In the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you, pressed down, shaken together and running over
Malachi 4:1
On the day when I act,” says the LORD Almighty, “they will be my treasured possession. I will spare them, just as a father has compassion and spares his son who serves him.
And you will again see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.
Surely the day is coming; it will burn like a furnace. All the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble, and the day that is coming will set them on fire,” says the LORD Almighty. “Not a root or a branch will be left to them.
Cliffe, I love you, but you have to stop acting like you don't know because I know you know, except you don't read your bible. How can you say you don't know when it is very clear, but if you are honest about this, I encourage you to read the book of Revelation 1:4 again, and focus on the letters to the 7 churches, because these are people's eternity we are talking about, there is no place to stand on the fence about it.
If anyone continues in their sin even after receiving Jesus Christ, they will die in their sins.
Blessed is the one who reads the word of this prophecy to others, and to the one who keeps the word of this prophecy
or at least hear Him out
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You could not be any more wrong in this. I am not saying you wrong to shade you, but I myself used to believe the same thing until today, when the truth hit me like a truck.
What 1 John 4:18 is saying is that if we love God (Obey Him ), we will have no need to fear Him, because when we fear God, it is because we fear His judgment, but our love for God drives out every fear in us because we obey Him, and thus there is no fear when we obey.
The verse is about our love for God, which casts out uncertainty in our hearts about God's judgment and gives us confidence that we are blameless
Parallel this with
Genesis 4:7
If you do what is right, will you not be accepted?
If we love God, we should have no fear; those who have fear do so because their actions are evil and should an evil person not be afraid?
Proverbs 8:13
To fear the LORD is to hate evil; I hate pride and arrogance, evil behaviour and perverse speech.
But those who love the law of God have no fear because they know that they obey God, and thus their heart does not bring them judgment, which is the fear that makes people turn into rebellion to numb the terror of knowing that if there is a God, that will hold everyone accountable such who love evil are doomed if they continue in their evil without changing their ways.
This is why people are afraid, they hate God because His law exposes the wickedness of men, and men love the wickedness that brings them pleasure, wealth, status and unchecked injustice
Proverbs 16:6
In mercy and truth, Atonement is provided for iniquity; And by the fear of the LORD one departs from evil.
@GodLogic_GL@Acts17David
I have never heard you address your Muslim audience on this idea when they mock Jesus as a God who dies, because while these people cannot see the truth, I hope someday you'll speak to them about such matters, hopefully they'll at least reason with understanding
A god who cannot die and yet still live is not God at all, but an idol fashioned by human imagination.
You yourself are going to die. Your body will descend into the grave, your flesh will return to dust, and you will enter the very realm that all men fear. If your god does not possess the power to step into the domain of death, whether in flesh, spirit, or any form He wills, then what hope do you have when death finally lays hold of you?
What use is a god who reigns only among the living but has no authority in the place where the dead dwell?
When you go down into the pit, you will discover that there is a God there. Death is not a territory beyond His reach, nor is the grave a kingdom outside His dominion. The One who created all things is Lord over all things, including the darkness beneath the earth.
But your self-made idol is different. You have immortalised him into helplessness. You have made him so "great" that he cannot stoop, so "holy" that he cannot enter the grave, so "exalted" that he cannot reach those who have fallen into death. In your attempt to magnify him, you have stripped him of power.
For what kind of god is threatened by the grave? What kind of ruler loses authority at the gates of death? What kind of saviour cannot enter the prison where his people are held captive?
If your god cannot walk into death at will and emerge from it unchanged, then he is not the master of death. Death is his master.
And if death is his master, then when you become nothing more than a carcass in the earth, you will find yourself beyond the reach of the very idol you spent your life worshipping.
@churchtalkative Not just those playing church, but those who are ineffective in Love, when you take a look at the letters to the 7 churches in Revelation, you will see that it is summarised by Love and Holiness
After some conversation, someone once said to me, “Of course, I love my neighbour.” Yet this same person spent his time among prostitutes. So I asked him, “The prostitute you sleep with, do you love her?” And he answered, “Yes.” I asked him, “How?” He replied, “I satisfy her needs, and she satisfies mine.”
Then I said, “Really? Let us examine that carefully.”
If your daughter or your wife were the woman you just paid for intercourse, would you still feel so comfortable with another man using them to satisfy himself while claiming he also satisfied them? At this, his face changed instantly, almost as if to warn me that I had crossed a line by speaking about his wife and daughter.
Then I told him, “You do not love that woman. You love yourself and your lustful desires. Because if you truly loved that woman, then the thought of another man treating your own wife or daughter in that same way would not fill you with anger. The fact that your blood boils at the thought reveals that your actions are evil. For if they were truly good, you would desire that same treatment for those you love.”
And this is exactly what many people fail to understand about believing in Jesus. They think belief is merely intellectual agreement, but Jesus never taught that belief was just words spoken with the mouth. According to the Scriptures, Jesus is the Son of God and the very Word of God made flesh, and those who truly believe in Him follow Him.
