Wow. I needed to hear this. I have been so ungodly since the pandemic started. Prior to, I was so on fire for God. I felt His presence all around me, I was learning and growing in my studies of the Bible, I was so interested in the things of God. Then slowly my desire went away, to the point where now I can barely concentrate the few times I do pick up the Bible to read it. I’m so glad I saw this. I was beginning to feel like maybe I was a false convert because I haven’t been producing ANY fruit. Now I am sure that the good work God started in me is still being worked out. Even when I don’t feel it. Praise God.
Don’t twist what they were saying. It seems like some brethren’s job is to accuse their brothers of not producing enough fruit and questioning their salvation. The Bible clearly tells those who accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior that HE is the judge of that and to check yourself and your motives in your heart. Words out of mouth are words of restoration and lovingly privately correct your dear brother who you love.
Whenever this same issue crops up in me, I remind myself that my salvation lies in Christ alone. After all, we are saved by grace through faith, not by works (Ephesians 2:8). Salvation is by God alone. Like Paul Washer said, all we contribute towards our salvation is our sin.
This is such an encouragement. I feel stale after a season of drowning in the Word, and I am reminded that I had nothing to do with my salvation. He loves me because He loves me. He is the author, sustained and perfector of my faith. I have to continue to trust that.
I needed this so much. Thank you for uploading this portion. There is nothing that I can glory in other than Christ alone. He is my sole assurance and my comfort by His grace. Lord, thank You for all that you ever do for us ungodly and unworthy sinners. Holy Spirit, remind us of Christ every single moment of every day. Soli Deo gloria!
Thank you. I needed to hear this. I’m so scared of who I am verses who God is and this has reassured me. I’m in tears of joy and of being crushed. I’m so amazed that God can use me when I’m so far from perfect. I’m in sorrow and joy and it’s all for the same reason. Dear God, please help me and everyone else. Thank you God for this joy and sorrow. Amen.
I truly do struggle with looking to Christ. I tend to look to a feeling or my progress and I totally agree that it is wrong, but it is a battle everyday to look to Christ cause He will fix me yes, but peace is found only in christ
The closer we get to the light of the holiness and righteousness of Christ, the more aware we are of our own unholiness and unrighteousness. Like trying to see how dark something is in the dark. The closer you step to the light, the more you become aware of how dark it is.
@Sage of Synergism you’re certainly entitled to your opinion. But I know that I have security in Christ. If salvation were based on my works, I’d have no security. But, because it’s based on Christ I have security. I hope that helps. Have a good day!
It was like a small blessing seeing your comment! I needed this video, and seeing a For Today profile picture made it even better! I was just listening to them before watching this, too!
@@gabrielmartin4426 the Lord works in mysterious ways, brother! Keep your chin up and contend for the faith. Stay faithful to Christ, even in front of men! You’ve got this brother, I’m praying for you!!!
1 John 5:13, KJV: "These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God."
When we look to our works we will have doubts about our salvation. Look unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. God keeps His promises. Look to God and trust God that he has justified us by faith in Christ's atonement for our sins. Don't let the devil keep asking you, "Are you sure you're saved?"
Thank you so much Jesus for bringing up this message. Thank you so much brothers. Greetings from Sweden children of God Almighty. That is how i feel at times. God bless you all.
I'm there with Paul washer, praising God, witness how Jesus loves and boom, pride introduced. I dont feel like I do enough, I feel selfish, I feel dirty, I feel so low and there are time I take two steps forward, one step back and it is so painful, but the truth of the matter is this is also a blessing to point us to Christ. Not to works, not to theology, not to how good I am or how much I do nor how wonderful I am, but Christ and Christ alone
I needed this I didn’t complete a fast and was so hard myself like I’m not progressing in Christ I was worried about salvation just because I felt like others were progressing and I’m not thank you so much🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽 God is good!
The Lord will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O Lord, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands. Psalms 138:8 KJV For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. Phillipians 2:13 KJV
Reminds me of this childrens song: Hes still working on me to make me who I ought to be it took Him just a week to make the moon and the stars the sun and the earth and Jupiter and Mars how loving and patient he must be cuz hes still working on me. There really ought to be a sign upon my heart dont judge me yet there's an unfinished part but I'll be perfect just according to His plan fashioned by the masters loving hand...in the mirror of His word reflections that I see makes me wonder why He never gave up on me but He loves me as I am and helps me when I pray I'll remember Hes the potter I'm the clay...Hes still working on me.😃
someone described it as being a full pint jar...then God pours all of that into a quart jar. you are suddenly very aware of what is lacking, but you have simply "leveled up."
@@datchet11 yes, but my eyes are kind of magicaly drawn to look at her butt. There is no thinking involved I guess. I don't think of having her. So it's OK than?
@@theforeigner6988 well Jesus was clear in Matthew 5 that if we look at a woman to lust after her we have already committed adultery with her in our hearts, I think theres a difference between acknowledging a woman's beautiful and lusting after her, take for example genesis 29v17 in the bible says Leah had weak eyes, but Rachel was lovely in form, and beautiful. So I don't think its wrong to notice that a woman is beautiful it's how God made us to be attracted to the opposite sex and its healthy but having said that its sin to lust after a woman other than your spouse looking at her butt I think would be to lust after her, thankfully we are saved by faith in Jesus Christ and washed by his blood so if you sin in that way confess it to the Lord and ask him to help you not look at a woman lustfully or as a object to pleasure oneself but as a respectable human being made in Gods image, I speak for myself in this aswell I to have difficulty in not sinning in this way.
@@datchet11 thank you. Sometimes I think if there where no women, I wouldn't have any problems. The eyes are a big problem. I guess we have to make a covenant or something , like Job in 31,1
@@theforeigner6988 yes exactly! your welcome my friend, believe me you are not alone in the struggle we live in a pornified century where pornography is excepted and considered normal by most, let us fight the good fight of faith fixing our eyes on Jesus the author and perfector of our faith, may we seek to serve the Lord to shun evil and follow his ways that we may glorify him with our lives, take care.
Amen! Thank you for this wonderful message, it just comforts me right now. Thank you so much to our Lord God Almighty! Great is His work! In Jesus mighty name, Amen!
Amen this was good. Encouraging. But for some reason I cracked up laughing under Gods grace. I just cracked up for a few seconds. God is good. The Joy of The Lord is my strength. Hehe.
This must have been such an awesome panel discussion. It would be so great to hear the full video.. i remember that you said you will not upload it :-( just saying it again that i wish we could see the whole q&a.
