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cyrexx: Fear and gullibility. Without these, religion lose it's power on human mind.

God bless you..that's why I wrote this
Churches nowadays preach prosperity,how to be rich...

noblefada: @Ajibam u definitely don't know what u're writing about. It's had for me to believe u are a xtian. It's called the Gospel of Christ, Good News, so how come I didn't see any of that in ur post? u purposely left out good scriptures on Grace and only dwell on condemnation. As said u don't know what u're saying, pls go study to show urself approved.

This is not a condemnation...
People are ignorant to the danger of being a sinner when grace eludes the earth after the rapture..this thread. Is to enable christians to hold there stand to know the fury of God coming to an unrepentant soul and an ignorant christian...

Maranatha

striktlymi: I am striktlymi and I have been a member for a while though I have not been frequenting this thread.

Aiite,,,,take care

Now at work again,,till evening
I love you all...
Take care...men must win today

striktlymi: Hearts.

Welcome to our great family@striktlymi


Waiting for your introduction...
You will soon know all the remaining family members,,enjoy your stay here...

Sal C: Op I must thank you for a nice exultation this day. Am happy to know you are still one of those who believe in holy living. The gospel of grace as Bizmahn said rightly put it is not a licence to sin but the grace to aid us stay free from sin when we yield ourselves to God.

Stay close to God and allowing God's grace abide in us, is a key to staying free from sin.

May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us.

Amen
Thank you.

striktlymi: Oga Goshen, free d young man na.

@Ajibam sorry I didn't read your OP.

Try and sacrifice your time to read it,

modelmike7: . . . . . I believe i'm the only one remaining in the house to say CONGRATULATIONS to one of our own, Bro Aji. CONGRATS brother. I'm so Happy For You. This is the Beginning of Great and Happy Achievements in ur Life. We are so Happy For You. Do ur Job Well and make us Proud. God be with you.

Amen and amen

Thank you..bro mike

bizmahn: @OP. Thanks.Keep at it & never get distracted if u are on the side of the 'very few' left on this forum who yet stand on the old time gospel of inner & outward purity in totality.The way is narrow & few that be that find it.(matt.7:13,14).Don't join those that try to make the way broad.
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Warning:Many have derailed on this forum,don't get to be one.DON'T GIVE IN TO SUBTLE GOSPEL OF GRACE THAT"SUBTLY" PERMITS SIN,LOOSENESS & WORLDLINESS with hidden beliefs that"subtly" OFFER LICENCE TO SIN...Shallom.

Thank you my BROTHER

bizmahn: @OP. I suppose that was the famous sermon by Jonathan Edwards that literarily got the sinners & ungodly in his congregation quaking & trembling & held unto the church pillars in fear they would drop into hell that moment while crying out to God in repentance.It was most MARVELLOUS.

Thank you sir

bizmahn: @Ajibam. Great!! if you believe in what that message & its preacher represents.Sermons as in the topic produce the best christiants in character,morality,purity,christ-likeness.
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Keep at it & never get distracted if u are on the side of the 'very few' left on this forum who yet stand on the old time gospel of inner & outward purity in totality.The way is narrow & few that be that find it.(matt.7:13,14).Don't join those that try to make the way broad.
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Warning:Many have derailed on this forum,don't get to be one.DON'T GIVE IN TO SUBTLE GOSPEL OF GRACE THAT "SUBTLY" PERMITS SIN,LOOSENESS & WORLDLINESS with hidden beliefs that "subtly" OFFER LICENCE TO SIN...Shallom.

Thank you...I will never give in to subtle gospel as You advised

Goshen360: Good, you passed the first test.

Funny bro.

Goshen360: @ OP, who are sinners? Are you still in your sins AFTER Christ had died for your sins?

NO

sinners are the unbelievers,,they are veiled With sin(they don't know christ)
If U truly accept jesus as your lord and saviour,Old things have passed away lo and behold all things have become new,..

Faults can only be found in a born again christian

When we are YET sinners christ died for us(romans5vs8)

Shallom

God called us to leave a holy life acceptable unto him.

