You dont believe scripture !
you don't either and you even confirmed that in all your posts. Move on !
You dont believe scripture !
When God gives a Gift, its not as the Antichrist servants make it out to be, a offer for man to decide with his freewill on whether or not he is going to take it, for that is nothing but a diabolically lie, not supported by scripture, yet when He gives us a Gift He ensures the communication of the benefits of it so that we come into the possession of the Gift, or otherwise it was never a Gift given by God !
Remember when the Jewish Apostles knew that God gave the Gentiles the same Gift as they, which is speaking of the Spirit, its because they seen it with their own eyes that the Gentiles had the same experience as they had at the beginning, for we read Acts 10:45-47
45 And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured or bestowed out the gift of the Holy Ghost.
46 For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then answered Peter,
47 Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?
Also notice in Vs 47 the word received the greek lambanō and means:
II.to receive (what is given), to gain, get, obtain, to get back
In other words, it does not mean something offered here, but something given so that it was possessed , obtained !
The Holy Ghost was not offered to the Gentiles, but it was Sovereignly pored out upon them by the Sovereign Christ Acts 10:45
45 And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.
That word pour ekcheō can also mean bestowed upon !
45 And the believers from among the circumcised [the Jews] who came with Peter were surprised and amazed, because the free gift of the Holy Spirit had been bestowed and poured out largely even on the Gentiles.AMP
BTW this was in line with the Redemptive Purpose of Christ, that the Gentiles receive the Holy Spirit Gal 3:13-14
13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
14 That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
Acts 11:17
17 Forasmuch then as God gave them the like gift as he did unto us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ; what was I, that I could withstand God?
Again they received the Gift because God gave it to them into possession of it !
So whenever we hear of those speaking of Salvation being a Gift but yet its not yours until you accept it, they are deceivers and liars ! Thats not how God gives Gifts , thats a man made devil inspired lie !
Amen! God gives His Gifts to whosoever He pleases.
If a person maintains they have Salvation because they have the right
to make the decision, of their own FREEWILL, to merely accept it,
they are not only believing a lie, but have usurped the Authority of God:
Attempting to take from God what does not belong to them; exactly the
same wicked pride exhibited in the devil's I WILL agenda Is. 14:13-14!
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Amen! God gives His Gifts to whosoever He pleases.
If a person maintains they have Salvation because they have the right
to make the decision, of their own FREEWILL, to merely accept it,
they are not only believing a lie, but have usurped the Authority of God:
Attempting to take from God what does not belong to them; exactly the
same wicked pride exhibited in the devil's I WILL agenda Is. 14:13-14!
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Amen, Thank God for your comments here !
God is Glorified in the scriptural Truths you have presented in this thread!
Our Lord shall continue to Bless You!
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Heb 3:12
Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
Many false teachers of the antichrist suasion will tell us that Christ did not die for the sin of unbelief or the evil heart of unbelief, which is a departure from the Living God, in fact the sin that Adam committed in the beginning, a departure from The Law of God, and we are told that Christ did not die for this sin of unbelief.
Now what a travesty this is to the Lord Jesus Christ, that the one sin [according to them] that can send a person to hell though He died for them, thats the sin He did not die for !
Now that being the case, if a person He died for becomes saved from their sins, because they believed, an act of theirs, because they believed, which otherwise, even though Christ died for their sins, it was not the sole fact that He died for their sins [which He did alone] but it was the fact that they believed, something they did, and apparently with an evil heart, it was that they did with their evil heart that saved them from the penalty of their sins, which makes what they did [their act of belief with an evil heart] that which actually saved them from the penalty of their sins, and not what Christ did, because they say Christ did not die for the sin of unbelief !
Christ died for all sin, including unbelief for all of His Elect.
They were chosen to salvation and belief of the Truth. 2 Thes. 2:13
Because their sanctification and belief of the Truth is the effect and result of them
being chosen to salvation Eph. 1:13-14, if one maintains that his own work of believing
is what resulted in his Salvation, even one Christ died for, he is placing trust in his own action
and not solely on the Work of Christ for him.
Any religion that teaches man's cooperation is essential or contributory to Salvation,
even in the most minute way, is antichrist.
Rev. 18:4 KJV !
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I.
to say the same thing as another, i.e. to agree with, assent
II.
to concede
A.
not to refuse, to promise
B.
not to deny
i.
to confess
ii.
declare
iii.
to confess, i.e. to admit or declare one's self guilty of what one is accused of
III.
to profess
A.
to declare openly, speak out freely
B.
to profess one's self the worshipper of one
IV.
to praise, celebrate
There are many in false religion that teach that in order for God to save a person, they must confess something like Rom 10:9-10
9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
The word confess here is the greek word homologeō and means:
And the word here is a active voice which means:
The active voice represents the subject as the doer or performer of the action. e.g., in the sentence, "The boy hit the ball," the boy performs the action.
Now such a teaching is teaching the doing of works, the performance of an action in order for God to save you, this is a False teaching and teacher who teaches such thing !
Anyone teaching that a person must do Rom 10:9-10 in order for God to save them is a false teacher !
Very few people believe in the total inability of man !Amen!
An unsaved person, in the flesh, has no ability to do any works that can please God Rom.8:7-8; Jer. 17:9.
Only once a person has experienced the New Birth, can he confess the Lord Jesus,
now being in total agreement with who He is and exactly what He accomplished for all those
He died for. For then he is able to believe, in his "new heart" Ezek. 36:26-27 and please God.
Eph. 2:8-9
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves:
it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.
For men boast in their "freewill" !
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Very few people believe in the total inability of man !
Only possible by God's Grace... forever thankful to Him! Ps. 92:1-2
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I.
to render or acknowledge, or to be venerable or hallow
II.
to separate from profane things and dedicate to God
A.
consecrate things to God
B.
dedicate people to God
III.
to purify
A.
to cleanse externally
B.
to purify by expiation: free from the guilt of sin
C.
to purify internally by renewing of the soul