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03-26-2013, 04:07 PM
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Re: I love being Apostolic!
When I was down on my luck 36 years ago, a sinnner, starving, homeless....I would have welcomed Pastor TLArt to witness to me about Jesus.
I bet Pastor TLArt would have fed me and found safe shelter for me while the catholic priest I went to told me that he could not do anything for me. Apostolic-Pentecostals? With the exception of a very few, they are not present out on the streets. And there certainly were not any at the time I needed someone to talk to me about the saving grace of Jesus. I needed someone to care.
Desperate people could care less if the messenger smokes a ciggie or not.
Why do we Apostolics feel the need to point out someone else's faults or habits when we all have plenty of our own bad habits?
Good rule of thumb is if one feels a practice is a sin ...well, they just better not do it then. Let the Holy Ghost ...who IS very able convict others.
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03-26-2013, 04:51 PM
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Re: I love being Apostolic!
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Originally Posted by AreYouReady?
When I was down on my luck 36 years ago, a sinnner, starving, homeless....I would have welcomed Pastor TLArt to witness to me about Jesus.
I bet Pastor TLArt would have fed me and found safe shelter for me while the catholic priest I went to told me that he could not do anything for me. Apostolic-Pentecostals? With the exception of a very few, they are not present out on the streets. And there certainly were not any at the time I needed someone to talk to me about the saving grace of Jesus. I needed someone to care.
Desperate people could care less if the messenger smokes a ciggie or not.
Why do we Apostolics feel the need to point out someone else's faults or habits when we all have plenty of our own bad habits?
Good rule of thumb is if one feels a practice is a sin ...well, they just better not do it then. Let the Holy Ghost ...who IS very able convict others.
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Just because you think that he would have ( and he may have ) helped you doesn't change the fact that he is addicted and a slave to sin. He needs deliverance but until he comes to the realization that he is bound he will continue to be a slave to his cigarette.
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03-26-2013, 04:55 PM
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Re: I love being Apostolic!
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Originally Posted by hometown guy
Just because you think that he would have ( and he may have ) helped you doesn't change the fact that he is addicted and a slave to sin. He needs deliverance but until he comes to the realization that he is bound he will continue to be a slave to his cigarette.
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Addiction yes. Slave to a Cigarette yes. Slave to SIN, NO because there is no sin in it!
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Apostolic is an understanding that God has finally and completely revealed Himself to all mankind through His incarnation as Jesus Christ. He has revealed to all a way of life, love and forgiveness that leads to a right relationship with Him and with each other.
~Repairing the Apostolic Church, Apostle W. Carey & Bishop N. Morales
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03-26-2013, 07:34 PM
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Re: I love being Apostolic!
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Just because you think that he would have ( and he may have ) helped you doesn't change the fact that he is addicted and a slave to sin. He needs deliverance but until he comes to the realization that he is bound he will continue to be a slave to his cigarette.
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Throw stones at me all you want. It is very telling of your spirit.
As for the rest, it is just your opinion until you can give bonafide scripture that smoking a ciggie is sin.
....and you know what they say about opinions....
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03-26-2013, 07:41 PM
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Re: I love being Apostolic!
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Throw stones at me all you want. It is very telling of your spirit.
As for the rest, it is just your opinion until you can give bonafide scripture that smoking a ciggie is sin.
....and you know what they say about opinions....
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What about smoking a salmon or say a brisket......  
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03-26-2013, 07:43 PM
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Re: I love being Apostolic!
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What about smoking a salmon or say a brisket...... |
Got scripture?
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03-26-2013, 07:44 PM
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Re: I love being Apostolic!
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1 Hezekiah 9:3
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03-26-2013, 07:48 PM
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Re: I love being Apostolic!
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1 Hezekiah 9:3
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03-26-2013, 07:49 PM
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Re: I love being Apostolic!
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1 Hezekiah 9:3
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
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03-26-2013, 07:50 PM
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Re: I love being Apostolic!
I don't want to stir the pot too much ... but God is something of a smoker too.
Revelation 8:4
And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.
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Articles on such subjects as "The New Birth," will be accepted, whether they teach that the new birth takes place before baptism in water and Spirit, or that the new birth consists of baptism of water and Spirit. - THE PENTECOSTAL HERALD Dec. 1945
"It is doubtful if any Trinitarian Pentecostals have ever professed to believe in three gods, and Oneness Pentecostals should not claim that they do." - Daniel Segraves
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