Nowadays,the lifestyle of we christians is just the norms of satan,the basic of your christian life depends on your PERSONAL relationship with God!
It is not regularity in church(mind u! Am not disputing the fact of going to church) but do you know the lord you are serving? may the lord help us in this journey of our life

1. The first and chief need of our Christian life is, Fellowship with God.
The Divine life within us comes from God, and is entirely dependent upon Him. As I need every moment afresh the air to breathe, as the s sun every moment afresh sends down its light, so it is only in direct living communication with God that my soul can be strong.
The manna of one day was corrupt when the next day came. I must every day have fresh grace from heaven, and I obtain it only in direct waiting upon God Himself. Begin each day by tarrying before God, and letting Him touch you. Take time to meet God.
2. To this end, let your first act in your devotion be a setting yourself still before God. In prayer, or worship, everything depends upon God taking the chief place. I must bow quietly before Him in humble faith and adoration, speaking thus within my heart: "God is. God is near. God is love, longing to communicate Himself to me. God the Almighty One, Who worketh all in all, is even now waiting to work in me, and make Himself known." Take time, till you know God is very near.
3. When you have given God His place of honor, glory, and power, take your place of deepest lowliness, and seek to be filled with the Spirit of humility. As a creature it is your blessedness to be nothing, that God may be all in you. As a sinner you are not worthy to look up to God; bow in self abasement. As a saint, let God's love overwhelm you, and bow you still lower down. Sink down before Him in humility, meekness, patience, and surrender to His goodness and mercy. He will exalt you. Oh! take time, to get very low before God.
4. Then accept and value your place in Christ Jesus. God delights in nothing but His beloved Son, and can be satisfied with nothing else in those who draw nigh to Him. Enter deep into God's holy presence in the boldness which the blood gives, and in the assurance that in Christ you are most well-pleasing. In Christ you are within the veil. You have access into the very heart and love of the Father. This is the great object of fellowship with God, that I may have more of God in my life, and that God may see Christ formed in me. Be silent before God and let Him bless you.
5. This Christ is a living Person. He loves you with a personal love, and He looks every day for the personal response of your love. Look into His face with trust, till His love really shines into your heart. Make His heart glad by telling Him that you do love Him. He offers Himself to you as a personal Saviour and Keeper from the power of sin. Do not ask, can I be kept from sinning, if I keep close to Him? but ask, can I be kept from sinning, if He always keeps close to me? and you see at once how safe it is to trust Him.
6. We have not only Christ's life in us as a power, and His presence with us as a person, but we have His likeness to be wrought into us. He is to be formed in us, so that His form or figure, His likeness, can be seen in us. Bow before God until you get some sense of the greatness and blessedness of the work to be carried on by God in you this day. Say to God, "Father, here am I for Thee to give as much in me of Christ's likeness as I can receive." And wait to hear Him say, "My child, I give thee as much of Christ as thy heart is open to receive." The God who revealed Jesus in the flesh and perfected Him, will reveal Him in thee and perfect thee in Him. The Father loves the Son, and delights to work out His image and likeness in thee. Count upon it that this blessed work will be done in thee as thou waitest on thy God, and holdest fellowship with Him.
7. The likeness to Christ consists chiefly in two things--the likeness of His death and resurrection, (Rom. 6:5). The death of Christ was the consummation of His humility and obedience, the entire giving up of His life to God. In Him we are dead to sin. As we sink down in humility and dependence and entire surrender to God, the power of His death works in us, and we are made conformable to His death. And so we know Him in the power of His resurrection, in the victory over sin, and all the joy and power of the risen life. Therefore every morning, "present yourselves unto God as those that are alive from the dead." He will maintain the life He gave, and bestow the grace to live as risen ones.
8. All this can only be in the power of the Holy Spirit, who dwells in you. Count upon Him to glorify Christ in you. Count upon Christ to increase in you the inflowing of His Spirit. As you wait before God to realize His presence, remember that the Spirit is in you to reveal the things of God. Seek in God's presence to have the anointing of the Spirit of Christ so truly that your whole life may every moment be spiritual.
9. As you meditate on this wondrous salvation and seek full fellowship with the great and holy God, and wait on Him to reveal Christ in you, you will feel how needful the giving up of all is to receive Him. Seek grace to know what it means to live as wholly for God as Christ did. Only the Holy Spirit Himself can teach you what an entire yielding of the whole life to God can mean. Wait on God to show you in this what you do not know. Let every approach to God, and every request for fellowship with Him be accompanied by a new, very definite, and entire surrender to Him to work in you.
10. "By faith" must here, as through all Scripture, and all the spiritual life, be the keynote. As you tarry before God, let it be in a deep quiet faith in Him, the Invisible One, who is so near, so holy, so mighty, so loving. In a deep, restful faith too, that all the blessings and powers of the heavenly life are around you, and in you. Just yield yourself in the faith of a perfect trust to the Ever Blessed Holy Trinity to work out all God's purpose in you. Begin each day thus in fellowship with God, and God will be all in all to you.

