John✝️🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱

Flawed follower of the Flawless One. I'm a Berean (Acts 17:10-15) and part of the church in Philadelphia (Revelation 3:7-13).

[John✝️🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱 @NotTheBaptizer]

I praise God that He saved me.

In my flesh, I am a wicked person. I'm selfish, selfserving, lustful, covetous, and willing to do whatever it takes to get what I want without care for the impact it has on others.

Does that mean I've never done good things before I became a child of God? Well I suppose it depends on how you view "good." In my former life, I would have said yes. The reason I would say yes is because it benefited another. In reality, it was about one thing. My pride. I did those things in order to get what I wanted from them.

Looking back, I can't fathom why anyone would have anything to do with me. Perhaps it's because many of them were deceived as I was. At the same time, those who were already Children of God, showed me grace and mercy.

Now I understand, beyond all doubt, that God saved me despite myself. Why? Because He loves me.

If you think you're not worthy of being saved, you're right. But as Paul, a persecutor of the early church, wrote in his letter to the church in Rome, "But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." (Romans 5:8)

Don't let shame prevent you from becoming a child of God. Don't allow pride to blind you from the fact you are a wicked person who, like all of us, need to be saved from what we all deserve. An eternal punishment.

If you have questions, you're more than welcome to reach out to me in the DM. I'd love to talk to you more about this❤️

John 3:16-21
Romans 10:1-13
Ephesians 2:1-10

[John✝️🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱 @NotTheBaptizer]

@Sarge736406 @deadtosin610 @onegospel2021 @TentSpike @BaolianBlues @Vegimite10 @mycupoverflows @PeterCaliexile @gerheffernan23 @simpleone @lluvia_noviem @Pardon_Me_Again @nystarshine @GBeasleybee @inspectormom4 He quoted directly from scripture. All you've responded with is "nUh Uh."

[John✝️🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱 @NotTheBaptizer]

@Sarge736406 @deadtosin610 @onegospel2021 @TentSpike @BaolianBlues @Vegimite10 @mycupoverflows @PeterCaliexile @gerheffernan23 @simpleone @lluvia_noviem @Pardon_Me_Again @nystarshine @GBeasleybee @inspectormom4 Well you're obviously lying. You want to attack him from behind a block.

[John✝️🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱 @NotTheBaptizer]

@1DarrenHoward Only by reading the context of scripture reveals its intent❤️

[John✝️🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱 @NotTheBaptizer]

A large population of people in Hell know John 3:16 by heart. It is a wonderful example of God's love for us. No doubt about it. But it doesn't tell anyone what they need to be saved from. It is a dangerous thing to soften The Gospel of Salvation through Christ Jesus. We MUST include the absolute necessity of Christ's sacrifice and resurrection. Believing this is the ONLY way to be saved.

The truth is this. Mankind is hopelessly lost and desperately wicked. There are none who do good. No not one. Not by God's standard. And His standard is the one all will be judged by. We have to confront people with The Law. Show them they have broken it. God is just.

Don't soften it. Hold their feet to the fire. It is far better to burn the soles of their feet than for them to have their souls justly burn for eternity. It is cruel not to. And if you truly love them, you'll give them this grave warning.

Most often only after someone is in fear can they be reached. DO IT! Then they can receive The Good News.

We are in the last days. Time is short. We have got to be better ambassadors for His Kingdom.

[John✝️🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱 @NotTheBaptizer]

@LebronSoprano You need to study scripture❤️

[John✝️🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱 @NotTheBaptizer]

I apologize for the title. It's unnecessarily divisive. Having said that, it is a terrible and dangerous theology that leads many into anti-Semitism.

[John✝️🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱 @NotTheBaptizer]

Kalam Cosmological Argument:

1) Everything that begins to exist has a cause.

2) The universe began to exist.

3) Therefore, the universe has a cause.

4) If the universe has a cause, then an uncaused, personal Creator of the universe exists who sans (without) the universe is beginningless, changeless, immaterial, timeless, spaceless and enormously powerful.

5) Therefore, an uncaused, personal Creator of the universe exists, who sans the universe is beginningless, changeless, immaterial, timeless, spaceless and enormously powerful.

[John✝️🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱 @NotTheBaptizer]

Kalam Cosmological Argument:

1) Everything that begins to exist has a cause.

