"What then shall we say that Abraham our father has found according to the flesh? 2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. 3 For what does the Scripture say? �Abraham *believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.� 4 Now to him who works, the wages are not counted as grace but as debt. 5 But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness, 6 just as David also describes the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness apart from works: 7 �Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered; 8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord shall not impute sin.�
*The Greek word is pisteuo (Strong's G4100) which is translated into the English word believed.
"pist-yoo'-o; from G4102; to have faith (in, upon, or with respect to, a person or thing), i.e. credit; by implication, to entrust (especially one's spiritual well-being to Christ):�believe(-r), commit (to trust), put in trust with."
�He who *believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God." John 3:18 The word believe in John 3:18 is the same root word from Romans 4:3
The English word repent comes from 8 different Greek and Hebrew words. Make sure you know which Greek or Hebrew word is being used, and make sure you use the correct meaning for each word. To say you must repent is to say nothing, as there are so many different meanings. You must not simply fall back on the word repent as a coverall, for every situation.
1 Corinthians 14 is crystal clear about the necessity of giving a clear message: "But now, brethren, if I come to you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you unless I speak to you either by revelation, by knowledge, by prophesying, or by teaching? 7 Even things without life, whether flute or harp, when they make a sound, unless they make a distinction in the sounds, how will it be known what is piped or played? 8 For if the trumpet makes an uncertain sound, who will prepare for battle? 9 So likewise you, unless you utter by the tongue words easy to understand, how will it be known what is spoken? For you will be speaking into the air."
If you use the single English word "repent", and are not specific with regard to the original word in its proper context, you will be speaking, as it says in this passage, to the air, and not unto men, because no one will know what exactly you are trying to say.
The most common appearance of the English word repent in the New Testament, comes from the Greek words metaneo and metanoia. The root word means to change your mind. It does not mean be sorry or turn from sin. The change of mind that needs to occur is a change from unbelief to belief. Again, see John 3:18. This is the "biblical repentance" necessary for salvation.
"Whereas God's Word clearly teaches that Peter did sin and that born again believers do sin but continually repent of their sins and are cleansed from their sin."
We do not see Peter labelled as a sinner, nor of Peter repenting of sin in Chapter 2 of Galatians, but in the next Chapter number 3 we see Peter unaware of the mystery revealed to Gods Holy Apostles, of the Gentiles being fellowheirs....
Galatians 2:11 But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.
12 For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision.
13 And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation.
14 But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?
15 We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,
Ephesians 3:3 How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (AS I WROTE AFORE IN FEW WORDS,
4 Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)
5 Which in other ages WAS NOT MADE KNOWN UNTO THE SONS OF MEN, as it is NOW REVEALED UNTO HIS HOLY APOSTLES and prophets by the Spirit;
6 That the GENTILES should be FELLOWHEIRS, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:
"Acts 10:9-16: Peter went up on the roof to pray. He became hungry and wanted something to eat, and while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance. He saw heaven opened and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by the four corners. It contained all kinds of four-footed animals, as well as reptiles of the earth and birds of the air. Then a Voice told him, "Get up, Peter, kill and **EAT**!" "Surely not, Lord!" Peter replied. "I have never eaten anything impure or unclean." The Voice spoke to him a second time, "Do not call anything impure that **GOD HAS MADE CLEAN**!"{As per Mark 7:19 above) This happened **THREE TIMES**!, and the sheet was taken back to heaven!
SO PETER AGAIN SINNED THREE TIMES by calling food unclean food that God had made clean and refusing to eat these foods that God had commanded him to eat."
prophetic labels Peter as a sinner, but the scripture does not. In Colossians 2, Gods word says to judge not in meat, Romans14 shows one believes he can eat all, and to not judge him that eateth not. Every man is full persuaded in is own mind. prophetic claims Peter sins three times, by calling food unclean. prophetic also speaks against the clear scripture insisting Peter must eat all foods as God commanded him. Instead prophetic is revealed as speaking against Gods word, who gives no such commandment to eat all foods, but instead gives us free choice to eat or to not eat. False claims by prophetic which he cannot substantiate, the false witnesses were against Christ too. Matthew 26:60...
Colossians 2:16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
Romans 14:2 For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.
3 Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him.
4 Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.
5 One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
6 He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and HE THAT EATETH NOT, TO THE LORD HE EATETH NOT, AND GIVETH GOD THANKS.
Romans 14:13 Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.
14 I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
15 But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.
16 Let not then your good be evil spoken of:
17 For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
"Peter was doing wrong, but as soon as the Lord revealed His secret to Peter, Peter was then allowed by God to eat with the Gentile believers, it was no error any more, and being unaware of a mystery is not sin, and Peter chosen to be sifted and the Lords rock of reproach, is not sin, and Peter having this secret revealed to Him by God is not sin, because God said revealing His secret is glory, it not only is **IMPOSSIBLE TO BE SIN**, it is as far away from the truth as possible, as glory is righteousness not sin. Galatians 2, Paul confirms how the Lord has the Gentiles to be Jews by nature, not sinners, and no need to fear them of the circumcision."
" Christ came to take away our sins, no transgressing, as in Him is no sin, and we are in Him where there is no sin. Who sins has not seen Him or known Him. We do righteousness the same as He is righteous, no darkness. Committing sin is still being of the devil, Christ came to destroy the devils works and sins completely destroying, we need to be born of God, and **THOSE BORN OF GOD CANNOT SIN**."
"Jesus did not make all foods clean in Mark 7, as prophetic claims. And so Peter was **UNAWARE** that God had made all foods clean as Jesus commanded in Mark 7:18-23.
However God rebuked Peter *3 TIMES* by calling some foods *UNCLEAN* that God had made *CLEAN*. And in John 14:26 Jesus told His apostles that when the Holy Spirit comes he will remind you of **EVERYTHING** I have said to you.
ADAM 7777 then quotes Romans 14:2 in defense of Peter. Romans 14:2 One man's faith allows him to eat everything, but another man, whose faith is **WEAK** eats only vegetables.
However Peter called foods unclean that God had said **3 TIMES** were now clean. Peter also sinned *3 TIMES* by refusing Gods command **3 TIMES to eat those foods that God said were now **CLEAN**.
ADAM7777 also claims that Peter did not sin when he denied the Lord **3 TIMES** since Peter was **UNAWARE** that denying the Lord was a sin???
ADAM7777 also quotes Colossians 2:16 in defense of Peter even though ADAM7777 believes all that OT laws, including Sabbath laws, are **STILL BINDING** on NT saints.
Colossians 2:16: Therefore do no let **anyone** judge you by what you **EAT** or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a **SABBATH DAY**.
However **anyone** does not include **GOD** who commanded Peter 3 times not to call foods unclean that God had made clean and sinned 3 times by refusing to eat food that **GOD COMMANDED** Peter to eat.
So here ADAM7777 continues to teach that Peter did not sin since he was born of God and that everyone born of God never sins???? Whereas God's Word clearly teaches that Peter did sin and that born again believers do sin but continually repent of their sins and are cleansed from their sin.
DO GOD'S BORN AGAIN FROM ABOVE SAINTS STILL SIN AFTER THEY ARE SAVED?? ADAM7777 CLAIMS THAT TRUE BELIEVERS LIKE PETER DO NOT SIN???
I John1:8-10; 2:1,2: If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. If we claim we have not sinned, we make Him out to be a liar and His Word has no place in our lives!!....If anybody does sin, we have One who speaks to the Father in our defense--Jesus Christ, the Righteous One!!
Luke 10:2-4: Jesus said to His disciples, "When you pray, say: '*Father, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come. Give us each day our **DAILY** bread. **FORGIVE US OUR SINS**, for we forgive everyone who sins against us!!'"
ADAM7777 claims that true believers do not sin??, which contradicts God's Word numerous times since God's saints are commanded to be holy as God is holy and to walk as Jesus walked in I John 2:6 and to do God's will on earth as it is in heaven as per Matthew 5:10.
Take the Apostle Peter for example:
Matthew 16:21-23: Jesus began to explain to His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests and **TEACHERS OF THE LAW**{Like ADAM7777}, and that He must be killed and on the third day be raised to life. Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him. "Never Lord!" he said, "This shall never happen to you!" Jesus turned and said to Peter, Get behind Me Satan! You are a stumbling block to Me, you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men!"
As Jesus was waiting to be tried [After being betrayed by Judas, the CHOSEN betrayer} Peter denied Jesus **THREE TIMES** as per Matthew 26:69-74!!
Matthew 26:74,75: Immediately a rooster crowed. Then Peter remembered the word Jesus had spoken, "Before the rooster crows, you will **DISOWN ME THREE TIMES**!!" And he went outside and wept bitterly. {So here Peter repented of his 3 evil sins and was **AWARE** that he was sinning!!}
Galatians 2:11-16: Paul said, "When **PETER** came to Antioch I opposed him to his face, because he was **CLEARLY IN THE WRONG**. Before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself from the Gentiles, because he was afraid of those who belonged to the circumcision group. The other Jews joined him in **HIS HYPOCRISY**. When I saw that they were **NOT ACTING IN LINE WITH THE TRUTH OF THE GOSPEL**, I said to Peter in front of them all, "You are a Jew, yet you live like a Gentile and not like a Jew. How is it, then that you force Gentiles to follow Jewish customs? We who are Jews by birth and not 'Gentile sinners' know that a man is **NOT** justified by observing the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and **NOT BY OBSERVING THE LAW**, because BY OBSERVING THE LAW NO ONE WILL BE JUSTIFIED!!"
Here again ADAM7777 claims that Peter was **UNAWARE** that he was sinning????
Mark 7:18-23: Jesus says, "Are you so dull. Don't you see that nothing that enters a man can make him *UNCLEAN*? For it doesn't into his heart but into his stomach, and then out of his body. In saying this Jesus declared **ALL FOODS CLEAN**!" He then said: "What comes out of a man that makes him unclean. For from within, out of men's hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from **INSIDE** and make a man **UNCLEAN!!"
Acts 10:9-16: Peter went up on the roof to pray. He became hungry and wanted something to eat, and while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance. He saw heaven opened and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by the four corners. It contained all kinds of four-footed animals, as well as reptiles of the earth and birds of the air. Then a Voice told him, "Get up, Peter, kill and **EAT**!" "Surely not, Lord!" Peter replied. "I have never eaten anything impure or unclean." The Voice spoke to him a second time, "Do not call anything impure that **GOD HAS MADE CLEAN**!"{As per Mark 7:18-23 above) This happened **THREE TIMES**!, and the sheet was taken back to heaven!
SO PETER AGAIN SINNED THREE TIMES by calling food unclean food that God had made clean in Mark 7:18-23 and refusing to eat these foods that God had commanded him to eat.
And Jesus had sad to Peter and the apostles in John 14:25,26: "All this I have spoken while still with you. But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name. will teach you all things and will **REMIND YOU OF EVERYTHING I HAVE SAID TO YOU**" {Which would include Mark 7:18-23}
I Timothy 4:1-5: The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. Such teachings come through **HYPOCRITICAL LIARS**, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. They forbid people to marry and order them **TO ABSTAIN FROM CERTAIN FOODS**, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. For everything God created is good, and **NOTHING IS TO BE REJECTED** if it is received with thanksgiving, because it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer!! {ADAM7777 disagrees with these inspired words of God!!}
I Corinthians 10:25: Eat **ANYTHING** sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience, for, "The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it!"
HOWEVER PETER REPENTED IN Acts 15:1-11: Some men {Like ADAM7777} came down from Judea to Antioch and were teaching the brothers: "Unless you are circumcised, according to the custom taught by Moses, you cannot be saved." This brought Paul and Barnabas into sharp dispute and debate with them. So Paul and Barnabas were appointed, along with some other believers to go up to Jerusalem to see the apostles and elders about this question the church sent them on their way, and as they traveled through Phoenicia and Samaria, they told how the Gentiles had been converted. This news made **ALL THE BROTHERS** very glad. When they came to Jerusalem, they were **WELCOMED BY THE CHURCH AND THE APOSTLES AND ELDERS**, to whom they reported everything God had done through them. Then some of the believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees {Like ADAM7777} stood up and said, "The Gentiles must be circumcised and required to obey the law of Moses. The brother and elders met to consider this question. After much discussion, **PETER** got up and addressed them. "Brothers you know that some time ago God made a choice among you that the Gentiles might hear from my lips the message of the Gospel and believe. God, who knows the heart showed that the accepted them by giving the Holy Spirit to them, just as He did to us. He made no distinction between us and them, for He purified their hearts by **FAITH**. Now then, why do you try to test God by putting on the necks of the disciples a yoke that we nor our fathers have been able to bear? No! We believe it is through the **GRACE** of our Lord Jesus that we are saved as they are!"
And Peter wrote in I Peter 1:3-5,18,19: Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! IN HIS GREAT MERCY HE HAS GIVEN US NEW BIRTH** into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can **NEVER PERISH**, spoil or fade--**KEPT IN HEAVEN FOR YOU**, who **THROUGH FAITH** {A FREE GIFT OF GOD} are shielded by God's power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time!!... For you know that it was not with perishable things that you were **REDEEEMED** from the empty way of life handed down to you by your forefathers, but with the **PRECIOUS BLOOD OF CHRIST**, a Lamb without blemish or defect!! {ADAM7777 disagrees with these inspired words of God!!}
CAN A NT BELIEVER LOSE HIS SALVATION?? WHAT DOES GOD'S WORD SAY???
JESUS PROMISES: "I SHALL **LOSE NONE** OF ALL THE FATHER HAS GIVEN ME!!"
