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Dennis Vogel:
We need to remember one of the reasons we are here is to learn about good and evil (some evils are only learned by experience). And you cannot even recognize good unless you have seen or experienced its opposite.

Act 14:22  Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.

Kat:

Rom 8:31  What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

So Paul is saying in this verse what conclusion should we draw from the above "things" he has just mentioned... and what things is that?

Rom 8:28  And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.
v. 29  For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.
v. 30  Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified (Strong's - be righteous, inoccent, just, free); and whom He justified, these He also glorified.

If we are God's chosen, we should feel so very blessed to know we are in His hands, He is working out all things for our good. Praise be to God, there is nothing in this world that we need to fear!

John 10:28  And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand.
v. 29  My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father's hand.

And the rest of the chapter expresses Paul's complete confidence that God will not only bring us through all the trials that we face, but is leading us to the most glorious blessings beyond what any human being can imagine.

Rom 8:32  He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also with him graciously give us all things?
v. 33  Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies.
v. 34  Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.
v. 35  Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
v. 36  As it is written, "For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered."
v. 37  No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
v. 38  For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers,
v. 39  nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

mercy, peace and love
Kat

acomplishedartis:

--- Quote from: Miranda_78 on March 29, 2016, 01:35:48 AM ---I was wondering if we can be affected by vodoo magic, curses,  witchcraft, phychic demons or demons from other people?  I recently read an article of someone who said, a Christian cannot be affected by these things, we are protected.

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Actually, I believe that 'institutionalized church-rats' are affected by these things all the time... 'Deceptive Churches' are the darkest places ever.

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