2) The universe began to exist.

3) Therefore, the universe has a cause.

4) If the universe has a cause, then an uncaused, personal Creator of the universe exists who sans (without) the universe is beginningless, changeless, immaterial, timeless, spaceless and enormously powerful.

5) Therefore, an uncaused, personal Creator of the universe exists, who sans the universe is beginningless, changeless, immaterial, timeless, spaceless and enormously powerful.

[John✝️🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱 @NotTheBaptizer]

Houses: Designed and created.

Cars: Designed and created.

Existence: It came from nothing by random natural and materialistic processes.

Life: Said existence, through the same natural and materialistic processes, went from abiogenesis to macroevolution.

Like the great @DrFrankTurek said:

I don't have enough faith to be an atheist.

There is zero evidence that a single cell organism evolved into every single life form on earth. None.

In fact, there are single cell life forms (bacteria) and life forms that contain trillions.

We have evidence of that. There's around 40,000,000,000,000 in your body right now.

There is zero evidence of abiogenesis to macroevolution. None.

The basics of biochemistry shows one flaw in any link at any level, and the cell dies. The odds of this happening through random processes is 1:1024th power.

For scale, the number of atoms in the entire universe is only 10^80.

Theoretically possible. Mathematically and logically impossible.

[John✝️🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱 @NotTheBaptizer]

@biblethumperr @Truth_matters20 @NSanctification Scriptures affirming The Trinity:

OT:
Genesis 1
Deuteronomy 6
Isaiah 9

NT:
John 1
John 10
John 20
Luke 1
Philippians 2
Colossians 1
Hebrews 9
1 Corinthians 12

[John✝️🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱 @NotTheBaptizer]

There is zero evidence that a single cell organism evolved into every single life form on earth. None.

In fact, there are single cell life forms (bacteria) and life forms that contain trillions.

We have evidence of that. There's around 40,000,000,000,000 in your body right now.

There is zero evidence of abiogenesis to macroevolution. None.

The basics of biochemistry shows one flaw in any link at any level, and the cell dies. The odds of this happening through random processes is 1:1024th power.

For scale, the number of atoms in the entire universe is only 10^80.

Theoretically possible. Mathematically and logically impossible.

[John✝️🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱 @NotTheBaptizer]

There's a number of reasons.

Some of it is petty and nonsensical prattle. Things that have nothing to do with salvation. Most, if not all of it, comes from pride and a low biblical IQ.

Some of it is generalizing with those who belong to denominations, but are on fringe.

Some of it is from people who promote heretical or blasphemous theology.

Most of it is some combination of all three where people "choose teams" and will defend it no matter the evidence.

It's important that we call out heretical or blasphemous theology. But it must be done with truth and love.

[John✝️🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱 @NotTheBaptizer]

When exegeting scripture, we should use 3 criteria.

1) Who is the audience/letter written to?

2) What is the context?

3) Does it appear to contradict?

By doing this, we'll be able to get a full understanding. At least as much as God knows we're ready for.

[John✝️🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱 @NotTheBaptizer]

Scriptures affirming The Trinity:

OT:
Genesis 1
Verse 1:26:

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.

Plurality. One God, three persons.

Deuteronomy 6
Verse 4:

4 “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.

Paul referred back to this when explaining the Trinity in 1 Corinthians 8:4, Galatians 3:20, and 1 Timothy 2:5.

Isaiah 9
Verse 6:

6 For to us a child is born,
to us a son is given;
and the government shall be upon his shoulder,
and his name shall be called
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

NT:
John 1
Verses 1-5:

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

John 10
Verses 30-33:

30 I and the Father are one.”

31 The Jews picked up stones again to stone him. 32 Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone me?” 33 The Jews answered him, “It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God.”

John 20
Verses 27-29:

27 Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here, and see my hands; and put out your hand, and place it in my side. Do not disbelieve, but believe.” 28 Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!” 29 Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”

Luke 1
Verses 41-44:

41 And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the baby leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit, 42 and she exclaimed with a loud cry, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! 43 And why is this granted to me that the mother of my Lord should come to me? 44 For behold, when the sound of your greeting came to my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.

Philippians 2
Verses 5-11:

5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. 9 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Colossians 1
Verses 15-20:

15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. 16 For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. 17 And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 18 And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. 19 For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, 20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.

