beloved57
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Yes and since we are as Isaac's are children of promise and we are the body of Christ, that means Isaac is part of the body of Christ as well! All the children of promise.
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Yes and since we are as Isaac's are children of promise and we are the body of Christ, that means Isaac is part of the body of Christ as well! All the children of promise.
Nanja
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Yes, I certainly know that to be absolutely true Brother: We are as Isaacs, the Children of Promise, and of the Body of Christ !
beloved57
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Amen because people don't believe the ot saints are part of the body of Christ.
Nanja
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Yes, and it's because as being merely a natural man, they are prevented from learning how to compare scripture with scripture as taught as in:
1 Cor. 2:12-14
12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
beloved57
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you certainly nailed it. Also I believe Heb 11:40
God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect
Speak to that. That Ot believers and Not Believers are one body of Christ
Nanja
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Amen Brother, the OT and NT Saints together from all time make up the Perfect Man.
Eph 4:13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
So the Fulness of Christ is comprised of His Saints, Believers from all time: One New Man Eph. 2:15.
beloved57
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Amen very enlightening!
Nanja
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TY, Glory to God !
Calvinists mistake the word "world" to mean "Church."
John 1:29
The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
beloved57
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Thats what it means in Jn 1:29, the world is the Elect or the Body of Christ. Its a no brainer really since we know everybody hasnt had their sin/sins removed or taken away. Many are going to hell for their sins.
To poor Bible students, the word "world" means "the elect" unless they want it to mean something else.
beloved57
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It means elect or the Church, or Sheep
The "world" does not mean "the Church" or "sheep" except in the minds of bad Bible students.
John 14:17
Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
beloved57
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Yes it does mean that.
Not all who claim to be called are elect. In fact, just a few of those who think they are elect will prove to have the real thing.
Matthew 7:21
Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
Matthew 22:14
For many are called, but few are chosen.
Therefore, Calvinists who rejoice in the delusion that they are special and beloved of God while the rest of the world are condemned of God for reasons He does not share, should take care to give diligence to make their calling and election sure.
2 Peter 1:10
Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: