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Re: "If A Work of God Doesn't Continue,"
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Originally Posted by Jermyn Davidson
Because I wouldn't want the discussion of what was said to be clouded by the identity of the speaker.
He is someone that many have heard of.
The context of the statement was backsliders-- people who have "left from among us who because they were never of us."
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I would want to have something else clarified, since not everyone who has "left from among us" is a backslider. At least, not in my opinion.
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Does the context changes anyone's expressed opinions?
Can a Work of God really be ended by someone or something other than God-- in any context?
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Yes--in the sense that God leaves a lot in our hands. Case in point:
II Kings 13:18-19
18 And he said, Take the arrows. And he took them. And he said unto the king of Israel, Smite upon the ground. And he smote thrice, and stayed.
19 And the man of God was wroth with him, and said, Thou shouldest have smitten five or six times; then hadst thou smitten Syria till thou hadst consumed it: whereas now thou shalt smite Syria but thrice.
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--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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