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Originally Posted by stmatthew
Jer 17:9 The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Do not follow your heart. Follow the bible.
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Bro. Matt,
Ezekiel 36:26: "A new heart also will I give you, and a new
spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony
heart out of our flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
vs. 27 "And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to
walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and
do them". vs.28, And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to
your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God".
What tremendous HOPE:
vs. 29, "I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I
will call for the corn, and increase it, and lay no famine upon you".
John 14: 26 "But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom
the Father will send in my name, he will TEACH you ALL things, and
bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto
you".
Rom. 8: 13," For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: BUT if ye
through the Spirit do mortify (kill) the deeds of the body, ye shall
live.
Vs. 14, "For as many as are LED by the SPIRIT of GOD, they are
the SONS of GOD".
Titus 3:3, "For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient,
deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy,
hateful, and hating one another.
Vs.4, "BUT AFTER that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward
man appeared, vs.5, Not by works of righteousness which we have done,
but according to his MERCY he saved us, by the washing of regeneration,
and renewing of the Holy Ghost; vs.6, Which he shed on us abundantly
through Jesus Christ our Saviour; vs.7, That being justified by his grace,
we should be made heirs according to the HOPE of eternal life". Look up
the prefix, "re". (Renew, revive, restore, reconcile, return, repent).
Matt. 5:7, "Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy".
I believe we are being judged in this life. Jesus gave the guidelines
while on earth. He is the same yesterday, and today and forever.
We have received the Holy Ghost, the Spirit of Truth to lead and
guide us. If we are being led by the Spirit of God, we are His sons
and daughters. We have no excuse for not having answers for any
question. The Spirit will lead, IF we will follow His leading. God is a
Spirit and they that worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and in
Truth.
There were those in Jesus' day on earth, that couldn't let go of
the law He was fulfilling, so they were not prepared when destruction
came. They looked to the law as read, not to Jesus' fulfillment. There
are those in other beliefs who read the Bible religiously, and they can
quote with many of us. But without the Spirit to lead and guide, where
will it take them. An automobile without a motor, isn't going anywhere.
Blessings,
Falla39