Difficult Roads Often Lead to Beautiful Destinations
Theology and Politics from a Conservative, Biblical Perspective
Anyone who has been an authentic Christian for any length of time concludes that being a Christian in a world ruled by Satan (under God’s providence and sovereignty), is not easy. In fact, there are many potential problems and pitfalls that are encountered every day. There are times of hardship, loss, bereavement, sadness and disappointment as well as times of joy, excitement, and a peace that seems enduring.
This life – even at the best of times – seems to change on a dime. Things can be going along great only to turn sad or tragic the next moment, right out of the blue, with no warning.
This is due to the fact that sin has tainted everything in God’s Creation. There is nothing that has been exempted from the effects of sin, allowed in because our first parents thought they knew better than God and opted to choose what they thought was God’s way. In actuality, they chose the same path that Satan had chosen before them; a path of self-righteous, self-pleasing, self-centeredness that immediately reversed their direction from facing God to turning their backs on Him. Nothing good can come of that.
Once sin entered this world, it spread to everything. Immediately, things began to go from wonderful peace to physical death and upheaval. Because of sin, God placed a curse over the entire Creation, which changed the way the animals behaved. Some went from being vegetarians to being carnivores. Though this situation will be reversed during the coming Millennial Kingdom, a pecking order among species was developed with the more powerful predators eyeing the less powerful prey.
Adam would now do the same work he had done prior to the fall (farming), but now it would actually cause him to sweat and experience pain and soreness. While part of the curse, this was also a benefit of sorts because it meant that without physical labor, muscles and ligaments would simply atrophy and stop working altogether.
As we move through the Old Testament, the reality of sin speaks to us from each page of Holy Writ. It paints a portrait of the inevitable consequences of failure, resulting in sin. I look at the amazingly pitiful picture of one life after another and am appalled. Yet, I cannot dare to stand in judgment of those individuals because I too, am a sinner, only saved by grace.
After Solomon died, eventually Israel divided itself into two kingdoms, the North and the South. Judah – representing the Southern Kingdom – tried to remain faithful to God. Out of all the kings who ruled over Israel’s northern kingdom, none were good. Of the many who ruled over Israel’s southern kingdom, only a few were good. The rest? All were evil. Whether it was Omri, Ahab, or numerous other kings, these individuals – even if they started out on the right path – became perverted in their loyalty to God and followed after other gods. This spiritual adultery is essentially what happens when people choose a path other than the one ordained by God.
This girl tries to find comfort from a dead animal. Do we know the blessings and comfort we have in Christ? That truth should keep us within the circle of fellowship with God.
Even though authentic Christians are saved or born from above (John 3), with the Holy Spirit taking up residence within us for several purposes, not least of which is recreating the image of Christ within, we have our own ability to choose the path that we will take. It’s not as though once we get on the narrow path, it’s a straight shot to heaven either. It is filled with turns, temptations that seek to pull us off the path onto one that moves away from fellowship with God. Each day, the authentic Christian is faced with decisions that impact the ability to stay on the straight and narrow. Oh and by the way, we’re not talking about the possibility of losing one’s salvation here. We are talking about the constant chance of moving out of fellowship with God. This is what each Christian faces every day.
When King David followed his lust over Bathsheba, that led him to want to sleep with her though she was a married woman. After sleeping with her, Bathsheba became pregnant with David’s child. Instead of confessing his sin and trying to do what was right, he doubled down and had Bathsheba’s husband Uriah killed in battle. Even though most of us are aghast that someone of David’s stature could sink so low, there is no indication that David lost his salvation, though he was certainly concerned about God removing the Holy Spirit (the joy of my salvation) from him (Psalm 51:11).
While I truly understand how some understand Scripture to teach that salvation can be lost, I find no such proof of it in Scripture. If you believe that salvation can be lost, that’s up to you, but I’ll certainly not debate that subject with you. While I do not believe salvation can be lost, the Christian can absolutely lose the joy of their salvation if they walk away from active fellowship with God. This, my friends, is the constant danger for each Christian as we navigate our way through this life and that is what makes the journey so perilous in many ways.
Each day is a new beginning for each Christian. Will you walk through this day seeking God and uniting yourself with Him in fellowship or will you go it alone, doing your own thing in Christ’s Name.
Though this life is often filled with storms, difficulties, and problems, the Christian is on the only path that ends well. Christians, due to their faith in God and His extended grace and forgiveness, will end this life with the greatest reward of all. Our path – and only our path – leads to heaven, where God dwells, where we will not only never sin again, but will never even be tempted to sin. The path that we are on is often difficult because it is opposed to the world’s system. That alone creates the drama, the problems, the issues that normally would not be there and will not exist in eternity.
The end of our earthly sojourn provides us with the full realization of the greatest gift God gave; salvation. This is exactly why I believe the apostle John tells us how to get through this life victoriously.
