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It's not free. It comes with a contingency and that is that one MUST believe a certain way.
It's really a person saving themselves. Sin is a made-up condition to sell a made-up solution. It's just good business.
The Bible does not preach a works based salvation. Never has and never will.
A person can not save themselves, or Jesus Christ wouldn't have needed to do what He did to forgive us of our sin.
If I must do something to be saved.
How is that anything other than me saving me?
1.) You must first examine and look at what you consider to be your failings, and see what you have done lives up to the value system you have now.
If you can find these things, and find moments where you cannot live up to your own standards, then you must ask: "How then could I have lived up to God's standards?"
2.) If you have the humility there to look inwardly and find failings, and you have decided that they were failings, you have to acknowledge that you have taken a critical step. You have changed your mind, and by this, we mean, repented. Repentance means to change your mind.
If you have repented, or realized and judged for yourself that you have been or have walked in error, and changed your ways regarding this, then consider this.
3.) A repentant man is a man who wants to forgive himself, but what is more important is forgiveness of God. There is a free gift of forgiveness of sins if we but ask. All we need to do, is to acknowledge and confess our faith in Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who is able to forgive you, who is able to make that intercession between our sins, our failures, before Almighty God. We open the door, to that knock on our heart's door.
4.) Finally, now that we have answered the door, and invited Jesus in, we want to walk with him who has saved us by his death on the cross. We want to avoid sin, we want to remain open to serving the Lord, and sharing our testimony with others, that the seeds we plant, may be watered, and grow into salvation and forgiveness of sins in the life of another who has realized their mistakes.
God is so much love that he gave his begotten Son, a Son of his own nature, perfect and blameless to die a brutal death, after humiliation, mockery, betrayal, sport, and hatred, by the very people he came to save. If you will let go of the pride, drop the guard, and simply reach out to him, you may be surprised.
I found Lord Jesus when my pride was in tatters, and with my ego stilled, when I had realized the magnitude of so many failures, lines walked, filthy moments, and I reached out. He was there. I hope the same for you. Honestly.
You must believe to be saved. This is not the same as being saved through good works. Belief is not a work. It's not a thing you do in the world for the good of other people or for the good of the world.
You can't be good to be saved because we are not perfect and God's standard is perfection. i.e. you can't save yourself by being a good person because none of us are.
I'll tell you a little secret.
Our beliefs are not the product of desire or will alone. They're the product of circumstance and experience.
Belief is the lotto and rewarding/punishing anyone based on it, is unjust.
You and your god don't even understand the simple fundamentals on how humans function. It's a bit embarrassing for you all.
Anyway, I'm moving on.
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See? You all fail at simple logic. If I MUST do something to be saved. It's all up to me to save me. I state this very obvious logical concept and get down-voted for it.
It's not even worth the conversation at this point. We can't even agree on fundamentals.
Love your enemies and don't trespass against those that trespass against you.
Sounds like God could learn from reading his own book.
That's like thanking the gun manufacturer when you pulled the trigger yourself. You saved yourself.
Nice try.
No, not an atheist.
A flawed analogy. God made us perfect; we CHOSE to rebel alongside Satan.
The gun was always necesary for self-defense, but we chose to commit an offense with it.
The gun is free will. Without free will, you are naught more than an automaton. Without free will, you have no sentience, only obedience.
Do you think God would want to surround himself with people that couldn't freely think for themselves, or choose for themselves?
It would be like a collection of fine tools; All nice, but ultimately unable to do anything outside of the artisan. A robotic arm can do nothing without a programmer, despite endless possibility, if it is not told to perform an action, it cannot, and will not perform that action.
You get a chance to choose, remain in rebellion, or surrender those sins to Jesus Christ who can save you. If you die with those sins still of your own account, then you will account for them all before the Father, when he decides if you should depart with the damned.
Make no mistake, God will put an end to suffering, misery, pain, strife; but to do that, he must make a full end of sin and those who remain in rebellion.
It is my personal belief, not scripturally backed, that God wants people who have known the pain of sin who desire to put it behind them, that will be his people. This is what I want for sure, to be remade, and be perfect. I don't deserve it, but I hope for it none the less.
Sorry, my analogy is accurate.
I must make a choice, I must save myself. It's simple.
"It comes with a contingency and that is that one MUST believe a certain way."
Correct. One must believe the Truth.
"Beliefs" can be right or wrong.
Jesus said "I am the Way, the TRUTH, and the Life.
Believe in Him.
See this is where you have to have come to an understanding of objective good and evil. Let me tell you a story of one of the sins that I am not proud about.
I slept around with married women, on more than one occasion. I knowingly did this, because I wanted to have sex. I was desperate, not just for sex, which was the idol I bowed before, but for validation, and to be wanted. What I did was wrong. I violated the trust of other people, it was unethical. As a matter of fact I slept around while I was married, but separated, with other married but separated people too, and the separation was my fault. I frequented massage parlors, strip clubs, and had sexual interactions with anyone who would have me. I eventually contracted and STD. I received the penalty for my errors. I consider this to be a mercy now. A wake up call that what I was doing and how I was living was incorrect.
What I was doing was wrong. People hurt because of me. People suffered because of me, not only that, I suffered because of me, my psyche suffered because of me. I look back on these things and I hurt. I am sad. I know other people hurt because of me. I am honestly sorry that I ever did these things, and that is the key.
"Repentance" means to have a "change of mind." I changed my mind; I was not a good and upright person.
It was revealed to me by natural revelation, it was unclean, unsightly, unholy, it promoted the breakup of marriages. It was unsightly, it was incorrect, it was not upright.
Salvation is freely given. There is nothing that you could do to earn it. Jesus Christ already paid the debt on the cross. I deserve 100% to burn in hell. I know that with every fiber of my being.
You remain in rebellion, because you ultimately choose to bow before the sin, before the ego, before the pleasures of the world, carnality. I know for a fact you have a lifetime of unsavory interactions, weakness, things that you would rather the light never touch. All sinners have this shame.
You know in your heart of hearts that the sin is wrong. You know deep down, that the sin makes you feel uneasy. You think it is conditioning, but I know it is shame.
Change your mind, or as we say, repent. Repent and Acknowledge the Savior, the Son of God, the one who can save you from hellfire, who can remake you without those sins.
This is why I serve Jesus, and while you may not trust what I have to say, I can tell you that my life is better, I am happier, and I have resolved to change because there was hope for me. Without Lord Jesus, I would have ended my life.
I found him crying in my project car, wanting to die for all of my sins, failures, unsavory moments, weaknesses, failings, and unrighteousness. He saved me and pulled me out. So I serve him, and I hope that my testimony reaches you honestly.