Nithavela said:

Never have people celebrated being taxed this hard.

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Between the newfound love of taxes, the authoritarian approach towards speech, and the adoption of alternative medicines, if I didn’t know better, I’d think I was watching a bunch of leftists.

John the Baptist was called of God, even before he was born, to be “The voice of one crying in the wilderness, make ready the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.” And he did exactly as the Lord had called him to do. He came preaching in the wilderness of Judea, saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” And people were coming to him to be baptized by him in the Jordan River, as they confessed their sins (see Matthew 3:1-6).


The scribes and Pharisees (and Sadducees, too) of Jesus’ day were skilled at hypocrisy. Jesus described them in this way (see Matthew 16 & 23):


Therefore, when John saw them coming to him for baptism he did not trust their motives. He doubted the genuineness of their actions, and for good reason. So he called them a “brood of vipers.” For they were malicious, treacherous, and venomous in their nature and in their actions. And they were deceptive, and sneaky, and those who liked to trap people with their words, and who got pleasure out of causing other people pain.

So, he knew that they were not coming to have their hearts, minds, and actions altered (changed, transformed) via genuine repentance. He knew that they were not wanting God to change them inside and out so that they would escape the wrath of God to come. And so he let them know that genuine repentance will result in the bearing of spiritual and biblical fruit (results, outgrowth). There will be evidence that a change has taken place.

And the same is true for us today. For repentance is not just mouthing words of confession of sin, but it is a change of heart and mind resulting in a change of behavior. And it is gifted to us by God, as is our faith, as is our salvation from sin. And it has to do with us dying to sin, being changed in heart and mind by God, and us now walking (in conduct) in obedience to our Lord’s commands, living holy lives pleasing to God, by the grace of God.

And just because you attend services at an institutional “church,” and perhaps you went through the waters of baptism, or just because your parents claimed to be Christians, or you serve on some kind of church committee, that does not mean you are a follower of Jesus Christ. Just because you verbalize faith in Jesus Christ, it does not guarantee you salvation from sin or eternal life with God. We must truly repent.

And the Scriptures make it very clear that if we do not have that change of heart and mind, resulting in a change of behavior, and if sin is still what we practice, and not obedience to God and to his commands, we will not have salvation from sin nor eternal life with God. And that was John’s point to the Pharisees and to the Sadducees. And that is God’s point to us, as well. For it is not a verbal confession of faith in Jesus Christ which saves us, but it is obedience to God that results in life eternal with God/Christ in heaven.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

Walking in The Light

Based off 1 John 1-2
An Original Work / November 16, 2011
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

When I lift up my voice, and
Sing praise unto God,
I will fellowship with my
Lord and Savior, King.
In Him there is no darkness.
He is in the light of truth.
If we walk in His light,
From sin He purifies.

If we repent of our sins,
He’ll forgive us now,
When we humble ourselves, and
Before Jesus bow.
The man who says, “I know Him,”
But does not obey His truth,
There is no truth in him.
In darkness still he’s found.

Do not love the world of sin,
For it is hell bound.
If you follow the world, you’ll
Not in Christ be found.
The world and its desires
Will not last; they’ll expire.
The one who does God’s will,
Receives eternal life.

See that what you have heard from
Christ remains in you.
Then, you’ll remain in Christ, and
In His Father, too.
This is what He promised us –
His eternal life with God.
So, continue in Him, and
You’ll receive a crown.

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Bear Fruit in Keeping with Repentance
An Original Work / November 28, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Pray The Holy Spirit Intensely Fights Against & Defeats AI-generated Synthetic pornography:

dms1972 said:

I've been watching a few video online of revivals that took place in the 1990s. I don't belong to any church at the moment, but in the church I grew up in there was nothing like what I am seeing in these videos. I refer to people shaking, falling under the power of the Holy Spirit, loud crying out to God (I think this was intercession), people coming forward in droves to the front. Does this always accompany revival, or can revival happen in a more quiet manner?

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A lot of the falling down and shaking stuff tended to happen when The Holy Spirit was heavy in an area. if you read up on Maria Woodworth Etter's travels, there was always this happening wherever she stayed for 6 months of so, and she traveled quite a bit around America back in the late 1800's to early 1900's.

I don't necessarily agree with it, as I think leadership has to take a more active roll in not allowing the flesh to glory, but it is documented as happening a lot at different church services when a powerful Evangelist came on the scene.

Dan1988 said:

No, that's not true because Gods Word proves that the gospel is awful because it has the stench of death.

