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More "free-will" questions.
Deborah-Leigh:
Ray is someone. We are all, someone.
We are all some of ONE, in the purpose and plan of God, who IS ONE, out of whom all IS One. ~ :)
Sound like gobbledygook...ha...lol...okay! ~ ;D
Arc
darren:
Question: If I looks at a women and I say to my friend in that split second, Man I like to blank her. The moment is over and then forgotten as quickly as it came out of my mouth. knowing that it would never happen anyway did I have real lust in my heart. Did I sin. I guess my question is what is the meaning of lusting at someone. are the words lusting at, and lusting for have different meanings and does both words come out of my heart.
Darren
cheekie3:
Darren -
Is it not what the intent of our hearts that determine whether we lust or not:
1. If a man thinks that the woman is beautiful that to me is not lusting after her.
2. If a man thinks that the woman is beautiful and desires to be with her - then to me that is lust.
Regards, George.
Dave in Tenn:
Darren, 'looking at a woman to lust'. Can you look at a woman NOT to lust? Lord, I hope you can. I think you already know at what point 'looking' becomes lust.
What you related may not be 'lust' in truth. It may be locker-room talk--what the scripture would call "filthy communication".
Dave in Tenn:
Deb, I think this is the 'quote' you tried to link to (From the Repentance and Guilty of ALL transcripts. :
How many of you have ever come this close (thumb and index fingers together) to death and was just instantly spared? How many came really close to doing something really dumb and embarrassing, then something happened and spared you.
I went out on a Sat. night after I had about 3-4 shots of Scotch. In my new Cadillac Coupe DeVille and I was looking for trouble... didn’t find it. I’m serious. I was ready, had my best blazer on, had my Austrian Kangaroo boots on and went out cruising. You know to bars or whatever looking for trouble, you know what I mean. Didn’t find it. It was so frustrating to go home alone, what am I a social failure, you know. But thank God.
Thank God, there was maybe many, many times when I was hell bent on destruction and God prevented me. Twice, not once but twice, I pulled up at a intersection and I looked to the left and I looked to the right and I pulled out. Swoosh... I mean we were so close the paint changed color, without hitting. I thought, well I just died. God except for Your grace, that’s when I died, right there. Twice I did that. One time I looked and I floored it, so I was coming on across there. Swoosh... I mean I was shaking. I just died. Except for the grace of God, I just died. How many times did that happen when we don’t even know that it is close, you see?
So don’t take credit for the fact that you didn’t molest children and kill them. You weren’t lead down that evil alley. You weren’t born into the family that would cause you to go down that alley. You weren’t always frustrated to the point where you were just hell bent on just doing some evil foul thing like that. God prevented it.
God makes vessels of honor and dishonor. He makes vessels of dishonor and then has mercy on the other vessels. Some He hardens and some He has mercy on. He has had mercy on everybody in this room. If you have never killed anybody or molested children or done any of these horrendous things. He has great mercy on your life. Now we need to be thankful for that and not assume we don’t have very much to repent of. We have to repent of what? "O man," that’s what we have to repent of.
So, yes, for the purposes of my questions, Ray is "anybody" by his own testimony. He even asked the question himself.
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