Salvation is not how you feel you don't always feel that way but we know from bein warriors we are no doubt we stand on the word people can't live by how you feel
This is such an important question. Thank you for making a video on it! Somebody asked me recently, "How do you get saved and stay saved?" I had to think about it and then answered this way: Choose to accept Christ as your SAVIOR to "get saved" (justification), follow Him daily as your LORD to "stay saved" (sanctification). This is because of the three parts of salvation. 1. JUSTIFICATION We have been saved (past tense) from death and hell by Christ's sacrifice on the cross. 2. SANCTIFICATION We are being saved (present tense) from our sins as we daily allow Christ to live in us and mold our characters. 3. GLORIFICATION We will be saved (future tense) from these corruptible bodies, corruptible minds and hearts, and the corrupting influences is sin and Satan when Christ returns. In this sense, salvation in an established fact, an ongoing process, and a future hope. How would you explain salvation? John 15:5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
There is positional sanctification and a progress sanctification. In what you put above you referred to the progressive aspect of sanctification. But we have "been sanctified" does refer to the positional setting apart of the believer through regeneration. This image of the "order of salvation" is helpful to consider: www.challies.com/visual-theology/visual-theology-the-order-of-salvation/
@@illbehonest Very helpful picture to understand what you are trying to share. Thank you. Are you of the school of thought that God chooses some to be saved and some to be lost?
@@TheLampVideos I would just ask this, what does the Bible teach? It's very clear that if God did not predestine any, everyone would go to hell. It's the mercy of God that he opens the eyes of any. And yet we are to go preach to all creatures. Too many people wrongly understand the sovereign electing grace of God to think it does away with man's responsibility. We have to be balanced biblically. Sorry I can't add more, I'm doing a voice text to speech for my phone.
We do contribute to sanctification it says in Romans 6:19 that by presenting our members (our body) as slaves of righteousness leading to sanctification. Sanctification does come unless we submit to God's ways through the grace he departs into us. Buts also true that the process is painful because we do see how unholy we are as we go through the process. But like a healthy tree the fruit must come which is love and holiness.
“We contributed nothing to our salvation; not even our sanctification”. Wow, these are strong words. I think I largely agree, in the sense that apart from God, there is no salvation. And every good work we do, we do by the grace of God. But we contribute nothing? This is hard for me to wrap my head around. Can we at least say we cooperate with God’s grace?
The only thing we contribute is the sin that nailed Jesus to the cross. 2,000 years ago you weren’t there, Christ suffered the wrath of God in our place alone. The Just for the unjust to bring us to God and no one can come the Son unless the Father draws Him. So even though you feel like you contributed, It was God’s Grace working in you first. Grace and peace. 🙏
I think this statement is dealing with the ultimate scope of Work of God in its eternity sense. Just as Paul burst into praises and gave all credits to God in Romans, “all things are from Him, through Him and for Him”. It is a foundational knowledge and understanding of our position and relationship with God. Based upon this knowledge, we shall later approach our responsibilities and doings. This then we do not fall into the danger of self exaltation and giving credit to man.
“This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men. But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.” Titus 3:8-9
The Shunammite woman 2 Kings 8:1-6 God will take us through a famine to show us our weakness. But if you are His, through famine you will see a greater revelation of who Christ is and what it means to be His and made alive through Him. 7 years wandering in the land of the Philistines, the land of evil. No prophets in the land. No word of God being declared. Surrounded by evil. Yet when she returns it was if she had never left, as if she herself had been sowing the entire time. For she reaped as if she had been sowing the whole 7 years. This is what angels long to look into. The sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow. How can it be that one reaps so abundantly without sowing? Christ. Him. All of Him. He is everything. He is the treasure. He really is beyond all that we can hope for.
Those that are in the flesh can't please God. You however are not in the flesh but in the spirit! Roman's 8:8 Espesians 1:13 heard the gospel of your salvation and BELIEVED was SEALED with the promise of The HOLY SPIRIT! God Bless!
The answer for assurance is simple. Do you believe the Gospel? If so you are saved. Work’s cannot prove or disprove salvation. Anyone can do good works, it’s subjective and unrealizable. Teaching like this leads to more doubt and more harm than good. If you’re looking at yourself and your works to assure you that you’re saved, then you are not trusting in Christ alone. We’re getting justification and sanctification mixed up. You must have be justified by believing the Gospel alone. Sanctification is supposed to occur afterwards and the believer should grow. It is not a guarantee that they will grow, as they still have free will. 1 John chapters 1-4 deal with the evidence that you are having close fellowship with Christ, not whether or not you have salvation. 1 John chapter 5 deals with assurance of salvation and it says that if you believe the Gospel that you are saved. Stop looking at your works for assurance. If you keep doing that you won’t have any. I know firsthand how teaching like this causes problems. It absolutely stunted my spiritual growth, nothing but fear and anxiety. Just ask yourself whether or not you believe the Gospel and you will have your answer.
The full version cannot be uploaded due to a missionary who was also on the panel and cannot be published online. A few other individual questions will be published at a later date.
I am here because I carry heavy burdens. I feel like committing suicide but I won't. I just think I'd like to be gone and go nonexistent. I never wanted to be here and come in this world being me l, this for a reality. I was forced to exist and forced into life but also forced into being me something I hate and never wanted. I've carried this pain for such a long long time now. Ever since I was a kid well up into adulthood. I thought I'd somehow changed and I'll grow out of it but I never did. I am an ugly woman. I really am and no this isn't me being negative its the truth. Nobody has ever liked me before and look I'm am adult its been for long like nobody has because I am ugly for a girl. Every Christian tells me look to God for your worth and see you worth and see beauty that he sees in you through his eyes but that's so hard to do when you realize to yourself you are working so hard to gaze upon Jesus eyes and look to him for your worth and see yourself beautiful in his eyes whereas you yourself think you're ugly and majority of the people do and the hardest part and why I say I dont want to look to Jesus or God for it is because the truth is God thinks all his other children and daughters are worth dying for too and he loves them and thinks his daughters are beautiful but not just him thinking they are beautiful because in reality they really are beautiful because he actually not just think they are beautiful he even made that a reality for when he made them so he thinks they are beautiful and they really are though but when it came with me that was never to be my reality because though he thinks I am worthy and beautiful he didn't make that a reality for me so its a contradiction and I could never see my worth in his eyes I'm an adult now and no one had ever liked me not even the nice guys. But it hit me so hard to know that the person I genuinely liked my friend didn't like me he was someone who loves Jesus and is kind but he likes a girl who is pretty and positive and super nice . He only told me I was beautiful because he didn't ever want to hurt my feelings and make me feel bad about my self even though it's not true at all he was just being considerate of my feelings but here it hurts. Because that's my reality The rhing is I think God's messing with us he tells us he makes everyone all equally beautiful when that's not really the case. Some he made so andnothers live with whatever they get handed on as fate would have had it. Well even if one is ugly God being God would still say they are beautiful just because he is really kind even though they are not and I know he meant beauty not in terms of the fact someone is beautiful but just because they are made in his image just because they are living being is I know what he means by all being beautiful though one being flat out ugly. I never wanted to be me first of all I am as ugly as can get and I'm also a very slow learner I am dumb and process things really slow so I am the target