We know that whenever it is revealed we will be like him, because we will see him just as he is. 3 And everyone who has this hope focused on him purifies himself, just as Jesus is pure). – 1 John 3:2b-3 NET
When we leave this life, we will truly see Him as He is now. John promises that “we will be like him,” which means among other things, that we will have absolutely no ability to sin, ever. That “hope” (as in sure thing), should cause us to focus on Him and the fact that we will be like Him. Doing so “purifies” us because it immediately helps us to focus on the best course of action to take in each situation we face.
As long as we live in this life, we will always be tempted to break fellowship with God. It is like steering a boat through a windstorm with bits of respite here and there. We must actively engage our minds to determine our steps. If the temptation is to do or say something that pulls us away from our fellowship with God, it should be rejected. Admittedly, that is not an easy thing to do all the time.
Fortunately, even in our sin, God holds out His hand of forgiveness and welcome back to fellowship with Him. The problems of life are what make this path so difficult even though we know what the end of the path yields and bring us to.
May we endeavor to understand our path and understand the things that try to pull us away from fellowship with God. May the Lord bless you and I pray that He will open your eyes to show you how blessed you are in Him.
Theology and Politics from a Conservative, Biblical Perspective
Source: https://studygrowknowblog.com/2017/04/13/difficult-roads-often-lead-to-beautiful-destinations/
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(simply because you “confess” it does not mean you actually are, the devil has deceived many of his own children to believe they are Christians 2Tim 3:5)
#1 “ONE” not triune: THE ANTI CHRIST….WHERE? WHERE?….EVERYWHERE!!! …..IT”S YOU O TRINITARIAN!
“WHO” it was (what person) that came “IN THE FLESH”, IS THE DETERMINING FACTOR IN WHAT IT MEANS TO BE “ANT-CHRIST”! Even Islam claims Jesus was the Jewish messiah/Christ who was to come in the flesh) they all deny “WHO” it was (what person) that came (to be the Christ) in the flesh!?!…….To deny the father is to deny the son because they are one and the same person that came in the flesh! https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/part-6-anti-christ-where-everywhere-allen-daves?trk=mp-reader-card
JOHN 14: 8-20 where Christ specifically identifies himself (his person as the person of both the father and the HS; the only distinction is in “location” and “method of manifestation” …….Note Isaiah 9:6. For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: …: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, … the everlasting Father ….The son, father/Holy Spirit are all the same person, NOT like two different persons working together even as “one flesh” ….The “oneness” between Christ and the father is not comparable to a man & his wife, for only a fool would say “When you have seen me you have seen my wife, how sayest thou then, Shew us your wife?” Notice they asked to see THE FATHER and the response was Jn 14:9 ..“HAVE I BEEN SO LONG time with you, and yet hast THOU NOT KNOW ME, Philip…..Now image some fool trying to claim that statement if you asked to see his wife!?!!? You want to see the FATHER but have I been with you but you don’t know me!?!?! https://www.scribd.com/doc/305367608/The-Trinity-Heresy
Jn 14 continued….…………..17. Even THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH; (Jn 14:6 I AM the way, THE TRUTH,) whom the world cannot receive, .. for HE DEWLLETH WITH YOU, (present tense/standing next to them in the flesh) and SHALL BE IN YOU… (future tense “In them”) 18. I will not leave you comfortless: I WILL COME TO YOU (future tense “In them”) Note: The spirit of Christ is the sprit of God and the holy spirit that is why Christ said “I will come to you” (to comfort them, because Christ is the comforter). The spirit was standing next to them in flesh… ….latter it would come to them to be inside of them (inside of their flesh as the spirit we are given)…..that is why. he would send the spirit…… However, Jesus himself here makes the point that the same person who was the HOLY SPIRIT that would come was standing next to them but lets them know “I will come to you again to be Inside of you”
The whole point to Gal 3:20.a mediator is NOT A MEDIATOR OF ONE, (HEIS) but GOD IS ONE. (HEIS) again, point blank, identifies the number of persons of God! The “but” points out the contrast between multiple persons in a mediation party v the “one” of God. God is not like a mediation party with multiple different persons. …..”the express image of his person” ( the person of God; singular not plural).Any attempt to lay claim otherwise is willful ignorance and delusional nonsense https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/part-1-echadechadmy-godgod-echad-allen-daves?trk=mp-reader-card
NOTE: don’t be that one in prov 26:12 over my use of the word “fool” here prov 18:13 (https://www.scribd.com/presentation/322007258/Fools ) “But but, the gospel of John…the Gospel of John …look look…” which is quite ironic since the gospel of John does not leave ANY room for multiple different persons of Jesus and father. However the gospel of John does leave a few verses that facilitate God’s promise in 2 Thess 2:11/ Isaiah 66:4 (take note of “HAND” in verse 2,14..You just can’t make this stuff up…God is surely laughing at these fools; Ps 2:1&4)
……Mark 12:28…Which is the first commandment of all? 29. …Hear, O Israel; THE LORD OUR GOD IS ONE LORD: 30. And ………..this is the first commandment….. 31. And the second is…..
