OK, One more time...at which "step" is one rapture ready?

[John Atkinson]

Originally Posted by ManOfWord

But a sincere person wants to truly know, "If I died this moment, based upon my response to God, would I "make it" in the rapture?

Then I would answer that person. "You aren't dying right now, so I would suggest we find some water and get you baptized right and God will give you the Holy Ghost. Because it could happen and we don't know when."

Those women in the parable of the ten virgins sincerely wanted some oil.

[John Atkinson]

Originally Posted by John Atkinson

Then I would answer that person. "You aren't dying right now, so I would suggest we find some water and get you baptized right and God will give you the Holy Ghost. Because it could happen and we don't know when."

Those women in the parable of the ten virgins sincerely wanted some oil.

Sorry to quote myself, but on the Holy Ghost bit I think most our churches promote that wrong....the whole spit and slobber in their face whilst giving a concusion and inner ear damage is more hinderence than help. God promised....

sorry, digression.....

[RevDWW]

Romans 8:9 - 11 (KJV) 9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

If you are not possessed of The Spirit, you are not His.

Don't get mad at me, Paul said it.............

[rgcraig]

Originally Posted by RevDWW

If you are not possessed of The Spirit, you are not His.

Don't get mad at me, Paul said it.............

There's just that small debate of "when" you are possessed of The Spirit.

[Encryptus]

Originally Posted by rgcraig

There's just that small debate of "when" you are possessed of The Spirit.

I'm shocked at you young lady, attempting logic, nay even common sense, on a thread of this nature!!

[RevDWW]

Originally Posted by Encryptus

I'm shocked at you young lady, attempting logic, nay even common sense, on a thread of this nature!!

What logic?

[staysharp]

Originally Posted by rgcraig

There's just that small debate of "when" you are possessed of The Spirit.

And of course it would behoove us to ask "what kinda spirit?"

[RevDWW]

Originally Posted by staysharp

And of course it would behoove us to ask "what kinda spirit?"

Doesn't the phrase "The Spirit" ring a bell?

[RevDWW]

Originally Posted by rgcraig

There's just that small debate of "when" you are possessed of The Spirit.

I wonder when Simon the Sorcerer knew the Samaritan folks received the Holy Ghost when the Apostles laid hands on them? Acts 8

How did Peter and his Jewish brethern know that Cornelius and his household received the Holy Ghost? Acts 10 & 11

[SDG]

Originally Posted by RevDWW

I wonder when Simon the Sorcerer knew the Samaritan folks received the Holy Ghost when the Apostles laid hands on them? Acts 8

How did Peter and his Jewish brethern know that Cornelius and his household received the Holy Ghost? Acts 10 & 11

hmmm...

And all this time I thought tongues was a sign unto the unbeliever ....

Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking. Instead, be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature. 21It is written in the law: "By people with strange tongues and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people, yet not even in this way will they listen to me," says the Lord. 22 So then, tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers. Prophecy, however, is not for unbelievers but for believers (I Corinthians 14:20-22, NET Bible).