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Patrick:

--- Quote from: Dave in Tenn ---
God is not finished with you yet...not by a long shot.  He wanted a Child in His own image, He made you, and He'll get what He wants.  That's "Ray Smith" and the Gospel of the Kingdom in a nutshell, huh?
    

--- End quote ---

Uh-huh!  :)

cjwood:
astropho...as i sit here reading your original thread post and your following posts, and the reply posts from our Family members, i am just wondering if you have ANY idea of the Gift of Grace you have been given by our Father. i mean, He is working in your spiritual heart and mind to show you hidden gems of His Truth which millions of people have never known, AND, you are only 15 yrs old! He has chosen to begin teaching you what His true worship is at your tender age, and He has chosen to teach so many others of us at, well..., our more mature age in years, although MANY of us had the questionings going on in our hearts and minds in our younger, tender years. i pray that you will continue to study all the writings and listen to all the audios that ray smith has been given to provide for ALL who would believe the True Gospel of Jesus Christ. our Sovereign God and Father worked His Gift of Grace through the man ray smith, using him as His vessel to open up the Scriptures to us and to all others who visit the BT website. God worked in ray's spirit, as ray continued to go to Him for guidance and confirmation of the Scriptural Truths which he was being shown. and now we will profit in our spiritual hearts and minds as God gives each of us the eyes to see the Truths and the ears to hear the Truths, BUT, we must stay vigilant in studying the Scriptures as ALL the answers to the questions of how and how not, and who and who not, and when and when not, and where and where not are answered within them. believe it astropho and walk in the Light that you have been shown, and as another brother in Christ said, "sunglasses are recommended"  8). a Light so intense and so full of Warmth and Love that only a FEW will know it, as HE has called them out of her, mystery babylon, to see the Savior which is Jesus Christ. you know, the One Who will save ALL the world, that vast, vast sea of mankind.

love to you little brother,
stay strong in the faith which You have been given as a gift,
claudia

Phil3:10:
Astropho,
Dave and Arcturus have given you some wonderful advice. I commend you in that at your young age your understanding is so great.
I have reached the point that I cannot stand to enter a Babylonia church for any reason. The untruths and false doctrines really do get to me and I feel almost sick when attending even a funeral or wedding.
Arc is so right about simple worship in spirit and in truth. The fellowship you find here is without comparison anywhere.
In HIM,
Phil3:10

Astrapho:
Thanks guys for all the great replies! :D They really are helpful :D (Wow, I don't know if I should continue to treat this like a mini diary thing...  :-\ I mean it's my intro thread, after all... I should go make a blog, yeah?)

Cjwood: Wow, now that you put it that way :O I have yet to stop and think about the enormity of it... 

When I first read the article on that "higher place of fellowship", I didn't really treat it seriously, kind of because I'm not that intelligent and barely qualified to just walk alone with God, and I fear that without anyone by my side in real life, and I may wind up walking the wrong path and stuff.  :-X And, like I mentioned earlier, using an internet forum as a place of fellowship is pretty... Unusual :O

Almost everyone in that Pentecostal church was, in and out of church service, in the simplest terms, passionate about Jesus. They were living pretty good lives, they're nice people, they're all about Jesus, and when they worship they throw themselves into it (no pun intended). I guess that's what sucked me in in the first place, their passion. They doctrines are not so perfect, but they have such great passion and desire to "live as Christ did"... Oh my.  :-[ Alright, I'm digressing.

Day 3 of reading Ray's transcripts and listening to his audios. 'Tis awesome ;) Right now I have read the things about free will, God's sovereignty, the one on eonian life, plus a few others I can't quite remember. I really gotta resist reading too much, though, it's sapping up study time, haha. :D

It's pretty weird. Just three weeks into reading all this stuff and I'm practically converted. Just last week it was shaky, but this week is a different story altogether... I wonder if I'm jumping into all this too fast, too soon, and with too much enthusiasm... That's what I did for the Pentecostal church, dive head first into it (and also headfirst out of it :-X). And I'm still pretty young and I'm still having fears about me absorbing all this merely because I'm too gullible. I still can't shake off the feeling that I'm "jumping from one truth to another". :-/

Oh yeah, about E-Sword! Which version is the Concordant Literal Version? 'Cause I can't find it on their downloads page... ???

Anyway, that's yet another brain vomit from yours truly. Haha.

God bless ya'll ;D

cjwood:
oi astropho,
at your young age, it is not at all unusual to have a high level of energy going from one thing to the next, but, in regards to you jumping too quickly from one truth to another, understand that your Abba Father is causing you to be dragged from a perceived truth (catholic, pentacostal) to His Truths. your enthusiam is not because you are being too gullible, as we ALL experienced and still do experience that same enthusiam you have when we too were first shown via the Spirit of Jesus Christ, all that God has revealed through the man ray smith. i remember when i first came to bible-truths and started reading ray's essays, i kept asking myself "can these things be the Truth?" (in my carnal mind/heart), BUT, the more i read and the more i talked to my Father about it the more He confirmed all that i was seeing and hearing. all i can truly say astrop. is BELIEVE IT. once you really, really get the spiritual understanding that NOTHING happens in our lives by coincidence, but that all of what happens, even little bitty seemingly insignificant things, are according to God's predestined Plan and Purpose. the Scriptures advise that the pathway of those who believe the Truths of the Gospel of Jesus Christ is narrow. that being because the majority of mankind does not believe the Truths of God through His Son, so the path of those who do is a narrow one indeed. AND, you will experience that many times it is a lonely path to walk, BUT, that is why God caused bible-truths and this forum to be created. we walk the narrow path together and have been given a means to communicate with each other in Spirit and Truth. you mentioned that you are just barely qualified to walk alone with God. know that none of us are qualified in and of ourselves to walk with God. age has nothing to do with it. we are only qualified through faith in Jesus Christ, not because one may seem more spiritual than the next. our qualification has nothing to do with who we are, but with Who Jesus Christ is. He is our Brother, our Lord, our Savior, our Example, and when He left this earth, he did not leave us alone, to walk alone. through God, Jesus Christ left us His Spirit and has put it in the hearts of every one who believes in Him. and in that He is our Comforter and our Counsellor.

take it one step at a time little brother. the Light you now see is the only True Light of Worship.

cheers,
claudia

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