did ya already know about the person who was not WORTHY OF CONFIRMATION. I have my studies and prayers been for to encouraging the BARNABAS-style of persons, recignize the letter N between. the BLIND one that followed his heart and PAVEL..with believing he got eyes. Remember the words? yes
I feel my life has been like the one who was not WORTHY to enter the holy confirmation but yet I have been stubborn and I have my share of shaking...58 age woman.
I am going to break for the night. I will get back to this topic tomorrow and discuss how God wisely keeps HIs covenant with Israel, gleaning from John Pipers same article.
We have no grounds to glory in ourselves before God in relation to our salvation. Not in our wisdom, knowledge, reason, wills, intellect, nor ethnicity. All sinners have nothing to bring to God that would gain our salvation. God is credited with the totality of our salvation.
Verses 30-31 speaks to the reason for boasting. We are to boast in Jesus who is for us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption.
Beware of thinking that there could have been a better way for God to bring salvation to elect sinners. None of us have enough wisdom or knowledge to counsel God. His ways are higher than any creature. Instead, we should bow our heads with humble hearts and admit that God does all things well! The elect of God are to forever boast in God alone through Christ alone. He is our champion! He is our Savior! His love for us is unmatched in that He chose to die for us to redeem sinners who were enemies of God and dead in sin. Oh, the glory of the wise ways of God!
We must always push aside our ego and sense of accomplishment concerning our relationship with God. He has done all that is needed for us to be reconciled to Him. Therefore, we should seek to be truly humbled and broken before God looking only to Him for the salvation which is only in God alone and not in any idea of man or action of man or any other way we could think to have grounds to boast before God. Jesus, the divine Son of God, who became one of us, is the only Person who lived a human life that has any grounds to glory in His own works.
So, let's keep our focus on Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith. Think high thoughts of God, not thinking that He is very like us. He is far exalted above us and worthy of all our praise and worship.
For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not manywise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; and base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are; THAT NO FLESH SHOULD GLORY IN HIS PRESENCE.
But of Him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption."
Here Paul connects the work of Jesus Christ with the wisdom of God. In this passage God in His wisdom soundly rejects the possibility of salvation being based on the wisdom or intellect or knowledge of sinners. Nor can salvation be found by sinners through signs, as the Jews sought.
Rather, God chose to save sinners through the foolishness of a crucified Messiah. And just at the time this plan was most foolish in the eyes of mankind, Jesus is said to be the wisdom of God. And at the time when Jesus seemed to be the weakest in the eyes of mankind, Jesus is said to be the power of God. God chose to express His infinite wisdom in in the form of human foolishness and weakness.
And why was it wise for God to save sinners in this way? It was the way to achieve His ultimate goal. And what is that goal? Verse 29 identifies this goal as being so that no human can ever boast (glory) in the presence of God.
God's wise choices in the way He saves sinners in the death of Jesus, in how He chose sinners to be saved before the cross and called sinners after the cross were infinitely wise. He planned for sinners to be chosen, purchased, called, and saved in this manner so that sinners are stripped of any sense of self-boasting.
Hello Kuivaala: It's nice too meet you. I believe the people who post on this dissuasion platform are very loving and caring children of God, including me. I do love the Lord deeply.
We, in ourselves are not worthy when it comes to just ourselves, however, the sacrificial blood of Jesus does make us as God's children worthy of God's love and His salvation. In that way you are worthy. indeed, if you are born again and have accepted Jesus as your Savior then feel worthy in His sight.
Acts 5:41 - "And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name."
2 Thessalonian 1:11 - "Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power: That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Colossians 1:10 "That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;" I hope these few scriptures help. If you go to a website called Bible Hub, if you don't have it already, you can find more verses. Just put "worthy of God" in the search bar.
I would like to ask you, if you don't mind, what do you mean by "shaking" Hello Kuivaala: It's nice too meet you. I believe the people who post on this dissuasion platform are very loving and caring children of God, including me. I do love the Lord deeply.
