Do You Really Believe The Full Gospel?

Dear 3AM,

I am sorry about not answering your post.

There's a couple of reasons why: It's having to do with my marriage of almost 31 years. I could say that it is the worst possible situation I could ever imagine that could happen to me. Needless to say, it occupies most of my energy being in prayer and asking for love, mercy and forgiveness to be manifested through me. As I have received this love from Christ, so it is my most greatest desire to extend the same to my poor misguided husband. Not an easy thing to do, but not impossible by God's grace and love. No quick fixes here. No just quoting a verse and making it all go away. It's always been that way for me. God just won't let me get away with superficial religious practices - they just pushed my husband away anyway. Well, I don't want to air my personal problems here, but I just wanted to say that FOR ME the path of love is the way to go.

In the end of all things, how I loved will be what matters, I believe. Not if there's a hell or what happens at what resurrection. This is why I try to the best of my ability to lift up Christ - so that one will be drawn to Him not a doctrine or a denomination or anything else. He will take care of the rest.

And I do appreciate your prayers for no one has all the answers. If I am delusional, I trust that God will lead me into all truth. For He will accomplish what He has begun in me. I believe that will all my heart.

Another reason why I didn't go into answering your post is that we were getting into a scripture battle which I believe is fruitless. If two are not in agreement.......well you know the rest. There's a connection that gets derailed when words and "being right" become more important than the Savior which bought us with His blood.

However, I know that I'll be back again after I retreat into His love- hiding in the shadow of His wings - waiting for the healing that WILL come through HIS love.

Reading the "love chapter" in Corinthians helps me to remember how HE loves. Love never fails. He has written that as a banner across my heart. This is my REALITY. This is my REAL God, sis. Not some dead words on a page - a list of do's and don'ts. No, He's the Living Word in action NOW in my life.

So you see we are coming from different views.

I pray abundant blessings to you in Christ Jesus, our Lord. \o/

In His Love, GH

 

GH,

I am sorry to hear that you are having trouble with your husband.

God's Will be done.

I do not see what I posted as a Scripture battle. You have been deceived by someone. It may even have been yourself. When we lean on our own understanding, and on the understanding of others, without weighing it against the whole of scripture, you get false doctrines.

That ONE passage I went through should have shown you that what you are thinking is impossible. That one passage I showed you in Jeramiah should have shown you that you are not understanding the nature of God.

But yet you say that 'if' your are dillusional that GOD will lead you into all truth? What do you think His Word is for?

His Word is Truth.

Do you LOVE the Truth?

2 Thess 2: 7. For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
8. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
9. Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
10. And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
12. That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

If you see God in a way that is contrary to His Word, then it is NOT the same God of the Bible. You have 'created' your own god. You aren't the first to do this, there is a whole denomination who has done this.

COME OUT of this deception, and KNOW God.

Here is my favorite Chapter on Love, from the Apostle whom JESUS loved. John understood the Love of God:

1 John 4

1. Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
2. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
3. And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
4. Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
5. They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.
6. We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
7. Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
8. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
9. In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
10. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
11. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
12. No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
13. Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.
14. And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
15. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
16. And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
17. Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
18. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
19. We love him, because he first loved us.
20. If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
21. And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

What does that tell you?

What is the power of God to Salvation?

Romans 1:16. For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
17. For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
18. For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
19. Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
20. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
21. Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
22. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23. And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
24. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
25. Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
26. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27. And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
28. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
29. Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30. Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31. Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
32. Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

There are so many places in the Bible that TELLS of the nature of God. He loves all, He IS Love, but yet in that LOVE He is TRUTH, and being Truth, He cannot fellowship with error. In that Truth, He is LIFE, to everyone that believes.

Continuity. If they speak not according to the Law and the Prophets, it is because there is NO LIGHT in them. You may have been able to sew together this doctrine from various scriptures, and make sense of it in your own mind, but what do you do with the rest of the Bible?

James 5: 19. Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;
20. Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.

Do you see that? Whoever CONVERTS someone saves his SOUL from DEATH.

God Bless