of ridiculement. I never wanted to exist and I never pictured that when I did this is how I would turn out that out of all the things I could ever be this became me. I know its the heart that counts the inner beauty of a person but reality is even if I go to heaven I'd still be me there too forever I'd still be the person I am which naturally very ugly in heaven for all eternity forever. Like I know ill worship him and all but it hit me that if im this way now and hate myself and hate how I look and am for life and for eternity also ill still ha e to deal with myself because I'm forever a me and forever will be an ugly Asian forever and ever when I don't ever want to deal with me anymore because it's painful and I never want to be me I never could fathom the thought. But my question has always been why has he made some of his children very beautiful and me just this it's so hurtful and a slap in the face. I'm not conceited for a person but it's hard when he made many who are beautiful and do have kind loving hearts and me I have to bear with what is that im ugly but he thinks I'm beautiful for the simple fact I bear his image. It's hurtful when you love someone who doesn't love you back because he loves someone who is beautiful and kind and nobody has ever liked you before and evergones underappreciate you and no where near your heart can you find it to love you. I think God, I'm sorry to say this is sooo messed up to think its okay to force me to exist and be here and turn out the way that I am because I'd never imagine I'd become this person but I did. I never wanted to be me but what does he do? Force me into existence and force me to be me and this is the case that I'll have to deal with forever. But when I want to take my own life upon my hands I can't? So people get forced to exist when they don't even want to let alone be themselves and look and be the way they are but all this is out of their control and they want to end their lives and stop existing because they have a right to be non-existent since they get forced into life, forced to turn out the way they do and be themselves and force upon alot of things beyond their control but who gets to be them God or them? Them. Who gets to carry out and live their life God or them ? Them so why doesn't God thibk its okay to make someone who doesn't want to exist and be themselves go ahead and take it upon their hands to end it and go nonexistent when all this is force upon them and so is looking the way they do, their race, who they are, everything about them and coming into existence is all forced and shoved for them to carry out so very well they should and I should have a right to end and go nonexistent with a me I never wanted and a life I never even asked for because nobody deserves to be tortured for life being something they never wanted to be and carry it out forever when it's not their fault they just got handed the wrong fate of things. How does god even ever thinks it's okay to decide ill make some people in this world really beautiful and attractive whereas others are just average and not anything beautiful to look at. Like I understand its our character that counts but reality is it's hurtful why God is like this because this is tied into a person's identity and makeup as a whole human being as well as their race this things go hand in hand as the overall design of a human and it's sad when people get forced and handed the worse and of things whereas others get handed it well, I mean if God so loves everyone that treat it like he does make sure everyone is created all equally beautiful and made with care because that's not how it is so we all have to deal with how we are for all eternity. For whatever reason God thinks it's okay to make beautiful people who can have beautiful hearts and some of us such as myself ugly and mediocre never could understand. Realize that beautiful attarctive people can be with Jesus and in heaven still beautiful as themselves and someone like me can go to heaven and still forever be this ugly Filipino person I am. What if I never ever wanted to be me did god ever consider that? It's an insult when he thinks it's okay to have made alot of his children beautiful and very attractive and thinks their beautiful and made that into a reality for them and why some just had to be decided upon God to be made ugly or mediocre very less than the others he so chooses to lavish his design upon without holding and they too can have beautiful hearts also and live a life of being love by God and having people love them and they can learn to love themselves too.
Hello. I think you miss the point. You are beautiful. If you think you arent is because, the social and the medias want to tell you that, who put the line betwen beauty or ugly? Im ugly too hahaha, and that stop to bother me when I realize I was looking to me and not looking to Jesus, my ego make me feel ugly because others are "beauty" that was a sin I confessed to God. But that is not the important things my beloved sister, and Jesus was ugly in the eyes of the others too Isaiah 53:2-3 kjv For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. I hope you stop to see your mirrow and star to look the cross. God bless you. I love you and God love you too. If you want add me on fb and we keep talking. 💐
I like the answer, for me to not look in the mirror but to look at Jesus. Those in heaven do not perceive outer beauty, but inner beauty. This video also spoke to me today. Jesus is the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. I do have a question for you though; are you upset because a beautiful man is interested in someone else OR are you upset because an ugly man is interested in someone else? Also, how interested are you in ugly men? When you meet a man, do you look at his character instead of his looks? Can you fall madly in love with an ugly man because of his character, and will you see him as beautiful in your eyes? Will you love him and convince him of his "true" beauty?
@@soniakruger8098 personally I wouldn't think I can because I too struggle with this and so having someone who is struggling with this issue it'll be hard to lift that man up but also because I don't think I can for any guy not even if its a guy who I like and in a scenario likes me back because I wouldn't be able to make both cases happy ultimately due to the fact that I never can accept and like myself so how can I for another... but all in all I think God should've made everyone equally beautiful and attractive and why he thinks it's okay to make some so and the rest not so is messed up especially because along with the heart our race and how we look do play a part in the makeup of our individuality as humans.
@@magdonysperezestrada1942 that is true but I don't think that social media and standards of beauty is the reason, like yes it has amplified the extremity of beauty nowadays but I'd like to even point out that even if social media, television, magazines where all nonexistent and standards weren't made it is still true that one can see someone made by God beautiful and see it clearly and see another opposite of that clearly too. For example even in the Bible it points out the differentiation between Rachel and Leah. Rachel was describe as to being beautiful in appearance and figure and Leah was described as being not so infact nobody wanted to marry Leah so the father had to do a plan to get Leah married too and secured. In the reference there it didn't mention that God made both women equal in beauty and just having different unique features that are beautiful, no it specifically says one was pretty in great extent whereas the other was unattractive. And during that time social media, magazines, television didn't even exist. So as to why God is like this I never could understand.
Hello, God does love you. I hope to encourage you to see that true beauty is found in God not in ourselves. Know that I say all this out of love. You wrote that you feel God is messing with us my saying He makes everyone equally beautiful, I am curious where you were told this idea because it is not true. God loves all His children equally, this does not mean He made everyone equally beautiful. I hope you will find what God says in scripture encouraging, "Beauty is vain and charm is deceitful" -Proverbs 31:30 and "Man looks at the outward appearance, but God looks at the heart" 1 Samuel 16:7 This is great news to everyone, God does not care what we look like, He cares what we think about Him. Remember that people's opinions of you do not matter, only God's does and He loves using unexpected or unpopular people to do His will. I know you feel it's unfair that you exist, but the reality is the most unfair thing is that God is not worshipped and obeyed as He deserved. I say this because I love you and want you to know the truth. Do not look to yourself and people (who's opinions don't matter), but look to God. In heaven we will be consumed in the worship of God not concerned with ourselves. Remember God is good and just and everything He does with a purpose, be careful not to blame God. If you turn to Christ He is willing to give you joy. Today will soon be over, but eternity will soon be hear. Please don't wait turn to Him and He will give you rest from your worries.
