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Thief in the night
AwesomeSavior:
Zander:
I will build upon the verse Wanda quoted, (For when they shall say Peace and Safety, then comes sudden destruction).
A few months before I discovered Bible Truths in 2005, I was wrestling with a book from a famous Southern Baptist babylonian by the name of Charles Stanley, who is still active in his 80's today. The name of the book is called "Eternal Security" (which God just illuminated to me is a play on "Peace and Safety"). The book basically teaches the false doctrine of saying a 30 second sinner's prayer, and you are forever saved. Even though God was causing me to feel uncomfortable with the material in that book, I was not looking for any deeper spiritual truths, figuring the baptists were the most enlightened of everyone. Then one day I discovered a Bible Truths ad on another website, and clicked it, and from that day forward, it has been a daily (I die daily [1 Corinthians 15:31]) "sudden destruction" of my carnal mind. Jesus' 2nd coming came to me suddenly like a thief back in 2005, and each day when He reveals corrections or truth, it is another small "sudden destruction".
Hope that helps, in a somewhat amusing way.
Dean
se7en:
Zander,
I'll expand upon what everyone has already posted/said... don't forget the IS, WAS, and WILL BE of God's word.
God's word IS true, WAS true and WILL BE true.
So the "IS" application... this thief (God's Word) comes to us when we least expect it and crushes the old man inside (destroying our world), taking everything we had. Then God births the new man within.
Rev 1:8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,” says the Lord,“who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”
All the things happens for our admonition.
1 Cor 10:11 Now all these things [all the things in the old and new testament] happened to them as examples [types of us], and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.
All mankind will partake of God's Word.
Mat 4:4 But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’
I hope this has helped!
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