Zech, I fear for you, lest you have believed on Jesus Christ in vain..
I sound like Paul but let me assure you, I am NOT Paul.
You seem shaken that you may not somehow make it to heaven.
You have too much head knowledge with all your various books and I fear you are lead astray.
We certainly do owe alot to our modern culture .
See, people do test things out before they release them for human consumption.
For instance, if you can get someone to laugh or get tied up emotionally in a movie or song or speech, you can get the audience to go along with what you say or promote much of the time. My husband did that well..He would put a sign around a dogs neck that said, "Loves Squirrels" and take him to sell at the local sale barn. Or he would have one shoe on display and have "Special" wrote on a sign next to it...a mexican lady asked what was so special about the shoe? He said .."Because there is only one!" . She laughed and bought all of our other shoes for sale for her family in Mexico. He would brag he could sell icewater to Eskimos and sand to the people in the desert. And he probably could have!
Some preachers use strawman arguments to build up a phantom enemy then tear it down.
It is done alot in the news media as well. ! I study this stuff.
Take for instance the (I can prove this) crisis actors who get on TV and ask that our guns be taken away and plead with tears for it . Tears move people, get it? I have seen the same people that are on TV with different stories and victims. SAME people/different stories! So Trump is right about the fake news. That is about the only truth out of him I have heard in a long while. The world is in chaos. Not surprised since Obama lit up the White House in rainbow colors.
Take the DaVinci code movie and book. Who doesn't like Forrest Gump/Tom Hanks or Castaway "Wilson" ( didn't we all feel so sorry for him when he had a bloody ball for a friend.?) So he was an obvious choice to get people to go along with the controversial message in the movie in 2006. At the end, Hanks character says he believes that Jesus was a very divine MAN. This was the blasphemous garbage I watched before I was saved so there is hope if you seek truth!!! The DaVinci code book is so blasphemous that it is banned in several countries. Lebanon and India have more morals than America where it is only rebuked by some Churches and Christians. That should tell you something!Then you got Alex Jones and Steven Anderson and others in the pulpit leading the opposition.
Remember that movie with Robert Downey Jr. called Captain America? The subtitle was Civil War. Divided the fall , right? That is what is happening to America . America is falling like the Roman Empire.
Back to reality ..Ask yourself..
How bad do you want eternal life? How bad do you want to conform to the ways of Jesus.? Be like him? How bad do you want to lay down sin?
That is what it will take. Just like a smoker...you can try all these other things like nicotine patches, vapes, acupuncture, meditation, hypnosis, etc..but what does it come down to in the end? A choice...willpower. All other sources are band-aids that don't work!
People can sit in Church for years...YEARS and hear preaching every week , sometimes, twice a week if they go on Wednesday also..and not be saved! . It comes down to not playing around with God anymore. A choice! You are either for or against him. God is longsuffering. But if a person has a heart hardened toward God then he won't be for long. And he knows the heart of mankind. 1 Chronicles 28:9 And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.
It comes down to trusting his finished work on the cross..
He didn't faint or end up somehow escaping it and marrying Mary with 2 kids in France like the DaVinci code says.
It comes down to believing Jesus is begotten of the Father and he is God manifested in the flesh and he is a propitiation . His blood removes your sins when you believe on him. You are justified , righteous and you will escape the wrath of God.
Do you believe he died, was buried and rose on the third day? Do you confess him as LORD?.
Romans 10:9-10 King James Version (KJV)
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.
I appreciate the effort you put into your post. If you're going pray for me, just pray for Truth - I already believe in Jesus.
I don't question your belief in Jesus even though you believe some bizarre things. Yet you, Teddyhug and P74 all accuse others of Satanic teachings and not belonging to Jesus over things Jesus never taught were important. It's really sad to see such divisive people in the body of Christ - really sad; makes me think the time of the Gentiles are coming to the end.
Apparently Zecharyah doesn't believe the Satanic teachings that we are saved by your own good works and that Jesus is not God are very important???