Well.... "As in the first Adam ALL died (lost the divine nature), so also ALL were made alive IN Christ to walk in Zoë = divine life again". Certainty. You already are IN Christ. Yay! What lots of people (even pastors) don't (yet) understand. God created us according to His own image and likeness. Godly. Mankind/the first Adam fell. The image of God in man got lost. That's why there is all this predicament on earth (selfishness, greed, lust, wars, sicknesses, death, etc). We are all born into that mess. For the fall of man a perfect atoning sacrifice had to be made.... that is what God did in Christ. With His own once and for all perefect sacrifice, He paid the debt for the fall of man for us, so we can be indwelled by His Spirit again and finally receive the divine life of the ages back, the first Adam let got of in the fall of man. An amazing act of grace and love by our creator. That is what you see happening in Christ's first disciples. They too healed all and walked in unselfish love. And yes.... that is still avaible today. The holy blood is in place, the Holy Spirit is here to give us understanding, power and transform us back to origin. Not to be debated about, but to be embraced and be-come. So: The Kingdom of God already came. Through Christ, in Spiritform, in those that understand. Hence the divine healing miracles we experience. God manifested in Christ to give us back the divine life mankind lost in the fall of Adam. Christ, the exact image of the invisible God. The image we were created after in Gen 1. The image we lost in the fall of man. The image that can be freely restored by Christ's blood and Holy Spirit working IN us. What a plan. What a solution. What a love. What a God. Jesus is amazing. It is the ultimate conclusion of the word and plan of God. God came full circle. He Himself stooped down from glory to restore us back to original created value: Christlikeness. Walking in divine healing power and unselfish love. Jesus, born of the Spirit of God, filled with the spirit of God. The "Son" of God, the incarnated word, God in the flesh. For three years He healed all, raised the dead, casted out demons, controlled nature, spoke pure divine truth. He said: "Follow Me. If you see Me, you see the Father. The Father and I are one. The glory I have IN My Father, I give to you. It pleases the Father to give you His Kingdom/Holy Spirit/divine nature. I will send Holy Spirit, the same as Me, He will be IN you, guide you into truth and give you explosive power. The same miracles i do, you will do too, because you will understand that the Father is IN Me and I am IN you. Freely I give you My Kingdom/Holy Spirit/divine nature, heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out demons, freely I give, freely share" Etc, etc, etc. I have experienced thousands of beautifull healing miracles through the power of Holy Spirit IN me already. Broken bones, cancers, covid, all kinds of infirmities healed in seconds. Demons manifesting and casted out by a simple "get out, in Jesus name". Jesus. De name above all names. In Him all power and wisdom is sourced and.... He calls us one with Him. God in man and man in God again. C'mon Jesus!! So.... again: God stooped down IN Christ to restore us back to Gen 1:27 were He said: "Let us make man according to our image and likeness and let them have authority.....": walk as Christ. Christ, the exact image of the invisible God. The image we were created after and being restored to by His atoning blood for the fall of man and indwelling Holy Spirit. You are free to receive this original divine life of the ages by Holy Spirit of Christ/God. Ask Him to guide you into truth. Read the Gospel of John and fall in love with your creator. You are not made for the fall of man and its effects, but for the image/glory of God and to walk like Christ. Holy Spirit is the guide and transforming power that will get you there. Amazing grace. A big leap in faith can be made when we start realizing we are already IN Christ, IN the last Adam. Free from the fall! Loved! Growing into awareness of our new (yet old) godly identity. Changing by Holy Spirit. The most fullfilled life ever. Paul healed all on Malta. He understood and wrote: "As in the first Adam ALL died (lost the divine nature), so also ALL were made alive IN Christ to walk in Zoë (= divine life) again". "IN Christ (the last Adam) we are co-cruisified (dead to the fall and its effects), co-raised (justified/made righteousness, holy, blameless, above reproach), co-seated (one with Him)" "The fullness of deity dwells in Christ and YOU HAVE BEEN MADE COMPLETE IN HIM, who is the head of every principality and power". So.... thank you Jesus! Thank you for redeeming me from the fall of man. Thank you for your Holy Spirit that makes this new (yet old) divine life come alive in me. You are amazing! In the shadow of Peter the sick healed... He understood too and wrote: "By Gods power (Holy Spirit) and knowing Christ, we have become partakers of the divine nature and have escaped the fall of man". The divine life of the ages has been returned to us by Jesus once and for all perfect atoning sacrifice for the debt of the fall of man and His indwelling Holy Spirit in us. Jesus/God is amazing!!! Ask Him to give you revelation and change you to the way it was before the fall of man: Christlikeness. He will do so. For it is written: "the Spirit brings forth after His own kind". "I have come to give you Zoë (divine life) in abundance...."
The more I'm sanctified by God, the less holy i feel....wow, that's an eye-opener!! I believe Isaiah knew how that felt...
Wow. I needed to hear this. I have been so ungodly since the pandemic started. Prior to, I was so on fire for God. I felt His presence all around me, I was learning and growing in my studies of the Bible, I was so interested in the things of God. Then slowly my desire went away, to the point where now I can barely concentrate the few times I do pick up the Bible to read it.
I’m so glad I saw this. I was beginning to feel like maybe I was a false convert because I haven’t been producing ANY fruit. Now I am sure that the good work God started in me is still being worked out. Even when I don’t feel it. Praise God.
Best way for me is to stay in the word everyday. Reading straight out of the Bible.
Don’t twist what they were saying. It seems like some brethren’s job is to accuse their brothers of not producing enough fruit and questioning their salvation. The Bible clearly tells those who accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior that HE is the judge of that and to check yourself and your motives in your heart. Words out of mouth are words of restoration and lovingly privately correct your dear brother who you love.
I'm going through the same! Idk whether I'm a false Convert or a backsliden Christian..
@@hemachandrana7386 Today is the day. Don't look back! Crucify the flesh and walk after the spirit. Just do it
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‘The closer you draw to holiness the less holy you feel’.
Thank you for your faith your encouragement! 🙏
I'm currently going thru this and it really hit me on how self-centered I am
Whenever this same issue crops up in me, I remind myself that my salvation lies in Christ alone. After all, we are saved by grace through faith, not by works (Ephesians 2:8). Salvation is by God alone. Like Paul Washer said, all we contribute towards our salvation is our sin.
"The closer you grow to holiness, the more you feel unholy."
-Michael Durham
This is such an encouragement. I feel stale after a season of drowning in the Word, and I am reminded that I had nothing to do with my salvation. He loves me because He loves me. He is the author, sustained and perfector of my faith. I have to continue to trust that.
I needed this today. I felt hopeless because I have been trying to seek God and I find out I am operating in pride. I do t want this just to obey God
Amen, same here, you're not alone, let's continue on this race that God has set before us and finish it to completion by His mercy and grace.
