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With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible. (Matthew 19:26)

There are two ways of viewing the impossible. Everything depends upon where you put the impossibility – on the thing or on God. The things which are not possible with men are possible with God (Matt. 19:26). And He answers these impossible things in the normal way – for it is the normal way; the abnormal would be by signs and wonders and extraordinary happenings: demonstrations to our senses; but the normal way in the Christian life is the way of the continuous transcendence of His Life over the working of death. That miracle is far more general than we recognize. You have to live your life and do your work in a sphere of spiritual death where everything is against spiritual Life, and there is nothing to support you at all, and yet you go on there in the Lord, and are not swallowed up, engulfed and destroyed by that atmosphere and by those conditions. That is the miracle of Divine Life working silently. Yours, then, is a life – as is the life of everyone – set in the presence of the great stone of death, spiritual death. We know it, and yet we are preserved alive spiritually and we go on. That is the great miracle. It is the miracle of every day. That is the testimony that God raised Him from the dead....

In the resurrection of the Lord Jesus – or let me put it this way – in union with the risen Christ our hopes are far greater than all our worldly hopes. We may in His death have to lay our treasure in the dust, we may have to let go much that is very precious to us of hope and expectation and ambition and outlook. Our world may have to be placed with the stones of the brook (Job 22:24). In resurrection union with Christ something more is given back than what we formerly wanted. God is like that. You may say that is language and sounds very beautiful, but is it true? Well, I appeal to those of you who have any spiritual life and history at all. You have doubtless gone through a time of deep and dark trial in which you have had to hand everything over – you have come to a crisis where you have had to place on the altar something that was very precious and let it go to the Lord. If the Lord has not given that back to you, have you not come into some spiritual wealth, some spiritual good, something more in a spiritual way that makes you say, 'Well, it was worth it!'? The answer of God through the Cross to all disappointed hopes and expectations is, and in the very nature of God must be, something more than that which was laid in the grave. It is the very principle of Christ risen. He was a far greater Christ in resurrection than He was before – if I may put it like that without being misunderstood.

@OP
Who actually gives these Eternal Security?

Image123:
Okay, but give me some time though. Who is candiru? Is Candour still on this forum, as Candour?

Hmmmm,na wahoo
So u still dey area?(NL)?
How's life n ur family,hail them for me

Candour:
Na una dey teach o. I'm all ears

Longtime bro
How's the Family doing

25 Jesus said unto her, I am the RESSURECTION , and the Life...........john11:25
Put in another way He is saying "I Am Time and Eternity all in a Moment"!!!!!!

I am the Lord, I do not change. (Malachi 3:6)

The authority of darkness is a very real thing to us. We have experiences, and if we were to capitulate to them, that would be the end of us. He tries to bring upon us that impingement of the authority of darkness, and if we surrender to it, capitulate to it, accept it, we are beaten. If we are the Lord's, Christ is within, and Christ is supreme and we must go on even if we have no feeling, or if we have a very bad feeling; when it seems to be the last thing we ought to be saying, we say it because it is God's fact, and when we begin to affirm God's fact we win through.

Believers know what it is for the enemy to try to make them accept the authority of darkness. Stand upon the truth of God. God does not change with our feelings. God does not alter with our consciousness. This whole life of ours is subject to variation more swift than the variation of weather, but He rules, unalterable, unchangeable. He is "the same yesterday, and today, and for ever." And if He is there within, He has come to stay, and victory is in faith; believing that, standing on that, holding to that; and we must carry that through to its final and full issue, that He is Lord of all, "Head of all principality and power." Satan will sometimes try to make us believe that he is in the place of ascendancy, the place of supremacy, but since Calvary he is not, we stand there.

