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and much study is a weariness of the flesh?

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Nelson:
Proverbs 23:4-Do not wear yourself out to get rich;have the wisdom to show restraint.

I think this verse is related to this thread.guess this is balance again.
U knw,personally I think ALL that Ray has written abt is MORE than enough,others mite think nah I want more.-"Show sum restraint."

rick:
Hi Nelson.

You bring out some great points, I used to love going to church at one time, going to church was awesome to me , you might say I was a fanatic.

I never could back in those days understand how within five minutes after leaving church I was actually sinning ........the opposite sex is you know what I mean.

I always felt condemned and when I would mention my lustful ways to a fellow church member I found some were kind and considerate in explaining how not to and others I wished I never mention it, I guess those where the most holy ones of us all. 

Each group of believers with all their knowledge could not help me to overcome my issue, I even had one believer tell me keep going to church , it’s fireproof insurance.

I’ve learned many things here at B.T., wonderful things like who God is what God is doing and who I am and why I do the things I do.

I can study the scriptures all day but unless God opens them up to me I study in vain. I can read about the gospel but I’ll never understand anything at all about the gospel within the gospel.

There was a time I believed in the sovereignty of me not God because I thought I had free will and choice and because I believed this my salvation was up to me. If I could just somehow learn to do what is right I would be saved but I had or have this one little problem that will keep me out of heaven unless I can conquer this problem on my own.

I don’t feel I need to read the scriptures to know what is right and what is wrong, I think most of us know right from wrong. It’s in the performance and that is where I fail most miserably.
   
Rom 7:19  Instead of doing what I know is right, I do wrong.
 
Rom 7:20  And so, if I don't do what I know is right, I am no longer the one doing these evil things. The sin that lives in me is what does them.
 
Rom 7:21  The Law has shown me that something in me keeps me from doing what I know is right.
Rom 7:22  With my whole heart I agree with the Law of God.

Rom 7:23  But in every part of me I discover something fighting against my mind, and it makes me a prisoner of sin that controls everything I do.

Rom 7:24  What a miserable person I am. Who will rescue me from this body that is doomed to die?
Rom 7:25  Thank God! Jesus Christ will rescue me. So with my mind I serve the Law of God, although my selfish desires make me serve the law of sin.

The only hell I know of today is the hell Christians put me through with their false doctrine.  :)

jojoross:
Thanks Nelson and Rick for your comments!  Truly helps ALOT. 

Gods Peace,
JoJo

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