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Christendom half right about hell.
rick:
I'm sure it sounds strange about Christendom being right about anything lol , I cannot help to notice God has a way of turning up the heat , at least in my life.
I've been wondering how is God going to get me to change ? I trust in God but when examining myself and having no faith in my ability to bring lasting change I often wonder how will true lasting change come about?
It seem things in my life aren't the same as before , the things I use to enjoy doing seem to be the very things that make me miserable, I feel I'm living in limbo and nothing seems to satisfy except the word of God, I do seem to find a fair amount of pleasure in my occupation which is h.v.a.c but in every day living I find something is dying.
I see its my circumstances that brought me to where I'm at but if I ask what can I do about my circumstances? I remember its not in man to direct his path and so I think what ever path I'm on must be the only possible path I can be on.
Well anyways, Christendom is half right about hell, it's kinda hot in a certain way just not the way they claim.
God bless.
stello:
LOL Rick!!
Have a blessed day!!
stello
stello:
On a more serious note i too often wonder how the change will occur. I know i will be ( or am right now being (i hope!!) ) salted with fire. So many things i wish i could stop doing and so many things i want to start doing! I do see changes in my personality and attitudes. I am not worried about dying or friends or family dying because i believe Jesus will raise us all up, whether to rule with him or undergo the white throne judgement. Ultimately, we will all be like Jesus!!
stello
lilitalienboi16:
--- Quote from: Rick on June 06, 2016, 06:39:48 PM ---I'm sure it sounds strange about Christendom being right about anything lol , I cannot help to notice God has a way of turning up the heat , at least in my life.
I've been wondering how is God going to get me to change ? I trust in God but when examining myself and having no faith in my ability to bring lasting change I often wonder how will true lasting change come about?
It seem things in my life aren't the same as before , the things I use to enjoy doing seem to be the very things that make me miserable, I feel I'm living in limbo and nothing seems to satisfy except the word of God, I do seem to find a fair amount of pleasure in my occupation which is h.v.a.c but in every day living I find something is dying.
I see its my circumstances that brought me to where I'm at but if I ask what can I do about my circumstances? I remember its not in man to direct his path and so I think what ever path I'm on must be the only possible path I can be on.
Well anyways, Christendom is half right about hell, it's kinda hot in a certain way just not the way they claim.
God bless.
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Hi Rick,
So long as we exist in these mortal bodies of flesh and blood we will never be free from sin. Oh what an evil experience it is.
You ask, 'I wonder how God is going to get me to change?' In the twinkling of an eye. In a moment.
2 Thessalonians 2:3-10
3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
1 John 3:2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
1 Corinthians 15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
1 Corinthians 15:53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
But even now, there is change taking place even if we can't always see it or believe it. God is faithful and He is the one doing the works. I trust Him even if all I see is the beast when I look in the mirror.
2 Corinthians 3:17-18
17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
1 Corinthians 15:31 I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.
Each passing day brings us one step closer to Him.
God bless,
Alex
stello:
Thank you Alex for your response and especially this:
"But even now, there is change taking place even if we can't always see it or believe it. God is faithful and He is the one doing the works. I trust Him even if all I see is the beast when I look in the mirror."
stello
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