Anthropomorphically speaking, could this be also 1 of “The Signs & Wonders” of “The Coming of “The MORNING STAR”

[God's Truth]

Then you are forgetting how no man can come to the Son unless the Father draws him per John 6:44

I just showed you scripture that they were drawn to God's words that Jesus was speaking.

God does not work in unrepentant sinners.

Give the scripture that says God saves the unrepentant sinners.

and you are forgetting how the father hides the truth from the wise and yet reveals the truth unto babes for why it is not of religious men like you Matthew 11 :25-27

God hides the truth from people like you who refuse to repent of their sins and make people twice the son's of hell.

Luke 7:30 But the Pharisees and the experts in the law rejected God's purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John.)


Did you read that scripture? Just like you the Pharisees didn't repent of their sins.

You tried to call me a Pharisee but it is you who is like them.

Indeed, religious men like you are called to come to learn of Him to find your rest for your souls in Him so that as you follow Him, you will find why His yoke is easy & His burden is light in living by faith in Him Matthew 11:28-30. Little children are free to come to the Lord and all they can do is trust Him at His word for how they are saved simply by believing in Jesus Christ. Mark 10:13-15

Little children aren't told to repent of their sins, but you are told that, but you, like the Pharisees refuse.

 

[God's Truth]

What is Jesus doing in the latter part of verse 8 for what we are all suppose to hope in Him for?

1 John 3:3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure..... 8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

Are you the one that delivers yourself from every evil work & sin or is it Jesus Christ?

Jesus does that for me after I do what he says to do.

You refuse.

2 Timothy 4:18 And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

Does make me wonder what you give thanks to the Father for in Jesus's name besides your meals.

You are bearing false witness against Paul. You came he is doing evil works. You really want to keep being a teacher, judge, and condemner?

What do you hope in Jesus Christ for? Or is your hope on yourself to obey and save yourself as if under the Old Covenant?

Jesus saves us. He says his words are Spirit and life and that by obeying him we eat his flesh and it is how we live through him and him through us.

You don't get the Spirit and life until you obey and he accepts you.

Want the scriptures?

 

[God's Truth]

Let's look at what Jesus said to that rich guy that kept the ten commandments for why he was keeping the ten commandments and that was to make himself good and for obtaining eternal life.

Jesus said he lacked something.
He had the chance to help Jesus lay the foundation of the church and he loved his wealth more.
I think you don't understand any of the scriptures.

I see that as God saying we cannot save ourselves but God can.

God is not saying that in that passage. You make it up and that is a bad thing to do.

How? By believing in Jesus Christ that God can save you just for believing in Him. Jesus Christ is able to save those who believe in Him.

Faith alone is dead and can't save anyone.

 

[God's Truth]

You keep missing how Abraham was justified by believing God and not about any work Abraham did and so therefore it is not about circumcision. And you missed how we are saved without works because Jesus saved us by believing in Him..

Romans 4:1What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found? 2 For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God. 3 For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness. 4 Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. 5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.

Abraham still had to obey, and he did.

The old law way to justification---to sanctification, was by a literal washing with water and from a diet and blood of animals.

The new way is by faith in Jesus sanctifying us, his blood washing us, AFTER we REPENT of our SINS.

1 Corinthians 6:11 And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

Jesus teaches us how to get that justification/washing/sanctification. He tells us it is by humbling yourself and confessing your sins.

Luke 18:13 And the tax collector, standing afar off, would not so much as raise his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me a sinner!’ 14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be 4 humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.

 

[Garee]

For those seeking salvation, no sign is given other than the sign of Jonah.

The reference to the days of Noah is for us to be always ready because it will be normal life for us then as it is now.

Any saved believer thinks about repenting from sin tomorrow, you better go before that throne of grace today for help to repent now because the Bridegroom is coming soon.

Any sinner that thinks about putting off calling on Jesus to save them from their sins and giving them eternal life should call on Jesus now.

1 Thessalonians 5:1But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. 2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. 3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. 4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. 5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. 6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. 7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. 8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. 9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, 10 Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him. 11 Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.

As it is...signs that we are near is why Jesus referred to the parable of the fig tree.. even at the door for why unrepentant believers and sinners better get ready now or else. Think of the beginning of sorrows like birth pangs as it increases, one may see how it is at the door for why we should be ready to go now by His grace & by His help.

Matthew 24:6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. 8 All these are the beginning of sorrows..... 29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: 30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: 33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.

