It’s fitting for a creature to worship his Creator.
You are His idea, after all.
Where would you be without Him?
You wouldn’t exist.
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To Ben Shapiro
Dear Ben,
If you’re absolutely sure Jesus didn’t rise from the dead, and, if it is true He didn’t rise, then Christianity would be a sick joke, based on a fairy tale.
We appreciate the genuine respect you have for Christians.
However, if Jesus did not rise again, and the early Jewish Christians deceived the whole world about it, then, according to your conviction, how could you respect Christians? If what you believe is true, then Christians are either monsters or simply insane.
You mention that you hold to the “Jewish belief ” concerning Messiah.
What you mean is the popular Jewish belief.
A significant number of Jews today don’t hold to the popular Jewish belief regarding Messiah.
And in the first century AD thousands of Jews believed Jesus to be the Jewish Messiah.
The antisemitic tendency in “Christendom” took centuries to develop, as Christianity departed from its Jewishness and from the King of the Jews.
In fact, first century Christianity was true spiritual Israel. See Romans 11. The Gentiles are grafted into Israel to be one people with the Jews, IN the Jewish Messiah, who is the King of Kings, the LORD of Heaven and Earth.
Your Jewish brothers who believed Jesus is their Messiah did so because they met Him alive from the dead.
If you met Him, would you change your mind?
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Jesus’ resurrection is not mythology – too many lives have been transformed for that to be the case, because belief in mythology doesn’t transform your life and set you free from sin’s power.
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The future will soon be here.
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If you’re in a condition where you know and admit you’re not free, then, what does Jesus have to say about it?
“If you continue in my word you are my disciples indeed, and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
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Faith grows through use.
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As God has been patient with you, accordingly, be patient with others.
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Jesus left His Father’s throne in Heaven to come to earth willingly, fully knowing that He would be nailed to a Cross, die, and rise again, redeeming a multitude of people, and that He would, as a Man, be the Head of this new human race.
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If the Holy Spirit is in us, He might speak to us at any moment, day or night, according to His good pleasure and purpose, even when we might not be expecting Him to.
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Anti-Christian prejudice is just as bad as racial prejudice.
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A good thing taken to excess is sin, but a bad thing is always sin, whether indulged in excess or not.
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“You can gauge what a person loves by what they devote time, resources, and passion to.”
–Michael Boldea, Jr.
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When someone doesn’t receive the fear of God they get a skewed or false understanding of the love of God.
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When you study any scripture, desire that the purpose God spoke it will be fulfilled in your life.
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The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Life, so to be filled with Him is to be fully alive.
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Sin will drain the life out of you, because the only life you have is from God.
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The concept of life only means anything in relation to God, the giver of life. What life is can only be understood in reference to God.
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Do people use social media to seek affirmation from others? The desire to be affirmed?
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The word “soul” crops up everywhere in the Bible, but these days it’s rarely used.
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In Christianity, the man-made things were made to serve man’s desires or interests, not God’s.
And God-ordained things serve God’s interest, not man’s.
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May you speak by the Spirit, and may the hearers hear by the Spirit.
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We cling to our life, but we don’t even know what it is.
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The life of God and the nature of God are synonymous.
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The kind of life we have in us determines the kind of life we live.
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God gives emotional experiences, but He doesn’t expect people to seek after emotional experiences, but rather, to seek Him and believe Him. There is a big difference between seeking God and seeking an experience.
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The one who cries out for mercy for others is the one who has, himself, received great mercy.
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When we tell people, ‘Jesus loves you!’, we also need to explain that all have sinned, fallen short of the glory of God, and are under His wrath. So, the way in which Jesus loves you was that He laid down His life for you, and now calls you to repent and come to Him, and come into His love, and escape His wrath. That’s what ‘Jesus loves you!’ means.
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Imagine a court room scene where the judge, jury and attorneys were all criminals. The accused would think, ‘These people aren’t qualified to judge me!’.
This is kind of why Jesus said, Don’t judge! Because, as all are sinners, how is one sinner qualified to judge a fellow sinner? If he did that, wouldn’t he be a hypocrite?
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Ecclesiastes 12:14
“For God will bring every work into judgment, Including every secret thing, Whether good or evil.”
