I've heard other natives from that area say the same thing.
What is it about the Bronx accent?
I guess to some people it sounds raspy?
__________________ "all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."
~Declaration of Independence
A few years back I was in the middle of Bible study class a brother brought up that the Pope made a comment that the Roman Catholic Church was the only way to truth. The brother asked me what I thought, I told him that the Pope better believe that or else he shouldn't be the Pope.
And? the moral to the story is... (let me guess: You better believe that you have the truth, otherwise you wouldn't be believing it?)
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Originally Posted by Evang.Benincasa
Yet, to answer your question, may be better answered by asking you two questions?
Did Jesus and the apostles believe they had the only truth?
Do you believe that you have the truth they had?
I'm not the one that made the statement about the doctrinal glasses. I was asking what you believed. You haven't answered. Thanks.
Disobedience, not putting god first, lack of faith(all things im guilty of). Depends on the promise.
OK, thanks. Conditions. Like James 5:14. If someone doesn't get healed, it must be because they didn't call for the elders of the church, or the elders didn't pray, or didn't anoint with oil, or pray and anoint in the name of the Lord.
Or like John 14:14. Must not have asked, or didn't ask in Jesus's name.
Or like 1 John 5:14. Must not have asked, or asked for something God didn't want to do. (AKA it wasn't "according to his will".)
Or like 2 Timothy 1:7. Got fear? Or don't have power, or love, or a sound mind? Must not have.... Um. Well, there are no conditions on that promise.
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Hebrews 13:23 Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty
Now, since we all know that we (you guys, that is) don't always get what's promised to you, and this can only be your own fault -- not God's fault, and not the fault of the ones who wrote the promises down, and not the fault of the people who later proclaimed those written promises to be God's Word and perfect and infallible -- what about the promise of salvation? How is that one any different? Do you KNOW that one will be fulfilled? How can you possibly know you got it right? The instructions how to be saved (chose the right scriptures, and the right interpretations of them), and the conditions? Or might you be among the ones who cry "Lord, Lord, didn't we...", surprised by His answer, "Depart from me"?
You don't know. Nobody does.
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Hebrews 13:23 Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty
Bingo! We are all trusting the Lord for our salvation, but until we find out for sure our name is in the Lamb's Book of Life, I don't know, and neither does anyone else know FOR SURE.
I do know that we can TRUST that we are being saved by God's mercy and grace, by applying the principles of scripture to our life, ridding ourselves of any idolatry in our hearts (that is the worship of anything other than the Lord), loving the Lord with all our heart, and our brethren too... but we won't KNOW for sure that we have got it all right.... until the Book of Life is opened, and we find our name written in it.
That is why we walk by faith Timmy.... faith is something that you can't see. It is something you are trusting in. It is very difficult to do as times, but with the Spirit of God indwelling us, that Spirit teaches us how to walk in faith towards God.
I love what Peter has to say about our eternal destination:
II Peter 1:5-11
5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
11 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
If we have the fruits of the spirit manifesting in our lives such as faith, virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly kindness, charity... then Peter does give a promise that if we do these things, an entrance SHALL be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of Jesus.
Bingo! We are all trusting the Lord for our salvation, but until we find out for sure our name is in the Lamb's Book of Life, I don't know, and neither does anyone else know FOR SURE.
I do know that we can TRUST that we are being saved by God's mercy and grace, by applying the principles of scripture to our life, ridding ourselves of any idolatry in our hearts (that is the worship of anything other than the Lord), loving the Lord with all our heart, and our brethren too... but we won't KNOW for sure that we have got it all right.... until the Book of Life is opened, and we find our name written in it.
That is why we walk by faith Timmy.... faith is something that you can't see. It is something you are trusting in. It is very difficult to do as times, but with the Spirit of God indwelling us, that Spirit teaches us how to walk in faith towards God.
I love what Peter has to say about our eternal destination:
II Peter 1:5-11
5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
11 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
If we have the fruits of the spirit manifesting in our lives such as faith, virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly kindness, charity... then Peter does give a promise that if we do these things, an entrance SHALL be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of Jesus.
We are all trusting the Lord for our salvation, but until we find out for sure our name is in the Lamb's Book of Life, I don't know, and neither does anyone else know FOR SURE.
Well, I got news for you.
I AM saved, and....I know FOR SURE I am saved.
It says in the Bible believe in your heart that the
Lord Jesus Christ has died for all your sins and you
will be forgiven and you believe that he rose from the dead
and went to heaven to prepare a place for you.
He stands at the door of your heart, and knocks and
you are the one who can let them in.
And He will never leave you or forsake you.
When you come to Him with a repented heart you will be saved.
And it's not by works, only by grace that you are saved.
Don't rely in your works because you are
never good enough to be saved by works.
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