Deuteronomy 32:35
"Their foot shall slide in due time"

In this verse is threatened the vengeance of God on the wicked unbelieving Israelites, who were God's visible people, and who lived under the means of grace; but who, notwithstanding all God's wonderful works towards them, remained (as vers 28.) void of counsel, having no understanding in them. Under all the cultivations of heaven, they brought forth bitter and poisonous fruit; as in the two verses next preceding the text. --
The expression I have chosen for my text, their foot shall slide in due time, seems to imply the following things, relating to the punishment and destruction to which these wicked Israelites were exposed.
That they were always exposed to destruction; as one that stands or walks in slippery places is always exposed to fall. This is implied in the manner of their destruction coming upon them, being represented by their foot sliding. The same is expressed, Psalm 73:18. "Surely thou didst set them in slippery places; thou castedst them down into destruction."
It implies, that they were always exposed to sudden unexpected destruction. As he that walks in slippery places is every moment liable to fall, he cannot foresee one moment whether he shall stand or fall the next; and when he does fall, he falls at once without warning: Which is also expressed in Psalm 73:18,19. "Surely thou didst set them in slippery places; thou castedst them down into destruction: How are they brought into desolation as in a moment!"
Another thing implied is, that they are liable to fall of themselves, without being thrown down by the hand of another; as he that stands or walks on slippery ground needs nothing but his own weight to throw him down.
That the reason why they are not fallen already and do not fall now is only that God's appointed time is not come. For it is said, that when that due time, or appointed time comes, their foot shall slide. Then they shall be left to fall, as they are inclined by their own weight. God will not hold them up in these slippery places any longer, but will let them go; and then, at that very instant, they shall fall into destruction; as he that stands on such slippery declining ground, on the edge of a pit, he cannot stand alone, when he is let go he immediately falls and is lost.


The observation from the words that I would now insist upon is this. -- "There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God." --
By the mere pleasure of God, I mean his sovereign pleasure, his arbitrary will, restrained by no obligation, hindered by no manner of difficulty, any more than if nothing else but God's mere will had in the least degree, or in any respect whatsoever, any hand in the preservation of wicked men one moment. --
The truth of this observation may appear by the following considerations.
There is no want of power in God to cast wicked men into hell at any moment. Men's hands cannot be strong when God rises up. The strongest have no power to resist him, nor can any deliver out of his hands. -- He is not only able to cast wicked men into hell, but he can most easily do it. Sometimes an earthly prince meets with a great deal of difficulty to subdue a rebel, who has found means to fortify himself, and has made himself strong by the numbers of his followers. But it is not so with God. There is no fortress that is any defence from the power of God. Though hand join in hand, and vast multitudes of God's enemies combine and associate themselves, they are easily broken in pieces. They are as great heaps of light chaff before the whirlwind; or large quantities of dry stubble before devouring flames. We find it easy to tread on and crush a worm that we see crawling on the earth; so it is easy for us to cut or singe a slender thread that any thing hangs by: thus easy is it for God, when he pleases, to cast his enemies down to hell. What are we, that we should think to stand before him, at whose rebuke the earth trembles, and before whom the rocks are thrown down?
They deserve to be cast into hell; so that divine justice never stands in the way, it makes no objection against God's using his power at any moment to destroy them. Yea, on the contrary, justice calls aloud for an infinite punishment of their sins. Divine justice says of the tree that brings forth such grapes of Sodom, "Cut it down, why cumbereth it the ground?" Luke 13:7. The sword of divine justice is every moment brandished over their heads, and it is nothing but the hand of arbitrary mercy, and God's mere will, that holds it back.
They are already under a sentence of condemnation to hell. They do not only justly deserve to be cast down thither, but the sentence of the law of God, that eternal and immutable rule of righteousness that God has fixed between him and mankind, is gone out against them, and stands against them; so that they are bound over already to hell. John 3:18. "He that believeth not is condemned already." So that every unconverted man properly belongs to hell; that is his place; from thence he is, John 8:23. "Ye are from beneath:" And thither he is bound; it is the place that justice, and God's word, and the sentence of his unchangeable law assign to him.
They are now the objects of that very same anger and wrath of God, that is expressed in the torments of hell. And the reason why they do not go down to hell at each moment, is not because God, in whose power they are, is not then very angry with them; as he is with many miserable creatures now tormented in hell, who there feel and bear the fierceness of his wrath. Yea, God is a great deal more angry with great numbers that are now on earth: yea, doubtless, with many that are now in this congregation, who it may be are at ease, than he is with many of those who are now in the flames of hell.
So that it is not because God is unmindful of their wickedness, and does not resent it, that he does not let loose his hand and cut them off. God is not altogether such an one as themselves, though they may imagine him to be so. The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow. The glittering sword is whet, and held over them, and the pit hath opened its mouth under them.
The devil stands ready to fall upon them, and seize them as his own, at what moment God shall permit him. They belong to him; he has their souls in his possession, and under his dominion. The scripture represents them as his goods, Luke 11:12. The devils watch them; they are ever by them at their right hand; they stand waiting for them, like greedy hungry lions that see their prey, and expect to have it, but are for the present kept back. If God should withdraw his hand, by which they are restrained, they would in one moment fly upon their poor souls. The old serpent is gaping for them; hell opens its mouth wide to receive them; and if God should permit it, they would be hastily swallowed up and lost.
There are in the souls of wicked men those hellish principles reigning, that would presently kindle and flame out into hell fire, if it were not for God's restraints. There is laid in the very nature of carnal men, a foundation for the torments of hell. There are those corrupt principles, in reigning power in them, and in full possession of them, that are seeds of hell fire. These principles are active and powerful, exceeding violent in their nature, and if it were not for the restraining hand of God upon them, they would soon break out, they would flame out after the same manner as the same corruptions, the same enmity does in the hearts of damned souls, and would beget the same torments as they do in them. The souls of the wicked are in scripture compared to the troubled sea, Isa. 57:20. For the present, God restrains their wickedness by his mighty power, as he does the raging waves of the troubled sea, saying, "Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further;" but if God should withdraw that restraining power, it would soon carry all before it. Sin is the ruin and misery of the soul; it is destructive in its nature; and if God should leave it without restraint, there would need nothing else to make the soul perfectly miserable. The corruption of the heart of man is immoderate and boundless in its fury; and while wicked men live here, it is like fire pent up by God's restraints, whereas if it were let loose, it would set on fire the course of nature; and as the heart is now a sink of sin, so if sin was not restrained, it would immediately turn the soul into fiery oven, or a furnace of fire and brimstone.



