Q. What is good?
Q. Do you think of yourself as good?
Q. What % of good are you?
Q. What % of good confirms you are a Christian?
Q. What % do you place on your fellowman thinking that you are good?
Q. Why are you trying to be good?
Q. Is good a measurement of salvation?
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A young man from our fellowship lived with my family for a number of years. He was well liked, had a gentle nature, was amiable, helpful and friendly and fitted in very well. His main attribute was the capacity to project “coolness”; nothing seemed to fluster him. One day my son returned to live with us and everything changed. Read the rest of this entry »
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They feared the Lord and served their own gods 2Kings 17:33,41
How can you fear the Lord and serve other gods at the same time? The answer is,
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In the Greek the meaning of envy is …
Envy = pain felt and malignity conceived at the sight of someone else’s excellence or happiness. Envy can degenerate into a desire to make war upon the beneficiary, and thus to trouble their good and diminish it.
James 4:5 tells us that the spirit in us lusts to envy. That is, we are born with the inherent trait to want the best for ourselves in preference to what’s best for others. God defines this inherent characteristic as pride, and regards it as the top level of sin. There’s nothing you can do about the fact that you are born with sin, but there is a solution to your sin. Read the rest of this entry »
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If a child says to their father “I appreciate what you’ve done for me”, and then chooses to truant from school, speaks rudely to their mother, or practices sexual promiscuity behind the parent’s back, that’s a contradiction. How can you say you appreciate the parent and at the same time disrespect and defame the parent’s principles or your father’s wife?
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Q. Is there such a thing as a Christian who isn’t saved?
The church teaches ‘once saved always saved’, but is that true? It’s true if you’re saved; but what if you’re not really saved?
The parable of the 5 foolish virgins in Matthew 25 strongly suggests that it’s possible to lose the Holy Spirit, and confirms that you can’t get the Spirit from someone else. You alone are responsible for the Spirit to stay in you.
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