Same here❤️❤️❤️🙏🏾
I needed this so much. Thank you for uploading this portion.
There is nothing that I can glory in other than Christ alone. He is my sole assurance and my comfort by His grace.
Lord, thank You for all that you ever do for us ungodly and unworthy sinners. Holy Spirit, remind us of Christ every single moment of every day.
Soli Deo gloria!
Thank you. I needed to hear this. I’m so scared of who I am verses who God is and this has reassured me. I’m in tears of joy and of being crushed. I’m so amazed that God can use me when I’m so far from perfect. I’m in sorrow and joy and it’s all for the same reason.
Dear God, please help me and everyone else. Thank you God for this joy and sorrow. Amen.
I truly do struggle with looking to Christ. I tend to look to a feeling or my progress and I totally agree that it is wrong, but it is a battle everyday to look to Christ cause He will fix me yes, but peace is found only in christ
The closer we get to the light of the holiness and righteousness of Christ, the more aware we are of our own unholiness and unrighteousness. Like trying to see how dark something is in the dark. The closer you step to the light, the more you become aware of how dark it is.
Seeing Pastor Paul smile is so rare 😅 Nice video! 😇😁
May God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ bless you, brother Paul!
@Sage of Synergism you’re certainly entitled to your opinion. But I know that I have security in Christ. If salvation were based on my works, I’d have no security. But, because it’s based on Christ I have security. I hope that helps. Have a good day!
Ayy I love for today
It was like a small blessing seeing your comment! I needed this video, and seeing a For Today profile picture made it even better! I was just listening to them before watching this, too!
@@gabrielmartin4426 the Lord works in mysterious ways, brother! Keep your chin up and contend for the faith. Stay faithful to Christ, even in front of men! You’ve got this brother, I’m praying for you!!!
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. Psalm 23:1-2
Amen
Early in the morning after very little sleep because of exactly this. Needed to hear this now. Struggling because of circumstances being tough
A vital learning on sanctification and way to salvation.
1 John 5:13, KJV: "These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God."
Blows your theory out of the water
When we look to our works we will have doubts about our salvation. Look unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith.
God keeps His promises. Look to God and trust God that he has justified us by faith in Christ's atonement for our sins. Don't let the devil keep asking you, "Are you sure you're saved?"
Well said👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🙌🏽‼️
Thank you so much Jesus for bringing up this message. Thank you so much brothers. Greetings from Sweden children of God Almighty. That is how i feel at times. God bless you all.
John 14:6
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
I wish I could get this through my head once and for all. But it seems I need to keep being reminded
I'm there with Paul washer, praising God, witness how Jesus loves and boom, pride introduced. I dont feel like I do enough, I feel selfish, I feel dirty, I feel so low and there are time I take two steps forward, one step back and it is so painful, but the truth of the matter is this is also a blessing to point us to Christ. Not to works, not to theology, not to how good I am or how much I do nor how wonderful I am, but Christ and Christ alone
Absolutely amen, brother.
Sanctification is coming to know that Jesus is my assurance...oh wow...God is so good...
I needed this I didn’t complete a fast and was so hard myself like I’m not progressing in Christ I was worried about salvation just because I felt like others were progressing and I’m not thank you so much🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽 God is good!
Amennn !! Man I needed to hear this! 😩 Save me Jesus!
I so needed to hear this. God is right on time with answering a question in my life. I base everything on my progress.
The Lord will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O Lord, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.
Psalms 138:8 KJV
For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
Phillipians 2:13 KJV
Reminds me of this childrens song: Hes still working on me to make me who I ought to be it took Him just a week to make the moon and the stars the sun and the earth and Jupiter and Mars how loving and patient he must be cuz hes still working on me. There really ought to be a sign upon my heart dont judge me yet there's an unfinished part but I'll be perfect just according to His plan fashioned by the masters loving hand...in the mirror of His word reflections that I see makes me wonder why He never gave up on me but He loves me as I am and helps me when I pray I'll remember Hes the potter I'm the clay...Hes still working on me.😃
Godbless you Paul washer....thank you for your humility..and meekness and humbleness..X:)
Thank you I'll be honest and dear brethrens for this video.😊
this was an answer for our Lord😊💕
Jesus is so good to us!
I need Jesus
So well answered - made sense and brought tears to my eyes - always notice tears!
Can't wait until the full q&a comes out
Blessed Assurance based on Jesus
Such a timely video! 🙏🏽
someone described it as being a full pint jar...then God pours all of that into a quart jar. you are suddenly very aware of what is lacking, but you have simply "leveled up."
I can not turn my eyes away, when I see a beautiful woman
There's nothing wrong with acknowledging a beautiful woman its Sin when we go on to covet that woman and desire to have her.
@@datchet11 yes, but my eyes are kind of magicaly drawn to look at her butt. There is no thinking involved I guess. I don't think of having her. So it's OK than?
@@theforeigner6988 well Jesus was clear in Matthew 5 that if we look at a woman to lust after her we have already committed adultery with her in our hearts, I think theres a difference between acknowledging a woman's beautiful and lusting after her, take for example genesis 29v17 in the bible says Leah had weak eyes, but Rachel was lovely in form, and beautiful. So I don't think its wrong to notice that a woman is beautiful it's how God made us to be attracted to the opposite sex and its healthy but having said that its sin to lust after a woman other than your spouse looking at her butt I think would be to lust after her, thankfully we are saved by faith in Jesus Christ and washed by his blood so if you sin in that way confess it to the Lord and ask him to help you not look at a woman lustfully or as a object to pleasure oneself but as a respectable human being made in Gods image, I speak for myself in this aswell I to have difficulty in not sinning in this way.
@@datchet11 thank you. Sometimes I think if there where no women, I wouldn't have any problems.
The eyes are a big problem. I guess we have to make a covenant or something , like Job in 31,1
@@theforeigner6988 yes exactly! your welcome my friend, believe me you are not alone in the struggle we live in a pornified century where pornography is excepted and considered normal by most, let us fight the good fight of faith fixing our eyes on Jesus the author and perfector of our faith, may we seek to serve the Lord to shun evil and follow his ways that we may glorify him with our lives, take care.
So encouraging!
Thank You for this message and teaching I received in Jesus name
I needed this.
🥺 Oh Lord My Father!
🙇 Forgive Me🫂
Amen Amen! This helps me today!
And Me too
Me too.
Amen! Thank you for this wonderful message, it just comforts me right now. Thank you so much to our Lord God Almighty! Great is His work! In Jesus mighty name, Amen!
Amen this was good. Encouraging. But for some reason I cracked up laughing under Gods grace. I just cracked up for a few seconds. God is good. The Joy of The Lord is my strength. Hehe.