Romans 8;29-33,35,38,39: For those God foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of His Son...And those He **PREDESTINED** He also called; those He called , He also justified; those He **JUSTIFIED** He also **GLORIFIED**. What shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His Son but gave Him up for us all--how will He not also give us all things? Who will bring any charge against **THOSE WHOM GOD HAS CHOSEN**? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns... Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?... For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels or demons, neither the present or the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord!! {ADAM7777 DISAGREES WITH THESE INSPIRED WORDS OF GOD!}
Ephesians 1:5-8: In love **HE PREDESTINED US TO BE ADOPTED AS HIS SONS** through Jesus Christ, in accordance with His pleasure and will--to the praise of His **GLORIOUS GRACE**, which He has freely given us in the One He loves. In Him we have **REDEMPTION THROUGH HIS BLOOD**, the **FORGIVENESS OF SINS**, in accordance with the riches of God's grace that He lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding! {ADAM7777 DISAGREES WITH THESE INSPIRED WORDS OF GOD}
Romans 4:7,8: Blessed are they whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will **NEVER** count against him!" {ADAM7777 DIAGREES ITH THESE INSPIRED WORDS 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 them up at the Last Day!... No one can come to Me **UNLESS** the Father has **ENABLED** them!!" {ADAM7777 DISAGREES WITH THESE INSPIRED WORDS OF GOD}
John 17:9,24: Jesus prayed to His Father, "I pray for them, I am not praying for the world, but for **THOSE YOU HAVE GIVEN ME**, for they are Yours.... Father, I want **THOSE YOU HAVE GIVEN ME** to be with Me where I am!!" {ADAM7777 DISAGREES WITH THESE INSPIRED WORDS OF GOD}
Hebrews 10:11-18: Day after day every priest performs his religious duties again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But when this Priest had offered for all time **ONE SACRIFICE FOR SINS**, He sat down at the right hand of God... Because by **ONE SACRIFICE** He has made ***PERFECT FOREVER*** those who are being made holy. The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First he says: "This is the covenant I will make with them after that time says the Lord. I will put My laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds." The he adds" Their sins and lawless acts I will remember **NO MORE**." And when these have been forgiven, there is **NO LONGER** any sacrifice for sin!! {ADAM7777 DISAGEES WITH THESE INSPIRED WORDS OF GOD}
"Acts 10:9-16: Peter went up on the roof to pray. He became hungry and wanted something to eat, and while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance. He saw heaven opened and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by the four corners. It contained all kinds of four-footed animals, as well as reptiles of the earth and birds of the air. Then a Voice told him, "Get up, Peter, kill and **EAT**!" "Surely not, Lord!" Peter replied. "I have never eaten anything impure or unclean." The Voice spoke to him a second time, "Do not call anything impure that **GOD HAS MADE CLEAN**!"{As per Mark 7:19 above) This happened **THREE TIMES**!, and the sheet was taken back to heaven!
SO PETER AGAIN SINNED THREE TIMES by calling food unclean food that God had made clean and refusing to eat these foods that God had commanded him to eat."
Psalms 35 is so right about the hypocritical mockers. prophetic goes on and on ab out there being no more law, now all the old testament law is abolished, then in bis double mind and unstable crooked spirit insists God is forcing Peter to eat something, even against Peters will. It was Peter that was hungry, God advises, not commands, Peter to eat, and Peter was in a trance, how do you eat a vision ? prophetic however accuses that Apostle Peter sinned and did not eat the vision. But if prophetic remembered the doctrine he tried to push, we are under liberty, freedom of choice,completely against the two ways prophetic tries to turn. He also is as predicted, an accuser of the brethren, against those who are good, as he can not hide now...
Psalms 35:16 With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
Galatians 5:13 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Revelation 12:10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
2 Timothy 3:3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
Revelation 18:20 Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.
In Ezekiel 4, we see a very similar situation, God is telling Ezekiel to eat mans dung, Ezekiel answered back like Peter, how he has never eaten abominable flesh, or what has died of itself, and the Lord did not do like prophetics false words, the Lord we see for ourselves, did not force Ezekiel,or label him as sinning for answering back to God, but instead heard Ezekiel and greed to him...
Ezekiel 4:12 And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.
13 And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them.
14 Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.
15 Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.
IS OUR FATHER AND JESUS CHRIST OUR GOD AND CREATOR???
John 1:1-4,10,14: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the **WORD WAS GOD** He was with God in the beginning. Through Him all things were made, that has been made. In Him was Life and that Life was the light of men... He was in the world, and though the world was made through Him, the world did not recognize Him... The Word became flesh and dwelt among us!!
John 20:28: Thomas said to Him, "MY LORD AND MY GOD!"
Hebrews 1:1-4,6-8: In the past God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, but in these last days He has spoken to us by His Son, which He appointed heir of all things , and through Whom He made the universe. The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of His being sustaining all things by His powerful Word. After He had provided purification for sins , He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven... God says, "Let all God's angels **WORSHIP HIM." In speaking of the angels He says, "He makes His angels winds, his servants flames of fire. But about the Son He says, "Your throne **O GOD** will last for ever and ever.
According to Revelation 22:3 there will be only **TWO THRONES** in the Heavenly eternal New Jerusalem. "The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city."
Revelation 3:21: Jesus says, "To him who overcomes, I will give the right to sit with Me on My throne, just as I overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne!!"
Revelation 22:8,9: John said, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who had been showing them to me. But the angel said to me, "Do not do it! I m a fellow servant with you and with your brothers, the prophets and all who keep the words of this book. **WORSHIP GOD**!!"
Matthew 26:28: Jesus says, "This is My blood of the Covenant, which is poured out for many **FOR THE FORGIVENEESS OF SINS**!!
NOTE: Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior is called the **LAMB** 30 times in the book of Revelation.
Revelation 5:9,12-14: "You are worthy to take the scroll and open its seals, because You were slain, and **WITH YOUR BLOOD YOU PURCHASED MEN FOR GOD** from every tribe and language and people and nation!!"... "Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise!" Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all that is in them, singing: "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**!!
Titus 3:4: 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**!! {ADAM7777 disagrees with these inspired words of God. He teaches you are saved by good works and keeping OT laws???}
Titus 2:13 We wait for the **BLESSED HOPE**---the glorious **APPEARING** of our great **GOD AND SAVIOR**, Jesus Christ!!
WHO IS THE **HEAD** OF GOD'S CHURCH ON EARTH IN THIS PRESENT AGE??
Matthew 28:18-29: Jesus says, "**ALL AUTHORITY** in heaven and **ON EARTH** has been given to Me. {Not some pope!} Therefore go and make disciples of all nations... teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you **ALWAYS**, to the very **END** of the age!"
Ephesians 1:19-23: That power is like the working of His mighty strength, which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly realms, far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every title that can be given, not only in this **PRESENT AGE** but also in the one to come. And God placed all things under His feet and appointed **HIM** {Not some pope!}to be the **HEAD OF EVERYTHING FOR THE CHURCH**, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills everything in every way!!
Ephesians 4:7,11-16: But each of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it... It was **HE** {Not the church} who gives some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, to prepare God's people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ... Speaking the Truth in *LOVE*, we will in all things grow up into *HIM WHO IS THE HEAD**, that is **CHRIST**. {Not some pope!} From Him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in **LOVE**, as each part does its work!!
Acts 11:5 I was in the city of Joppa praying: and in a TRANCE I saw A VISION, A certain vessel descend, as it had been a great sheet, let down from heaven by four corners; and it came even to me:
6 Upon the which when I had fastened mine eyes, I considered, and saw fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.
7 And I heard a voice saying unto me, Arise, Peter; slay and eat.
8 But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath at any time entered into my mouth.
9 But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
10 And this was done three times: and all were drawn up again into heaven.
11 And, behold, immediately there were three men already come unto the house where I was, sent from Caesarea unto me.
"SO PETER AGAIN SINNED THREE TIMES by calling food unclean food that God had made clean and refusing to eat these foods that God had commanded him to eat."
In a trance, in a vision, God is not commanding us to eat. in a trance vision, God is revealing His secrets to us, how the Gentiles now are cleaned by God.
