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alBHAGDADI:Preach against their message not against them.. Last last they're still church leaders and we're admonished to respect their authority.. |
For a believer to be possessed by a demon. It is either it shares the same temple (the believer's body) with the Holy Spirit OR the Holy Spirit would have to leave a believer so the demon can enter. For that to happen, the demon will have to undo what God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit have done on the believer. The devil is powerless as far as a believer is concerned... |
To answer this question, I'd like you to answer this first. Can Jesus be possessed by a demon? |
amyliajane:He didn't say such Jane. As a Believer, one doesn't live in sin anymore. He's a new creature. His nature is changed. But it is possible for a believer to fall into sin cos "the flesh is weak". The difference between a believer and an unbeliever is likened to the scenario of a pig and a sheep. When a pig comes in contact with mud it feels comfortably at home cos that's its nature.. When a sheep comes in contact with mud, it feels uncomfortable and until it is brought out from that condition it is restless. That isn't the nature of the sheep. That's the difference between a believer and an unbeliver.. |
If John the baptist despite being the forerunner of christ had died without believing in christ he'd have gone to hell. If Joseph, the father of Jesus, despite saving the life of Christ as an infant had died without believing in Christ, he'd have gone to hell. Even Mary the mother of Jesus despite her moral characters and the fact that she carried our Lord on her womb for 9 months had died without believing in Jesus, she'd still have gone to hell. Christ and Christ alone will and is the only way one can make heaven. |
duality:Trust there are atheists that don't steal, kill, commit adultery, fornicate, disrespect their elders.. They give to the poor and needy and widows. They even give to the church. They don't lie. They have genuine love for their neighbours. They're at peace with their neighbours. They're in good marriages and they have morally upright children.. Now tell me, if you ever come across such atheist, what do you say to them? For them to repent from their sins? To them they have no sin to repent from.. Tell me what gospel you'll preach to such person. |
Many Christians (and non Christians) actually don't realise what the birth, death and ressurection of Jesus really did for mankind. John 3:16 is easily the most known verse of the bible. But some don't know that it actually summarized what God did for mankind when he sent His son to die for us. When I was younger I was made to believe that we will marvel at the set of people we'll see in hell. Only recently did I know that actually, it's the set of people we'll see in heaven that we'll marvel at. Some people will be surprised when. they eventully see themselves in heaven.. |
alBHAGDADI:Happy Sunday |
xeros20:They're a lot of people that don't believe in this message. They preach against it and call people like the OP false teachers or an Antichrist. They claim this grace message is a license to sin. But they still commit sins. Now tell me, what license do they use to sin? |
alBHAGDADI:They actually take that passage out of context. The narrow way is called narrow cos there's only one way (which is Christ) to God. The Broadway is called broad cos there are numerous ways. |
duality:On the contrary, the op is Christ centered. He teaches that the only way to be saved is through Christ and not goodworks. Any other message apart from this is other gospel. Any other .message apart from this is an anti-Christ gospel. Remember Cornelius. He was a good man who did good works. He gave to the poor and needy. But he didn't know christ. If he had died in that conditioned he'd have gone to hell. His good works can't and would never have saved him. God being a merciful God didn't want his good works to go to waste. So he sent Peter to preach to him. Cornelius along with his household believed and were saved. Christ alone can save and not good works.. |
chiommy123:Oga nowhere in the OP were you asked to behave anyhow when you believe in Christ. Salvation is a full and perfect package. After one is saved he's saved once and for all. His spirit is renewed. But his mind isn't renewed. That's why he needs to study the bible for the renewal of his mind. |
jesusjnr:What about those disasters that happened on normal days. What were they warning us against.. Or are they that insignificant? |
OneJ:Do research on the origins of the days of the week and the months of the year. Then tell me why Christians like you don't discard it's use... Hypocites... |
OneJ:Just one verse of the bible that's against birthday celebration and you're writing all these... Even if its |
OneJ:Days of the week and months of the year all have pagan origins... We as Christians should burn all our calendars. After all, what has light got to do with darkness.. |
If this this is the work of an incompetent lifeless dullard, then I don't want a competent living Solomon as president... |
IamAtikulate:Post an old picture of buhari and Saraki side by side. |
Buhari was born 1942. He wrote his WAEC in 1961. Do the maths... |
I don't get this demand for Buhari to remove his cap for proof.. If "dead" Buhari's face and other part of his body could be perfectly cloned, is it his head that they won't clone perfectly? PS: Anybody that believes Kanu is as foolish as him.... Probably foolisher.. |
