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Posted by BORN AGAIN (Member # 5) on :

Could we have done better than the Israelites, or could no one have done better than the Israelites?

Are we all the same and none of us could have done what the Israelites were asked to do by the LORD?

Since the Lord has declared us ALL to be under sin, can anyone have carried out what the LORD asked Israel to do for Him, or did the LORD know that it was an impossible task but that was part of the plan.

Israel suffered. People were stoned. It was "not easy being God's people", especially when the Israelites "stopped being interested in the LORD" and preferred Baal on every hill and Moloch and the golden calves and the queen of heaven, on every high hill perversion.

Could we have done any better than the Israelites, or could no one have done any better?

Praise the LORD< BORN AGAIN > [Cross]

Posted by epouraniois (Member # 5187) on :

I don't think 'we', as a Christian group in the flesh has done any better. What did Israel do? Seek after other doctrines. Well, that is what Christianity has done. Going after Israel's doctrine, pretending it was not written to Israel, but to gentiles, or worse, that gentiles have become Israel.

We have our letters, but oh, how so few can even say a few verses of Ephesians, or Colossians, or 2 Timothy, or Philippians.

How few today know what is the mystery which was given to Paul for you, that you may know him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death

It is this resurrection power which must manifest before Christ can truly live in the heart of the believer, and how can anyone do this if they do not even know what is the hope of His calling, and that His calling is also the one hope of your calling, for He is the Head of the Body.

Christ, chosen before the overthrow of the world.
His Body, chosen before the overthrow of the world.

How many have a love for all saints, or even know what is the inheritance of the saints in light?

How many even know that God was in Christ, not imputing trespasses against us, that Christ died for the ungodly, that the sin question has been taken care of, or even that Christ has the preiminent position?

Look at all the divisions, with all of man's traditions, trying to create some unity here on earth, not understanding the unity is already made, and that unity is in the Spirit, and is sevenfold. Man, ever after all new things sensational, with a man as the head of their church, or the woman seeking the same, not ever being taught of that resurrection power, and probably unable to acknowledge it if they heard it, still calling the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour by the same name demons call Him, that is his first name without title. My how the Christians get offended when it is suggested they give the Lord His rightful place by acknowledging His Saving grace when speaking the name that is above every name, both in this age time, and the ones to come by lifting Him up with a simple thing like giving Him His place by Title.

How many know what are the exceeding riches we can have in our inner life NOW? For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them, but how many even know that on one side of the scale is the doctrine, or instructions, and the other side is the worthy walk, or the practice, and that they must be balanced up for the Lord to be in the believer, or how many Christians can be seen working out their salvation by their neighbors, or even of their friends?

“As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: that whosoever BELIEVETH in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever BELIEVETH in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:14-16).