Continued:

[John✝️🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱 @NotTheBaptizer]

I believe in an absolute beginning. Not only because the Bible clearly teaches it, but because it is supported by the evidence.

1) Everything that begins to exist has a cause.
2) The universe began to exist.
3) Therefore, the universe has a cause.

*Uncaused, otherwise an infinite regress of causes would arise.
*Timeless (therefore changeless), spaceless, immaterial and enormously powerful, in creating spacetime and its contents ex nihilo.
*Personal, possessing non-deterministic agency, in creating the universe from a timeless state (without prior determining conditions).
*Singular, per Occam's razor, in the absence of good reasons to believe in the existence of more than one uncaused cause.

If the universe has a cause, then an uncaused, personal Creator of the universe exists who sans (without) the universe is beginningless, changeless, immaterial, timeless, spaceless and enormously powerful.
Therefore, an uncaused, personal Creator of the universe exists, who sans the universe is beginningless, changeless, immaterial, timeless, spaceless and enormously powerful.

People can believe in an infinite regress or place their faith in the magical creative powers of nothing. I'll continue following the scientific, historical evidence that is logical and reasonable.

[John✝️🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱 @NotTheBaptizer]

Try this when you're talking to someone who is asking what they must do to be saved:

1) Do you understand that you are already justly condemned to Hell? If yes, move to part 2. If not, go through the 10 Commandments with them and revisit question 1.

2) Do you confess that Jesus is Lord? And through His Sacrifice on the cross, your sins are forgiven? If yes, move to part 3. If not, explain the basics of the sacrificial system and how Jesus is the perfect sacrifice. Then revisit question 2.

3) Do you believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead? Meaning do you believe that you have died to self and placed your faith in His salvation alone apart from anything you can do. If yes, then they are saved. If not, explain how our works are "filthy rags" to God. Be descriptive about what that means. And that only through God's righteousness working through us, that we will bear fruit.

[John✝️🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱 @NotTheBaptizer]

Set a reminder for my upcoming Space! https://t.co/Le4Hp2jRJ5

[John✝️🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱 @NotTheBaptizer]

1) Good people don't need salvation

2) There are no good people

3) Everyone needs salvation

16 Now behold, one came and said to Him, “Good Teacher, what good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life?”
17 So He said to him, “Why do you call Me good?No one is good but One, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.”
18 He said to Him, “Which ones?”
Jesus said, “‘You shall not murder,’ ‘You shall not commit adultery,’ ‘You shall not steal,’ ‘You shall not bear false witness,’ 19 ‘Honor your father and yourmother,’ and, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ ”
20 The young man said to Him, “All these things I have kept from my youth. What do I still lack?”
21 Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.”
22 But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.

Matthew 19:16-22

21 But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, 22 even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference; 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, 26 to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

Romans 3:21-26

[John✝️🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱 @NotTheBaptizer]

This is a thread where I'll post links, both video and written, that explain why Mormonism/LDS is false.

Inside said videos show that none of Joseph Smith's claims are verifiable with even a modicum of historical or scientific evidence. Both video and written evidence that prove he was a false prophet according to Scripture.

This IS NOT for the purpose of bludgeoning people. It is soley to help spread the truth❤️

[John✝️🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱 @NotTheBaptizer]

Please listen to this. And not only to this, but to @onegospel2021's space teaching out of the same passage of scripture that I'll post in the thread.

There are so many people out there professing Christ yet blaspheming His glorious name.

Learn to discern who they are AND what do do about it❤️

[John✝️🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱 @NotTheBaptizer]

C.H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) on Ezekiel 37:

“The meaning of our text, as opened up by the context, is most evidently, if words mean anything, first, that there shall be a political restoration of the Jews to their own land and to their own nationality. And then, secondly, there is in the text and in the context a most plain declaration that there shall be a spiritual restoration--in fact a conversion--of the tribes of Israel.”
“Israel is now blotted out from the map of nations. Her sons are scattered far and wide. Her daughters mourn beside all the rivers of the earth. Her sacred song is hushed--no king reigns in Jerusalem! She brings forth no governors among her tribes. But she is to be restored! She is to be restored ‘as from the dead.’ When her own sons have given up all hope of her, then is God to appear for her. She is to be reorganized--her scattered bones are to be brought together. There will be a native government again. There will again be the form of a political body; a state shall be incorporated, and a king shall reign. Israel has now become alienated from her own land. Her sons, though they can never forget the sacred dust of Palestine, yet die at a hopeless distance from her consecrated shores. But it shall not be so forever, for her sons shall again rejoice in her--her land shall be called Beulah, for as a young man marries a virgin so shall her sons marry her. ‘I will place you in your own land,’ is God’s promise to them. They shall again walk upon her mountains, shall once more sit under her vines and rejoice under her fig trees. And they are also to be reunited. There shall not be two, nor ten, nor twelve, but one--one Israel praising one God, serving one king, and that one King the Son of David, the descended Messiah. They are to have a national prosperity which shall make them famous; no, so glorious shall they be that Egypt, and Tyre, and Greece, and Rome, shall all forget their glory in the greater splendor of the throne of David! The day shall yet come when all the high hills shall leap with envy, because this is the hill which God has chosen, when Zion’s shrine shall again be visited by the constant feet of the pilgrim—when her valleys shall echo with songs and her hilltops shall drop with wine and oil. If there is meaning in words, this must be the meaning of this chapter!
"I wish never to learn the art of tearing God’s meaning out of his own words. If there be anything clear and plain, the literal sense and meaning of this passage—a meaning not to be spirited or spiritualized away—must be evident that both the two and the ten tribes of Israel are to be restored to their own land, and that a king is to rule over them. “Thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land: and I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all; and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all.”
“It is certain that the Jews, as a people, will yet own Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of David as their King, and that they will return to their own land, and they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the old cities, the desolations of many generations."
“The hour is approaching, when the tribes shall go up to their own country; when Judea, so long a howling wilderness, shall once more blossom like the rose… I think we do not attach sufficient importance to the restoration of the Jews. We do not think enough about it. But certainly, if there is anything promised in the Bible, it is this. I imagine that you cannot read the Bible without seeing clearly that there is to be an actual restoration of the Children of Israel . . .

Cont:

[John✝️🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱 @NotTheBaptizer]

People often miss the weight of what Jesus was saying in the Prodigal Son story.

It was told against the backdrop of ancient Jewish customs. If you disgraced your family or wasted your inheritance among outsiders, the village would meet you at the border, smash a clay pot at your feet, and declare you cut off. The shattered pieces said Your relationship was broken. You were finished. No coming back. It wasn’t dignified. It was cold and final.
This was the ceremony of kezazah. Your people publicly declared you “cut off.”

That’s the long, lonely walk the prodigal was taking.
Dirty. Empty. Rehearsing a speech he knew wouldn’t fix anything.
Bracing himself for judgment, he knew he deserved.

But Jesus...
He says the father saw the boy while he was still far away… and ran. He ran! Love ran.

In this culture. Older men didn’t run. It wasn’t dignified. It required the lifting of the robes and exposing the ankles. Immodest.
But this father wasn’t worried about dignity.
He likely wasn’t racing because of sentiment alone.
He was racing to get there before anyone else could.
Before a pot could shatter.
Before the village could declare the boy cut off.
Before justice could step in with its list of accusations.
Before kezazah.

He ran to intercede. To throw his arms around a son who thought he’d burned every bridge.
To make it clear that mercy would speak first.
And mercy would speak louder than kezazah.

Jesus is the Father who moves toward you faster than your failures move against you.

When you finally come to yourself…
When you turn around and start the long walk back…
You may expect harsh words.
You may rehearse your apology.
But the Father cuts you off...

You are not a servant trying to earn your way home.
You are a son or daughter being restored.
Robe. Ring. Shoes.
Full welcome. Full belonging.
No shame. Only transformation.
Dead to alive
Lost to found
Broken to restored

This is who Jesus is.
The God who runs.

~Baron Carson~

[John✝️🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱 @NotTheBaptizer]

#Islam #Muslim

Only One Gospel

6 I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel (Muhammad), 7 which is not another; but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ (Muhammad). 8 But even if we, or an angel from heaven (the demon posing as Gabriel), preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed. 9 As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone (Muhammad) preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed.
10 For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a bondservant of Christ.

Galatians 1:6-10

And before they try using "tHaT bOoK iS cOrRuPtEd," the Islamic dilemma already destroyed it.

https://t.co/b107Ngzl70