Alan Gross
Well-Known Member
Does God accept your worship, this morning?
Maybe, this is the Day Jesus will Return.
What will you be doing, when He does?
from: Predestination
"Does not Predestination render unnecessary the use of means?"
"No; for it teaches that God ordains the means as well as the end.
"Thus, He ordains that His people shall enter into eternal life;
and, that they might be prepared for this,
that they shall be holy and without blame before Him in love,
and that this state might be attained, that they shall have faith,
which works by love and purifies the heart and overcomes the world;
and that they might have faith, that they shall hear the gospel,
and, therefore, that it shall be preached.
"Thus Paul stated to the ship’s company that it had been revealed to him
that every soul on board should be saved, but yet,
when the sailors essayed to lower the boat,
Paul said to the centurion and the soldier,
except these abide in the ship, ye cannot be saved (Acts 27:21-31).
Did the centurion and the soldiers demur at this
as inconsistent with the unqualified statement of the angel?
"No: believing that God had ordained the means as well as the end
they cut the rope and thus detained the sailors on board.
...
100 Bible Verses about:
We Were Made To Bring Glory To God!
Note from: INTRODUCTION
Searching the scripture to see what His church began, both to do and to teach, and continues to do and to teach. That is how you are going to know what His church is.
If you could go back and just take a lineage, and go down the line, and say here is the lineage: this church came out of this church, which came out of this church, you will actually prove nothing. Brother John Hinson told me that he saw, on a wall in a Greek Orthodox Church in Athens, Greece, a plaque which gave the lineage of that church, all the way back to the Lord Jesus Christ. And he asked the man, "Can you prove this?"
And he said, "I certainly can."
Now, that church is many, many years old.
And do you know something? Because it is a Greek Orthodox Catholic Church, they very well might be able to prove its lineage.
Does that prove its doctrinal soundness?
Its forefathers went out from the truth, and into heresy, and they continued in heresy, and they multiplied in heresy.
Where they came from is no longer the real issue.
What they went into is the issue. They went into heresy.
But I will tell you this, if we will search the scripture and see what the Lord began to do and to teach, we will find that it was not what they are doing and teaching, so they are not His church.
It is what we are doing and teaching that identifies us.
Do you not follow what I am talking about?
When you find a church that teaches and practices what the Lord did, then confess in your heart, and glorify God. `His promise is true. He built His church and the gates of Hell have not prevailed against it.'
Maybe, this is the Day Jesus will Return.
What will you be doing, when He does?
from: Predestination
"Does not Predestination render unnecessary the use of means?"
"No; for it teaches that God ordains the means as well as the end.
"Thus, He ordains that His people shall enter into eternal life;
and, that they might be prepared for this,
that they shall be holy and without blame before Him in love,
and that this state might be attained, that they shall have faith,
which works by love and purifies the heart and overcomes the world;
and that they might have faith, that they shall hear the gospel,
and, therefore, that it shall be preached.
"Thus Paul stated to the ship’s company that it had been revealed to him
that every soul on board should be saved, but yet,
when the sailors essayed to lower the boat,
Paul said to the centurion and the soldier,
except these abide in the ship, ye cannot be saved (Acts 27:21-31).
Did the centurion and the soldiers demur at this
as inconsistent with the unqualified statement of the angel?
"No: believing that God had ordained the means as well as the end
they cut the rope and thus detained the sailors on board.
...
100 Bible Verses about:
We Were Made To Bring Glory To God!
Note from: INTRODUCTION
Searching the scripture to see what His church began, both to do and to teach, and continues to do and to teach. That is how you are going to know what His church is.
If you could go back and just take a lineage, and go down the line, and say here is the lineage: this church came out of this church, which came out of this church, you will actually prove nothing. Brother John Hinson told me that he saw, on a wall in a Greek Orthodox Church in Athens, Greece, a plaque which gave the lineage of that church, all the way back to the Lord Jesus Christ. And he asked the man, "Can you prove this?"
And he said, "I certainly can."
Now, that church is many, many years old.
And do you know something? Because it is a Greek Orthodox Catholic Church, they very well might be able to prove its lineage.
Does that prove its doctrinal soundness?
Its forefathers went out from the truth, and into heresy, and they continued in heresy, and they multiplied in heresy.
Where they came from is no longer the real issue.
What they went into is the issue. They went into heresy.
But I will tell you this, if we will search the scripture and see what the Lord began to do and to teach, we will find that it was not what they are doing and teaching, so they are not His church.
It is what we are doing and teaching that identifies us.
Do you not follow what I am talking about?
When you find a church that teaches and practices what the Lord did, then confess in your heart, and glorify God. `His promise is true. He built His church and the gates of Hell have not prevailed against it.'