34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. 35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. 36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

Do read verses 32-33 above since Jesus did refer to the parable of the fig tree in seeing the signs that we are near and at the door. I'm not citing any day nor hour but giving the call to get ready to go by Jesus Christ or else.

I would agree .We can watch like Noah but he will still leave like a thief in the night on the last day when the last new creature is given faith that comes by hearing his word .

According to the query below I would say yes he will find his faith working in the hearts of mankind.

Luke 18:8 I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?

 

[GodB4Us]

“The Law of GOD” is Good! It is a School Master”!

Famous quote: paraphrased.
“lORD Command me what thou has Commanded me to do”

“Give, O Lord, what Thou commandest, and then command what Thou wilt.“

By
“ Aurelius Augustine”

Galatians 2:11 But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. 12 For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision. 13 And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation. 14 But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews? 15 We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, 16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. 17 But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid. 18 For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. 19 For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. 20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. 21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.

Galatians 3:23 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. 24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. 26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

 

[GodB4Us]

I would agree .We can watch like Noah but he will still leave like a thief in the night on the last day when the last new creature is given faith that comes by hearing his word .

According to the query below I would say yes he will find his faith working in the hearts of mankind.

Luke 18:8 I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?

Yes. We should always be watching as the motivation to always be ready as found abiding in Him & His words by His grace & by His help.

 

[GodB4Us]

Why would you have had to turn the other cheek when I didn't slap you?

I took it as a slap. Big difference.

 

[GodB4Us]

The scripture says they recognized what Jesus was saying as the words of God AND THAT IS WHY THEY WERE DRAWN TO JESUS.

Only the Father can draw them unto the Son for them to recognize the word of God Jesus was saying.

Did not Jesus testified that what Peter had said was from the Father?

Matthew 16:15 He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? 16 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. 17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.

Why didn't Jesus say I made you say that if Jesus was the same Person as the Father? Why defer as if He was not the Father Himself?

Because scripture says one cannot bear witness of Himself and Jesus even said that and so for Jesus to be the same Person as the Father would make Jesus as the Father, a false witness.

John 5:31 If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.

That also means the Father's witness from Heaven and the holy Spirit's witness alighting on the Son doesn't count because according to your belief, "They" are the same and One Person for why that witness is false.

 

[GodB4Us]

I just showed you scripture that they were drawn to God's words that Jesus was speaking.

God does not work in unrepentant sinners.

How were these disciples forbidden to go to certain nations and yet called by a vision to go to a nation that heard not the gospel? How did God foreknew they were seeking Him when He is the One drawing them unto the Son?

Acts 16:6 Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia, and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia, 7 After they were come to Mysia, they assayed to go into Bithynia: but the Spirit suffered them not. 8 And they passing by Mysia came down to Troas. 9 And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us. 10 And after he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavoured to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord had called us for to preach the gospel unto them.

Sounds like God the Father was at work in those sinners.

Give the scripture that says God saves the unrepentant sinners.

In regards to your belief that a sinner has to repent from all sins to be saved...where is it in this gospel presentation by Paul?

Romans 10:8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; 9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. 11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. 12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. 13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. 14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? 15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things! 16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report? 17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

I believe sinners need to be told the hope we have in Christ that He came to deliver sinners from their sins and not just give them eternal life so they can believe in Him for that too that He will help them repent from all sins daily..

God hides the truth from people like you who refuse to repent of their sins and make people twice the son's of hell.

Luke 7:30 But the Pharisees and the experts in the law rejected God's purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John.)


Did you read that scripture? Just like you the Pharisees didn't repent of their sins.

You tried to call me a Pharisee but it is you who is like them.

You do place the emphasis on yourself to save yourself by repenting from all sins as if you can as a sinner when you need Jesus Christ in you by believing in Him to be saved for how you can have power to live daily repenting from all sins.

Little children aren't told to repent of their sins, but you are told that, but you, like the Pharisees refuse.

Psalm 58:3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

Seems like an oversight in according to your belief and yet they are still called to freely come to Him and be saved by believing in Jesus Christ which is all a child can do and what a religious man such as yourself should do. Once saved, little children can trust the Lord to be their Good Shepherd to help them not to lie and tell the truth daily. Even if they did lie, they can confess their sins and ask for help not to do it again, and ask for help to tell the truth for when they had lied.

 

[GodB4Us]

Jesus does that for me after I do what he says to do.

You refuse.

If you repent from all sins already before getting saved, then what would you need to believe in Christ for other than for eternal life?