Titus 3:3,4: At one time we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures. We lived in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another. But when the kindness and **LOVE** of God our Savior appeared , He saved us, **NOT BECAUSE OF RIGHTEOUS THINGS WE HAD DONE**, but because of **HIS MERCY**!!
John 1:12,13: To all who received Him, to those who believed in His name, he gave the right to become children of God--children born not of natural descent, **NOR OF A HUMAN DECISION** or a husband's will but, **BORN OF GOD**!!
John 6:37,39,44,65: Jesus says, "**ALL** that the Father gives Me **WILL** come to Me, and whoever comes to Me I will **NEVER** drive away... And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that I shall **LOSE NONE** of all that He has given Me, but raise them up at the Last Day.... No one can come to Me **UNLESS** the Father who sent Me **DRAWS HIM**, and I will raise him up at the Last Day!!... No one can come to Me **UNLESS** the Father has **ENABLED THEM**!!"
Ephesians 2:8,9: For it is by **GRACE** you have been saved, through **FAITH**—and this **NOT FROM YOURSELVES**, it is the **GIFT OF GOD**—not by works. So that no one can boast. For we are **GOD'S WORKMANSHIP**, created in Christ Jesus to do **GOOD WORKS**, which God prepared in advance for us to do!
Ephesians 2:8,9: For it is by **GRACE** you have been saved, through **FAITH**—and this **NOT FROM YOURSELVES**, it is the **GIFT OF GOD**—not by works. So that no one can boast. For we are **GOD'S WORKMANSHIP**, created in Christ Jesus to do **GOOD WORKS**, which God prepared in advance for us to do!
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So you understand now that God works in us and our Faith produces works ...so works is ok but not for salvation. I always thought you was against any works whatsoever.
"It was just earlier this month that you accused me and even had snake emojis on your thread headline title you newsflashed about me , remember?"
That was a one evening spree giving you and prophetic a taste of your own medicine. It was meant to open your eyes to what you dish out to others. I was surprised how easy it was. I didn't have to be accountable, rather I just twisted everything and anything to make you and prophetic look stupid do I could look better than you. How did you like being on the receiving end of intellectually dishonest slander?
I was very respectful to Sadlup, wasn't I ...then he seemed to disappear and I cried for him and then Zecharyah ,out of nowhere, came in like lightening ripping us a new hole.
Genesis 1:1-3: In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the **EARTH** was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the **WATERS**. And God said, Let there be **LIGHT** {On the first day of God's 6 days of creation}
And so before God's 6-day creation there was already an earth and waters. God did not create the earth in any of His 6 days of creation and the earth and waters were already there **BEFORE** God's 6 day creation around 5,879 years ago according to Christian Bible Chronology.
Since the dinosaurs are at least 10,000 years old and Neanderthal creatures are at least 20,000 years old as per carbon 14 dating God must have created light and then stopped light before His 6-day creation about 5,879 years ago.
Satan and his followers like Zecharyah claim that Jesus was a human sinner and was not God??
**BUT WHAT DOES GOD's WORD SAY**??
2 Corinthians 5:21: God made Him **WHO HAD NO SIN** to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God!
Hebrews 4:14-15: Since we have a great High Priest who ascended into heaven. Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly the faith we profess. For we do not have a High Priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have One who has been tempted in every way, just as we are--**YET WITHOUT SIN**!!
**IS JESUS OUR GREAT GOD AND SAVIOR**??
John 20:27-29: Then He said to Thomas, "Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe!" Thomas said to him, "My Lord and **MY GOD**!" Then Jesus told him, "Because you have seen Me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed!"
Isaiah 9:6: For unto us a Child is born, to us a Son is given, and the government will be on His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor and **MIGHTY GOD**!
Isaiah 7:14: The Lord Himself will give you a sign. The virgin will conceive and give birth to a Son, and will call Him **IMMANUEL**! {Which means **GOD WITH US**!}
Matthew 1:20-23: The angel of the Lord said to Joseph, "Take Mary home as your wife because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She is to give birth to a Son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus which means **GOD IS HELP**, because He will save His people from their sins. All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet {Isaiah 7:14 above} "The virgin will conceive and give birth to a Son, and they will call Him **IMMANUEL** which means **GOD WITH US**!
