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judith collier:
It's not the fear of hell that works in making a person want to repent but the absolute, pure, all accepting, wonderful, beautiful, sweet and merciful love of God that brings repentance. To be in the presence of God for 1 second is enough to make you search all your life to find Him again and do everything that is good and pleasing to Him. Judy
EKnight:
I agree Judy, I seek repentance out of love of God, not fear. I am sorry because I love God and have in some way not been obedient to His commandments. After all, Ray even said, Love of God is obedience.
Eileen
Marlene:
I agree with Judy. His Love for all won me over. But, I also agree with Beloved. Many do not believe in Hell, nor do they believe in serious punishment. Now, to me Fear of God is good. Its a fearful thing to fall into the hands of God. I was in those correcting hands before coming in here. Let me tell you I felt like I should die and go to Hell. I knew I had let him down , and I hated myself for it. After, repenting to him and dwelling on Hell Christ led me in here.
The night, I saw the true Jesus I repented of my worst sin. My blieve of Hell!! I thought, all my other sins were bad. For the first time in my life, I had eyes to see and ears to hear. I saw love like I had never seen it displayed. I could not stop talking to him and not being able to know what to say except to worship the truth Jesus. Now, I know him in all his glory! Made me a different person for sure. To I fear God. Yes, I fear him I want to obey him when he shows me sin in my life. Why, because I Love him. No longer fear of Hell. But, I serve him out of Love. Not to mention I have had his punishment many times in my life. Now, I see it was all out of love. There is no longer Love out of Fear. But, desire to obey because I love him. I don't want to continue hurting him over and over. Not saying I am perfect now. But, very aware of his training me and his patience and love for me.
I do believe once the whole world sees the True Gospel they all will bow down with Love, not threat of Hell. They will no longer be blind and they will have ears to hear and will want to obey him out of Love for him.
Love does not come by force. Love, comes when we see the love given from Jesus . The Love of Spirit and Truth. The Love of a Father who only wants our best. Not someone who will force you to bow or off to Hell like Babylon teaches.
I pray every day that I will never turn from these truths, for I would surely be in worse shape then ,before.
In His Love,
Marlene
charrie:
When Father opened my ears to the truth of no such a place as "hell" I was relieved in a sense that a burden was removed or a yoke removed. That yoke being that I need to "get people saved" myself. I also had a yoke of being or not being able to love the people that I thought were going to "hell" (if that makes any sense). I know now that if not today, then tomorrow their knee will bow and they will be given that opportunity to know and accept Brother Jesus Christ with full knowledge, a fuller knowledge that I will never be able to give.
Me believing that I am going to "heaven" and "they" are not puts that most dangerous of all attributes into my heart PRIDE. It was that pride that kept me from loving so called "sinners" . But now I LOVE and it is a wonderful feeling that EVERYONE will have an opportunity to know Jesus Christ. It is not up to me, thank You, Father.
Charrie :-*
smeacham:
--- Quote from: charrie on February 01, 2009, 07:02:28 PM ---When Father opened my ears to the truth of no such a place as "hell" I was relieved in a sense that a burden was removed or a yoke removed. That yoke being that I need to "get people saved" myself. I also had a yoke of being or not being able to love the people that I thought were going to "hell" (if that makes any sense). I know now that if not today, then tomorrow their knee will bow and they will be given that opportunity to know and accept Brother Jesus Christ with full knowledge, a fuller knowledge that I will never be able to give.
Me believing that I am going to "heaven" and "they" are not puts that most dangerous of all attributes into my heart PRIDE. It was that pride that kept me from loving so called "sinners" . But now I LOVE and it is a wonderful feeling that EVERYONE will have an opportunity to know Jesus Christ. It is not up to me, thank You, Father.
Charrie :-*
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Amen! Me too! This very thing has been both a tremendous relief of guilt, as well as a terrific confidence builder. I can talk with people without feeling guilty for not trying to get them saved. I can also talk about the gospel without feeling like I have ulterior motives. People say to me "I don't believe" or "I'll never believe" and I can say, quite sincerely and with a chuckle, "That's ok. You will."
Steve
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