And if you are running that race looking to Jesus Christ to help you lay aside every weight & sin daily, then how can you say you repented from all sins before you got saved?

And you did testify that later on. you found out other sis you needed to repent of so when were you saved if you had not actually repented of all sins before you got saved?

You are bearing false witness against Paul. You came he is doing evil works. You really want to keep being a teacher, judge, and condemner?

I am not bearing false witness against Paul when Paul repeatedly told us how we are saved by believing in Him. Even his gospel presentation testifies to that.. Romans 10:8-17 KJV

Jesus saves us. He says his words are Spirit and life and that by obeying him we eat his flesh and it is how we live through him and him through us.

You don't get the Spirit and life until you obey and he accepts you.

The commandments to get the promise of the holy Spirit is to believe Jesus Christ otherwise you still have to keep your commandment to repent from all sins daily for why you cannot get the Holy Ghost yet.

John 14:1Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.

2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. 4 And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. 5 Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? 6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. 7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him. 8 Philip saith unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us. 9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father?

10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.

11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake.

12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.

13 And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.

15 If ye love me, keep my commandments. 16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; 17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.

Those are the commandments in verse 15 to get the promise of the forever indwelling Holy Ghost and that is that repeated commandment to believe Him.

Want the scriptures?

Romans 5:7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. 8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.

Jesus did not wait for Israel to keep the Old Covenant before dying for them because they could not keep the Old Covenant for why there was a need for the new Covenant where it was God's turn to save and to make us good for Him.

All He asks from you is to believe in Him to be saved and to believe in Him as your Good Shepherd that sin will not have dominion over your life any more and He will help you to follow Him & bear fruit so that your joy may be full.

 

[GodB4Us]

Jesus said he lacked something.
He had the chance to help Jesus lay the foundation of the church and he loved his wealth more.
I think you don't understand any of the scriptures.

The point of reference that Jesus confirmed what I was saying is what the Jews were doing the ten commandments for thus inferring to the works of the law to obtain salvation by.

God is not saying that in that passage. You make it up and that is a bad thing to do.

Faith alone is dead and can't save anyone.

Ephesians 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

Verse 10 is applied to saved believers for how we are His workmanship; meaning saved, and then unto good works which by the power of God by faith in Jesus Christ, we are ordained to walk in them living a life of repentance.

In regards to the Jews keeping the ten commandments to save themselves, do you know why we are guiltless for profaning the sabbath as His disciples were in that day?

Matthew 12:1At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of corn and to eat. 2 But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto him, Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day. 3 But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him; 4 How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests? 5 Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless? 6 But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple. 7 But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless. 8 For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.

Jesus was with His disciples as being the One greater than the Temple for how the saints in the O.T. that had profaned the sabbath but were guiltless because they were in the Temple.

We are guiltless for profaning the sabbath by how our bodies has become the temple of the Holy Spirit and Jesus Christ is in us always.

1 Corinthians 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

2 Corinthians 13:5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?

Matthew 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

 

[GodB4Us]

Abraham still had to obey, and he did.

The old law way to justification---to sanctification, was by a literal washing with water and from a diet and blood of animals.

The new way is by faith in Jesus sanctifying us, his blood washing us, AFTER we REPENT of our SINS.

1 Corinthians 6:11 And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

Jesus teaches us how to get that justification/washing/sanctification. He tells us it is by humbling yourself and confessing your sins.

Luke 18:13 And the tax collector, standing afar off, would not so much as raise his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me a sinner!’ 14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be 4 humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.

Are you now deflecting from what is plainly written in scripture for how Abraham was truly justified by believing in God but not by works before God?

Romans 4:1What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found? 2 For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God. 3 For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness. 4 Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. 5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.

Do read verse 5 above for how we are saved and not by works either. That verse 5 is God justifying the ungodly that only believed in Jesus Christ for salvation.

Yes, we are to follow Jesus as His disciples after we get saved, because since He is in us, we can follow Him as He is the power in living a life of repentance daily in living that reconciled relationship with God thru Jesus Christ when we trust him to be our Good Shepherd and not just as our Saviour.

 

[God's Truth]

I took it as a slap. Big difference.

If that is the case, then you have been slapping me all the time.

 

[God's Truth]

Only the Father can draw them unto the Son for them to recognize the word of God Jesus was saying.

The scriptures don't say that.
The scriptures plainly say they were drawn because they heard Jesus speaking the words of God

Not only that, the Father does draw people, and so does Jesus!

John 12:32 And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself."

Jesus is God the Father come as a son.

