Featured God is not going to punish sin?????

Hello Grit
Good post. You are asking the right questions.
God calls us to be concerned about what he is concerned about. God calls us the His mission to redeem Sinners in his Son
God calls us to be faithful ministers of the New Covenant to bring the gospel to all men
Well God has indeed chosen all who will will be saved he has also chosen the means that he is going to use to accomplish that salvation the incarnation and sending His Son to the cross to accomplish redemption the spirit coming to empower believers at Pentecost and then believed was going out to reach sinners one Sinner at a time.
Some of these things seem confusing at first but after awhile one piece at a time it all falls into place and it becomes very clear what God expects from us is faithfulness to His word and holy service done in His name

 

Agedman

I will answer in detail when I get to a keyboard.

Grit
Romans 8 28 all the way through Romans 9 deals with God electing planning and predestined free destiny his people to be saved and it in Romans 10 the Apostle Paul points out that Christ is the end of the law for righteousness ever believes will be saved but you really quotes from Joel chapter 2 and then he goes on in verse 10 to 15 saying how blessed are the feet of those who bring the gospel of peace to the to the nations so you have both aspects proven in Romans 8 9 and 10

 

agedman,

I mention dispensationalism because of how that system fragments portions of scripture that should be joined together.

Each kind of church has it's own areas where they have weaknesses. I was not speaking of all the problems that exist.

Do the scriptures teach that? or were the verses you are thinking of speaking of churches in Paul's day?

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agreed

The followers in most of the churches can remain shallow as they look for the beast and false prophet, rather than the spread of the Kingdom , which they do not believe has come to earth yet.
Perhaps....or then again...the system of dispensationalism can be error from start to finish.

 

"grits4jesusfl,

A person cannot savingly believe in Jesus unless God allows him or her to believe. So when a person is savingly drawn to God , they repent and believe the Gospel by God given faith. To get assurance of salvation in a biblical way, they give dilegence to make their calling and election sure;
2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,

3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:

4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;

6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;

7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:


11 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

12 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.

13 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;