For all of you naysaying,angry,self righteous,critical,and non exhorting people which criticize almost everything i have posted on this forum.
I would have you to know that Yeshua Loves you,more than i ever could,for He gave his life to save you wretched souls.
I Love you and have given to you the Word of Life.
That is all i can do as the Holy Spirit empowers me to do that.
Also He has me to pray for you.
Now this is a one time deal.
The short version of Yeshua saving my wretched soul:
By Mr.Nobody
I have never known my biological dad,i met him one time while i was in prison.
He also was there the same prison,for vagrancy
I have never had any significant conversations with my mom,not my entire life.
Since birth she had hated me,and told me this many times throughout my life.
By the Grace of GOD,I love my mom,I pray for her salvation,as the salvation of my brothers and sisters,and the rest of the family and friends.
I happen to be the only Christian in the family,the family knows this.
I also am the only one in the family,that is left-handed and has green and blue eyes,Sometimes they are green sometimes blue; awesome
I was a drunk from the time of sixteen,by the time of twenty five,i was living on the streets in New Jersey.
My heart and mind were that of an angry,bitter,hate filled
man,I hated everyone in this life.
I just wanted to hurt people,really,really bad if you understand this. I cannot post the real words.
Being twenty five,a drunk,homeless,living on the street,no desire to work,and having spent time in prison,my heart,mind and life could not have been changed by anyone; Except 'YESHUA'.
To this day i do not remember what had happened to me,but the only thing i remember was drinking alcohol in someones yard,then waking up uhe next day not knowing who i was.
Awhile later my memory returned, and i understood who i was.
I had a broken nose,concussion,cuts and bruises on my body,yet no understanding how i had gotten them,or how i arrived in the hospital.
There was a rehab in the hospital.
The nose was put back in place,and a few days later they drove me to the Salvation Army Adult Rehabilitation Center,in Trenton,N.J.
I spent a few months there;
The first 2 months,i made fun of the people there,yet they loved me,and even spoke with me.
It was here the Holy Spirit was moving,creating life within me,giving me faith to trust Yeshua.
The Holy SPirit had given me faith to trust Yeshua,Yet i was not understanding the Word clearly.
I knew from age 5 there was something wrong with me,I was showing others how to start fires at that age.
Yet,not until the Holy Spirit started convicting and showing me the sinfulness of my nature,did i then begin understanding more fully the need of Yeshua i had.
After moving to Philadelphia,Pa. the Father had drawn me by His Holy Spirit to Yeshua.
The Holy Spirit had given to me to 'REPENT' of my unbelief of Yehsua.
He also had given to me a measure of life / regenerated me.
The Holy Spirit convicted me of my sinfullness,He had also given to me to Faith to ' TRUST' Yeshua to save me from the wrath of GOD.
Repentance of sin did not occur until 'TRUSTING Yeshua,and being filled with the Holy Spirit of GOD.
A few years later,i had asked one of the 'ELDERS' to be Baptized;I had been baptized in a club footed bathtub,
hahahahaha.
Being filled with the Holy Spirit,the Spirit of GOD had empowered me to start reading and studying the word of GOD
after trusting Yeshua.
I have not been content just to have someone divide the word for me,the Holy Spirit empowers me to understand the Word of GOD.
Evangelizing,was easy,as the Holy Spirit empowered to do this.
Today,the believers in New Jersey believe the Holy Spirit has empowered and called me to Evangelize,teach,and to Prophesy,( That is to speak forth the Word of GOD),maybe discrenment.
A person is saved by trusting Yeshua,to save and protect them from the wrath of GOD ALMIGHTY.
Forgiveness of sin(s) is the result of Yeshua dying and having His blood poured out in Atonement of my Sin(s) and my sinful nature.
Repentance,and baptism cannot accomplish this.
Heb_9:22 And almost all things are purified by blood according to the Law; and apart from shedding of blood no remission occurs.
Repentance of unbelief,of not trusting Yeshua,then believing the Gospel and trusting Yeshua to save me from the wrath of GOD is Biblical Repentance.
Repentance of sin(s) is the result of having 'TRUSTED YESHUA' to save my soul,from the judgement of GOD.
Never the catalyst to 'BEING SAVED'.
Eph 2:8 For by grace you are saved, through faith, and this not of yourselves; it is the gift of God;
Eph 2:9 not of works, that not anyone should boast;
Fellowship,this is the result or benefit of having been saved.
