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Truths Learned At BT
aqrinc:
Hope this is not too boring for anyone; just passing on what i can.
Here is a little bit of wisdom that we might contemplate; many or most members of BT, have been reading their Bible for years without a clue before being brought here. Ok maybe some had a clue but kept looking for it in the physical rituals. Again almost every member has expressed the great relief and enlightenment found after reading some of Ray's material. All who remain and read and study at BT for a while, actually learn that almost everything they thought they knew is either, skewed, mixed up with lies or outright lies.
One undeniable Truth is: our Free Will is an Oxymoron (saith The Scriptures). Another Truth is: GOD IS And Is IN Total Control Of The Creation (again saith The Scriptures). A third Truth: Jesus Christ Is Saving All His Creation In Himself some in this age (Aion) the rest (All the rest) in the ages (Aions) to come.
In the OT we have the relationship GOD Had with physical Israel as our physical example (on the surface). When our eyes are opened we have this same relationship as our Spiritual example (to do and not to do).
Joh 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Next, In The NT, we have Jesus Christ (God Of Israel) come into the physical and explain what all the preceding was about. He also explains why we cannot accomplish any of those things in the physical (carnal) realm; (without GOD'S Faith And Grace). He tells us about the plan from The beginning of The Creation to a point in time (GOD'S History) future to us. Then Just Before HE Completed His Mission In The Physical, He said IT IS FINISHED. What is Finished as far as we are concerned; He Jesus Christ and The Apostles take up the rest of The NT to explain.
Biggest eye opener: Jesus Christ and The Apostles used The OT for All Their Scripture.
This is heavy lifting for anyone who:
Joh 5:39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life (Immortality): and they are they which testify of me.
If it was easy; anyone could do it, what saith The Scriptures:
Rom 4:16 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,
Eph 2:5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
Eph 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Jas 2:21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
Jas 2:22 Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?
Jas 2:24 Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.
Ok before anyone starts pulling out hair, here is the homework assignment:
Do James and Paul Contradict: http://forums.bible-truths.com/index.php/topic,4828.0.html
Audio #1: http://bible-truths.com/audio/07-01-07_Part1.mp3
Audio #2: http://bible-truths.com/audio/07-01-07_Part2.mp3
george. ;D
EKnight:
James 2:24 You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.
Because
James 2:17 So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
And
James 2:19 You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe--and shudder!
Example
James 2:15 If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food,
16 and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled," without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that?
James 2:15-16 reminds me of the story Ray told about Joel Osteen who met an ailing women outside of a store and counseled her with words then walked away.
Actions speak louder than words.
Hab_2:4 "Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright within him, but the righteous shall live by his faith.
Rom_1:17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, "The righteous shall live by faith."
Gal_2:20 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Gal_3:11 Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for "The righteous shall live by faith."
Gal_3:12 But the law is not of faith, rather "The one who does them shall live by them."
Heb_10:38 but my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him."
Heb_11:9 By faith he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise.
Live is a verb which requires action/doing. But faith and grace are gifts from God so these works that we may exhibit cannot be boasted of.
1Co_1:31 so that, as it is written, "Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord."
Eileen
aqrinc:
--- Quote from: EKnight on February 21, 2009, 11:06:15 AM ---Live is a verb which requires action/doing. But faith and grace are gifts from God so these works that we may exhibit cannot be boasted of.
1Co_1:31 so that, as it is written, "Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord."
--- End quote ---
Hi Eileen,
That is a great exposition and a top passing grade. Therein is the struggle explained,
that we shall live by Faith (Of GOD) imputed to us as Righteousness; and not by sight
(i do or do not).
So the boast we can take to the world is: Greater Is He That is In us; than he that is
in the world. (Or my DAD (GOD), Can and Will Whip your dad (Satan); any time HE (GOD)
my DAD Chooses.
Isa 46:9-10
9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,
10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My
counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
How is That for a statement of Fact, backed up by The Scriptures.
george. ;D
EKnight:
--- Quote ---So the boast we can take to the world is: Greater Is He That is In us; than he that is
in the world. (Or my DAD (GOD), Can and Will Whip your dad (Satan); any time HE (GOD)
my DAD Chooses.
--- End quote ---
You've got a way with words George. ;) ;D
Eileen
Marlene:
No, wonder we had no victory over sin, while in Babylon. We thought, Satan was in control. AS Rays would say "What a Crock".
Marlene
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