We, in ourselves are not worthy when it comes to just ourselves, however, the sacrificial blood of Jesus does make us as God's children worthy of God's love and His salvation. In that way you are worthy. indeed, if you are born again and have accepted Jesus as your Savior then feel worthy in His sight.
Acts 5:41 - "And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer s? God Bless :) Ann
I feel my life has been like the one who was not WORTHY to enter the holy confirmation but yet I have been stubborn and I have my share of shaking...58 age woman.
Pt. 4
We have no grounds to glory in ourselves before God in relation to our salvation. Not in our wisdom, knowledge, reason, wills, intellect, nor ethnicity. All sinners have nothing to bring to God that would gain our salvation. God is credited with the totality of our salvation.
Verses 30-31 speaks to the reason for boasting. We are to boast in Jesus who is for us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption.
Beware of thinking that there could have been a better way for God to bring salvation to elect sinners. None of us have enough wisdom or knowledge to counsel God. His ways are higher than any creature. Instead, we should bow our heads with humble hearts and admit that God does all things well! The elect of God are to forever boast in God alone through Christ alone. He is our champion! He is our Savior! His love for us is unmatched in that He chose to die for us to redeem sinners who were enemies of God and dead in sin. Oh, the glory of the wise ways of God!
We must always push aside our ego and sense of accomplishment concerning our relationship with God. He has done all that is needed for us to be reconciled to Him. Therefore, we should seek to be truly humbled and broken before God looking only to Him for the salvation which is only in God alone and not in any idea of man or action of man or any other way we could think to have grounds to boast before God. Jesus, the divine Son of God, who became one of us, is the only Person who lived a human life that has any grounds to glory in His own works.
So, let's keep our focus on Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith. Think high thoughts of God, not thinking that He is very like us. He is far exalted above us and worthy of all our praise and worship.
Pt. 3
For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not manywise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; and base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are; THAT NO FLESH SHOULD GLORY IN HIS PRESENCE.
But of Him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption."
Here Paul connects the work of Jesus Christ with the wisdom of God. In this passage God in His wisdom soundly rejects the possibility of salvation being based on the wisdom or intellect or knowledge of sinners. Nor can salvation be found by sinners through signs, as the Jews sought.
Rather, God chose to save sinners through the foolishness of a crucified Messiah. And just at the time this plan was most foolish in the eyes of mankind, Jesus is said to be the wisdom of God. And at the time when Jesus seemed to be the weakest in the eyes of mankind, Jesus is said to be the power of God. God chose to express His infinite wisdom in in the form of human foolishness and weakness.
And why was it wise for God to save sinners in this way? It was the way to achieve His ultimate goal. And what is that goal? Verse 29 identifies this goal as being so that no human can ever boast (glory) in the presence of God.
God's wise choices in the way He saves sinners in the death of Jesus, in how He chose sinners to be saved before the cross and called sinners after the cross were infinitely wise. He planned for sinners to be chosen, purchased, called, and saved in this manner so that sinners are stripped of any sense of self-boasting.
See Pt. 4
We, in ourselves are not worthy when it comes to just ourselves, however, the sacrificial blood of Jesus does make us as God's children worthy of God's love and His salvation. In that way you are worthy. indeed, if you are born again and have accepted Jesus as your Savior then feel worthy in His sight.
Acts 5:41 - "And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name."
2 Thessalonian 1:11 - "Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power: That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Colossians 1:10 "That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;" I hope these few scriptures help. If you go to a website called Bible Hub, if you don't have it already, you can find more verses. Just put "worthy of God" in the search bar.
I would like to ask you, if you don't mind, what do you mean by "shaking" Hello Kuivaala: It's nice too meet you. I believe the people who post on this dissuasion platform are very loving and caring children of God, including me. I do love the Lord deeply.
We, in ourselves are not worthy when it comes to just ourselves, however, the sacrificial blood of Jesus does make us as God's children worthy of God's love and His salvation. In that way you are worthy. indeed, if you are born again and have accepted Jesus as your Savior then feel worthy in His sight.
Acts 5:41 - "And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer s? God Bless :) Ann
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