XPost: alt.christnet.christianlife, alt.bible, alt.atheism   
   From: michaelmclean2021@outlook.com   
      
   You hear about the Lord in the scriptures, but faith in Him comes   
   directly from Him.   
      
   You just have to do what the scriptures say.   
      
   John 6:37  All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that   
   cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.   
      
   "Me" "I"   
      
   A Personal Saviour.   
      
   Mat_11:28  Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I   
   will give you rest.   
      
   Not come to that which is about Me, come to Me.   
      
   Pro 3:5  Trust in the LORD with all thine heart (not doctrinal analysis   
   headspace); and lean not unto thine own understanding.   
      
   When you're a sinner pushing out your own vision, all you see is what   
   you want to see and see what seems so right in your own eyes and do not   
   hear the subtle, meek, and humble—beautiful—still small voice of the   
   Lord. Sin blinds a man to the truth because he is walking (and   
   exchanging) in a lie.   
      
   If I am led to go shopping to buy some food to eat, is shopping the food   
   to eat? Neither is the written word (it) the Lord Jesus in Person; [He]   
   is the Saviour. I am sure if God wanted the scriptures to be The   
   Saviour, He would have found a way to make that the case, but He didn't;   
   He sent His Son, and Himself in His Son, but had to leave because faith   
   IN HIM had to be through the Holy Spirit.   
      
   John 20:29  Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me,   
   thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have   
   believed.   
      
   Bear in mind, no one in the Old was saved by the scriptures. They all   
   waited for the coming Personal Saviour Person, for the presence of the   
   Messiah Himself. Isaiah 9:6  For unto us a child is born, unto us a son   
   is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name   
   shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting   
   Father, The Prince of Peace.   
      
   Not, unto us the scriptures were born.   
      
   I can give you my testimony of how I came to Him, if you like, but I   
   can't see you having any regard for that. Well, an example or two,   
   anyway, but to write it all down would take a big book to be written, as   
   any life would.   
      
   ***But it is really all about the Lord being satisfied that you are   
   going to go with Him.*** If the Lord does not see that in a man's heart,   
   there is no point in Him trying to "gather" that man as a hen does her   
   eggs and freeing him of the burden he freely chooses to hold on to.   
   Pilgrim's burden, for example, he wanted rid of it; he was not trying to   
   find a way to live with it. Are you hearing?   
      
   Isn't that the truth, this world is a burden that men freely choose to   
   hold on to? But you can't have it both ways—two masters. As you have   
   seen in the rich young ruler who was required to let go of everything,   
   there are only two directions; a man cannot walk in both.   
      
   As the Lord has said over many years, "All or nothing."   
      
      
      
      
      
   In the Name of Jesus   
      
   --   
   God is God in all His Being. All the glory is His, for He is all glory.   
      
   Jesus is the everlasting Father, Jesus is God, Jesus is the Lord. John   
   10:30  I and Father are one. If you can't see that the Lord Jesus is the   
   everlasting Father you are not born again and can't see the Kingdom of God.   
      
   Colossians 2:9  For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.   
      
   Rom 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were   
   YET sinners, Christ died for us.   
      
   Jeremiah 10:23 O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it   
   is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.   
      
   Psalms 53:1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt   
   are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.   
      
   Proverbs 12:15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that   
   hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.   
      
   "To seek your own will is to seek your own glory."   
      
   "If God is not first in everything, He is not first in anything."   
      
   "What makes the bible the truth? The resonance (voice, the Person) of   
   God. When you find Him you have found the author."   
      
   "All men were born sinners. Why? Because all men were born not loving   
   God with all their heart, soul, and mind. An abomination. Therefore,   
   sin is not what you do; it is what you are."   
      
   "Compromise will condemn you."   
      
   "There are no sinners in Christ Jesus."   
      
   "My sons are born of Me. In them is no darkness at all."   
      
   "You can't learn righteousness. Haven't you had enough time already to   
   know that?"   
      
   "The way of truth is the testimony of life."   
      
   "I merely speak the truth, what is revealed to me, and the cards fall   
   where God intends."   
      
   "Nothing that is produced is produced without first being faith."   
      
   "You can only find proof of God through faith because that is how we all   
   live, by faith."   
      
   "It is not what you do that matters, it is how you treat Me."   
      
   "Keep going forward. Forget about the past. Lift up your head, look   
   ahead."   
      
   "You cannot be free, and free indeed, with guilt in your heart."   
      
   "Priority is everything."   
      
   "The truth doesn't need evidence, it is evidence."   
      
   "There is no greater possession a man has than his own will, to squander   
   it or to place it where it truly belongs."   
      
   "An atheist is a fool who thinks truth is found in living a lie."   
      
   "Saying "prove it" [as a foundation] is merely an ignorant straw man, to   
   an ignorant straw man."   
      
   "Wait, rest, be still, and know."   
      
   "No man can wash his own hands!!!"   
      
   "I find this in the Christianity religions: 'Nobody's perfect' they say,   
   and they use that as an excuse not to do what is perfect."   
      
   "The Atheist: "They don't believe and put their faith in a Creator (the   
   obvious). So no evidence or proof is to be found."   
      
   "The world is the way it is because God can't compromise who He is."   
      
   "Man is not the centre of being."   
      
   "Man is incompatible with the natural world because of his sinful nature."   
      
   "And then the Lord said, "I see everything."   
      
   "Man has no greater idol than his own will."   
      
   "Where is God hiding? He isn't."   
      
   "If you don't keep all the scriptures, you can't keep any of them."   
      
   "You can't prove anything because everything depends on a person's   
   willingness to believe."   
      
   "Atheists are ultimately trying to be pointlessness, meaninglessness,   
   and purposelessness in their point, meaning, and purpose."   
      
   "The last day of creation will be the last day of time. God is always   
   full of hope."   
      
   "The veil of the temple was rent in twain, not so that a book could pass   
   through it for a sinner to play God."   
      
   "A phylactery does not a heart for God make. Not back then, and not today."   
      
   "No one in heaven is better (or higher) than what makes it heaven. Such   
   is the love of God."   
      
   "The definition of an atheist: a man full of bluster and bullshit in his   
   meaninglessness pretending he is the meaning of life."   
      
      
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   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)