Jesus says:
“My sheep hear My voice, and they follow Me.”
To believe in Jesus is therefore to obey Him. It is to live according to His commandments, which He summarised in this:
“Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and love your neighbour as yourself.”
A man cannot claim to love his neighbour while willingly doing to another person what he would never accept being done to those he truly loves. This is why
Jesus also says:
“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
And to love God is to treat your body, which is the temple of God, as a holy place where God Himself dwells.
Many claim allegiance to Christ while rejecting His commands, but this is no different from a servant claiming loyalty to a king while refusing to obey the messenger the king appointed. True belief in Jesus is not merely calling Him Lord, but following His voice.
Christianity is about God saving man, not man trying to please God. God is pleased with those who obey Him, not the way a king is pleased with a servant performing duties, but the way a father is pleased with a son who finally understands why his father grieves when his children have no love for one another.
@nikitabier, there is no need to ban this dude, this is what He wants, to provoke @X to the point where He is banned all this because He is not getting paid again, don't give Him that, rather limit the reach of His video, and I promise you in less than a month He will delete his X account
@GwapoAquaman@MichaelSta24208@JesusSavesUs777 You should read Job 33:14-18 because this is exactly what happened to me, I was dead and if God did not terrify me in this way I don't think nothing on earth would have changed me
BTW, I don't believe in UFOs. God has put a boundary between the visible and the invisible, and nothing will violate God's decree, at least not until the appointed time, when He will give way for the things which He has decreed to come to pass at the end of the age, when His people will be taken out of the chaos
Absolutely, I agree with you. My testimony is only good for me; without my experience, as it is described in Job 33:14, nothing on this earth would have instilled the fear of God in me, but then it also reminds me of the parable of the rich man and Abraham, which shows that the word of God is true, just as it was in the days of Noah men were told what was going to happen to them but they did not believe and today again men are told what will happen if they reject Jesus and repentance to God yet millions are perishing but no one takes into heart things
I did not argue God's creation is fake, I argued that if what I saw in my NDE is an imagination of my mind, then this reality that you and I experience is a figment because what I saw in my NDE was far more real than even this life, because it speaks to the reason why I am sober today and fearfully making sure that I don't give any room in my life to sin because what I saw with certainty is coming upon people of this world who refuse to save themselves by listening to Gods plea for them to save themselves
I had an NDE, and I have also had hallucinations from fever. When I had the NDE back in July 2023, I knew with certainty that I was dead because I knew where my body was, and interestingly, I was not sick. I had just finished work at around 12 am that midnight when I was pulled out of my body.
It's a long story, but when I came back into my body with terror that would paralyse the whole world, given what I saw, as you will find in Job 33:15 I was ready to loose everything as long as I have God the very one who showed me what will happen to me and everyone else who don't change their ways and walk according to His requirment of rightousness in Jesus Christ so that His justice will not find them
I had an NDE. I did not see Hell, but I knew Hell was coming for me. However, Hell was not the most terrifying thing; what terrified me the most was being separated from God and knowing that I had every opportunity to change it, but I delayed until that moment when my book was closed
@ArtisanTony@DrFrankTurek Look up the passage of my name. This is my story, and I was saved by God through an NDE. It was not my imagination, except we can argue that even life as we live today is an impression that all humans have, but what I saw was more real than even your everyday waking
@purebloodrebell@DrFrankTurek Try reading the bible by yourself or at least with attention next time.
I know A MAN in Christ who, fourteen years ago, was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of the body, I do not know. God knows.
You want forgiveness, yet you cannot forgive those who wrong you because you feel your hurt is more important than the hurt you have caused.
God is Fair and He is Just. Except you do not believe in Him. But to anyone who believes in Him and confesses Him as Lord, take this scripture into your heart.
When Hell is emptied, I will not be surprised if 90% of so-called Christians are there because of unforgiveness, bitterness, hate, and holding onto hurt while still expecting mercy for themselves.
Except God does not exist — which He does.
Except God is a liar — which He is not.
Except the Word of God can return void, which it cannot, because God cannot deny Himself.
Today, let go of your hurt.
Cry it out before God if you must. Scream if you must. Tell him how badly they wounded you. But if you truly believe the Word of God, then look again at the hope you claim to believe in, because this is what that hope says:
“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
Forget wishing the same fate upon them. Yes, the pain of what they did will linger. Yes, their evil towards you may deserve worse. I acknowledge that. But think about the mercy you received and how much you yourself deserved judgment.
This is the will of God that none should perish, you either gather with Him on His will by forgiving as He has forgiven, or you scatter against Him by standing in the way of His works of salvation which He does not take kindly to anyone who undermines the work of the cross
If you truly believe in your heart that you were forgiven, then tell me, why should they not also receive that same unmerited forgiveness?
This is one of the many crosses that each of us must carry as our burden and follow Him