Peter never called unclean what God had cleaned, that is not witnessed at all, we see Peter answered one time to God, we do not see Peter calling unclean what God had made clean, we see Peter being told three times to not call unclean what God has cleaned.
God is not commanding us to eat, we are not under the law as some hypocritical pretense prophetic has began showing, now goes back on his own words to insist we must eat as commanded by God. God is not hypocritical like false teachers, we are under liberty and are persuaded fully in our own mind, if we eat or not.
It is evil to falsely label the Lords Holy Apostles as sinners, and not repent of your evil when you are revealed as an evil accuser, but God says judge and you shall be judged, and your own judgement came on your own head...
Matthew 7:1 Judge not, that ye be not judged.
2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
Gods word testifies too clearly anyway, The Apostles are not sinners of the Gentiles, God forbid, it is pathetic who thinks they are...
Galatians 2:14 But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?
15 WE WHO ARE JEWS BY NATURE AND NOT SINNERS OF THE GENTILES.
16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and NOT BY THE WORKS OF THE LAW, for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
17 But if, while we seek to be JUSTIFIED BY CHRIST, we ourselves also ARE FOUND SINNERS, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? GOD FORBID.
"In a trance, in a vision, God is not commanding us to eat."????
"Peter never called unclean what God had cleaned."????
"The sins that the Apostle Peter committed were really not sins because he was **UNAWARE* that they were sins."????
"Every born again Christian never again sins. He cannot sin."????
BUT WHAT DOES GOD'S WORD SAY??
So here ADAM7777 continues to teach that Peter did not sin since he was born of God and that everyone born of God never sins???? Whereas God's Word clearly teaches that Peter did sin and that born again believers do sin but continually repent of their sins and are cleansed from their sin.
DO GOD'S BORN AGAIN FROM ABOVE SAINTS STILL SIN AFTER THEY ARE SAVED?? ADAM7777 CLAIMS THAT TRUE BELIEVERS LIKE PETER DO NOT SIN???
I John1:8-10; 2:1,2: If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. If we claim we have not sinned, we make Him out to be a liar and His Word has no place in our lives!!....If anybody does sin, we have One who speaks to the Father in our defense--Jesus Christ, the Righteous One!!
Luke 10:2-4: Jesus said to His disciples, "When you pray, say: '*Father, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come. Give us each day our **DAILY** bread. **FORGIVE US OUR SINS**, for we forgive everyone who sins against us!!'"
ADAM7777 claims that true believers do not sin??, which contradicts God's Word numerous times since God's saints are commanded to be holy as God is holy and to walk as Jesus walked in I John 2:6 and to do God's will on earth as it is in heaven as per Matthew 5:10.
Take the Apostle Peter for example:
Matthew 16:21-23: Jesus began to explain to His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests and **TEACHERS OF THE LAW**{Like ADAM7777}, and that He must be killed and on the third day be raised to life. Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him. "Never Lord!" he said, "This shall never happen to you!" Jesus turned and said to Peter, Get behind Me Satan! You are a stumbling block to Me, you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men!"
As Jesus was waiting to be tried [After being betrayed by Judas, the CHOSEN betrayer} Peter denied Jesus **THREE TIMES** as per Matthew 26:69-74!!
Matthew 26:74,75: Immediately a rooster crowed. Then Peter remembered the word Jesus had spoken, "Before the rooster crows, you will **DISOWN ME THREE TIMES**!!" And he went outside and wept bitterly. {So here Peter repented of his 3 evil sins}
Here ADAM7777 claims that Peter did not sin because he was **UNAWARE** that denying Jesus was a sin???
Galatians 2:11-16: Paul said, "When **PETER** came to Antioch I opposed him to his face, because he was **CLEARLY IN THE WRONG**. Before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself from the Gentiles, because he was afraid of those who belonged to the circumcision group. The other Jews joined him in **HIS HYPOCRISY**. When I saw that they were **NOT ACTING IN LINE WITH THE TRUTH OF THE GOSPEL**, I said to Peter in front of them all, "You are a Jew, yet you live like a Gentile and not like a Jew. How is it, then that you force Gentiles to follow Jewish customs? We who are Jews by birth and not 'Gentile sinners' know that a man is **NOT** justified by observing the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and **NOT BY OBSERVING THE LAW**, because BY OBSERVING THE LAW NO ONE WILL BE JUSTIFIED!!"
Again, ADAM claims that Peter did not sin because he was **UNAWARE** that he was sinning???
Mark 7:18-23: Jesus says, "Are you so dull. Don't you see that nothing that enters a man can make him *UNCLEAN*? For it doesn't into his heart but into his stomach, and then out of his body. In saying this Jesus declared **ALL FOODS CLEAN**!" He then said: "What comes out of a man that makes him unclean. For from within, out of men's hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from **INSIDE** and make a man **UNCLEAN!!"
Acts 10:9-16: Peter went up on the roof to pray. He became hungry and wanted something to eat, and while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance. He saw heaven opened and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by the four corners. It contained all kinds of four-footed animals, as well as reptiles of the earth and birds of the air. Then a Voice told him, "Get up, Peter, kill and **EAT**!" "Surely not, Lord!" Peter replied. "I have never eaten anything impure or unclean." The Voice spoke to him a second time, "Do not call anything impure that **GOD HAS MADE CLEAN**!"{As per Mark 7:18-23 above) This happened **THREE TIMES**!, and the sheet was taken back to heaven!
SO PETER AGAIN SINNED THREE TIMES by calling food unclean food that God had made clean in Mark 7:18-23 and refusing to eat these foods that God had commanded him to eat..
And Jesus had sad to Peter and the apostles in John 14:25,26: "All this I have spoken while still with you. But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name. will teach you all things and will **REMIND YOU OF EVERYTHING I HAVE SAID TO YOU**" {Which would include Mark 7:19}
Again ADAM7777claims that Peter did not sin because Peter was **UNAWARE** that the Lord Jesus had declared to all the apostles including Peter: that **ALL FOODS ARE NOW CLEAN*; and that Peter did not sin 3 times by refusing to eat food that God *COMMANDED** him to eat.
I Timothy 4:1-5: The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. Such teachings come through **HYPOCRITICAL LIARS**, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. They forbid people to marry and order them **TO ABSTAIN FROM CERTAIN FOODS**, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. For everything God created is good, and **NOTHING IS TO BE REJECTED** if it is received with thanksgiving, because it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer!! {ADAM7777 disagrees with these inspired words of God!!}
I Corinthians 10:25: Eat **ANYTHING** sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience, for, "The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it!" {ADAM7777 disagrees with these inspired words of God!!}
HOWEVER PETER REPENTED IN Acts 15:1-11: Some men {Like ADAM7777} came down from Judea to Antioch and were teaching the brothers: "Unless you are circumcised, according to the custom taught by Moses, you cannot be saved." This brought Paul and Barnabas into sharp dispute and debate with them. So Paul and Barnabas were appointed, along with some other believers to go up to Jerusalem to see the apostles and elders about this question the church sent them on their way, and as they traveled through Phoenicia and Samaria, they told how the Gentiles had been converted. This news made **ALL THE BROTHERS** very glad. When they came to Jerusalem, they were **WELCOMED BY THE CHURCH AND THE APOSTLES AND ELDERS**, to whom they reported everything God had done through them. Then some of the believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees {Like ADAM7777} stood up and said, "The Gentiles must be circumcised and required to obey the law of Moses. The brother and elders met to consider this question. After much discussion, **PETER** got up and addressed them. "Brothers you know that some time ago God made a choice among you that the Gentiles might hear from my lips the message of the Gospel and believe. God, who knows the heart showed that the accepted them by giving the Holy Spirit to them, just as He did to us. He made no distinction between us and them, for He purified their hearts by **FAITH**. Now then, why do you try to test God by putting on the necks of the disciples a yoke that we nor our fathers have been able to bear? No! We believe it is through the **GRACE** of our Lord Jesus that we are saved as they are!"
