Your LV and Guchi? Can't really understand what's in it.


This post has been edited by unknown warrior: Jan 10 2015, 09:36 PM

Pity the snake.

One of the problem the words: Purify yourself with confession and repentance, it can lead us away from having faith in Christ subconsciously.

The Bible says Believe in -->the Lord Jesus and you shall be save.

This statement can cause inexperience believer to have faith in his own confession and repentance rather than Christ and this is very dangerous imo.

It is an example of one extreme end which IMO the devil uses a weapon of confusion that causes many believers to fall into self condemnation.

This post has been edited by unknown warrior: Jan 11 2015, 10:56 PM

For a Christian death is not the end. It's the beginning of eternal Life.

This is the reason why Christ came and what He offers to all who believe.

So for a Christian whether He lives or die on this earth, we really have nothing to fear, in fact we do long to be with our Lord Jesus because in Heaven, there is no more suffering, living there. And how do we know there is a Heaven? By knowing there is a real God here on Earth. And How do we know there is a real God?
By the evidence of our Life. Whether what God promise for us in this life is true or not, And I can testify to you, It's TRUE!

But as it is God put us here for the purpose to accomplish what we can in life. Different people have different purpose in life.

Hope this helps you understand better. Some "people" out there don't understand and blame God for everything. Please don't get confuse by non Christians trying to mislead others. Ask us Here, we are the better source of information when it comes to Christianity.

This is a natural part of life. Something you need to learn to accept.

Girls are Girls. Whether in Christianity, out of Christianity, they want security in Life as such, they will look for a secure partner.
This has nothing to do with Christianity. You cannot blame every Girl for that because not everyone is the same.
Some may not have such needs, some just want a good guy whom she can trust that will not flirt with the next hot thing.

Don't generalize and throw in your towel and have angst against people like that, it doesn't help you in life.

The girls of this generation are different from the past. Today's competition is very great. It's not the matter of sexy, but the need to attract a guy has change drastically. (Mind you not every Girl is like that either). This is something that we the Church are trying to educate our Girl that it need not be like that.

And as for your last question. Not every Church is like that, it depends on the leadership and the senior Pastor of that Church in how they cause the Church to interact with each other.

In My Church we greet each other every time without Fail and mind you we are a mega Church for local standard.

This post has been edited by unknown warrior: Jan 11 2015, 07:21 PM

Welcome Bro.

Your first devotion here?

Nothing really, just be here and fellowship. Share Experiences.

The way to be detached from the Love of Money is to focus everything on Christ as your Saviour in this life.
Practically everything in life. How? Pray throughout the whole day. Talk to Jesus even for few minutes. When you're on break time.
Pour out your heart's content to Him.




As for the word of God, one technic of remembering easy is to start by choosing 1 or 2 short Fav verses. Don't try long verses so fast.

For example.

John 10:10.

or

John 15:15.

Keep on repeating it throughout the day. Meditate it. Keep on thinking about it throughout the whole day.
No Problem when you're distracted by something. After that, just come back to it.

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

I don't blame you, majority of the Churches in Malaysia have this problem on conveying using the right words and meaning.

Actually it's alright, I more or lest know the preaching points because this is quite common.

Many Pastors, they have the right intention in that, they want people to live righteously but the main problem is that because of the culture of Malaysians.
Many are spiritually empty and quite carnal. Some are rebellious. They have no hunger for God, things like that.

So what this preacher do is that, They tend to focus and cause guilt to come on Man, with the hope they'll repent. They think, the more fiery it is, the more Judgements are mete out, the more convicted Man will become.

Many times the common mistakes preacher makes is that they cause the people to be introspective of themselves rather than to understand that

Christ came to save us.

What happens is that,

the focus is change to now to be more introspective of ourselves of what we do rather than focusing on Christ and having Faith in his Finish Work.
Sometime the way preachers preach, is like Christ didn't finish his work.

Don't know if you get me.

This post has been edited by unknown warrior: Jan 11 2015, 11:31 PM

Bible Devotions with UW

Adam's Sin



I remember when I mentioned we're sinners not because we sin but because of adam's sin, I rustled some jimmies with raised eyebrow responses. I wrote that on purpose because I wanted to share this devotion today.

Whenever the word is shared preached, it's always important to share it from the context of the Bible.
Man's way of reasoning will say: we are sinners because we sin. That is the natural understanding from our mind, But what does the Bible says?

Please take out your traditional Bible or Digital Bible and turn with me to Romans 5.
Everything is taken in context of Romans 5, the whole entire chapter. Notice that in chapter 5, it starts off by saying in verse 1;

We have been justified by Faith. The Bible is very clear. It is not works, it is not obedience, not the Law but Faith. Learn to trust and have Faith in the Bible because it is the word of God.

We will come to that later why it starts the passage with this. Why Faith.
Then in verse 9 it says we are justified by Christ's Blood. Again. Consistency, justified by our Faith in Christ because of his shed Blood, it's by the Grace of God, NEVER of works and NEVER of the Law.

Why is this important? Because there are some Churches trying to bring back the law, trying to bind believers back to the law. It's either that or they try to mix Law and Grace together. God would not have it. In Fact God forbids it. (Romans 11:6).

Then LOOK CAREFULLY! See from verse 12 all the way to the end, The Holy Spirit is very careful in explaining how we become Sinners. Do you notice the word BY ONE MAN, THROUGH ONE MAN is often repeated?

You will come to realize what I said is correct that we are sinner because of Adam's Sin when you read verse 19:
(NIV) For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.

What this verse is saying, because of the disobedience of ONE MAN, Adam, MANY (meaning all of us) were made sinners. We were MADE SINNERS because of ADAM's SIN.
Now that you see what I said is actually how the Bible says it, you may ask me.

Why UW? Why is this important? I'll tell you why and it has to do with the very first verse in verse 1 about justification by Faith.
Many Christian have no problem accepting this, that it's by faith and by grace, etc etc all that, no problem. It has been embedded naturally, maybe indoctrinated for so long we don't really care to ask God why.

But they will have problem when I say this:

There are many places that teaches that we can only gain Salvation when we obey God, failure to obey causes us to sin and therefore what we do may forfeit Salvation. Friend if you understand properly what was just said, THAT IS BASICALLY going back to the old covenant of the LAW! What is the difference really when you hear that being preached so forcefully today? IT IS THE LAW.

You cannot deny it. If you put yourself under the Law, you forfeit grace and also Christ!
Galatians 5:4 (NIV) - You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.

or they will try to mix that together with Faith, Law & Grace. But God will not have it.
Romans 11:6 9 (NIV) - And if by grace, then it cannot be based on works; if it were, grace would no longer be grace.

I don't really get you UW, how is this important of how do I know what you're saying is correct?

I'll tell you why this is important.

Romans 5:19 says that we are made sinners because of Adam's sin. In the same breath, We are also made righteous because we obey God? No! Read that verse correctly.

.... so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.

There goes what Some Churches teaches that we need to obey God to be righteous and to qualify for Heaven OUT OF THE WINDOW! Who is that ONE MAN who obey that makes ALL OF US Righteous? He is Jesus Christ! Who obedience once again? Yours or Jesus Christ?

I rest my case. Christ did this for your freedom. Why? Because God knows if Salvation depends on your obedience, Nobody in this world will qualify.

I conclude by stating this truth in the Bible.

We are made Sinners because of Adam's Sin and We are made Righteous because of Christ Obedience. (Romans 5:19)

God Bless.




This post has been edited by unknown warrior: Jan 17 2015, 12:39 PM

Romans 5:12 explicitly explains it.

King James Bible

Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that ----> all have sinned:

That's right.

Inherited from Adam and Eve. This is how the scripture explains it.



Thank you Tina.

Spiritual Growth in Christ is just like real life growing.

Just as you live doing your daily stuff, so must your spirit man do spiritual stuff daily.

And what I mean by that is prayer, reading the Bible, practising your faith, walking in love daily, etc.

The Bible promises when we put our Faith into actions daily, it is cultivating the spirit man in you to grow.

You will come to that place of strength like your parent.

This post has been edited by unknown warrior: Jan 12 2015, 10:27 PM

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. The greatest antithesis of Faith is Works. Because many were trying to bring back the Law into the gospel. Even today.

This post has been edited by unknown warrior: Jan 12 2015, 10:58 PM

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.