You're right. The oil company he works for did provide him a Nissan Amera car. Oil company lots of $$$

Pity the snake.

Your first devotion here? 

Well, it's the first one that I notice where everything you wrote spoke to my heart, it's scriptural.

Hello! <3 Jesus Loves ME, You, EVERYONE!
haha.. i just found out this thread, will track it..
AM from Calvary in Sabah.. God Bless!<3

    I love finances, but ain't an idol to me.. just living frugally..

I might need prayer, as no matter how i tried to follow a bible plan to study and meditate on the word of God, somehow I would forget it.. :S
either distracted or something important come out, how can i solve this?

Bible Devotions with UW

Can we purify ourselves?
Good Morning Friends or Night by the time you read this.

I must confess I am troubled whenever I see erroneous teaching methods use to pass on the word of God to Believers. Not to say He is teaching heresy or false (it is not that). It is from the right foundation but the wrong type of words in meaning is wrongly used.

One of the common mistakes that most preacher makes is to take Old Covenant way and to integrate or mix into the New Covenant Life.

Jesus says we cannot pour new wine and pour it into old wineskins because the wineskin will burst. (Matthew 9:17) And it is also true for vice versa.
Jesus was referring to mixing up Law and Grace. Old Covenant mixing with New Covenant. You cannot mix both, Jesus himself says it will burst!

So what is my angst about?

The term purifying ourselves most likely taken from 1 John 1:9 where it says: If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
In the Old Covenant, YES it is valid, you need to purify yourself because our righteousness depends on our effort or works.

In the New Covenant It CANNOT BE because the Bible is very clear it is the works of God that purify us and saves us.
In Philippians 3:9 it says:

not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ--the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith.

Do you realize in most Churches today, When it comes to the matter of Salvation, Righteousness, Cleansing and Holiness there's hardly much preaching, expounding about the work of Christ or preaching everything about Christ? Think about it. It's mostly about us, what should we, what not to do, what not to grieve. If you see it, that sort of righteousness comes from the Law.
A lot of focus is put on us rather than on God. There is no power in of ourselves but there is power when the focus is on the Almighty God.

but Question is who is purifying who? So whenever a preachers says: Purify yourself, People might think Wow I can purify myself through my confession of sins and repent.
Anyway the term purify ourselves is not what the Bible teaches in the New Covenant. Even in the Old Testament, God was preparing the way of Salvation by giving us hints.

Isaiah 43:25 - "I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sins no more."

And Titus makes it  very clear, it is the work of God that purify us.

Titus 2:14 - who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good.
1 Peter 1:18 says it like this: For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your ancestors,
and 1 John 1:7 says it like this: But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.

All these speaks about God and his work or more accurately the Blood of Christ that was sacrifice as the one who purify us. It is the work of Christ.

Being purified, cleansed, made Holy and Saved is a gift of God that we need to receive. That is why the Bible explicitly says it by the Grace of God. Something that is not owed to us like salary where the employer of the company must give because we work for it.

We need to receive this by Faith. We cannot be righteous by our conduct, no matter what we do. So how do we become righteous? By Receiving the gift of Salvation from God by Faith. Faith is credited to us as righteousness.

We are not sinners because we sin. We are sinners because we inherited Adam's sin. Therefore that stain or corruption pass on causes us to sin and likewise Christ did not become Sin because He sin. He became Sin by receiving our Sin at the cross. The Bible say In Him there is No Sin, He knew No Sin and He did No Sin. So how did Christ become Sin? He receive all our Sins at the Cross. The Divine Exchange.

We receive Christ Gift of Righteousness by Faith, Christ receive our sin at the cross through his Finished Work. We cannot purify ourselves, we must remember where to put our Faith correctly which is in Christ and Christ alone, never in our confession or even repentance because having focusing on that is going back to the Old Covenant which the Bible calls a Ministry of Death.

God Bless.

We can't force people Tina, It's the Job of the HS to illuminate his word to each believer.

We just deliver as whatever wisdom is given and enabled by the spirit.

Yes He did but look at the context of the warning.

1 Timothy 1:3-4

3 As I urged you when I went into Macedonia, stay there in Ephesus so that you may command certain people not to teach false doctrines any longer 4 or to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies. Such things promote controversial speculations rather than advancing God’s work—which is by faith.

We cannot simply flail the word False Teacher or False prophet according to our whim and fancy, should follow scripture meaning.

Here as above you can see it talks about
"which is by Faith"

Anything that is not by Faith according to this verse is False Teaching.

LOL, we all want to.

But here is where we have to exhibit patience. The work of the gospel is all of God.

We don't have to get upset or angry if people disagree. Commit it to God and let God handle and deal with the person.

I've seen with my own eyes this has happen many times.

The Battle is the Lord's.

God wants us to be in peace and in Joy. So Let us be at peace and do our own thing. Not worth to get wrinkles right? 

Maybe you can say it's kind of very uncaring not to care.
I rather be uncaring not to care rather than go into arguments where everybody's emotion is upset.

you can't

they exist as part of church growth. soon or later somebody will replace my teaching / UW teachings with better teachings... or, we adopt the new teachings and our color changes

earlier we build low-rise building.

then after apartment completes, we enjoy our increase / blessing.

but that's not enough.... GOD's want to build higher building... so what to do ? old apartment must be demolished, ground re-engingeered for higher rise building... then new construction come... the tower crane come...

imagine tower crane below...

of course "narrow minded civilian" will complain why invest in cranes... we want to build high rise building like below....

and teachers / does have excuse .... GOD's plan sometimes it's not according to our plan...

-------------- before 2015 ------------

the low rise building are... traditional churches
the new rise building are .... pentecostal churches

the crane... it's the teaching / tool to help build

------------ after 2015 and beyond ------

now i see things coming...

the low rise building are... pentecostal churches
the new rise building are .... traditional churches that speaking in tongue... / pentecostal churches that become almost similar to traditional ones

---- your question about fake teachers ---
they exist cuz growth is multiple steps processes. at GOD's appointed time, the teachings will diminished. The crane has to be removed. But at another place, another crane with different technical specs exist to cater... advanced construction

imagine how GOD's work

yes but cannot marry in church right coz church is holy?

low cost = 50 years? must be more expensive than malaysian built pre clay right? I thought wood is cheaper?

it's an allegory.

new technology always improves from older one.

The allegory is: Pentecostal is new technology. Traditional churches is traditional.

-- new rise building ? --

new rise building requires more advanced technology compared to single story building for example. Just lay-man example ok ....

Bible is the only authority at every time of age! It is relevant and is the authority back then, today, and in the future. Get this into your skull.

You are incorporating nonsense and making sin look like it is some small thing to be brush aside. Sin is still sin whether he/she is a believer or a non believer, both deserved to be condemned eternally to hell. Only the grace of God saves sinners through Jesus Christ.

You don't have solutions! You can't even save yourself! Only Christ have and can save sinners!

How about you start studying the bible, instead of coming up with what you think is right or relevant or logical!

Who are you!? Seriously! That you belittling God's word?

that writings makes HS so happy. Good job.
cuz they are different. so much different.

anytime babeh... we ignore your past, but we have pre marital course that you n your spouse must attend so as a pastor i can put blessing on you.

I cannot give blessing to alien, who simply come to our church and ask married me in 5 seconds or else we leave... hahaha...

rest be assured, one ... one of my job is to win soul, and park in church....

question: what church... so far only 3 i know in malaysia.. DUMC, CHCKL or calvary church....

is that secure enough for you ?