Two or more believers can gather 'ANYWHERE',even a Wal-Mart break room.
These two or more,are fully qualified Biblically,to 'BREAK BREAD,WORSHIP,READ and STUDY the Word of GOD together.
NO so called senior pastor mentioned here.
No so-called worship team mentioned here.
Just Yeshua and the body of Yeshua
No building is necessary,would be great,but not necessary.
Mat 18:18 Truly I say to you, Whatever you bind on the earth will be, having been bound in Heaven. And whatever you loose on the earth will be, having been loosed in Heaven.
Mat 18:19 Again I say to you, If two of you agree on earth as to anything, whatever they shall ask, it shall be to them from My Father in Heaven.
Mat 18:20 For where two or three are gathered together in My name, there I am in their midst.
Lastly,discipleship is by the 'ENTIRE BODY of YESHUA'.
This being accomplished under the Authority (Might and right)
and power of Yeshua,not the Assemblies.
Mat 28:18 And having come near, Jesus spake to them, saying, `Given to me was all authority in heaven and on earth;
Mat 28:19 having gone, then, disciple all the nations, (baptizing them--to the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,
Mat 28:20 teaching them to observe all, whatever I did command you,) and lo, I am with you all the days--till the full end of the age.'
Almost everything I post here except the Word of GOD, is not from someone elses works,or books.
I read and study the Word of GOD,and the Holy Spirit reveals to me,what i write here.
I have posted Oswald Chambers,as Ozzy and I have the same insights by the Holy Spirit.
That is the TESTIMONY of Yehsua in me,within a nutshell.
A book could be written about the rediculous exploits of this knucklehead.
And about the Grace,Mercy and Forgiveness and Protection
of GOD Almighty towards this man.
I do not boast of my loving Yeshua,
I will always as the Holy Spirit empowers me,I will proclaim the AGAPE' / Unconditional love Of GDO for me in His SON Yeshua-Ha-Messhiach;Yeshua the Messiah.
George, I LOVE YOUR TESTIMONY:applause::glow:... and PRAISE GOD FOR YOUR SALVATION!... but it is now time to get yourself under the leadership of a bible believing, God fearing , bible teaching and preacher pastor/siritual leader.
Trusting in Jesus Christ is what we are suppose to do for our salvation, and we also must trust in Him to lead us to the right teachers to help guide and lead us, and provide us with the strength to increase our faith and knowledge into His Holy Word, this is what we are taught in scriptures.
If you trust in Jesus Christ, then you should also pray and He will lead you to the right man of God to help bring you into the full knowledge of what God is teaching you. Learning God's word under the leadership of the Holy Spirit alone, is GREAT and is how God teaches us, but He also provides for us teachers who rightly divide His word of truth, so that we will have confirmation in what we have learned that it is of God, and not of our own imagination. When God first led me into the ministry, He had me studying His word alone by myslef as well, the Holy Spirit led me into the knowledge of who God is and his word... THEN, after I had learned what God had for me, He placed me with teachers who righly divided His word, and confirmed what I spoke was indeed the truth of God's word, and that I understood the meanins fo His word, and how to properly apply His word, not only in my life, but to give out to others and teach them how to properly and rightly divide and apply God's word to their lives as well.
To have a negative attitude as you do toward being under the proper leadership of a pastor and being a member of a loacl church is not of God, nor of His teaching.
Again, PRAISE AND GLORY BE TO HIS HOLY NAME FOR YOUR SALVATION AND ALL THAT GOD IS DOING IN YOUR LIFE. Stay strong in your faith, and the reading fo God's Word of truth, but you must also know that it is now time for you to get with a creditable teacher so that you may know if you are righly dividing and understanding God's word of truth.
I've noticed in some of your posting that you are somewhat confused a some things, and do not understand the proper revelation of some passages, studying the word daily is what we are all called to do, but we are also called to be with qualified teachers who are called by God to help us with what God is speaking woth SOUND DOCTRINE.
What you believe and think that you do not need a teacher contradicts what God say as to WHY He placed spiritual leader in the church.Ephesians chpater 4:11: So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, to equip his 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. 14 Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming. 15 Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. 16 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.
PRAISE AND GLORY BE TO GOD FOR YOUR SALVATION AND ALL THAT GOD IS DOING IN YOUR LIFE. Stay strong in your faith, and the reading fo God's Word of truth, but you must also know that it is now time for you to get with a creditable teacher so that you may know if you are righly dividing and understanding God's word of truth.