And Peter wrote in I Peter 1:3-5,18,19: Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! IN HIS GREAT MERCY HE HAS GIVEN US NEW BIRTH** into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can **NEVER PERISH**, spoil or fade--**KEPT IN HEAVEN FOR YOU**, who **THROUGH FAITH** {A FREE GIFT OF GOD} are shielded by God's power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time!!... For you know that it was not with perishable things that you were **REDEEEMED** from the empty way of life handed down to you by your forefathers, but with the **PRECIOUS BLOOD OF CHRIST**, a Lamb without blemish or defect!! {ADAM7777 disagrees with these inspired words of God!!}
CAN A NT BELIEVER LOSE HIS SALVATION?? WHAT DOES GOD'S WORD SAY???
JESUS PROMISES: "I SHALL **LOSE NONE** OF ALL THE FATHER HAS GIVEN ME!!"
Romans 8;29-33,35,38,39: For those God foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of His Son...And those He **PREDESTINED** He also called; those He called , He also justified; those He **JUSTIFIED** He also **GLORIFIED**. What shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His Son but gave Him up for us all--how will He not also give us all things? Who will bring any charge against **THOSE WHOM GOD HAS CHOSEN**? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns... Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?... For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels or demons, neither the present or the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord!! {ADAM7777 DISAGREES WITH THESE INSPIRED WORDS OF GOD!}
Ephesians 1:5-8: In love **HE PREDESTINED US TO BE ADOPTED AS HIS SONS** through Jesus Christ, in accordance with His pleasure and will--to the praise of His **GLORIOUS GRACE**, which He has freely given us in the One He loves. In Him we have **REDEMPTION THROUGH HIS BLOOD**, the **FORGIVENESS OF SINS**, in accordance with the riches of God's grace that He lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding! {ADAM7777 DISAGREES WITH THESE INSPIRED WORDS OF GOD}
Romans 4:7,8: Blessed are they whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will **NEVER** count against him!" {ADAM7777 DIAGREES ITH THESE INSPIRED WORDS 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 them up at the Last Day!... No one can come to Me **UNLESS** the Father has **ENABLED** them!!" {ADAM7777 DISAGREES WITH THESE INSPIRED WORDS OF GOD}
Hebrews 10:11-18: Day after day every priest performs his religious duties again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But when this Priest had offered for all time **ONE SACRIFICE FOR SINS**, He sat down at the right hand of God... Because by **ONE SACRIFICE** He has made ***PERFECT FOREVER*** those who are being made holy. The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First he says: "This is the covenant I will make with them after that time says the Lord. I will put My laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds." The he adds" Their sins and lawless acts I will remember **NO MORE**." And when these have been forgiven, there is **NO LONGER** any sacrifice for sin!! {ADAM7777 DISAGEES WITH THESE INSPIRED WORDS OF GOD}
"In a trance, in a vision, God is not commanding us to eat."????
"Peter never called unclean what God had cleaned."????
"The sins that the Apostle Peter committed were really not sins because he was **UNAWARE* that they were sins."????
"Every born again Christian never again sins. He cannot sin."????
BUT WHAT DOES GOD'S WORD SAY??
So here ADAM7777 continues to teach that Peter did not sin since he was born of God and that everyone born of God never sins???? Whereas God's Word clearly teaches that Peter did sin and that born again believers do sin but continually repent of their sins and are cleansed from their sin.
DO GOD'S BORN AGAIN FROM ABOVE SAINTS STILL SIN AFTER THEY ARE SAVED?? ADAM7777 CLAIMS THAT TRUE BELIEVERS LIKE PETER DO NOT SIN???
I John1:8-10; 2:1,2: If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. If we claim we have not sinned, we make Him out to be a liar and His Word has no place in our lives!!....If anybody does sin, we have One who speaks to the Father in our defense--Jesus Christ, the Righteous One!!
Luke 10:2-4: Jesus said to His disciples, "When you pray, say: '*Father, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come. Give us each day our **DAILY** bread. **FORGIVE US OUR SINS**, for we forgive everyone who sins against us!!'"
ADAM7777 claims that true believers do not sin??, which contradicts God's Word numerous times since God's saints are commanded to be holy as God is holy and to walk as Jesus walked in I John 2:6 and to do God's will on earth as it is in heaven as per Matthew 5:10.
Take the Apostle Peter for example:
Matthew 16:21-23: Jesus began to explain to His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests and **TEACHERS OF THE LAW**{Like ADAM7777}, and that He must be killed and on the third day be raised to life. Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him. "Never Lord!" he said, "This shall never happen to you!" Jesus turned and said to Peter, Get behind Me Satan! You are a stumbling block to Me, you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men!"
As Jesus was waiting to be tried [After being betrayed by Judas, the CHOSEN betrayer} Peter denied Jesus **THREE TIMES** as per Matthew 26:69-74!!
Matthew 26:74,75: Immediately a rooster crowed. Then Peter remembered the word Jesus had spoken, "Before the rooster crows, you will **DISOWN ME THREE TIMES**!!" And he went outside and wept bitterly. {So here Peter repented of his 3 evil sins}
Here ADAM7777 claims that Peter did not sin because he was **UNAWARE** that denying Jesus was a sin???
Galatians 2:11-16: Paul said, "When **PETER** came to Antioch I opposed him to his face, because he was **CLEARLY IN THE WRONG**. Before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself from the Gentiles, because he was afraid of those who belonged to the circumcision group. The other Jews joined him in **HIS HYPOCRISY**. When I saw that they were **NOT ACTING IN LINE WITH THE TRUTH OF THE GOSPEL**, I said to Peter in front of them all, "You are a Jew, yet you live like a Gentile and not like a Jew. How is it, then that you force Gentiles to follow Jewish customs? We who are Jews by birth and not 'Gentile sinners' know that a man is **NOT** justified by observing the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and **NOT BY OBSERVING THE LAW**, because BY OBSERVING THE LAW NO ONE WILL BE JUSTIFIED!!"
Again, ADAM claims that Peter did not sin because he was **UNAWARE** that he was sinning???
Mark 7:18-23: Jesus says, "Are you so dull. Don't you see that nothing that enters a man can make him *UNCLEAN*? For it doesn't into his heart but into his stomach, and then out of his body. In saying this Jesus declared **ALL FOODS CLEAN**!" He then said: "What comes out of a man that makes him unclean. For from within, out of men's hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from **INSIDE** and make a man **UNCLEAN!!"