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Wow. St. Paul took a very different view:
6 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile.

Your religion apparently denies that. Imagine my shock.

Dan1988 said:

It's like approaching an unbeliever and telling them that a stinking corpse smells good.
You need to deal with the truth of the gospel.

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The "truth" that your gurus have made up

Minister Monardo said:

As described by the Anointed Psalmist.
The OP simply claims that there is an Anointing of the Holy Spirit upon Saints in Fellowship, called by Paul "the Spirit of Unity."
"Behold, how good and pleasant it is, for the brethren to dwell together in Unity". This is the Apostolic Doctrine presented prophetically in the Psalms. You are as confused as you are annoying. Give it a rest, you are not Jesus or in Christ apart from His Body. I do not need any help from you, I have experienced real fellowship with real brethren. Online, smoke in my nose.

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Sorry, but that is not what Luke described happening to Jesus as I posted already.

It's the very reason why believers were laying handkerchiefs and cloths upon the body of Paul and people were being healed from them,.... the Spiritual oil of that anointing from The Father was dripping down upon Paul's body and transferring to those cloth items.

Again, cherry picking verses to try and piece together a sermon has never been a good strategy. You need experience to know what you're talking about, but at 69 I highly doubt you are up for learning anything new and correct.

Paulwat said:

Not debating, just trying to clarify a couple of things.

Actually, a lot of churches are now teaching how those bible quotes are mistranslated. There is a Reddit community called OpenChristian, which is for progressive Christianity and there are countless posts there about how LGBT is not sinful and people talking about how their churches are supportive of it

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That is revision and deception. Actually any sex outside of traditional marriage and procreation is sin & adultery. Compare Old Testament chapters like Leviticus 18, 19, & 20 to Romans 1 & the moral understanding is the same. What is different, is how people are to be treated and the key here is to read the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5 6, & 7 which Paul obviously knew in some way since the ascended Jesus Christ converted him in Acts 9:1-16).


The Lord affirmed the moral code we have from the law of Moses as per Matthew 15:1-20. See how St. Paul warned St. Timothy ( & all of us) regarding falling away from sound doctrine ( & how many fell away) in 2 Timothy 4:1-22. See also how Paul knew the Lord’s commandments; compare the Lord speaking in Matthew 19:16-19 & Paul conforming to this in Romans 13:8-10.

Praise,Thanks,Glory,&Power to Jesus Christ for ensuring that Airbus company responsibly stated that some Airbus airplanes needed emergency maintenance work:

The sun, moon and stars are in the sky where God placed them and they are created lights. That is all that is known about the sun, moon and stars, what God has reveled through scripture.

BibleBeliever1611 said:

1 John 4:15
"Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God."

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# 1 WHO SO EVER //. HOS is a. RELATIVE PRONOUN. is a NOMINATIVE CASE in. the SINGULAR

# 2 SHALL CONFESS // HOMOLOGEO. inv. the AORIST TENSE. in. the ACTIVE VOICE is a SUBJUNCATIVE in. the SINGULAR

#3 THAT //. HOTI is a CONJUNCATION

# 4. JESUS. //. IESOUS in. the NOMINATIVE CASE in. the SINGULAR

# 5 IS. //. in. the PRESENT TENSE. in. the. INDICATIVE MOOD , in. the SINGULAR

# 6. THE. //. HO. is a DEFINITE. ARTICLE. in c the NOMINATIVE CASE. in. the SINGULAR

# 7 SON //. HUIOS in the NOMINATIVE CASE. in. the SINGULAR

# 8 OF GOD //. THEOS. in. the. GENITIVE CASE in. the SINGULAR

# 9 GOD // THEOS. in. the NOMINATIVE CASE in. the SINGULAR

# 10 DWELLLETH. //. MENO in. the PRESENT TENSE. in. the INDICATIVE MOOD. in the SINGULAR

# 11 IN. //. EN. is a PREPOSITION

# 12. HIM //. AUTOS. is. a PERSONAL POSSESSESIVE PRONOUN. in. the DATIVE CASE. in. the SINGULAR

# 13 AND //. KAI. is a CONJUNCATION

# 14 HE //. AUTOS. is a PERSONAL POSSESSETIVE PRONOUN. in. the NOMINATIVE CASE in. the SINGULAR

# 15 IN //. EN. is a PREPOSITION

# 16 GOD. // THEOS. is in the DATIVE CASE in. the SINGULAR

# A And just to say anyone that QUOTES any verse was was written to ALL BELIEVERS

# B BUT the Holy Spirit did write to different groups of PEOPLE

# C The Holy did write to those under. ATONEMENT

#D He wrote to those under the LAW OF MOSES

# E HE wrote to those under the NEW COVENANT

# F. HE wrote to the BODY OF CHRIST and Paul wrote 13 letters to. the BODY and also wrote HEBREWS

# G JOHN wrote to those DURING. the GREATV TRIBULATION

# H CONTEXT. and PREMISE and CONCLSION

And be glad to answer any thing that I write and all. the GREEK WORD , TENSES , MOOD you can google. and see

that I have not ADDED or taken. AWAY FROM. THE GREEK TEXT !!

dan p

Whoa! Get rid of more poor brown people.