I've noticed in soem of your posting that you are somewhat confused a some things, and do not understand the proper revelation of some passages, studying the word daily is what we are all called to do, but we are also called to be with qualified teachers who are called by God to help us with what God is speaking woth SOUND DOCTRINE.
Yet most of the fellowship in America (oooopsss the Homeland)is not according to the Word of GOD.
1st Corinthians chapters 11-14.
Please do yourself a favor and read and study these chapters in the Greek text,and then ask yourself,is where i fellowship following the Word of GOD in this matter.
ABBA did not want us to haphazardly meeting together.
Nor did He leave us without the means of knowing how to worthship Him.
There is a vast difference bewteen meeting under the Authority of the Word of GOD.
And meeting according to the dictates of men.
There is vast freedom within the one,where there is order.
Then there is spiritual bondage within the other where there is control of men and the grieving and quenching of the Holy Spirit.
One is life unto life.
The other is death unto death.
I trust the Spirit of GOD will reveal this to you.
George that response is in no way in agreement with scripture, you can not deny the word and then say the holy spirit is revealing to you a lie, he is the spirit of truth.
This is why you should be under a teacher. The scriptures you post and claim to be in the original Greek are no different than what is recorded in King James Version, or the New International Version or any other translation of the Bible. What you must understand is, that the references in these passages are giving out the DEFINITIONS of the meaning of specific WORDS in the Greek. Which if you look up the same words in any dictionary you will find out that the word means the same, or it is explained that such and such word is a Greek, Latin, or English WORD.
If I posted the original Greek text of scriptures would you be able to read it in the Greek? Unless you can READ GREEEK you would NOT know one word that is posted.
So you must know the difference that the Bible Lexicon or the blue Letter Bible is ONLY giving you the Greek MEANING of a specific word in a passage.
Put away your slef pride of ignornace, it accomplishes NOTHING but proves how twisted you really are in spiritual and biblical knowledge and understanding of scriptures, even so, how to properly used bible tools.
Someone that has been reading and studying the Greek for about 20 years.
I happen to be using a course that William mounce has put together.
William D. Mounce:
William D. Mounce is a scholar of New Testament Greek.
William Mounce is son of Robert H. Mounce, (also a Greek scholar, also on the ESV committee), and learnt Greek while young from his father. Following B.A., Bethel College, M.A., Fuller Theological Seminary and PhD, University of Aberdeen, Mounce was professor of New Testament and Greek at Azusa Pacific University, and professor of New Testament and director of the Greek language program at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.
He is president of BiblicalTraining.org, and the vice president of Educational Development for BibleGateway.
Mounce specializes in the Greek language and has written a number of Greek language textbooks and tools. He is the New Testament chair of the English Standard Version of the Bible. His book Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar (2nd ed.) won a 2003 Reader's Preference Editor's Choice Award in the Sacred Texts category.[1]
I do not put stock into the man,yet i trust the Holy SPirit to use these materials to better equip me to reading,
studying,teaching and evangelizing.
2Tim 2:15 be diligent to present thyself approved to God--a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;
So, George, since you say you understand the reading and studying of the New Testament in the Greek, is this passages in the Greek, Latin or what language is it? You should be able to find it with your Greek word check...
PRAXEIS APOSTOLWN
ainounteV ton qeon kai econteV carin proV olon ton laon o de kurioV prosetiqei touV swzomenouV kaq hmeran th ekklhsia
My point is this, it is important not to think more highly of your knowledge in scriptures than you ought, only to not be able to rightly divide the word of truth that is in agreement with what God is speaking and the majority of those who have studied and been also taught by God in His Holy Word. Everyone has need of a teacher, even the teachers have need of a teacher. The Holy Spirit will rveal to us God and His word a He did with Paul and teh apostles, and everyone who is called into ministry to preach and teacher and to know God and His word through Jesus Christ.
Jesus tells us that even He was atught of God and was His teacher. So if Jesus who was God was taught by God, thne this lets us know that we ALL are to be taught not only by the Holy Spiriit through revelation of the Word, but others must be available to confirm what we are teaching and that is is of SOUND DOCTRINE.
I will not longer speak to you in this matter, prayerfully, the Holy Spirit will lead you to all things concerning what God expects of us and He will open your eyes of understanding as to your need and the importatnce of being in membership with a local church body, as wel as being under the guidence of a pastor, since Christ is the one who placed pastor over the church.