 

[GodB4Us]

If that is the case, then you have been slapping me all the time.

By making light of you in humor with other posters as if I am not reading the thread? When? Answer... never... but I am not perfect and so I will forgive you even though you are not asking for it.

 

[GodB4Us]

The scriptures don't say that.
The scriptures plainly say they were drawn because they heard Jesus speaking the words of God

Not only that, the Father does draw people, and so does Jesus!

John 12:32 And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself."

Jesus is God the Father come as a son.

That is in relation to how the serpent was lifted in the wilderness so that all those who get bitten can look to it and be healed of the serpent just as all those who look to Jesus Christ by believing in Him are saved.

John 3:4 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: 15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

It is the Father that gives us to the son to save us. Jesus testified to this in verse 37.

John 6:37 All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. 38 For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. 39 And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. 40 And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.

Since Jesus had a different will as shown in His prayer request in the Garden of Gethsemane, but yet submitted that the Father's will be done and not His own, the Son is not the Father nor the Father is the Son, but are 2 of the 3 Witnesses within the Godhead.

 

[God's Truth]

By making light of you in humor with other posters as if I am not reading the thread? When? Answer... never... but I am not perfect and so I will forgive you even though you are not asking for it.

Oh you will forgive me for something you did? That is twisted.

 

[God's Truth]

That is in relation to how the serpent was lifted in the wilderness so that all those who get bitten can look to it and be healed of the serpent just as all those who look to Jesus Christ by believing in Him are saved.

John 3:4 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: 15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Let's see if you will answer---

Why did the people die in the desert and not get to go to the promised land?

 

[GodB4Us]

Let's see if you will answer---

Why did the people die in the desert and not get to go to the promised land?

Because of unbelief.

The same way Catholics that believe in the Lord Jesus Christ & that God has raised Him from the dead are saved but by their membership in the Catholic Church to do the sacraments within to obtain that salvation by, they labor in unbelief & come short of that rest.

The same way that Billy Graham told Tony Snow in an interview that he did not believe Jesus Christ would receive him because he was not always a good Christian.

Tony Snow Interviews Billy Graham

"SNOW: When you get to Heaven, who's going to speak first, you or God?

GRAHAM: When I get there, I'm sure that Jesus is going to say that he
will welcome me. But I think that he's going to say: Well done, our good
and faithful servant. Or he may say: You're in the wrong place.

SNOW: You really worry that you may be told you're in the wrong place?

GRAHAM: Yes, because I have not -- I'm not a righteous man. People put
me up on a pedestal that I don't belong in my personal life. And they
think that I'm better than I am. I'm not the good man that people think
I am. Newspapers and magazines and television have made me out to be a
saint. I'm not. I'm not a Mother Teresa. And I feel that very much." ~~~ end of quote from link

Why does he believe that way? Because his altar call is the opposite of the gospel Billy Graham had preached.

"It is not going to church every Sunday that is going to save you. it is not by keeping the ten commandments that is going to save you, It is all those who call upon the name of the Lord" That is the gospel Paul preached too.

Billy Graham's altar call "If you are not sure you are saved, come forward and make a commitment to follow Christ". The complete opposite of the gospel he had preached.

So to get assurance of salvation, Billy Graham has to keep that commitment to follow Christ which means what? Going to church every Sunday is going to save him. Keeping the ten commandments and more is going to save him because Jesus's standard are higher than the works of the law. Is it any wonder why Billy Graham judged himself by that commitment for by that commitments is the knowledge of sin for why he had no assurance of salvation by trying to keep it.

Billy Graham is in Heaven because he had believed in the Lord Jesus Christ & that God has raised Him from the dead and is saved according to the gospel Paul reached but unless Billy Graham had repented, asking Jesus to set him free from that commitment to rest in Him, then he was laboring in unbelief even unto death, and although his spirit is with the Lord in Heaven, he is at risk of not being partakers of the first fruits of the resurrection and has to wait after the great tribulation for his resurrection day.

So are you saved now, brother, when you found out other sins you had to repent of later on after the initial event where you had thought you had repented from all sins to get saved before?

Or is that daily repenting of sins is still required of you to get saved and the Holy Ghost? Are you keeping that commitment to follow Him to earn salvation & thus coming short of that rest & laboring in unbelief?

Let me know when you are saved simply by believing in Jesus Christ and that you are running that race as a saved believer in looking to Him to repent of sins daily which is what laying aside every weight & sin daily means in going onto perfection by His grace & by His help.