The things which are impossible with men are possible with God. (Luke 18:27)

All hangs upon this one thing (as simple as it may seem) that if Christ is present (which means nothing else than that God is present) anything is possible at any moment. Are you waiting for some day when things will be better? It is not a matter of time at all, it is a matter of Him. He says, "I am time and eternity all in a moment, and you need not accept anything in the matter of time; you accept Me, and you may be well-nigh dead in the morning and be very much alive before the day is over. 'I am the resurrection and the life.'" Mary said, “I know that He will rise again in the last day.” For her resurrection was a matter of time. Oh no. Resurrection was right there....

As long as it takes to break a loaf you have gone from seed-time to harvest. "'Do you not say, There are yet four months, and then comes the harvest?' (John 4:35). I am here, and there can be harvest at any moment when I am here." It is not a matter of time, of circumstance. We are dealing with God, and He is not bound by anything that is known to our human life at all. Eternity dwells in any moment when He is present. All things are bound up with any moment when He is present. The centurion said, "Just say the word and my servant will be healed." "You need not come. Distance does not matter, time does not matter, just speak the word and it will be done." The Lord said, "Ihave not found such great faith, not even in Israel." The word was uttered, and when the enquiry was made as to when it happened it was found to synchronize with the moment when He spoke. He takes everything into His hands, and says "My hour..." and when that comes, there is no postponement. Oh, that we should lay hold of that more, live on that, never surrender to conditions, never surrender to the inevitable from the standpoint of the human, but say, "We have Him; He is our future, He is our circumstance." Anything can be at any moment with the Lord present.

DoctorAlien:
Are you trying to imply that Jesus was a sinner? Because He is a descendant of Adam too. He is the Son of man.

Your error comes from the false doctrine of original sin: the belief that everybody is a sinner by the virtue of being born. But that is a lie. No place is it stated in the Bible that man is a sinner because he was born.

Search the Scriptures for proper guidance.

Is that what the verse I quoted says?
Subjectivity won't get you beyond your roof.
Am done trying to straighten things with you.
Happy workers day anyway.

DoctorAlien:
If this is true, why did Jesus tell us to be perfect in Matt. 5:48?

Here are some people who were blameless in the Bible:

JOB - Job 1:1

ENOCH - Gen. 5:24. Enoch was so righteous and sinless that GOD took him into Heaven.

ABEL - Matt. 23:35.

For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made SINNERs, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.Romans5:19
Job,Enoch and Abel are all sinners.because they were all in Adams lions when he sinned against God.
Though God might have mercy on who so ever He choose to have mercy on.
Please don't tell me they were blameless/righteous.its only Gods mercy on them that can speak on there life.

DoctorAlien:
See Luke 3:38. Could Adam be the son of GOD if he was not holy?

What does it even mean to be holy? Tell me.

Lol
The verse you quoted here simply meant God created Adam.he was never begotten.christ was the only begotten Son of God that's why he was Holy even in Mary's womb.The angel answered, "The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God.Luke1:35
Google it(holy)

DoctorAlien:
LOL. What does it mean to be holy? It means being sinless! You contradict yourself.

You see, that was actually the first charge the Satan brought against GOD in Heaven-that His law is impossible to keep. After Satan's banishment from Heaven, he has kept on publishing the lie that it is impossible to keep GOD's law.

My dear, it is very much possible to keep GOD's law-with His help. We can't do it on our own, but with His help we can.

Lol
Was Adam Holy when God created Him?i know he was sinless but Holy?No

Splinz:
Are you then saying the Lord was wrong when He said, "If you would enter life, keep the commandments?"- John 19:17. Was Jesus giving us an impossible task when He made this statement? No! Here's why. A question was asked, "Who then can be saved?"- Matthew 19:25. (The disciples, just like you, were astonished when Jesus taught that they must keep the Law if they will enter life. Hence, why the question was asked). In response, Jesus answered, "With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible", verse 26. Here you have it. The Law can be kept, but of course with the help of God.

The Apostle Paul said, "The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all men everywhere to repent"- Acts 17:30. Indeed, you have no excuse whatsoever not to keep the Law, not even ignorance, because the truth has been laid bare before you.