This is the solution in America.

Do you remember when this was supposed to be just about getting rid of the "criminals and rapists and drug dealers"?

What will it take to see that it is more than that I wonder....

The Liturgist said:

St. Elias did come, at the the Transfiguration on Mount Tabor, described in all three synoptic Gospels. St. Moses was also present.

This feast is regarded by Orthodox Christians as the replacement for Sukkot.

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Certainly not in full, regardless of the traditions of men.
Malachi 4:
4 “Remember the Law of Moses, My servant,
Which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel,
With the statutes and judgments.
5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet
Before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.
6 And he will turn
The hearts of the fathers to the children,
And the hearts of the children to their fathers,
Lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.

Jipsah said:

Where do we find the purpose and duties of the Father and the Son?

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Both are expressed and satisfied in the Doctrine of Christ
2 John 1:9 Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.
John 10:30 I and My Father are one.

another_lost_guy said:

My argument is this:

It is possible to worship one's own stomach (Phillipians 3)
It is possible to have gods made of inanimate things on earth (Genesis 31:19)

Therefore the Christian definition of 'god' and 'worship' is looser than most of us (including atheists) realize, meaning an atheist can worship a false god without believing in an all-powerful deity, making the term 'atheist' itself contradictory.

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First I would note that the word 'worship' is simply not used, even in the translation you have provided. You seem to have imported that word.

On the other hand, your argument from Philippians 3:19 is interesting given the word 'theos'. In one way I think the answer is simple: if by "God" we mean what Tillich meant, then there are no atheists. If by "God" we mean the current dictionary definition, then there are atheists. Given that atheists themselves use the word in the latter sense, I'm not sure your argument works.

But your rejoinder would be that Scripture tells us what the word 'god' really means, and in Philippians 3:9 we see that it can apply even to a devotion to food. I think the problem with this is a premise that I critique both here and here. To put it succinctly, the English 'God' does not have the same meaning as the Greek 'theos'.

Larniavc said:

Reading that back it sounds harsher than when it was in my head.

Apologies.

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Apologies so graciously presented are of course accepted.

What a wonderful ceasefire they have.

Apple Sky said:

The Foundations are built onto the
Chief Cornerstone Jesus Christ,
structurally sound, on a flat plane.

Act 4:11 This is the stone which was set at nought of
you builders, which is become the head of the
corner.
Job 38:6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof
fastened? or who laid the cornerstone thereof;
Isa 28:16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD,
Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried
stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation: he
that believeth shall not make haste.

Nobody has ever been in "space."
The lunar missions never happened.

John 3:13 And No man hath ascended up to heaven,
but he that came down from heaven, even the Son
of man which is in heaven.
Pro 30:4 Who hath ascended up into heaven, or
descended?
Psa 24:3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the
LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place?

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Space is not Heaven. Space is part of God’s creation that includes the planets and the stars. Heaven is where God has lived for eternity so Heaven is eternal.

RileyG said:

Yes. Yes, it was.

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Thanks!

Amid a rash of mass kidnappings in Nigeria, an Anglican priest in Nigeria abducted along with his wife and daughter has died in captivity, leaders of the Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion announced on Wednesday.

The Rev. Edwin Achi was kidnapped on Oct. 28 along with his wife, Sarah Achi, and daughter from Nissi village, Chikun County, in Kaduna state. Church leaders did not say how he died, but the assailants had demanded a ransom of 600 million naira ($415,216).

“The Venerable Edwin, who was kidnapped alongside his wife on 28 October, has been confirmed dead,” the Anglican leaders said in a press statement. “His transition is a painful loss to the entire Diocese, the clergy, the church family and all who were blessed by his faithful ministry, humble spirit and unwavering devotion to the service of God. We continue to pray for the release of his wife and daughter still in the hands of kidnappers.”

Days before his death, his captors released a photo of him and his wife along with other captive Christians.

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