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responding to... i can live like hell and still be saved
KristaD:
Well you assumed wrong lol. I was trying to figure out what you were saying and I thought that comment at the end was yours ???. I assumed that the "translation" stopped with the end of the scripture and the rest of the words were yours. I'm confused, so the whole thing was quoted? Who were you quoting? Forgive me I am very pregnant at the moment and it really takes a toll on the brain :P.
winner08:
What say you now? very good Brenda! I knew I liked you. I notice you have a great sense of humour. No one who puts hands to the plow and looks back is fit to be in the Kingdom of God. What does that mean? Not to look back. Just keep looking and going foward?
Darren
Heidi:
--- Quote from: Dave in Tenn on August 09, 2008, 12:27:02 PM ---
But you're not saved. You've only just begun to be saved. You are still a sinning-machine. It's not UNNATURAL that you have this in you, it's the way you were created. Surely you don't think you are the only poster here who still sins? Christ doesn't sin. We do. The more He lives in us, the less this package sins. The less we sin, the more He lives in us. We die, He lives.
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Dave, you have just helped me to understand a little bit more of how one dies to oneself...I am hoping that one day like Paul I can say, "to live is Christ and to die is gain"
OBrenda:
--- Quote from: winner08 on August 09, 2008, 08:32:02 PM ---What say you now? very good Brenda! I knew I liked you. I notice you have a great sense of humour. No one who puts hands to the plow and looks back is fit to be in the Kingdom of God. What does that mean? Not to look back. Just keep looking and going foward?
Darren
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;D Exactly! ;D
Luke 9:57
While they were walking along the road, a man said to him (Jesus), "I will follow you wherever you go."
Jesus told him, "Foxes have holes and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to rest."
He (Jesus) told another man, "Follow me." But he said, "Lord, first let me go and bury my father."
But he (Jesus) told him, "Let the dead bury their own dead. But you go and proclaim the kingdom of God."
Still another man said, "I will follow you, Lord, but first let me say goodbye to those at home."Jesus told him,
"No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God."
What ever holds you up in your past, (even good deeds), from moving on with God, will leave you behind.
Our past teaches us, and directs us, but is not relevant to where we will end up! (How many Lashes)
but the Son of Man has no place to rest."....(remember we are to follow him so this is us also)
And as Dave TN encouraged You.....He's not finished. Don't you stop.
Roy Monis:
--- Quote from: KristaD on August 09, 2008, 11:58:46 AM ---Simple Darren, you don't feel right because you aren't right. You are not doing what you know God wants you to. You were "saved" the carnal way, where you are told to change yourself and you failed at that as most of us here did at one time (or more). The thing is YOU can't help it. You have to realize that and stop trying to change. As long as you say "I do this wrong and that wrong" you won't get anywhere. You have to acknowledge that YOU CANNOT STOP SINNING, God has to make you stop. Rest assured that He IS calling you or you would not recognize your sin or desire to change it. Thank Him that He KNOWS exactly what you are and what you do and that He LOVES and FORGIVES you anyway. Then beg Him everyday to purge those sins out of you, humbly on your knees admitting your own inability to overcome sin and acknowledging and claiming the fruits of the spirit. He will change you in the right time, but right now He's just making you realize what you are and making His will your desire. Humble yourself to Him and stop feeling guilty, He has cast your sins as far as the east is from the west and He remembers them no more, so you should not dwell on them either, just pray and He will lift you up out of those sins when the time is right. God bless you brother, it's a hard place to be and something that we all have to do over and over as we all still struggle with sin.
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Hi! Darren
A great post from KristaD, I applaud it. "Trust in the Lord with all your heart And do not lean on your own understanding." (Pro.3:5). Don't try to work it out on your own you cannot do it and will never succeed. Leave it to the Lord and approach Him in true humility and He will grant your hearts desire in His time when you are ready and not before.
God bless you brother in our joint walk in Christ.
Love in Christ Jesus.
Roy UK
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