And lastly, James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, has this to say, " Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin"- James 4:17. May the Lord help us.

"With man it's impossible but with God all things are possible"
That quote says it all.
Man is incapable of keeping Gods law.its only God that can uphold His law.
Don't you ever wonder why Adam can't uphold just one moral law/command given to him by God?.(don't eat this fruit but every other fruits are yours to eat)
Though he's sinless there's nothing Holy in him to uphold that command/law.because all Gods laws are Holy(So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good.Romans7:12)

Splinz:
Has an admonition from the Lord becomes frustration & anger?

Then therefore, "You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the TRUTH, for there is no TRUTH in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and father of lies"- John 8:44. Indeed, the devil and his followers are liars, and have never welcome the truth!

Very well did Timothy prophesied of you, "For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears"- 2 Timothy 4:3. Yes! You can't bear sound doctrine for your ears are heavy, itching to hear the lusts of your heart, for which reason you seek and look out for teachers to teach or say what you want to hear, not what you need to hear!

Again, I offer you the advise of Apostle Peter in Acts 8:22.

Lol
Keep deceiving yourself .its people like you that condemned fellowers here on earth and you are worst than the devil itself.
No man has/can up hold 1% of Gods law expection of Christ

Splinz:
Hello! Has the word of truth been reduced to an amusement that makes you want to laugh your heart out, scoffer?

The psalmist wrote, "Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners (lawbreakers), nor sits in the seat of SCOFFERS"- Psalm 1:1.

Also, the Apostle Peter has this to say, "Knowing this first of all, that SCOFFERS will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own SINFUL desires"- 2 Peter 3:3.

Here's an advise from the Apostle, "Repent, therefore, of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that, if possible, the intent of your heart may be forgiven you"- Acts 8:22.

Your frustration/anger will only affect pple like you.and pls stop quoting me.

DoctorAlien:
Read Matt. 19:17-19. Tell me what you think.

Lol
You are not serious presumably

DoctorAlien:
There are two sets of laws in the old testament: the moral law (the decalogue or the 10 Commandments) and the ceremonial laws(which are over 600). They were never confused one for the other. They were even kept separate in the ark of the covenant. (See Exod. 25:16; Deut. 31:9, 24-26).

The ceremonial laws included sacrificial killings, washings and many other rites which pointed to the great antitype, Jesus Christ, and as such were done away with at His death.

However, GOD still requires obedience to the 10 Commandments from Christians.

Lol
So which aspect of the law did Jesus tell the rich man to keep?
New International Version
When Jesus heard this, he said to him, "You still lack one thing. Sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me." Luke18:22

The people who know their God shall stand firm and take action. (Daniel 11:32 ESV)

How much do you depend upon conferences and teachers to keep you going? Must you attend meetings just because you feel that the last lot you got has been used up and you must get a fresh supply? Or have you been emancipated from all human props and put into a place of glorious independence, because you KNOW YOUR GOD? It doesn't matter if you are plunged into the middle of the Sahara, you know your God and can stand independently of all natural helps – this thing has become YOU! That is the kind of knowledge that means power. That is the kind of experience which overcomes the world. That is the kind of thing that makes all the other systems go down, and you rise triumphantly above them. That was the secret of the apostolic church. Let kings do what they like, let the people rage – it goes on, and it is the Roman Empire that goes to pieces before this thing, and not this thing that goes down before the Roman Empire. It is an independent personal knowledge of God, resultant from an inward birth, that lives. Not only an objective truth, but a subjective power, and it is a great day when the slightest fragment of known truth becomes a vital personal experience in its working ability. That is what we want. First-hand knowledge, not second-hand truth.

May God work this into our very beings until it becomes us. Take it in fragments if you like, and ask the Lord to work it out in you and make it live in you.

Observe which/how many law?
There are over 300 laws in the OT.how many do we even know?better still how can you observe what you don't know or understand?knowing fully well that if you broke one you are guilty of all.....For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.James2:10

goodnews201668:
Accepting Jesus is not by mouth, it also includes knowing the truth about him and how to worship him!

