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Chosen
hammerandnails:
Amen to that Kat!!! :)
Ricky, you are in my prayers! :)
In His Love
Ariel
hillsbororiver:
Hello Joe, You are right, we do not know who is chosen and who is not, and we never will.
Never? Of course we will, at least in the next age.
So what do we do, live out our lives believing we are the elect.
1Co 9:24 Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
Joe you ask if I am saying that God is powerless to bring me to Him, you are talking in the now, or future tense. If God has not already predetermined if I am to be the elect , He cannot change that decision because He does not change.
Mat 19:26 But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.
So the answer is yes He cannot bring me to Him now or in the future. This is how I see it. It is almost like saying, Belief is a wise wager, if you gain, you gain all, but if you lose you lose nothing.
Isa 55:8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
Isa 55:9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Ricky
His Peace to you Brother, it sounds like you are wandering in the wilderness right now, I say this because I am very familiar with the surroundings....
Joe
Ricky:
Thankyou Kat and Joe, right again Joe, I have been wandering for a long time or maybe I have always been wandering and have never been on the right road, at least I know what and where the truth is, and cant do nothing with it, and that can make me angry with God because it sounds like it would be His calling for who walks on that narrow road or not. Ariel thankyou so much I will need all the help I can get now because I got laid off last week and that shall make a bigger mess out of my life.
Bless you all Ricky
Marlene:
Hello, I believe like Kat wrote. Every since I came in here and believed like Ray I have wanted to run the race. Now, will i qualify? I believe he is able to make me qualify. I know it is him who makes me want to run. No matter what it will be worth it in the end. Maybe, I will not require so much correction or teaching in the second death, if not in first. I will just fear like it all depends on him. It does.
In His Love,
Marlene
Kirk Bresee:
I'm trying to make sense of all the responses but am having trouble
finding an answer to your initial question...
Aren't you forgetting that there are two types of Christians?
1. Be hot or cold, not lukewarm (Rev.)
2. Wise or foolish, as in the parable of the 10 virgins
3. Those that sing the song of Moses or sing the song
which is known only to God and the singers (Rev.)
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