To be continued..........

idnoble135: **edited**
Congrats Ajibam and Obadiah and Humble.
Wish you all a great time of
being a moderators.

Thank you

Seun: Congratulations on your appointment, Ajibam.

Thank you sir...
I won't let you down

You are very right to complain about me,,,,
Most of you are not familiar with me..and I promise to rectify it..
And please keep this in mind
(1).GOD DOES NOT CALL THE QUALIFIES,HE QUALIFIES THE CALL..
(2)DONT JUDGE A BOOK BY HIS COVER
(3)THE EMPTY CAN MAKES THE LOUDEST NOISE...


Goodnight

""In peace I will lie down and sleep,for you alone,o Lord,will keep me safe(psalm4vs8)""

truthislight: ^



lol.

Guy, you may have to slow down and understudy this section for some times befor you will be very sure of things.

Dont worry, you have other experience mod to watch your back here, it shall be well.

Amen

striktlymi: Okay.

You need to learn about a whole lot of things. I will advice that you hang on to obadiah and HBG to explain what you need to know about nairaland and the various characters we have in this section.

This section is kinda crazy and to be successful, you need to get up to speed...like fast.

Alright...I understand

Goshen360: Congratulations to our newly appointed moderators - HumbledByGrace, Ajibam & Obdiah777.

Thank you...
What a nice username
THE LAND OF GOSHEN

striktlymi: Sorry I came late...

You are welcome and you certainly owe no one any explanation.

Thank you sir

dagr8: Congrats HBG ...
Congrats Ajibam .....
All i ask for yu is the wisdom of Solomon...(I kings 3:7-9)

Thank you sire,,,,

truthislight: Ok.



Ok.



Ok.

I cant really say why i feel so relaxed, is it because O. B. E. D. I. A. H. Is among them ?



Maybe i have been too hungry for a mod.

Any how, well done admin.

And congrats. Ye new mods.

Truthislight....I see you

Did you visit the Quiz tread today?

New Alfa: You will soon revise your convictions.

Okay..bro
Let wait and see

New Alfa: Calling logicboy a brother in christ is a blasphemy to both christians and atheists.

I didn't know....sorry my oga
Nice meeting you bro

Reyginus: Lol.

Yes naw...I didn't sound blasphemous....did I?

Ishilove: Guy relax. No one is abusing you or calling you names. We don't know you here so it is only natural for us to ask who you are. I mean, this is the first time most of us are even being made aware of your existence. No one is trying to separate you from the love of Christ...(How did that even come up? )

Stop being so stiff.

Congrats, by the way.

Thank you.ma

"Nothing can separate us from the love of christ"

It means nothing can stop us from showing the love of christ jesus to each other,,God is love

New Alfa: If you are going to start with blasphemies, it's not going to end well.

What do you mean by "blasphemies"

Omo Daddy354: Congrats Ajibam... God give you the strenght, wisdom and patience to be a good MOD.


Where's everybody, why is the house quiet today? It is well with us all

Amen...thank you

Thank you all..
Am so glad...
God bless