Acts 10:9-16: Peter went up on the roof to pray. He became hungry and wanted something to eat, and while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance. He saw heaven opened and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by the four corners. It contained all kinds of four-footed animals, as well as reptiles of the earth and birds of the air. Then a Voice told him, "Get up, Peter, kill and **EAT**!" "Surely not, Lord!" Peter replied. "I have never eaten anything impure or unclean." The Voice spoke to him a second time, "Do not call anything impure that **GOD HAS MADE CLEAN**!"{As per Mark 7:18-23 above) This happened **THREE TIMES**!, and the sheet was taken back to heaven!
SO PETER AGAIN SINNED THREE TIMES by calling food unclean food that God had made clean in Mark 7:18-23 and refusing to eat these foods that God had commanded him to eat..
And Jesus had sad to Peter and the apostles in John 14:25,26: "All this I have spoken while still with you. But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name. will teach you all things and will **REMIND YOU OF EVERYTHING I HAVE SAID TO YOU**" {Which would include Mark 7:19}
Again ADAM7777claims that Peter did not sin because Peter was **UNAWARE** that the Lord Jesus had declared to all the apostles including Peter: that **ALL FOODS ARE NOW CLEAN*; and that Peter did not sin 3 times by refusing to eat food that God *COMMANDED** him to eat.
I Timothy 4:1-5: The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. Such teachings come through **HYPOCRITICAL LIARS**, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. They forbid people to marry and order them **TO ABSTAIN FROM CERTAIN FOODS**, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. For everything God created is good, and **NOTHING IS TO BE REJECTED** if it is received with thanksgiving, because it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer!! {ADAM7777 disagrees with these inspired words of God!!}
I Corinthians 10:25: Eat **ANYTHING** sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience, for, "The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it!" {ADAM7777 disagrees with these inspired words of God!!}
HOWEVER PETER REPENTED IN Acts 15:1-11: Some men {Like ADAM7777} came down from Judea to Antioch and were teaching the brothers: "Unless you are circumcised, according to the custom taught by Moses, you cannot be saved." This brought Paul and Barnabas into sharp dispute and debate with them. So Paul and Barnabas were appointed, along with some other believers to go up to Jerusalem to see the apostles and elders about this question the church sent them on their way, and as they traveled through Phoenicia and Samaria, they told how the Gentiles had been converted. This news made **ALL THE BROTHERS** very glad. When they came to Jerusalem, they were **WELCOMED BY THE CHURCH AND THE APOSTLES AND ELDERS**, to whom they reported everything God had done through them. Then some of the believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees {Like ADAM7777} stood up and said, "The Gentiles must be circumcised and required to obey the law of Moses. The brother and elders met to consider this question. After much discussion, **PETER** got up and addressed them. "Brothers you know that some time ago God made a choice among you that the Gentiles might hear from my lips the message of the Gospel and believe. God, who knows the heart showed that the accepted them by giving the Holy Spirit to them, just as He did to us. He made no distinction between us and them, for He purified their hearts by **FAITH**. Now then, why do you try to test God by putting on the necks of the disciples a yoke that we nor our fathers have been able to bear? No! We believe it is through the **GRACE** of our Lord Jesus that we are saved as they are!"
And Peter wrote in I Peter 1:3-5,18,19: Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! IN HIS GREAT MERCY HE HAS GIVEN US NEW BIRTH** into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can **NEVER PERISH**, spoil or fade--**KEPT IN HEAVEN FOR YOU**, who **THROUGH FAITH** {A FREE GIFT OF GOD} are shielded by God's power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time!!... For you know that it was not with perishable things that you were **REDEEEMED** from the empty way of life handed down to you by your forefathers, but with the **PRECIOUS BLOOD OF CHRIST**, a Lamb without blemish or defect!! {ADAM7777 disagrees with these inspired words of God!!}
CAN A NT BELIEVER LOSE HIS SALVATION?? WHAT DOES GOD'S WORD SAY???
JESUS PROMISES: "I SHALL **LOSE NONE** OF ALL THE FATHER HAS GIVEN ME!!"
Romans 8;29-33,35,38,39: For those God foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of His Son...And those He **PREDESTINED** He also called; those He called , He also justified; those He **JUSTIFIED** He also **GLORIFIED**. What shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His Son but gave Him up for us all--how will He not also give us all things? Who will bring any charge against **THOSE WHOM GOD HAS CHOSEN**? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns... Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?... For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels or demons, neither the present or the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord!! {ADAM7777 DISAGREES WITH THESE INSPIRED WORDS OF GOD!}
Ephesians 1:5-8: In love **HE PREDESTINED US TO BE ADOPTED AS HIS SONS** through Jesus Christ, in accordance with His pleasure and will--to the praise of His **GLORIOUS GRACE**, which He has freely given us in the One He loves. In Him we have **REDEMPTION THROUGH HIS BLOOD**, the **FORGIVENESS OF SINS**, in accordance with the riches of God's grace that He lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding! {ADAM7777 DISAGREES WITH THESE INSPIRED WORDS OF GOD}
Romans 4:7,8: Blessed are they whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will **NEVER** count against him!" {ADAM7777 DIAGREES ITH THESE INSPIRED WORDS 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 them up at the Last Day!... No one can come to Me **UNLESS** the Father has **ENABLED** them!!" {ADAM7777 DISAGREES WITH THESE INSPIRED WORDS OF GOD}
Hebrews 10:11-18: Day after day every priest performs his religious duties again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But when this Priest had offered for all time **ONE SACRIFICE FOR SINS**, He sat down at the right hand of God... Because by **ONE SACRIFICE** He has made ***PERFECT FOREVER*** those who are being made holy. The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First he says: "This is the covenant I will make with them after that time says the Lord. I will put My laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds." The he adds" Their sins and lawless acts I will remember **NO MORE**." And when these have been forgiven, there is **NO LONGER** any sacrifice for sin!! {ADAM7777 DISAGEES WITH THESE INSPIRED WORDS OF GOD}
What does dead to sin mean for you ? To me it means you do not have sin reigning or even alive in your body. We walk in newness, even our body should be crucified, and when the body of sin is destroyed, from then we do not serve sin, we are freed from sin. Suffering in our flesh, means we have ceased from sin, no longer to our own will, but now Gods will. God compels us to awake to righteousness and sin not, it is shameful to not gain this knowledge..
Romans 6:1-11 Shall we
continue in sin that grace may abound? God forbid, how shall
we that are dead to sin live any longer therein? We are
baptised into Jesus
and into his death, and like Jesus was raised from the dead
by glory of the father, even so we also should walk in
newness of life, if planted in the likeness of his death, we
should also be in the likeness of his resurection: our old
man is crucified with him that the body of sin might be
destroyed and henceforth not serve sin. For he that is dead
is freed from sin.
1 Peter 4:1-2 As Christ suffered in the
flesh have the same mind: for he that has suffered in the
flesh has
ceased from sin, that he will no longer live the rest of
his time in the flesh to the lusts of men but to the will of
God.
Acts 15:34 Awake to righteousness and sin not. For some
have not this knowledge of God, I speak this to your shame.
The wicked one cannot touch or influence Gods born again, they keep themselves, and they sin not. They do not continually sin and be cleaned of their sins, that is neither told, nor seen, and the opposite is witnessed and testified..
1John 5:18 We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth
not, but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and
that wicked one toucheth him not. And we know that the whole
world lieth in wickedness.