Yes,it's not by mouth but with your heart then you can confess with your mouth.and not just knowing some truth about Him but knowing Him in Person.by knowing Him in Person you can fellowship with Him personally.

goodnews201668:

Rejected cross? Just show me one scripture that shows the early Christians used cross in worship.

Who said anything of cross worshiping?
Dude accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior and not ur imaginary Jehovah.then can you See and understand the scriptures.
Even other occultic groups knows who they are serving but you guys don't even know your god.

goodnews201668:
I was thinking you are going to explain the meaning of cross, I asked the question for you to explain it.

It might interest you to know that cross is a Latin word (Cruz).

The Bible was not written in Latin.
Where you have cross in most bibles today in the Greek language which is one of the original language the Bible was written you'll rather see (stauros) which means an upright stake or straight pole.
The Jews used to hang a cursed person or criminal on a tree or stake.
Galatians 3:13, Acts 5:30 and 10:39 says Jesus Christ was hunged on a tree as a cursed person.
Deuteronomy 21:22,23 shows the Jews are used to hanging people on a stake long before Christ came.

So starous Greek meaning of doesn't mean cross it rather means a torture stake or a pole where people are hanged to make them die agonizing death.

While Cruz is a Latin word that when translated into English means cross and it's pegan nations who knew nothing about the true God that were using it in worship long before Christ came. Google and see how and when it became part of items used as worship in the church.

However God actually warns us against using any image in our worship to him, we should rather worship him in spirit and truth.
Using images in worship is idolatary!! God condemned it.

You are in ERROR!!!
Not Knowing the Scripture or the The Power of God.
Mart:22:29/Mark12:24
The scriptures and the Power of God are two different things and you guys knowledge of both are futile.(Una no know Jack)
Without the Power of God the knowledge of the scripture can never be known.
Am doing all this because of the viewers and not your kind(JW and co)
You reject Jesus as God,you reject the Cross and still claim you are Christains?
You guys are in the same league with occultic men PERIOD!!!!

Goshen360:
More Grace to you sir. I'm CROSSIFIED with Christ nevertheless I live. ....hahahahaha. ...Hallelujah!

Lol
Longtime bro.
Some Christain don't know that when Christ died 2000years ago they died with Him,when He rose from the gravel they also rose with Him.infact they will be surprise to hear that as He seated on His throne in Heaven they are also IN HIM.
For it was God that PUT us in Christ(1cor1:30)
It's all by FAITH!!!
That's what Paul was saying in Gal2:20...that by Faith he's crucified with Christ.not yesterday or tomorrow but NOW!!!..he said *I AM CRUCiFIED WITH CHRIST**its a present tense

goodnews201668:
Before I tell you what God's power is, what is cross?

If you don't know what the Cross is,how can you experience the Power of God?
Let me help the viewers.
The Cross is the place of sacrifice likening to the Altar in the Old Testament in Hebrews chapter10.

goodnews201668:
Please which Bible portions are you quoting?

1cor1:18-19......18For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19For it is written:

“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise;
the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”
Dude to people like you(JW and co)the Cross is FOOLISHNESS but,to the Crucified once it's the Power of GOD.
Your wisdom and intelligence will only get you as far as your ceiling.
The Truth is that you guys can't comprehend the Power of God.not now or ever.

The Cross Governs everything related to the new Life and the house of God.
Without the Cross God will stil be an imaginary being,without it there's no new life.christainity derives it power from the Cross.
Show me a cursed/condemned man and I will show you an uncrucified fool.

