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2月29日 Talking about GODS' LOVE
Quote GODS' LOVE WALKING BY FAITH, NOT BY SIGHTI was driving from Bay City, Texas to Houston one night, trying to get back in time to be ready to take a call from the job. I was working on the railroad at the time and being a rookie I really wanted to make it there and not have the Trainmaster all over me. Well to my dismay as i drove down a road that I wasn't that familiar with, I ran into some dense fog. Although I was not too familiar with the highway I had been down the road and I knew that it would take me to the interstate highway. It was supposed to be a short cut, but it was beginning to be a cause of concern for me as the fog continued to roll in. Things got so bad that I had to slow down to about 10 miles an hour. Shortcut or not, this was going to make me late if things continued this way. As I slowly made my way to Houston I offered up a prayer to God. I prayed that HE would move the fog so that I could make it back to Houston on time, and I closed with 'in JESUS name, Amen and thanks'. Now I'm riding believing that as I travel this road things were going to get better. This was not the way things started after the prayer. The fog got so thick until the speed went to a crawl because I couldn't tell if I was still on the road or not! Suddenly the voice of satan, and the spirit of doubt started to make inroads with my faith. The first thought was that maybe I should turn around and go back the way that was more familiar to me, in hopes that the fog wouldn't be as thick there. As soon as that thought came to my mind, and I was really thinking about making that move, the Holy Spirit spoke to me and said ' if you turn back, you will never know if GOD answered your prayer.' As I thought on this and continued forth, I saw where it made all the sense inn the world to me. This is what asking in faith is all about! Standing fast and seeing the GOD work. Sure, it stayed thick and dense for a few more miles, but for those next few miles all I concentrated on was, 'If I turned back I would never know if GOD answered my prayer'. So I kept going forth, and as I did the fog began to lift, and slowly but surely I could see the sky, and then the stars and the night turned into one of the most beautiful starry nights that I have ever seen in my lifetime. Because I didn't turn back I saw that GOD answered my prayer, and I saw the beauty of trusting and believing. Even now when things seem to get dark for me, I think of that night and that drive and I know that it is not what I see that matters in this life, it is in whom do I trust. Because of GOD I not only made it there safely, I also made it there 2月27日 nothings' hereOK I'm back. now the thing that i want to make known to all is that i am not here to be here or there i just want to get in the mind of the matter and let you see what you see and then get out of here. so take a few moments to collect yourself and then i will be back to you and things will get better...i promise. ken 2月1日 lies they tell on Christiansrecently i was watching bill mahers' show and there was this gay guy who was on a rant about Christianity, and Christians. well he talked about how Christians belive that homosexuals should be stoned, and he used the Old Testament to back up the things that he said. this is so typical of the ignorant and unlearned. he also went to the streets of south carolina and asked some conservative christians this question: which is the biggest abomination in the eyes of God; two gay men who are lovers and totally committed to each other, or a bigamist who has twelve wives? this so called pastor said that he would think it would be the two gay guys. so he asked him did he think that God would be more angry at two guys than he would be at thirtheen people, and the pastor said yes.
why am i, as a Christian, being condemned by this guys so called christianity? First of all, God see sin as sin so they all will suffer the same extent of wrath from God as all sinners do. as for the stoning of the homosexuals? Christians do not believe that. we know that God sent Jesus in this world to save lives, not to destroy it. we also know that we are not to judge a matter before it is complete. Christians are Christ followers, there is no where in the New Testament where Jesus tell us to stone anyone. gays are the enemy of Christians, but we have been commaded to love our enemies, to pray for them, and to do good to them, and to love them as we love ourselves. i see them as my enemy but that does ot give me the right to stone them, to wish that they die, to hate them, or to take to the street and protest against their right to sin. those who do these things are not christians, they are just lost.
Christians understand that we all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. we also understand that Jesus came and died for all mankinds sin, and we know that some of us have come out of situations just as worthy of death as those of the gays and lesbians. because we realize these things we know that what we have to do is pray for the Spirit of God to have his way in their lost lives and that somewhere, some way, some how they are touched by the love of Jesus that has been shown through the lives of christians and they walk out of their darkness into the marvelous light of God.
there are no gay saints. there also are no saints who are murderers or adulterers, or liars, or any other thing that can be named who will not be found in the kingdom of God. there are saints who were once gay, but they have been changed. saints who were once adulterers,but are now changed and saved and a new creation. christians understand these things because we follow the New Testamet... we realize that it was LOVE that made GOD send JESUS. and we know as followers of JESUS we have to LOVE. love will never exalt itself to the point where it thinks that it is so much better than another person to the extent where we can kill someone because they are not like us. love teaches us that each man has to make his own choice, and no one has the right to try and make anyone choose what they want them to. we believe that we have the truth, just like others believe that what they have is the truth, Christians do not try and shove our truths down others throat...those who the world see doing this are not Christians, they are just as much enemies of Christianity as homosexuality, and witch craft.. no those who think that others should be stone, or of the false teachers who have infiltrated the church.
so worldly folk when you are going to talk about what christians believe please read what we read, and learn what we have learned, and by the time you have done that...you will be CHRISTIANS.
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