Anyone who commits sin is the servant of sin, one sin or many sins, they will not abide forever, only the son is forever. We need to obey the son in righteousness, obedience is not disobedience, and once we are free from sin we serve righteousness, because when we are servants of unrighteousness, we do no righteousness at all, the same way as when we are free from sin
we are servants of God. We cannot serve two masters, we hold to one and despise the other, sin or righteousness, there is no mixture...
John 8:34 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.
35 And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever.
Romans 6:16-23 Know ye
not that to whom ye yield yourself servants to obey, his
servants you are to whom you obey, whether of sin unto
death, or of obedience unto righteousness. You were the
servants of sin, but now obey from the heart that form of
doctrine that was delivered to you. Being made free from sin
you became the servants of righteousness. Before your
members are yielded
servants to uncleaness, and iniquity unto iniquity, after
you are servants to righteousness to holiness. For when you
were the servants of sin you were free from righteousness,
what fruit did you have in those shameful things? For the
end of those things is death, but now being made free from
sin and become servants to God ye have your fruit unto
holiness and the end is everlasting life, for the wages of
sin is death, but the gift of God is life through Jesus
Christ our lord.
Matthew 6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Light and darkness has nothing to do with each other. Christ bore our sins on the cross, so that we live to righteousness, His stripes heal us. We are to be light and no part dark whatsoever. God is light, we walk with Him in the same light, without darkness, we fellowship with one another truly,and the blood of Christ cleans us of all sin, and we must confess our sins to be cleaned of all unrighteousness..
1 Peter 2:24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
2 Corinthians 6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
Luke 11:36 If thy whole body therefore be full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light.
1 John 1:5 This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
6 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
God never said He will continually forgive our sins, that would mean the path to eternal life is easy which it is not, it is straight and narrow and few even find it, many try and are not able, if we love Christ we keep His word, to love, not hate and sin against our brothers, it becomes impossible to even repent again, so it is not possible for people to claim we can repent of our sin and be forgiven, it is not told that way, once we are enlightened, and are found as workers of darkness, we then crucify Christ afresh to ourselves. But we see that peoples eyes are full of adultery,and they are the ones who cannot cease from sin, not born again, as they are ceased from sin, and do not need to pretend they are repenting and being cleaned again and again of their sins.
Hebrews 6:4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,
6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
2 Peter 2:14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
The false teacher/prophets, do teach liberty. They speak up for freedom, that we do not have to go by the law, that we don't have to cease from sin, we will be cleaned of it over and over, that we cannot lose our salvation even, but they are the hypocritical ones, they turn back and teach we must keep certain commandments, that God did not even give, because they are servants of corruption and sin, overcome by sins and not escaped from them by Christ, the exact same as the dog returning to is vomit, and the one washed to filth again, they confess it with every word they speak..
2 Peter 2:19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
Prophetic continues to accuse Apostle Peter, but he cannot show what he is claiming. God from Heaven told Peter to slay and eat, Peter answers he never ate common or unclean. The voice answered Peter , what God has cleansed, to not call common. Peter went and considered the meaning of the vision. Acts 10:17..
Acts 11:7 And I heard a voice saying unto me, Arise, Peter; slay and eat.
8 But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath at any time entered into my mouth.
9 But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
10 And this was done three times: and all were drawn up again into heaven.
prophetic claims Peter refused what God commanded him, sinning three times. Acts 11:16 of course reveals the opposite way, Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how the baptism of the Holy Ghost would be given. Also concluding that God is giving the Gentiles the same gift He had already given to Peter, Peter shows he did not withstand God at all. The Jews who heard this also did not withstand God, and instead glorified the Lord for granting repentance to life to the gentiles..
Acts 11:16 Then remembered I the word of the Lord, how that he said, John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost.
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?
18 When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life.
"God never said He will continually forgive our sins, that would mean the path to eternal life is easy which it is not, it is straight and narrow and few even find it, many try and are not able, if we love Christ we keep His word, to love, not hate and sin against our brothers, it becomes impossible to even repent again, so it is **NOT POSSIBLE FOR PEOPLE TO CLAIM WE CAN REPENT OF OUR SIN AND BE FORGIVEN**????
ADAM7777 then quotes Hebrews to prove his heresy:
Hebrews 6:4-6: It is impossible for those who have been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit, who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age, if they fall away, to be brought back to repentance.
And so ADAM 7777 teaches that this verse proves that even if you commit one little sin and even if repent and confess your sin that you are lost forever and can never be saved and are going to hell for sure?????
And so Peter who committed the terrible sins of denying the Lord 3 times and then repented is going to hell for sure.
As Jesus was waiting to be tried [After being betrayed by Judas, the CHOSEN betrayer} Peter denied Jesus **THREE TIMES** as per Matthew 26:69-74!!
Matthew 26:74,75: Immediately a rooster crowed. Then Peter remembered the word Jesus had spoken, "Before the rooster crows, you will **DISOWN ME THREE TIMES**!!" And he went outside and wept bitterly. {So here Peter repented of his 3 evil sins}
Here ADAM7777 claims that Peter did not sin because he was **UNAWARE** that denying Jesus was a sin???
So here ADAM7777 continues to teach that Peter did not sin since he was born of God and that everyone born of God never sins???? Whereas God's Word clearly teaches that Peter did sin and that born again believers do sin but continually repent of their sins and are cleansed from their sin.
DO GOD'S BORN AGAIN FROM ABOVE SAINTS STILL SIN AFTER THEY ARE SAVED??
ADAM7777 CLAIMS THAT TRUE BELIEVERS LIKE PETER DO NOT SIN???
I John1:8-10; 2:1,2: If we claim to be without sin {Like ADAM7777}, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. If we claim we have not sinned {Like ADAM7777}, we make Him out to be a liar and His Word has no place in our lives!!.... and **IF ANYBODY DOES SIN**, we have One who speaks to the Father in our defense--Jesus Christ, the Righteous One!! {ADAM7777 disagrees with these inspired words ofGod!}
Luke 10:2-4: Jesus said to **HIS DISCIPLES**, "When you pray, say: '*Father, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come. Give us each day our **DAILY** bread. **FORGIVE US OUR SINS**, for we forgive everyone who sins against us!!'"
ADAM7777 claims that true believers do not sin??, which contradicts God's Word numerous times since God's saints are commanded to be holy as God is holy in I Peter 1:15,16; and to walk as Jesus walked in I John 2:6; and to do God's will on earth as it is in heaven as per Matthew 5:10.
And so God's Word really teaches that if believers do not continually ask God for forgiveness of the daily sin of not being holy as God is holy and not walking as Jesus walked they are sinning because they are not asking forgiveness for their sins as God's Word commands!!
The parable of the good and bad seed in Matthew 13:16-23 shows that those who fall away completely were never really chosen and born again and faithful believers.
CAN A NT BELIEVER LOSE HIS SALVATION?? WHAT DOES GOD'S WORD SAY???
JESUS PROMISES: "I SHALL **LOSE NONE** OF ALL THE FATHER HAS GIVEN ME!!"
