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07-24-2017, 09:47 AM
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Is Just Me?
Is just me? I don't like preaching that makes me feel good, but I love preaching that makes me ask "Brother what must I do" I want preaching that cuts my heart, convicts me of my sin and breaks me.
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07-24-2017, 09:50 AM
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Re: Is Just Me?
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Originally Posted by navygoat1998
Is just me? I don't like preaching that makes me feel good, but I love preaching that makes me ask "Brother what must I do" I want preaching that cuts my heart, convicts me of my sin and breaks me.
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amen.
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07-24-2017, 09:59 AM
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Re: Is Just Me?
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Is just me? I don't like preaching that makes me feel good, but I love preaching that makes me ask "Brother what must I do" I want preaching that cuts my heart, convicts me of my sin and breaks me.
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I like and need both at various times in everyday living.
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07-24-2017, 10:12 AM
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Re: Is Just Me?
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Originally Posted by navygoat1998
Is just me? I don't like preaching that makes me feel good, but I love preaching that makes me ask "Brother what must I do" I want preaching that cuts my heart, convicts me of my sin and breaks me.
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I like a balance of both. However, personally, I'm more moved, and motivated when I hear of God's grace and how a perfect God moves in the lives of and uses imperfect people. Most likely because I'm terribly imperfect.
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07-24-2017, 02:45 PM
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Re: Is Just Me?
reprove, rebuke, exhort. 2 out of 3 things listed can be seen as "negative "
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07-24-2017, 02:59 PM
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Re: Is Just Me?
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reprove, rebuke, exhort. 2 out of 3 things listed can be seen as "negative "
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Very true. My first Pastor used to reprove, rebuke, and exhort to holiness. Sometimes it was fearsome. He'd come down so hard on sin, for about 20 minutes you'd swear you could smell the sulfur of Hell itself. But he seemed to always have the Good News ready too. If you were struggling with sin, he preached the value of confession and the blood of Jesus,
1 John 1:7-9 King James Version (KJV)
7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. He'd say, "So, you just come up here to this altar, have a talk with Jesus. Confess it and make it right. God already knows you done it. Get yourself out into the light so we can get this sin under the blood! He'll cleanse you and make you white as snow!"
So, what often seemed like a very negative rebuke pointed you to the cross where you could find forgiveness.
So, in the end, it was positive.
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07-24-2017, 04:22 PM
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Re: Is Just Me?
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Originally Posted by Aquila
Very true. My first Pastor used to reprove, rebuke, and exhort to holiness. Sometimes it was fearsome. He'd come down so hard on sin, for about 20 minutes you'd swear you could smell the sulfur of Hell itself. But he seemed to always have the Good News ready too. If you were struggling with sin, he preached the value of confession and the blood of Jesus,
1 John 1:7-9 King James Version (KJV)
7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. He'd say, "So, you just come up here to this altar, have a talk with Jesus. Confess it and make it right. God already knows you done it. Get yourself out into the light so we can get this sin under the blood! He'll cleanse you and make you white as snow!"
So, what often seemed like a very negative rebuke pointed you to the cross where you could find forgiveness.
So, in the end, it was positive. |
Confess it, "one to another" or confess it to God in secret prayer.
Honestly, in my life, I can tell you plainly that it was the confessing of my pervasive failures one to another, and the genuine fellowship that followed-- the Lord used these means to bring about significant change in my life.
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07-24-2017, 04:28 PM
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Re: Is Just Me?
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I like a balance of both. However, personally, I'm more moved, and motivated when I hear of God's grace and how a perfect God moves in the lives of and uses imperfect people. Most likely because I'm terribly imperfect.
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Ditto me on this answer.
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"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
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07-24-2017, 05:28 PM
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Re: Is Just Me?
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Originally Posted by navygoat1998
Is just me? I don't like preaching that makes me feel good, but I love preaching that makes me ask "Brother what must I do" I want preaching that cuts my heart, convicts me of my sin and breaks me.
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So, you don't like prosperity preaching?
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