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08-28-2007, 10:11 PM
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Good or Powerful
Is it better to be good or powerful?
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Psa 119:165 (KJV) 165 Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.
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08-28-2007, 10:32 PM
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Does might make right?
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Psa 119:165 (KJV) 165 Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.
"Do not believe everthing you read on the internet" - Abe Lincoln
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08-29-2007, 07:00 AM
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It's really cool being both.
I highly recommend it.
Add humility to the mix, and there is nothing like it. 
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"Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:
And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the LORD said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel."
--Amos 7:14-15
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08-29-2007, 07:13 AM
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Still Figuring It Out.
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I would have to say that it is better being good... and might does not make right...
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08-29-2007, 07:23 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by RevDWW
Is it better to be good or powerful?
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God is both totally good and all powerful. Man is good only to the extent that he has become filled with the image of Christ, otherwise self-centered. Man's power is only temporary, the powerful of my childhood are all gone now.
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08-29-2007, 07:24 AM
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Those who are blessed to enter that City Foursquare are going to hear, "Well done, thou good and faithful servant," not "Well done, thou powerful and faithful servant."
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08-29-2007, 07:33 AM
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Still Figuring It Out.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by crakjak
God is both totally good and all powerful. Man is good only to the extent that he has become filled with the image of Christ, otherwise self-centered. Man's power is only temporary, the powerful of my childhood are all gone now.
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And what is most often viewed as powerful? Those who wield power over men.
That isn't power we should seek after.
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08-29-2007, 07:41 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Digging4Truth
And what is most often viewed as powerful? Those who wield power over men.
That isn't power we should seek after.
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I equate powerful with the Word being confirmed with signs following--people repenting, receiving the Holy Ghost, being delivered and being healed.
And I am all for that kind of power. God intends for us to see that power at work in our midst.
I guess I missed out on the seminar touting this wielding power over men stuff...
Surely that isn't what most Apostolics think of when they think of power. It is the power of God, not the power of human will and the wisdom that is earthly and sensual and devilish. I am not that cynical about the Church to think that that is the most common perception of power.
Good grief.
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08-29-2007, 10:17 AM
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I didn't realize this wasn't in the fellowship hall. 
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08-29-2007, 10:48 AM
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His Eminance, High Potatohead Potatotate
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It reminds of Cornelius.. the man was good... but needed more
The Power was missing in his life... until it was revealed to him...
Many folks are good...but not Powerful until after that the Holy Ghost is come upon them...
I need the Power to be Good...
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