Romans 8;29-33,35,38,39: For those God foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of His Son...And those He **PREDESTINED** He also called; those He called , He also justified; those He **JUSTIFIED** He also **GLORIFIED**. What shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His Son but gave Him up for us all--how will He not also give us all things? Who will bring any charge against **THOSE WHOM GOD HAS CHOSEN**? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns... Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?... For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels or demons, neither the present or the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord!! {ADAM7777 DISAGREES WITH THESE INSPIRED WORDS OF GOD!}
Ephesians 1:5-8: In love **HE PREDESTINED US TO BE ADOPTED AS HIS SONS** through Jesus Christ, in accordance with His pleasure and will--to the praise of His **GLORIOUS GRACE**, which He has freely given us in the One He loves. In Him we have **REDEMPTION THROUGH HIS BLOOD**, the **FORGIVENESS OF SINS**, in accordance with the riches of God's grace that He lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding! {ADAM7777 DISAGREES WITH THESE INSPIRED WORDS OF GOD}
Romans 4:7,8: Blessed are they whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will **NEVER** count against him!" {ADAM7777 DIAGREES ITH THESE INSPIRED WORDS 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 them up at the Last Day!... No one can come to Me **UNLESS** the Father has **ENABLED** them!!" {ADAM7777 DISAGREES WITH THESE INSPIRED WORDS OF GOD}
Hebrews 10:11-18: Day after day every priest performs his religious duties again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But when this Priest had offered for all time **ONE SACRIFICE FOR SINS**, He sat down at the right hand of God... Because by **ONE SACRIFICE** He has made ***PERFECT FOREVER*** those who are being made holy. The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First he says: "This is the covenant I will make with them after that time says the Lord. I will put My laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds." The he adds" Their sins and lawless acts I will remember **NO MORE**." And when these have been forgiven, there is **NO LONGER** any sacrifice for sin!! {ADAM7777 DISAGEES WITH THESE INSPIRED WORDS OF GOD}
People have to believe in Christ, and what He says is the truth, a good tree brings good fruit, and an evil tree brings evil fruit. Te good tree, (born again and the Lords Holy Apostles) cannot bring forth evil fruit. The same way, all who are not sincerely born again, cannot bring any good fruit either. When we are born again, it is Christ who purges us to bring more fruit, not ourselves praising the Lord by bringing fruit, that sort of fake behavior and fruit, withers and dies, and Christ chose the Apostles and ordained them, to go and bring forth fruit that remains, not withers, but the remaining sort is to eternal lie and glory of the Father..
Matthew 7:17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
John 15:2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
John 15:6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
John 15:16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
Apostle Paul is our next example, behaving always orderly, always with a good conscience, never offence to God or any man. Always behaving holily and justly and unblamably, exhorting us to follow their example to walk worthy of the Lord..
2 Thessalonians 3:6-7 Withdraw
from every disorderly brother and follow us as we behaved
not disorderly among you. We make ourselves an example unto
you to follow us.
Acts 24:16 I exercise
myself to have always a good conscience void of offence
toward God and man.
1 Thessalonians 2:10 Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:
11 As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,
12 That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.
prophetic and others think Peter and Paul and all born again of the Lords Holy Spirit, still sin continually and never change their old ways, but we see it is false, we cast down every imagination, every high evil thought against the knowledge of Gods righteousness,and born again bring every thought to obedience of Christ. Apostle Paul; and all the Lords Holy Apostles and all born again of the Lords Holy Spirit, we read for ourselves, keep under their body's, bringing into subjection so they preach to be Holy and keep to it always, to present all born again of the Lords Holy Spirit, perfect in Christ Jesus, labouring and striving according to the working of Christ mightily..
2 Corinthians 10:2-3,5 Some think we
walk after the flesh, though we walk in the flesh, we do not
war after the flesh. Casting down every imagination, and
every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of
God, and bringing into captivity every
thought to the obedience of Christ
1 Corinthians 9:26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
Colossians 1:28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:
29 Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
Peter is accused by prophetic to disobey God, Peter obeyed God, and Peter speaks back against false accusers and teachers of lasciviousness, because we must purify our souls, in obeying the truth, born again of incorruptible seed, elect for incorruptible sanctification and obedience, but being Holy, as the Lord is Holy, not defiled,and cleaned constantly, but Peter and all born again of the Lords Holy Spirit, are tempted in a trial of their faith, and we need to be found in honour and glory, not in sin and falling short of the Lords glory, but we ignore the rediculus false tongues, and we be diligent instead, to be found in Him in peace, which is without spot and blameless, truly cleaned once and for all, and full remission...removal of all cancerous sins....
1 peter 1:23 Purify your souls
in obeying the truth unto unfeigned love for one another
with a pure heart fervently: born again not of corruptable
seed but of incorruptable, by the word of God, which lives
and abides forever
1 Peter1:2-4 Elect santification
of the spirit, obedience and sprinkling of blood, to an
inheritance incorruptible and undefiled, as obedient
children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former
lusts in your ignorance, but he which hath called you is
holy, so be ye holy
1 Peter1:6-9 For a season now if need be ye
are in heaviness through manifold temptations:that the
trial of your faith,being much more precious than of gold
that perisheth,though it be tried with fire,might be found
unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus
Christ.
2 Peter 3:14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
Again, give all diligance, adding to faith virtue, knowledge, temperance, godliness and charity, these need to abound in us, otherwise we are blind,and our old sin were never cleaned over and over, we were only purged from our OLD SINS, instead of listening to the flattering blaspheming tongues, rather we hear the Lords right ways of just judgement, again we GIVE DILLIGENCE, to make our calling SURE, IF, we do those things we never fall. The end is bad for those who do not obey the Gospel, obeying God, and now we see the righteous are scarcely saved, we COMMIT THE KEEPING OF OUR SOULS TO THE LORD IN WELL DOING..
2 Peter 1:5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
1 Peter 4:17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
19 Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.
prophetic is an accuser with nothing to show, Jesus spoke for all the Apostles to deny Him, all were scattered, all left Him alone. Peter wanted to be braver, Jesus had to show Him, His word will be fulfilled, and Peter will have to deny Christ three times. Peter did not want to believe that, and all Apostles denied those words. Jesus took Peter to comfort Himself anyway. But all was done to fulfill the scriptures, then all Apostles forsook Jesus and fled. Peter remained though, trying to be braver, and all Apostles denied Jesus at this time...
John 16:32 Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
Matthew 26:33 Peter answered and said unto him, Though all men shall be offended because of thee, yet will I never be offended.
34 Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this night, before the rooster crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.
35 Peter said unto him, Though I should die with thee, yet will I not deny thee. Likewise also said all the disciples.
37 And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.
Matthew 26:56 But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.
57 And they that had laid hold on Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled.
58 But Peter followed him afar off unto the high priest's palace, and went in, and sat with the servants, to see the end.
The reason why all apostles fled and denied, was because they had no Holy Spirit yet to be brave and bold in Christ. and after they received the gift of the Holy Ghost they were witnesses when the received POWER, until then they had mans power which is zero..
Acts 1:4 And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me.
5 For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.
8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
Now we see the Apostles refusing to obey the high priest and obeying God, now they can only speak what they see, the same as Christ spoke only speaking as He saw the Father speak, then they speak the word with boldness, as bold as lions when we have the Holy Spirit..
Acts 4:19 But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye.
20 For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
Acts 4:31 And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness.
Proverbs 28:1 The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.
, we will in all things grow up into *HIM WHO IS THE HEAD**, that is **CHRIST**. {Not some pope!} From Him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in **LOVE**