first came,the physical Jews.
Joh 1:10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
Joh 1:11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
Joh 1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, [even] to them that believe on his name:
Jesus never intended for the physical Jews of His day to receive Him,this was all part of His plan and purpose to begin with. If they had received Him,they would not have crucified Him, and you and I would not have been given a Savior. It was through His rejection[by the physical Jews] that we were given a Savior,if it is given to us to believe on Him,His Words [now]. All others will believe on Him when He causes them to believe on Him,[later] in the GWT judgement.
1Ti 4:10 For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially[not only... but especially] of those that believe.
CEV
Joh 1:12 Yet some people accepted him and put their faith in him. So he gave them the right to be the children of God.
The few chosen now,all others later...
Hope this helps some. :)
Peace...Mark
Revilonivek:
--- Quote from: Hopeful on March 09, 2011, 06:22:50 PM ---Hi guys. I'm having some trouble with John 10:26. "but you do not believe because you are not my sheep." Christ said earlier that He laid down His life for His "sheep". So if they were not of them, then does that mean they were not covered in the Atonement? Please help me out here. This is making me very nervous as well as very sad. :'(
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Jesus said:
John 10:16 (Contemporary English Version)
16I have other sheep that are not in this sheep pen. I must bring them together too, when they hear my voice. Then there will be one flock of sheep and one shepherd.
Luke 3:6 (King James Version)
6And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.
that's his plan :) hope this helps?
Denise
Duane:
Marky...what an astute observation. It never occured to me that if the Jews accepted Jesus they wouldn't have crucified Him and Jesus's purpose would not have been fulfilled.
I can't believe all I have learned thru the FORUM, that just went by un-noticed thru the years.
Thank you, all.
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