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This is a quote from Porter, not Pamela.😁

Perhaps we prove what we believe by living it. We know God is good and God will save all, we just need to learn to walk with endurance on the path He sets for us. Learning to walk where He walked is something I'm trying to learn as well. It seems the longer I walk, the more the things I thought were important are actually not that important at all. Truth is great when you understand Jesus is the Truth and you are His love letter written on your hearts. There is a lot less pressure to perform, and there is no longer any doubt that the hope and faith given is not my own. There is a lot of comfort in that for me. I do hope that comforts and encourages you too Rose.

Thank you for this Pamela. Performing is futile.

I'm glad I decided to log in today. I've been examining myself and the admonishing I received since my return.

Thank you once again. I'm studying, praying, meditating always. It is tough.

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zvezda wrote
But all ten virgins (both the wise and foolish) did fall asleep while waiting, it's strange that the wise five didn't stay alert.
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As long as a person has prepared faithfully it is alright to sleep, because when you awake  to answer the call it will be with joy and not with dread.

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zvezda wrote
But all ten virgins (both the wise and foolish) did fall asleep while waiting, it's strange that the wise five didn't stay alert.
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As long as a person has prepared faithfully it is alright to sleep, because when you awake  to answer the call it will be with joy and not with dread.

But the scripture tells us not to sleep

Mark 13:36 Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.
1 Thes 5:6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

I think you're both right. It's only strange if we can't see that all ten virgins were physically dead and then were “awakened” when they heard a shout.

Joh 5:28  Do not be amazed at this, because a time is coming when all who are in the graves will hear His voice
Joh 5:29  and come out--those who have done good things, to the resurrection of life, but those who have done wicked things, to the resurrection of judgment.
It seems the word sleep is used interchangeably to mean either being literally dead or spiritually dead. I find it amusing that the five foolish virgins woke up dead. Not that I think judgment is funny, but it just sounds weird.

Edit: Sorry about the weird formatting, I don't know why it does this to me.

Thinking about new YouTube Shorts topics and remembered this topic. New Short?

A trillion seconds is equivalent to 31,709 years , 8 months , 1 week , and 1 day - Google

Think about that. It takes almost 32,000 YEARS for a trillion SECONDS to go by. A trillion is a VERY BIG number.

And yet this country is 35 trillion dollars in debt and counting!

Hard times are coming but there is a way out as zvezda pointed out:

Luk 21:36  Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

As always, no politics please.

Thank you Porter . I just struggle with how to convey that good God to others as well as you did .

We all have our gifts given to us by God.

1 Corinthians 12:4-11

4 There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. 5 There are differences of ministries, but the same Lord. 6 And there are diversities of activities, but it is the same God who works all in all. 7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all: 8 for to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit, 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit, 10 to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. 11 But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as He wills.

Thank you Porter . I just struggle with how to convey that good God to others as well as you did .

Perhaps we prove what we believe by living it. We know God is good and God will save all, we just need to learn to walk with endurance on the path He sets for us. Learning to walk where He walked is something I'm trying to learn as well. It seems the longer I walk, the more the things I thought were important are actually not that important at all. Truth is great when you understand Jesus is the Truth and you are His love letter written on your hearts. There is a lot less pressure to perform, and there is no longer any doubt that the hope and faith given is not my own. There is a lot of comfort in that for me. I do hope that comforts and encourages you too Rose.

I know you speak truth Ralph and Dave, I just struggled with how to explain it.  Maybe I struggle , even after all these years, with how to Prove something that we all now believe.

I struggle as well. It took many years and much tribulation to understand these truths.

Rom.7:25…Thanks be to God through Christ our Lord!
So then I myself serve the law of God WITH MY MIND, ( the law is spiritual)
but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.

Ther is no least commandment. If you commit one , you are guilty of all
because you are a law- breaker. You break Gods laws and His laws are
spiritual.

Remember Rays teaching about adultry.
Rom.7:7… …… yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known
what it is to covet, if the law had not said ,you shall not covet”.tenth commandment. Coveting is of the heart/ mind before you commit adultry or any
other sin you think about it first.

We cannot obey and full the law because it is spiritual. What law.
The tenth commandment thou shalt not covet. It’s taught in the sermon on the mount. It’s a much higher standard . Don’t commit adultry , it’s a sin.
And don’t even THINK ABOUT IT, IS LUST, that begins in the heart as with all
other sins. As Ray said we are sinning machines. We are law-  breaking carnal
minded , God hating beasts,sons of perdition until God removes it. O please hurry .
Lord.

Remember in Rom.8, the Pharisees wanted to stone the adulteress but Jesus said,
“ he who is without sin cast the first stone “ and he wrote something on the ground.

Verse 9.. then those who heard it, being convicted in their CONCIENCE went out
one by one…. Why.

I wonder what Jesus wrote on the ground verse 8. Whatever it was scared the
Pharisees, cause they hightailed it.😁 Me thinks maybe some of these Pharisees may have been the recipient's of this woman’s sin of adultury. I don’t know that for sure but I know Jesus could read their MINDS.

Ray taught that whenever the apostles asked about how to not sin , He always
used the commandment “ thou shalt not commit adultry, remember. I can’t remember what teaching that was in but it was amazing .

Caps for emphasis not yelling. Every day is one day closer, hang in their cause
Lawlessness is increasing. Love to all.
which teaching that was in,