JESUS IS GOD AND IS THE FULLFILMENT OF ALL THE LAW AND PROPHETS SO IF YOU CAN’T GET THIS “FIRST OF ALL COMMANDMENTS” RIGHT, ALL THE REST OF YOUR “FAITH” AND PREACHING ON SIN IS MOOT
TRINITARIANS CONFESS JESUS /THEY ARE NOT POLYTHEIST BUT ARE MONOTHEIST LIKE A LIAR & THIEF WHO “CONFESS” THEY DO NOT LIE OR STEAL The simple fact is that just because you confess or deny that you are in an adulterous relationship and denounce all forms of adultery has nothing to do with whether or not it is in fact adulterous! .. …A rose by any other name is still just a rose AND calling it a water lily does not change the definition of what a water Lilly or a rose is either!…No, Trinitarians confess & preach literally …”ANOTHER JESUS” 2 Cor 11:4
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- Like a thief in your house caught stealing your things insisting he was not there stealing “I CONFESS I am NOT stealing”. You just do not “properly understand” what he is doing/saying. Further, since you never had a “proper understanding” of what he is doing/saying you have no business accusing him since you do not even know what you are talking about in the first place. It is with and in your own ignorance that you base your “false accusations” & “ad homonym attacks” against him…… Ridiculous of course it is ……2Thess 2:11; Titus 1:16; 2Tim 3:5;
- A Favorite tool for pathological liars is to use incongruent definitions or create oxymorons out of synonyms such as “a person” and “a being” so as to claim that your god is THREE DIFFERENT PERSONS but ONLY ONE BEING: Which is (1) no different then trying to claim that “THREE DIFFERENT CARS” is “THE ONE VEHICLE” (2) blatant demonstration of the dishonesty & sorcery these children of hell will employ with “a strait face” (which is in part what it means to be a pathological liar)
……but, ah i remember how this game is played… “God is three in one” (or 1in 3 or 3in one et al) should have given you a hint, harking back to Satan in The garden…God said you will die…Satan comes along and states no you will be more WISE……today .God said He is one; but Satan’s children come along and say no three is more WISE and humble in the face of God’s grandeur only “a mystery” that can be understood “in faith”. God uses head and right arm to explain the distinctions between father and son.. However, the Trinitarian heretics say to the effect: “NO, that is just a figure of speech, or that is not what God really means. What God is really saying is that God is three different persons”. Fools, hypocrites and blind guides, God said he was One and by your traditions and vain imaginations have taken the words of God and made them of no effect, refashioning God into your image!
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#2 SECOND COMING Thou Fool! “I come quickly” so “Hold fast
till i come”… NOT …“in another 2000 yrs I might be coming soon any time now, so hold fast”!?! …those that deny the second coming of Christ in the war of AD70 are practicing a damnable heresy in denying the lord that bought them ( 2Peter 2:1-2 ;2Tim 4:8/ you cant love an appearing you deny& the context is the 2nd coming not the first)… Mat 7:23..”I NEVER KNEW YOU” …..Mat 10:33. But whosoever shall deny me before men……..sound familiar?…. If I said I am coming to your house in this generation when these things happen but no one knows the day or hour what fool would think I might be coming in 2000 years latter!?!? ..2 Tim 4: 4. And
they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be TURNED UNTO FABLES.
2Thess 2: 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.
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#3 There is a sharp contrast between THREE groups :
(1) “PREDESTINED DAMNED” who were NEVER written in the book of life ………..Rev 17: 8 WHOSE NAMES WERE NOT WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD, …as contrasted …EPH 1: 4. According as he hath CHOSEN US in him BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD
(2) “MANY CALLED”= ONLY and ALL SAINTS (those who come to Christ) are written in the book of life … Philippians 4:3… ……Rev 21:27; (Only saints are Called and elect; Rom 1:6-7 et al) This is THE CHRUCH and ONLY these can have their names blotted out of the book of life ….….Heb 12:23 to the general assembly and CHURCH of the firstborn … WHICH ………are WRITTEN in heaven,
(3) THE FEW CHOSEN: Those saints who were alive in group #2 who are now physically dead. They died “faithful” these are the FEW that were chosen faithful…….Rev 3:5. ……; and I
will not BLOT OUT HIS NAME OUT OF THE BOOK OF LIFE, (Ps 69:28) …. These are the FEW that are CHOSEN and now that they have died and are saved then “once saved THEY CAN NEVER BE LOST”
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