This must have been such an awesome panel discussion. It would be so great to hear the full video.. i remember that you said you will not upload it :-( just saying it again that i wish we could see the whole q&a.
Amen.........great godly & biblical councel!
This helps me so much!
Salvation is not how you feel you don't always feel that way but we know from bein warriors we are no doubt we stand on the word people can't live by how you feel
More please!
God will perfect that which concerns me..David.
Wow. This really helped me
This was surprisingly helpful and encouraging. Didn't expect these old school Calvin boys to show such wisdom and grace
Praise Jesus
Thank you
This is such an important question. Thank you for making a video on it!
Somebody asked me recently, "How do you get saved and stay saved?" I had to think about it and then answered this way: Choose to accept Christ as your SAVIOR to "get saved" (justification), follow Him daily as your LORD to "stay saved" (sanctification). This is because of the three parts of salvation.
1. JUSTIFICATION
We have been saved (past tense) from death and hell by Christ's sacrifice on the cross.
2. SANCTIFICATION
We are being saved (present tense) from our sins as we daily allow Christ to live in us and mold our characters.
3. GLORIFICATION
We will be saved (future tense) from these corruptible bodies, corruptible minds and hearts, and the corrupting influences is sin and Satan when Christ returns.
In this sense, salvation in an established fact, an ongoing process, and a future hope.
How would you explain salvation?
John 15:5
I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
You've left out one very important doctrine: regeneration. I would encourage you to hear this sermon: illbehonest.com/christian-is-a-new-man
@@illbehonest Do you distinguish regeneration as something different from sanctification?
There is positional sanctification and a progress sanctification. In what you put above you referred to the progressive aspect of sanctification. But we have "been sanctified" does refer to the positional setting apart of the believer through regeneration. This image of the "order of salvation" is helpful to consider: www.challies.com/visual-theology/visual-theology-the-order-of-salvation/
@@illbehonest Very helpful picture to understand what you are trying to share. Thank you.
Are you of the school of thought that God chooses some to be saved and some to be lost?
@@TheLampVideos I would just ask this, what does the Bible teach? It's very clear that if God did not predestine any, everyone would go to hell. It's the mercy of God that he opens the eyes of any. And yet we are to go preach to all creatures. Too many people wrongly understand the sovereign electing grace of God to think it does away with man's responsibility. We have to be balanced biblically. Sorry I can't add more, I'm doing a voice text to speech for my phone.
We do contribute to sanctification it says in Romans 6:19 that by presenting our members (our body) as slaves of righteousness leading to sanctification. Sanctification does come unless we submit to God's ways through the grace he departs into us. Buts also true that the process is painful because we do see how unholy we are as we go through the process. But like a healthy tree the fruit must come which is love and holiness.
“We contributed nothing to our salvation; not even our sanctification”.
Wow, these are strong words. I think I largely agree, in the sense that apart from God, there is no salvation. And every good work we do, we do by the grace of God.
But we contribute nothing? This is hard for me to wrap my head around. Can we at least say we cooperate with God’s grace?
The only thing we contribute is the sin that nailed Jesus to the cross. 2,000 years ago you weren’t there, Christ suffered the wrath of God in our place alone. The Just for the unjust to bring us to God and no one can come the Son unless the Father draws Him. So even though you feel like you contributed, It was God’s Grace working in you first. Grace and peace. 🙏
I think this statement is dealing with the ultimate scope of Work of God in its eternity sense. Just as Paul burst into praises and gave all credits to God in Romans, “all things are from Him, through Him and for Him”. It is a foundational knowledge and understanding of our position and relationship with God. Based upon this knowledge, we shall later approach our responsibilities and doings. This then we do not fall into the danger of self exaltation and giving credit to man.
Wow. Really good stuff!
I needed this ! 🙌🏽
“But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.”
2 Timothy 2:16
“This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men. But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.”
Titus 3:8-9
Needed to hear this..
Where can i get the rest of the video ?
i'm not sure it's up or will be up, hopefully we'll be able to see the rest of it but for now i think we just have the few parts from the Q&A
We are only posting individual questions from the Q&A. Some were of a sensitive nature in regards to missions and cannot be posted.
@@illbehonest thank you for the work that youre doing to spread The Word of God.
The Shunammite woman 2 Kings 8:1-6 God will take us through a famine to show us our weakness. But if you are His, through famine you will see a greater revelation of who Christ is and what it means to be His and made alive through Him. 7 years wandering in the land of the Philistines, the land of evil. No prophets in the land. No word of God being declared. Surrounded by evil. Yet when she returns it was if she had never left, as if she herself had been sowing the entire time. For she reaped as if she had been sowing the whole 7 years. This is what angels long to look into. The sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow. How can it be that one reaps so abundantly without sowing? Christ. Him. All of Him. He is everything. He is the treasure. He really is beyond all that we can hope for.
Corruption shall put on incorruption
At the last trumpet!
so true
Those that are in the flesh can't please God. You however are not in the flesh but in the spirit! Roman's 8:8 Espesians 1:13 heard the gospel of your salvation and BELIEVED was SEALED with the promise of The HOLY SPIRIT! God Bless!
The answer for assurance is simple. Do you believe the Gospel? If so you are saved. Work’s cannot prove or disprove salvation. Anyone can do good works, it’s subjective and unrealizable. Teaching like this leads to more doubt and more harm than good. If you’re looking at yourself and your works to assure you that you’re saved, then you are not trusting in Christ alone. We’re getting justification and sanctification mixed up. You must have be justified by believing the Gospel alone. Sanctification is supposed to occur afterwards and the believer should grow. It is not a guarantee that they will grow, as they still have free will. 1 John chapters 1-4 deal with the evidence that you are having close fellowship with Christ, not whether or not you have salvation. 1 John chapter 5 deals with assurance of salvation and it says that if you believe the Gospel that you are saved. Stop looking at your works for assurance. If you keep doing that you won’t have any. I know firsthand how teaching like this causes problems. It absolutely stunted my spiritual growth, nothing but fear and anxiety. Just ask yourself whether or not you believe the Gospel and you will have your answer.
Estara traducido al español?
illbehonest.com/espanol/
@@illbehonest Muchas gracias, bendiciones
❤❤❤
Wow
Please, Where can we watch the full Q&A ?!
The full version cannot be uploaded due to a missionary who was also on the panel and cannot be published online. A few other individual questions will be published at a later date.
He will perfect what concerns me.. Which psalm is this?
Psalm 138:8
I am here because I carry heavy burdens. I feel like committing suicide but I won't. I just think I'd like to be gone and go nonexistent. I never wanted to be here and come in this world being me l, this for a reality. I was forced to exist and forced into life but also forced into being me something I hate and never wanted. I've carried this pain for such a long long time now.
Ever since I was a kid well up into adulthood. I thought I'd somehow changed and I'll grow out of it but I never did.
