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Caretaker
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Originally posted by John Hale:
Just gotta love the sinner and hate the sin.
God is not perfecting us. He's using us to work in the field to save others. But I agree... today's easy belief-ism / scratch itching ear ministries lacks any real discipline or even the implication that any is part of the package deal...
Guys are allowed to be Peter Pans, women are allowed to dress like harlots (if that sounds harsh... consider how 50 years ago the only women who dressed like most women do today were...).
And not facing the facts about these and many other things is a big problem in the Church.
A time is coming when the teaching of sound doctrine will not be tolerated...
It's here. :-(
God IS perfecting us. He is conforming us to the image of Christ. It is called sanctification.
We are to crucify the flesh, our old sin nature, and to seek more and more of Christ Jesus our Lord.
http://www.gotquestions.org/sanctification.html
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There is one more sense that the word sanctification is referred to in Scripture. Paul prayed in 1 Thessalonians 5:23, “The God of peace Himself sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved entire, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.” Paul also wrote in Colossians of “the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the Gospel” (Colossians 1:5). He later speaks of Christ Himself as “the hope of glory” (Colossians 1:27) and then mentions the fact of that hope when he says, “When Christ, who is our Life, shall be manifested, then shall ye also with Him be manifested in glory” (Colossians 3:4). This glorified state will be our ultimate separation from sin, total sanctification in every aspect. “Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is” (1 John 3:2).
To summarize, sanctification is the same Greek word as holiness, “hagios,” meaning a separation. First, a once-for-all positional separation unto Christ at our salvation. Second, a practical progressive holiness in a believer’s life while awaiting the return of Christ. Third, we will be changed into His perfect likeness—holy, sanctified, and completely separated from the presence of evil.
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A Servant of Christ,
Drew
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16: And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh..
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John Hale
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Just gotta love the sinner and hate the sin.
God is not perfecting us. He's using us to work in the field to save others. But I agree... today's easy belief-ism / scratch itching ear ministries lacks any real discipline or even the implication that any is part of the package deal...
Guys are allowed to be Peter Pans, women are allowed to dress like harlots (if that sounds harsh... consider how 50 years ago the only women who dressed like most women do today were...).
And not facing the facts about these and many other things is a big problem in the Church.
A time is coming when the teaching of sound doctrine will not be tolerated...
It's here. :-(
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Sha'ul
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Anymore all I run into is believers who are always trying to find a way to not have to be obedient to one commandment or another. Or what's even funnier is when God commands to do or don't do, I hear "Well I'll have to pray and ask God if that is for me." (anyone who is a parent will appreciate this one) We always see our kids trying to see what they can get away with, and we don't like it, and when they do it enough they get punished. Yet we do the same to our Father in Heaven everyday. Why aren't we doing everything we can to make sure we're being absolutely obedient to His will? Since His Word says we will be held accountable for every idle word, how much more for the rest? Kinda puts a chill down your spine doesn't it? Hebrews 10:31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. More often than not God is being taught as a nice no harm no foul kind of God. Yes He is a loving, merciful, forgiving God, but He is also a jealous, wrathful, unwavering God too. If He is the same yesterday,today and forever, isn't it time for us to step it up a few notches. It's the least we can do. Any comments?
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