John 1:18: No one has ever seen God, but the One and only Son, who is **HIMSELF GOD** and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made Him known!
John 14:6,7: Jesus says, "I am the **WAY** the **TRUTH** and the **LIFE**. No one comes to the Father except through Me. If you really knew Me, you will know the Father as well. From now on, you do know Him and have **SEEN HIM**!"
**GOD'S WORD COMMANDS THAT WE SHOULD ONLY WORSHIP GOD**!!
Matthew 4:9,10: Satan said to Jesus, "All this I will give you if you bow down and worship me." Jesus said to him, Away from Me Satan! For it is written, '**WORSHIP THE LORD YOUR GOD** and serve Him only!
Revelation 19:9,10: The angel said to me, "Write this: **BLESSED** are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the **LAMB**!" And he added, "These are the true words of God!" At this I fell at his feet to **WORSHIP** him, But he said to me, "Don't do that! I am a fellow servant with you and with your brothers and sisters who hold to the testimony of Jesus! **WORSHIP GOD**! For it is the spirit of prophecy who bears testimony to Jesus!"
Revelation 22:8,9: I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who had been showing them to me. But he said to me, "**DON'T DO THAT** A am a fellow servant with you and with your fellow prophets and with all who **KEEP THE WORDS** of this scroll. **WORSHIP GOD**!!
Hebrews 1:6,8: When God brings His firstborn into the world He says, "Let all God's angels **WORSHIP HIM**.... About the Son He says, "Your throne, **O GOD**, will last for ever and ever, a scepter of justice will be the scepter of **YOUR KINGDOM**!"
Matthew 28:18-20: Jesus says, "**ALL AUTHORITY**in heaven and on earth has been given to **ME**. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations... and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always!"
**JESUS CHRIST, OUR GREAT GOD AND SAVIOR**
Jesus is **WORSHIPED** many times in God's Word in Matthew 2:2,8,11; 14:33; 28:9,17 Luke 24:52 John 9:38 and Revelation 5:11-14 and !5:4!!
Matthew 2:10,11: When the Wise Men saw the star, they were overjoyed. On coming to the house, they saw the Child with His mother Mary, and they bowed down and **WORSHIPED HIM**!
Matthew 14:33; Then those who were in the boat **WORSHPED HIM**!!
Matthew 28:8,9: So the women hurried away from the tomb, afraid yet filled with joy, and ran to tell His disciples. Suddenly Jesus met them. "Greetings," He said. They came to Him, clasped His feet and **WORSHIPED HIM**!
Matthew 28:16,17: Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. When the saw Him, they **WORSHIPED HIM**!
There are some who completely ignore these Scriptures and claim that Jesus is not God because he said that the Father is greater than me in John 14:28 and that the Father told Him what to say as per John 14:23,24: Jesus says, "Anyone who loves Me will obey My teaching. My Father will love them, and We will come to them and make our home with them. Anyone who does not love Me will not obey My teaching. The words you hear are not My own; they belong to the Father who sent Me."
John 9:37,38: Jesus said, "You have now seen Him; in fact, He is the one speaking with you!" Then the man said, "Lord, I believe," and he **WORSHIPED HIM**!
NOTE: Jesus is called the **LAMB** 30 times in the book of Revelation!
Revelation 5:13,14: Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea, an all that is In them, saying "To Him who sits on the throne and to the **LAMB** be praise and honor and glory and power for ever and ever!" The 4 living creatures said, "Amen," and the elders fell down and **WORSHIPED**!
Revelation 17:14; They will wage war against the **LAMB**, but the **LAMB** will overcome them because He is **LORD** of lords and King of kings--and with Him will be **HIS** **CALLED**, *CHOSEN** and **FAITHFUL** followers!!
Titus 2:13,14: We wait for the **BLESSED HOPE**--the glorious appearing of our **GREAT GOD AND SAVIOR**, Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify a people that are **HIS VERY OWN**, eager to do what is good!!
