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Admin	However harsh His hand may be................ Posted : 24 Feb, 2011 05:24 PM However harsh His hand may be Thomas Brooks ("A Heavenly Cordial" 1665) None of God's afflictions upon His people ever make any change or alteration of God's affections towards His people. However harsh His hand may be against them� yet His love, His heart, His favor, His affections�are still one and the same to them. When Munster lay sick, and his friends asked him how he felt? He pointed to his sores and ulcers, whereof he was full, and said, "These are God's gems and jewels with which he decks His best friends; and to me they are more precious than all the gold and silver in the world!" God's dear love to His people is not founded upon anything good in His people, nor upon anything good which is done by His people�but only upon His own free grace and goodness! What could move the holy God to love us, who are poor, worthless, fruitless sinners? This question is best resolved in these words, "He loves us because He loves us!" The root of His love to us lies in Himself! God's love to His people is a lasting love, yes, an everlasting love! It is a love which never decays nor waxes cold. "I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness." Jeremiah 31:3 Post Reply
View Profile History	However harsh His hand may be................ Posted : 24 Feb, 2011 10:22 PM PhillipJohn You seem to miss this post so I thought I would bring it to you!! View Profile History For Calvinist: Posted : 24 Feb, 2011 11:09 AM Would you please rightly divide these two verses: If you are not sure how to do it I can demonstrate how to rightly divide according to the word. Romans 9:18 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth. 1Sa 6:6 Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when he had wrought wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed? Post Reply
MargoSolo View Profile History	However harsh His hand may be................ Posted : 24 Feb, 2011 10:59 PM PJ James said "Well, first off we can never know that a person is not elect" He was saying that we don't know who will someday BE saved! Post Reply
View Profile History	However harsh His hand may be................ Posted : 25 Feb, 2011 12:27 AM We do know whosoever will!! Post Reply
View Profile History	However harsh His hand may be................ Posted : 25 Feb, 2011 12:20 PM BEAUTIFUL, JAMES!... if we spent more time thinking about the consequences of our behavior and or sins, we would be less apt to sin, and spend more time in prayer repenting before God, and watching. As David so cired out to the Lord, in fear and reverance that God had not punished or disciplined him according to his sin, but had mercy on him, because had God so decided to punsih him or us according to what we deserserve, we all would be destroyed. But God's love, mercy and grace provides opportunity for us to become overcomers in Christ Jesus... Prasie God for the overcoming, and not the 40 lashings...:excited:!:applause::dancingp::yay: good writing.... Post Reply
View Profile History	However harsh His hand may be................ Posted : 25 Feb, 2011 01:10 PM Et why would you call this a good post? You are not suppose to be carnal remember? Post Reply
View Profile History	However harsh His hand may be................ Posted : 25 Feb, 2011 03:20 PM james didn' write this. Thomas Brooks did in 1665. More time in prayer would help all of us, including those with mean, arrogant spirits. Post Reply
View Profile History	However harsh His hand may be................ Posted : 26 Feb, 2011 11:49 AM The bottom line is : 'Are we going to trust God or not' Post Reply
View Profile History	However harsh His hand may be................ Posted : 26 Feb, 2011 12:31 PM As for me and my house, we're going to trust God. Thank you for bringing this into perspective, Twosparrows. Post Reply
View Profile History	However harsh His hand may be................ Posted : 26 Feb, 2011 01:31 PM In my twenty five years of being saved, not one time has the father been harsh to me, I have had him reveal satan's evil plans plenty of times. Post Reply
View Profile History	However harsh His hand may be................ Posted : 26 Feb, 2011 01:40 PM PJ, Perhaps that is because you are a more obedient child than I. Post Reply

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