I am an ugly woman. I really am and no this isn't me being negative its the truth. Nobody has ever liked me before and look I'm am adult its been for long like nobody has because I am ugly for a girl. Every Christian tells me look to God for your worth and see you worth and see beauty that he sees in you through his eyes but that's so hard to do when you realize to yourself you are working so hard to gaze upon Jesus eyes and look to him for your worth and see yourself beautiful in his eyes whereas you yourself think you're ugly and majority of the people do and the hardest part and why I say I dont want to look to Jesus or God for it is because the truth is God thinks all his other children and daughters are worth dying for too and he loves them and thinks his daughters are beautiful but not just him thinking they are beautiful because in reality they really are beautiful because he actually not just think they are beautiful he even made that a reality for when he made them so he thinks they are beautiful and they really are though but when it came with me that was never to be my reality because though he thinks I am worthy and beautiful he didn't make that a reality for me so its a contradiction and I could never see my worth in his eyes
I'm an adult now and no one had ever liked me not even the nice guys. But it hit me so hard to know that the person I genuinely liked my friend didn't like me he was someone who loves Jesus and is kind but he likes a girl who is pretty and positive and super nice . He only told me I was beautiful because he didn't ever want to hurt my feelings and make me feel bad about my self even though it's not true at all he was just being considerate of my feelings but here it hurts. Because that's my reality
The rhing is I think God's messing with us he tells us he makes everyone all equally beautiful when that's not really the case. Some he made so andnothers live with whatever they get handed on as fate would have had it. Well even if one is ugly God being God would still say they are beautiful just because he is really kind even though they are not and I know he meant beauty not in terms of the fact someone is beautiful but just because they are made in his image just because they are living being is I know what he means by all being beautiful though one being flat out ugly. I never wanted to be me first of all I am as ugly as can get and I'm also a very slow learner I am dumb and process things really slow so I am the target of ridiculement.
I never wanted to exist and I never pictured that when I did this is how I would turn out that out of all the things I could ever be this became me. I know its the heart that counts the inner beauty of a person but reality is even if I go to heaven I'd still be me there too forever I'd still be the person I am which naturally very ugly in heaven for all eternity forever. Like I know ill worship him and all but it hit me that if im this way now and hate myself and hate how I look and am for life and for eternity also ill still ha e to deal with myself because I'm forever a me and forever will be an ugly Asian forever and ever when I don't ever want to deal with me anymore because it's painful and I never want to be me I never could fathom the thought.
But my question has always been why has he made some of his children very beautiful and me just this it's so hurtful and a slap in the face. I'm not conceited for a person but it's hard when he made many who are beautiful and do have kind loving hearts and me I have to bear with what is that im ugly but he thinks I'm beautiful for the simple fact I bear his image. It's hurtful when you love someone who doesn't love you back because he loves someone who is beautiful and kind and nobody has ever liked you before and evergones underappreciate you and no where near your heart can you find it to love you. I think God, I'm sorry to say this is sooo messed up to think its okay to force me to exist and be here and turn out the way that I am because I'd never imagine I'd become this person but I did. I never wanted to be me but what does he do? Force me into existence and force me to be me and this is the case that I'll have to deal with forever. But when I want to take my own life upon my hands I can't? So people get forced to exist when they don't even want to let alone be themselves and look and be the way they are but all this is out of their control and they want to end their lives and stop existing because they have a right to be non-existent since they get forced into life, forced to turn out the way they do and be themselves and force upon alot of things beyond their control but who gets to be them God or them? Them. Who gets to carry out and live their life God or them ? Them so why doesn't God thibk its okay to make someone who doesn't want to exist and be themselves go ahead and take it upon their hands to end it and go nonexistent when all this is force upon them and so is looking the way they do, their race, who they are, everything about them and coming into existence is all forced and shoved for them to carry out so very well they should and I should have a right to end and go nonexistent with a me I never wanted and a life I never even asked for because nobody deserves to be tortured for life being something they never wanted to be and carry it out forever when it's not their fault they just got handed the wrong fate of things. How does god even ever thinks it's okay to decide ill make some people in this world really beautiful and attractive whereas others are just average and not anything beautiful to look at. Like I understand its our character that counts but reality is it's hurtful why God is like this because this is tied into a person's identity and makeup as a whole human being as well as their race this things go hand in hand as the overall design of a human and it's sad when people get forced and handed the worse and of things whereas others get handed it well, I mean if God so loves everyone that treat it like he does make sure everyone is created all equally beautiful and made with care because that's not how it is so we all have to deal with how we are for all eternity. For whatever reason God thinks it's okay to make beautiful people who can have beautiful hearts and some of us such as myself ugly and mediocre never could understand. Realize that beautiful attarctive people can be with Jesus and in heaven still beautiful as themselves and someone like me can go to heaven and still forever be this ugly Filipino person I am. What if I never ever wanted to be me did god ever consider that? It's an insult when he thinks it's okay to have made alot of his children beautiful and very attractive and thinks their beautiful and made that into a reality for them and why some just had to be decided upon God to be made ugly or mediocre very less than the others he so chooses to lavish his design upon without holding and they too can have beautiful hearts also and live a life of being love by God and having people love them and they can learn to love themselves too.
Hello. I think you miss the point. You are beautiful. If you think you arent is because, the social and the medias want to tell you that, who put the line betwen beauty or ugly? Im ugly too hahaha, and that stop to bother me when I realize I was looking to me and not looking to Jesus, my ego make me feel ugly because others are "beauty" that was a sin I confessed to God. But that is not the important things my beloved sister, and Jesus was ugly in the eyes of the others too
Isaiah 53:2-3 kjv
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
I hope you stop to see your mirrow and star to look the cross. God bless you. I love you and God love you too. If you want add me on fb and we keep talking. 💐
I like the answer, for me to not look in the mirror but to look at Jesus. Those in heaven do not perceive outer beauty, but inner beauty. This video also spoke to me today. Jesus is the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. I do have a question for you though; are you upset because a beautiful man is interested in someone else OR are you upset because an ugly man is interested in someone else? Also, how interested are you in ugly men? When you meet a man, do you look at his character instead of his looks? Can you fall madly in love with an ugly man because of his character, and will you see him as beautiful in your eyes? Will you love him and convince him of his "true" beauty?
@@soniakruger8098 personally I wouldn't think I can because I too struggle with this and so having someone who is struggling with this issue it'll be hard to lift that man up but also because I don't think I can for any guy not even if its a guy who I like and in a scenario likes me back because I wouldn't be able to make both cases happy ultimately due to the fact that I never can accept and like myself so how can I for another... but all in all I think God should've made everyone equally beautiful and attractive and why he thinks it's okay to make some so and the rest not so is messed up especially because along with the heart our race and how we look do play a part in the makeup of our individuality as humans.