It would totally depend on the purpose of the war and the field of battle. If the US invaded Russia, it would lose because --while it could get troops to Russia-- it would have to slug it out in the largest nation on Earth that happens to have a powerful conventional military to boot. If Russia was trying to invade the United States, it wouldn't even make it beyond a few hundred miles into the ocean (as it has no blue water navy), let alone to the US's shores.
If the US and Russia met in some empty field of battle, mano a mano, the US would win. The US has a GDP over 10x Russia's; Russia has very limited projection power and no navy to support it; the US has more than twice her population; it is a global leader in pretty much every technology; it has more modern materiel; it has a significantly larger military; it has an industrial production capacity 6 times Russia's; it has far better trained military leaders; it has a better funded military with better training for its lower ranks.
The Chinese are not there yet.

The Lord said to him, “Go, for he is a chosen instrument of Mine to carry My name....” (Acts 9:15 ESV)

The Lord must have an instrument, a Daniel instrument, whether personal or collective, that moves out towards God for His testimony. He must have a Nehemiah with a heartache over the people because of the breakdown of the testimony. He must have an Ezra who is not for a moment compromising with anything contrary to the mind of God. He must have the Esther instrument who flings fear to the winds, and goes, taking life in hand, to besiege the throne for the life of her people, for the deliverance of the people of God from the threat of the enemy. Oh! What those prayers wrought! And, beloved, the burden of the Lord must come on our heart in like manner if we are to be effective instruments for the Lord in His end-time activities; we must be exercised in a very deep way with the interests of God. We must hold back nothing that will count for the Lord and His interests. You would be surprised how the Lord would come through if you gave Him a chance.

The whole thing begins with a recognition of the need, and the burden of these things upon our hearts. When we are really in it by the urge of the Holy Spirit, the common features found in these Old Testament instruments will be found inwrought in us; and we shall be found an abandoned people unto this ONE THING – the Lord's burden and heart concern for His testimony in His people.

ShyNeptune:
That's another Question I've been having in mind to ask. can you kindly tell us how moses where moses got his stories from?

Through the Revelation of the Holy Spirit.same way Adam was able to name all the animals.

There is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus. (1 Timothy 2:5)

God's answer to everything, God's explanation of everything, and God's means of realizing everything is a Man, "the man Christ Jesus." When this world has run its evil course, this inhabited earth will be judged in a Man. Men will be judged by what their inward relationship is to that Man. The question at the judgment will never be of how much good or bad, right or wrong, more or less, is in a man; it will turn upon this one point, "Are you in Christ?" If not, more or less makes no difference. God's intention, God's proclamation is that all things are in His Son. Are you in Him? Why not? The basis of judgment is very simple. It is all gathered up in a Man, and what is in that Man of God for us. That is the basis of judgment. It all comes back to the very simple, and yet comprehensive and blessed truth, that it is what Christ is that satisfies God, reaches God's end, and meets all our need. It is all summed up in a Man, "the man Christ Jesus."

The Lord continue to open our eyes to His glorious and Heavenly Man, Who is also the Divine Servant.

ShyNeptune:
Okay. I've been thinking. how did Matthew, Mark, Luke and John get their facts about the birth of Jesus? did Jesus personally tell them how he was born? I really wanna know.
If Yes, how come Jesus was able to provide every detail about his birth since he was a only a baby when everything happened..... ?
The only person I think Could have gotten the true info is John because he took Mary the mother of Jesus into his home.
But then, Mary, we were told was a lady who was reticent and reserved in nature. she preferred to ponder things in her her rather than tell her story.

so, Theologians in the house, can you help a confused fellow?

Same way Moses got and wrote the story of Genesis.

vedaxcool:
Interesting perspective already thinking of the applications of gravitational waves in military cases. Would have to research into it though.

My bro,like I said in my last post.theres no love lost btw me n the Rukies.but the truth is that they have the upper hand for now.the west has to up there game.

IbnSultaan:
Tough one

Russian deployed s400 in Syria after the Turkey drama but sources believe not all of it's components where fix due to Defence pact with Isreal but Putin has ordered su35 with incredible systems into Syria to protect bombers

Hmmm.
Am nt a fan of the Rukies,but are you saying everything is Political?