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If You Do These Things, You Shall Never Fall

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Deborah-Leigh:

AMEN to that! :)

cjwood:
ditto arc! it is awesome to see how the Scriptures line up with anything and everything we are experiencing in our lives on earth. thanks marques for the Scriptures you brought forth. truly an inspiration to all.

claudia

All Praise and Glory to our God and Father

bunnylife:
Marques thank you for the link. It gave me a deeper understanding. I enjoyed the way the spirit led you to show how His Word is working in Mark's life.  :) I think there is a saying be careful what you pray for, God just might give it to you. Mark I think it is wonderful to have such recall. My memory is damaged by sickness. However, I do remember God working in my life and I did write many things down, like answered pray. I go back through the writings and just remember to thank Daddy God again for all He has done and going to do. Those writings or memories are my Ebenezer stone.. "Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen, and called its name Ebenezer saying 'Thus far the Lord has helped us." 1 Samuel 7:12

I was looking at the verses missing from the scripture from II Peter in a way this goes with Marques link on Can we Lose God's Spirit and Eonian Life?

v 8 <||These things (talking about the eight graces)||  |unto you| belonging and abounding>
 || Neither idle nor unfruitful|| constitute you, regarding the personal knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ; v9 For ||he to whom these things are not present|| is  |blind|, (why is he blind because he only sees what is near - the physical instead of the spiritual) seeing only what is near,
       Having come |to forget| his purification (The removal of impurities, a refining process) from his old sins. (why because he is not growing spiritually in the Lord - he is lacking worth or basis : vain <idle chatter> <idle pleasure>, habitually doing nothing or avoiding work; lazy; fruitless, impotent, infertile, nonproductive, sterile, unproductive - not in the process of producing the fruit of the spirit)

v10 ...make your calling and election sure: for IF YOU DO THESE THINGS, YOU SHALL NEVER FALL
v 11 For ||thus|| shall richly be further supplied unto you- the entrance (white ballot stone)
http://bible-truths.com/lake8.html

<<This is a pebble ballot, cast in secret ("The Lord knows them that are His," even if the world doesn’t), to pronounce an acquittal. Acquittal means a judgment of NOT GUILTY! If we are truly, SPIRITUALLY, BAPTIZED into Christ’s death, then we are "…JUSTIFIED from Sin" (Rom. 6:3-7).

And "Freely JUSTIFIED in His grace…" (Rom. 3:24). Justify means, "to declare free of blame; absolve. Theology To free (a human) of the guilt and penalty attached to grievous sin," The American Heritage College dictionary. That’s ACQUITTAL! Whom ever possesses this white pebble is ACQUITTED OF ALL SINS AND ALL GUILT!

This pebble also signified "admission." An "admission’ is both the permission to enter something, and the price paid for the admission or entrance. Again, Jesus Christ is BOTH! Jesus Christ paid the ultimate penalty for our sins,

    "But God commended His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, CHRIST DIED FOR US. Much more then, being now JUSTIFIED by His blood, we shall be SAVED from wrath through Him" (Rom. 5:8-9).

And we can only gain admission and entrance into the kingdom of God through Him. Jesus said, "I am the DOOR…" (John 10:7 & 9), and there is no other. Jesus said to, "Enter ye in at the strait [narrow and cramped] gate…" (Matt. 7:13), and Jesus is the "door" of that gate.>>

 into the age-abiding kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. (Rotherham)

Thank you for all the wonderful posts.

In His Joy,
Bunni

Jody Edwards:
Bunni,
I really appreciate your post.  It was something I was needing at this time.  I plan on printing it out and sharing it with my wife.
Thanks,
YBIC,
Jody

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