Years ago I read about Mitchelle Obama being a transgender. They was nothing I didn't see. Her muscular arms, bulge on her groin area etc.. At the end all of these are just conspiracy theories. |
No matter the reason, it still doesn't change the fact that the minimum wage was agreed on, does it? |
TimeMachine:Eating bread and drinking wine is now cannibalism abi? I wonder how many of us are cannibals then.. |
MuttleyLaff:You obviously know what I meant when I said God doesn't require human sacrifices and he never asked for one. Yes God asked Abraham for his son but it is obvious he needed to show Abraham something. He really didn't needed a human sacrifice hence he stopped Abraham from killing Isaac.. |
amaniro:OK. if that's what you meant |
MuttleyLaff:Wait I don't get. Did God ask for humans to be sacrificed? And please don't say Isaac. Isaac was not sacrificed. Timemachine said God requires a lot of human sacrifices. How is Jesus' sacrifice on the cross a lot of human sacrifices? |
MuttleyLaff:My quote was a reaction to the statement of 'Timemachine', where he said that "God requires a lot a human sacrifices" . God required only one human sacrifice and not a lot of them. |
amaniro:Mr Amaniro, you do not tell someone to forget any scripture in the Bible. Be it old or new. The old testaments was put there for a reason. Your Bible contains the old and New testaments doesn't it? Do you because of being in the new covenant of Christ tear out the old testaments from your Bible? I guess not. Remember even Jesus quoted from the scriptures of old. Apostle Paul in his epistles, quoted from the old testaments. Peter, James and John did also. And also, we know there's nothing wrong in wearing tattoos. But I won't advice you or anyone to wear tattoo. Not because it's a sin. But because you're damaging your body which is the temple of God. Do some research about what tattoo does to the body. Smoking isn't wrong also but it damages your health and that of people around you. And also wearing tattoos makes you look rugged and rough and you won't look presentable to a lot of people. Some organisations won't employ you if you have visible tattoos on your body. In the world we live in today, people won't ask you if you're responsible or if you're a Christian before you given a job. They judge you at your outward appearance. I don't think if you own a firm and you see a guy who smokes and with tattoos all over his body you'd want to employ him. His outward appearance will give him as someone who you shouldn't trust you firm to as a good businessman. Remember, it is the way that you're dressed that you'll be addressed. In case you already have tattoos on your body don't think God loves you any less. If you're a believer you're faultless in God's eyes. God doesn't see you anymore but he sees Jesus in you. But don't draw more tattoos OK. In fact, if it's not a permanent one, I'll advice you to remove it. If it is, just let it be be and don't draw more.. Bless you.. |
Perfectbeing:Jewish laws and customs forbade men from tattooing, shaving their beard or sides of hair. It forbade women from opening their hairs in synagogues or from decorating their bodies. It forbade the Jews from eating some food (like pigs) or touching them. It forbade them from having dealings with the gentiles. Those are Jewish customs. And I'm pretty sure you're not a Jew. If you want to keep the Jewish laws know that they're 613 of them. You can't keep one and forget about the remaining 612. You have to keep each and everyone of them. If you break one, you're guilty of breaking all of them (James 2:10-11). So as a guy, if you do not wear tattoo but you shave the sides of your hair or trim the edge of your beards, you're as guilty as someone who wears tattoo. And as a babe, If you cover your hair to church and you don't wear makeup but you eat pig meat or your best friend is a Moslem, according to Jewish customs and law you're a lawbreaker. The law (the 10 commandments) was powerless to make us right with God because of our sinful nature (Heb 8:3). It wasn't to say the law was not perfect. Everything God does is perfect. So is the law. But we just couldn't handle the law because of our flesh was too weak. The law was too fault-finding. We had to keep every commandment to the end. If we break just one, we would be guilty of breaking all of them (James 2:10). Keeping the 10 commandments could look easy to us. Isn't it just to serve God, worship God, not bow to any other gods, not to dishonour your parents, not to murder, commit adultery, or fornication, not to steal, lie, covet our neighbors property etc. It looks easy right? But trust me it isn't. When you think you haven't committed adultery but you look at that pretty girl that just walked past you lustfully, you just committed adultery. When you think you haven't lie but you tell one white lie in the office or you tell a lie to save a friend you just broke the 6th commandment. When you think you honour your parents but you just called Buhari a fool and an idiot, you've dishonored your parents, when you think you've never murdered someone in your entire life but you call your brother a fool, the law will label you guilty of murder. When you think you haven't coveted your neighbor's property but you look at Davido's Lamborghini and you say in your mind "I wish that car is mine", you've just coveted. When you think you've never served any other God but instead of going to church on Sunday