@@magdonysperezestrada1942 that is true but I don't think that social media and standards of beauty is the reason, like yes it has amplified the extremity of beauty nowadays but I'd like to even point out that even if social media, television, magazines where all nonexistent and standards weren't made it is still true that one can see someone made by God beautiful and see it clearly and see another opposite of that clearly too. For example even in the Bible it points out the differentiation between Rachel and Leah. Rachel was describe as to being beautiful in appearance and figure and Leah was described as being not so infact nobody wanted to marry Leah so the father had to do a plan to get Leah married too and secured. In the reference there it didn't mention that God made both women equal in beauty and just having different unique features that are beautiful, no it specifically says one was pretty in great extent whereas the other was unattractive. And during that time social media, magazines, television didn't even exist. So as to why God is like this I never could understand.
Hello, God does love you. I hope to encourage you to see that true beauty is found in God not in ourselves. Know that I say all this out of love. You wrote that you feel God is messing with us my saying He makes everyone equally beautiful, I am curious where you were told this idea because it is not true. God loves all His children equally, this does not mean He made everyone equally beautiful. I hope you will find what God says in scripture encouraging,
"Beauty is vain and charm is deceitful" -Proverbs 31:30
and "Man looks at the outward appearance, but God looks at the heart" 1 Samuel 16:7
This is great news to everyone, God does not care what we look like, He cares what we think about Him. Remember that people's opinions of you do not matter, only God's does and He loves using unexpected or unpopular people to do His will.
I know you feel it's unfair that you exist, but the reality is the most unfair thing is that God is not worshipped and obeyed as He deserved. I say this because I love you and want you to know the truth. Do not look to yourself and people (who's opinions don't matter), but look to God. In heaven we will be consumed in the worship of God not concerned with ourselves. Remember God is good and just and everything He does with a purpose, be careful not to blame God. If you turn to Christ He is willing to give you joy. Today will soon be over, but eternity will soon be hear. Please don't wait turn to Him and He will give you rest from your worries.
Well....
"As in the first Adam ALL died (lost the divine nature), so also ALL were made alive IN Christ to walk in Zoë = divine life again".
Certainty. You already are IN Christ. Yay!
What lots of people (even pastors) don't (yet) understand.
God created us according to His own image and likeness. Godly.
Mankind/the first Adam fell. The image of God in man got lost. That's why there is all this predicament on earth (selfishness, greed, lust, wars, sicknesses, death, etc).
We are all born into that mess.
For the fall of man a perfect atoning sacrifice had to be made.... that is what God did in Christ.
With His own once and for all perefect sacrifice, He paid the debt for the fall of man for us, so we can be indwelled by His Spirit again and finally receive the divine life of the ages back, the first Adam let got of in the fall of man. An amazing act of grace and love by our creator.
That is what you see happening in Christ's first disciples. They too healed all and walked in unselfish love.
And yes.... that is still avaible today. The holy blood is in place, the Holy Spirit is here to give us understanding, power and transform us back to origin.
Not to be debated about, but to be embraced and be-come.
So: The Kingdom of God already came. Through Christ, in Spiritform, in those that understand.
Hence the divine healing miracles we experience.
God manifested in Christ to give us back the divine life mankind lost in the fall of Adam.
Christ, the exact image of the invisible God.
The image we were created after in Gen 1.
The image we lost in the fall of man.
The image that can be freely restored by Christ's blood and Holy Spirit working IN us.
What a plan. What a solution. What a love. What a God. Jesus is amazing.
It is the ultimate conclusion of the word and plan of God. God came full circle.
He Himself stooped down from glory to restore us back to original created value: Christlikeness. Walking in divine healing power and unselfish love.
Jesus, born of the Spirit of God, filled with the spirit of God. The "Son" of God, the incarnated word, God in the flesh.
For three years He healed all, raised the dead, casted out demons, controlled nature, spoke pure divine truth.
He said:
"Follow Me. If you see Me, you see the Father. The Father and I are one. The glory I have IN My Father, I give to you. It pleases the Father to give you His Kingdom/Holy Spirit/divine nature. I will send Holy Spirit, the same as Me, He will be IN you, guide you into truth and give you explosive power. The same miracles i do, you will do too, because you will understand that the Father is IN Me and I am IN you. Freely I give you My Kingdom/Holy Spirit/divine nature, heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out demons, freely I give, freely share" Etc, etc, etc.
I have experienced thousands of beautifull healing miracles through the power of Holy Spirit IN me already. Broken bones, cancers, covid, all kinds of infirmities healed in seconds. Demons manifesting and casted out by a simple "get out, in Jesus name".
Jesus. De name above all names. In Him all power and wisdom is sourced and.... He calls us one with Him. God in man and man in God again. C'mon Jesus!!
So.... again: God stooped down IN Christ to restore us back to Gen 1:27 were He said: "Let us make man according to our image and likeness and let them have authority.....": walk as Christ.
Christ, the exact image of the invisible God. The image we were created after and being restored to by His atoning blood for the fall of man and indwelling Holy Spirit.
You are free to receive this original divine life of the ages by Holy Spirit of Christ/God. Ask Him to guide you into truth. Read the Gospel of John and fall in love with your creator.
You are not made for the fall of man and its effects, but for the image/glory of God and to walk like Christ. Holy Spirit is the guide and transforming power that will get you there. Amazing grace.
A big leap in faith can be made when we start realizing we are already IN Christ, IN the last Adam.
Free from the fall! Loved! Growing into awareness of our new (yet old) godly identity. Changing by Holy Spirit. The most fullfilled life ever.
Paul healed all on Malta. He understood and wrote:
"As in the first Adam ALL died (lost the divine nature), so also ALL were made alive IN Christ to walk in Zoë (= divine life) again".
"IN Christ (the last Adam) we are co-cruisified (dead to the fall and its effects), co-raised (justified/made righteousness, holy, blameless, above reproach), co-seated (one with Him)"
"The fullness of deity dwells in Christ and YOU HAVE BEEN MADE COMPLETE IN HIM, who is the head of every principality and power".
So.... thank you Jesus! Thank you for redeeming me from the fall of man. Thank you for your Holy Spirit that makes this new (yet old) divine life come alive in me. You are amazing!
In the shadow of Peter the sick healed... He understood too and wrote:
"By Gods power (Holy Spirit) and knowing Christ, we have become partakers of the divine nature and have escaped the fall of man".
The divine life of the ages has been returned to us by Jesus once and for all perfect atoning sacrifice for the debt of the fall of man and His indwelling Holy Spirit in us. Jesus/God is amazing!!!
Ask Him to give you revelation and change you to the way it was before the fall of man: Christlikeness.
He will do so. For it is written: "the Spirit brings forth after His own kind".
"I have come to give you Zoë (divine life) in abundance...."
1:52 hahahahhahaha.........sbdgsiqldbfp too relatable
Handels messiah the bible put to song great and inspiring
Better than listening to dreary sermons!