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You know that everything that happens is going to be judged.
There will finally be perfect justice.
Injustices will be judged, so justice will finally be served in every outstanding case.
Whether you get justice now, justice will be served before too long.
Never be discouraged if it appears people are getting away with stuff. They’re not.
Everyone will have their day in court.
Jesus Christ will judge this world.
This present, lawless time is only a blip in light of eternity.
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The human condition is understood in view of man’s brokenness and alienation from God. This is how we understand our nature and behavior – a shared, common human condition, the result of sin separating man from God – sin permeated our nature, predisposing us to avoid and disobey God.
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In Christ, the more dead to sin, self and the world we become the more alive in Him we become. And the more alive in Him we become, the more we become dead to sin, self and the world.
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Transubstantiation and Baptismal Regeneration are by nature the same lie.
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The Word and the Spirit are both essential, like both wings of an eagle are essential.
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It’s not very loving to validate the false beliefs of another.
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If it were not for the grace of God where would you be?
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Vote for the party which is less antisemitic and less antichristian.
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A church is on the right track if everyone is growing in maturity, holiness and love, with each member becoming more effectual in prayer and in sharing the Gospel.
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If the religious rituals and traditions you practice originate from man and not God, then why are you doing them?
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Whenever someone pisses you off, just reserve judgment for five minutes, then review the case. It might not be so serious five minutes later.
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The true glory of God is so glorious that human beings would be terrified to witness it even for a few seconds.
It’s way more than goosebumps and soapy music.
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Don’t… “…give place to the devil”. (Ephesians 4:27)
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Don’t give him any place in your heart, mind or soul.
That is, don’t do things which give him a place in your life.
And walk in the Light, so there’s no place for darkness in you.
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God can have mercy on even the most evil people.
He will have mercy on whom He will have mercy, scripture says.
If He wills to have mercy on a very evil person, who can question it?
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Two great errors of judgment:
To think a work of God is a work of the devil.
Or to think a work of the devil is a work of God.
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1 John 5:10a
“He who believes in the Son of God has the witness in himself…”
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This witness is way deeper than our emotions because emotions fluctuate, but the witness of His Spirit never changes.
This witness causes us to not depend on how we feel.
This witness is a wellspring and anchor for our soul and mind.
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Romans 8:16
“The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,”
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The secular and political world can’t avoid dealing with moral issues, as the rule of law and upholding it all come under the category of morality, however, it’s got a problem as society degenerates, because the Biblical absolutes of morality are being abandoned, and immoral people are now deciding what is morally acceptable.
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Indoctrination of the youth, censorship and political correctness steer the population away from free and critical thinking and gets them to think in line with the government, and thus undermines democracy by stealth.
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We still have a responsibility to preserve the environment whether climate change is mainly due to human activity or not. Degrading the environment will directly impact human health and survival far more than climate change might.
I doubt it’s got much to do with human activity because the planet’s climate has undergone significant cyclic changes over recorded history, and none of these could be blamed on human activity.
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Only the HOLY Spirit can make us holy and keep us holy.
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If the Holy Spirit is in you, how much influence is He having on how you’re living out your day today?
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Those making a career in the church system often treat others as “objects of ministry” rather than life-long friends.
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If the Spirit of God is in you then demons should be afraid of you, not you afraid of them – evil people should be afraid of you, not you afraid of them. Because “greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world”.
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I think the main purpose of social media is to help us pray for people.
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My guess is the food in Heaven is neither meat or vegetables, but something much better than these. There’s stuff there we can’t even imagine or dream of.
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The most loving and compassionate thing we can do is point someone to Jesus.
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Praying for others is the most serious business on the planet.
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Quite amazing to consider we have the same Spirit in us which descended upon the Lord Jesus at His baptism, and the same Spirit who was in the Apostles…
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The true Gospel gives true hope, and a false gospel gives false hope.
You can walk into some churches and ask people if they’re saved or born again, and they have no idea what you’re talking about. That’s a false gospel and a false hope.
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All the graces of life: faith hope and love, goodness, righteousness, knowledge, have to be a gift otherwise people could boast about having them.