you had to be in your workplace, the law finds you guilty of idol worship. The law deems almost anything you do as a man sin. So what God did was to make things easy for us was send his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering (the same Heb 8:3). So he fulfilled the law for us. So once we believe in him we have fulfilled all the laws of God also... But then some people will say, "perfectbeing, are you now saying that if someone believes in Jesus and he steals or murder someone, are you saying he's still in right standing with God?" You might want to quote Romans 6:1. But let me ask you something first, did you see me write to in anywhere that you should go and steal since you've believed and no longer under the law? Go and steal or kill if you like. You'll know whether the police is your friend or not. That's not what I'm saying. When you believe your sinful nature is been replaced with the nature of Christ. Romans 6:1 says... Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? What was the reply in vs 2? "God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?" Impossible. Believers can no longer live in sin because the nature of sin is dead and buried. But it is still possible for for us believers to fall into sin (not live in sin) sometimes because even though our nature is changed, we still live in this weak body of ours. Our minds still needs to be regenerated. That can only happen when we keep reading and meditating on God's word daily. "What's the difference between living in sin and falling into sin?" some might ask. Have you ever seen a sheep in a mud water before? (I love NATGEO WILD so I know a lotta things about animals). When a sheep falls into mud, it becomes restless and uncomfortable and in distress. Why? Cos that's not it's nature. The sheep only becomes comfortable and normal after it is removed and cleaned. But try putting a pig in mud water. Good lord, you just found this pig another home. The pig is comfortable in this dirty water why? Because it is his nature to be dirty.. Even when you remove the pig from the dirt and you clean it, put it a bit close to the dirt and you'll see the pig going to get itself comfortable again.. That's the difference between the believer who fall into sin (the sheep) and the unbeliever (who lives in sin (the pig). Sinner live the life of sin just like a pig but a believer doesn't. So as a believer whenever you fall in sin, know that there's "therefore, now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death" This I say not to encourage you to sin but that if you sin, you have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous" I john 2:1. |
GentlePEACE:Lev 19:21 "You must not cut off the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard. The question now my friend is, do you cut the hair at the side of your head or do you clip off the edges of your beard (if you have beard)? If yes, you're guilty of breaking one of the commandments. The Bible is complete.. |
Perfectbeing:And also OP, don't preach hell to them. Christ asked us to preach Himself not hell. Just tell them about the gospel of Christ cos it is the "power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes". Rom 1:16 The message of of hell only brings fear which is not of God. The fear of hell cannot save anyone from hell. But the gospel of Christ will. At best the message of hell will only appeal to our human emotions and make us have a sense of resolution not to do bad things again. But this resolution will not stand the test of time because it's foundation is not in Christ. As a child, the fear of hell made me make a lot of resolutions. Some of which I broke before the break of dawn. I can assure you that most of us here knows about hell. Prostitutes, armed robbers and murderers know what they're doing is wrong and if they die they'll go to hell. But even with this fear of hell, they don't stop selling their bodies, robbing people or murdering people. Funnily enough, It is even the fear of hell itself that makes Boko Haram terrorists to slaughter people everyday. They believe if they do this they'll make heaven and not hell. What Christ did on the cross over 2000 years ago is what they need to know.. I call you blessed.. |
Thanks sir for the post. It should be an eye opener for us Christians to stand for Christ. We need is to keep telling everyone about Christ every chance we get. When someone tries to ridicule the word, correct the person in love. Remember we were once enemies of God before we accepted this unfathomable life in Christ. We should try to let those we're correcting see the light and the only way to do that for some hardened hearts is through love and patience. Don't give up on them and say "it's you that know. If you like believe, if you like don't believe " God didn't give up on you. God obviously knew that some people will not believe but he sent Christ anyway. So keep telling those lost souls about Christ. As long as they're still alive, there's still hope for them to be saved. My advice for us is to not try to defend the word. Just tell them the word and the word will defend itself. Just like you don't defend a caged lion. What you do is open the cage and the lion will defend itself (hopefully it doesn't eat you.. lol) I call you blessed OP... |
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to endorse your own. Matt 15:9 nab U for hand & leg.
old Testament. Jesus saves us in new testament, if you just go about with this, just end up being judgemental people.