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joyful1:
:) by no means, Kat! you are right on! I am thinking the WAY we handle situations in life is so DIFFERENT from the WAY they are handled by others. For instance: you are given a situation where if you were to LIE about something, you might benefit in some way by doing that....the guy standing next to you is presented with the SAME scenario. Now, having been given the GIFT of faith and having been GIVEN the gift of the Holy Spirit, you choose to tell the TRUTH. But the poor fella next to you responds in the same beastly way that you yourself once did and lies! Now you KNOW that he is simply doing what he is only capable of....and you WANT to help him along and show him that he must LEARN to tell the truth! But without the help of the Holy Spirit residing within this guys heart, there is NO way that you can explain yourself. Now....(and here is where being a mom comes in handy) you KNOW that a spanking or other appropriate action would produce the desired result in a child, but you can't do those things with a grown adult! You don't want to just produce "the desired result" ....you don't want to just CLEANSE the OUTSIDE of the cup....you want a heart change to happen...and that cannot happen without the Holy Spirit coming INTO this person's heart.....well....if we become one with Christ and one with the Father, just as Jesus is....then we are also one with the Holy Spirit....and function (in the age to come) as the Father and the Son do....by coming INTO that person and speaking TRUTH to their heart so that they can SEE what needs to be done....I mean...that is where all of this teaching is leading me to go...toward such a scenario....do you get what I am saying? When God is IN the house....it gets run the way it should/ the person chooses the will of the Father. Now God does this mysterious thing in such a way that LOVE enters the equation, this is how I see it at least....and we LOVE His ways....we LOVE telling the truth...it feels good to us...we LEARN righteousness in doing the Father's will. This is just one example...but do you get where I'm going with this?
Joyce :)
Kat:
Hi Joyce,
Yes I see what you are saying. I think that is what this Scripture in Hebrews is saying.
Heb 8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
I think before anyone can know and love God their heart must be changed, so as not to be enmity with God.
Rom 8:7 because the carnal mind is enmity against God, for it is not subject to the Law of God, neither indeed can it be.
Rom 8:8 So then they who are in the flesh cannot please God.
But just like with us it will be a process. God has set aside a whole age in which to do the work of saving the whole human race.
Act 17:31 because He did set a day (G2250 hēmera - age, + alway, (mid-) day (by day, [-ly]), + for ever, judgment, (day) time, while, years) in which He is about to judge the world in righteousness, by a man whom He did ordain, having given assurance to all, having raised him out of the dead.'
So when Christ sets up His kingdom on earth how long will it take for God to be all in all? Well He doesn't seem to get it a hurry to do these things. I think Ray is showing us it has been billions of years since the universe was created and man has been in this present age for thousands of years. I guess the process of teaching all the human race righteousness could take a considerable period of time, but I guess there is time.
Isa 66:15 For, behold, Jehovah will come with fire, and with His chariots like a tempest, to refresh His anger with fury, and His rebuke with flames of fire.
Isa 66:16 For by fire and by His sword Jehovah will execute judgment with all flesh; and the slain of Jehovah will be many.
1Co 15:28 But when all things are subjected to Him, then the Son Himself also will be subject to Him who has subjected all things to Him, so that God may be all things in all.
mercy, peace and love
Kat
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