Murph
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Post by Murph on Nov 20, 2006 20:31:39 GMT -6
On another MB, local hometown MB, in the Religion Forum a young man is asking some very good questions. We are trying to answer them...he has not yet commited to the Lord so we are trying very hard to introduce him to Jesus.
He asks the following...
"So, you are telling me God will judge both the saved and unsaved?"
Without going into a lengthy explanation how would you answer his question?
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Post by Keith on Nov 21, 2006 9:44:56 GMT -6
He asks the following... "So, you are telling me God will judge both the saved and unsaved?" Without going into a lengthy explanation how would you answer his question? The saved are judged for their works for Jesus, which will produce rewards... The unsaved are judged for their works for themselves, which will produce condemnation. |
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Post by Murph on Nov 21, 2006 20:23:26 GMT -6
Thanks Keith. The discussion has gotten really interesting. It is one thing to post on a MB with people spread out all over the globe who you don't know and will likely not meet in person.
It is quite another to post on a hometown MB where you know a great many of the people and see them often.
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Post by babysteps on Nov 22, 2006 22:09:57 GMT -6
I had someone ask me what happens to dead people if they killed themself .  I dont know maybe God will send them back and all kinds of things got suposed it confused me about what really does happens to them  i kind of dont think in terms of strange morphis type things like what was said and so i dont think that God will put them in a science lab or something and disect there brain to find out how come they killed themselfs ;D |
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Post by Murph on Nov 23, 2006 8:36:31 GMT -6
Ya know Babysteps, that is a question many of us have asked, especially when people we know commit suicide. In the Old Testament the only stories were of the unsaved taking their own lives but this is the age of Grace, New Testament times. Jesus is the dividing line of all times and Calvary and an empty tomb the place where it divides.
In the world today are great stresses and pressures...and ole Lucifer and his crowd are always prowling, seeking whom they may devour. They aren't looking for the unsaved because the unsaved are already theirs. They are looking to trip the saved.
That says to me some of those who take their own lives are saved who in terrible circumstances decided, with the devil's prompting, to end their lives. I don't think they lose their place in Heaven, but I do think they will lose rewards...for not trusting the Lord to see them thru their trials.
after all, who can separate us from Christ...nothing and no one can do that.
Amen?
"Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? ...Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 8:35,37-39
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Post by Keith on Nov 23, 2006 9:00:46 GMT -6
I had someone ask me what happens to dead people if they killed themself... I addressed this very subject earlier this year Babysteps. Please read The Power Of The Air[/url]. And happy Thanksgiving to you and your family... |
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Post by Murph on Nov 23, 2006 9:08:23 GMT -6
Great commentary Keith. I remember it and well.
A childhood friend, long about the time you wrote that, had just discovered he had terminal cancer and committed suicide to keep his family from having to go thru that and the expenses of it or so his note said.
I also remember what a comfort the Word brought to another brother who posts on another MB...a certain Arkansas Knight and first Kinght of the Duck Pond...First and Singing Knight and keeper of the funny bone...stander-upper for the down trodden...said he could never argue with the Word of God...
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Post by babysteps on Nov 23, 2006 9:28:55 GMT -6
very good word put on the armour the fight is on . well now i knows what to tell someone about what happens and what the power of the air has to do in it. that way they can put on the spiritual armour Jesus say and fight the good fight of faith thanks everybody  and i hopeing to eat to much of everything today ;Dhave a great Thansgiving i read about sequia the indian christian who helped save the pilgrims it was good |
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Post by Keith on Nov 24, 2006 9:08:53 GMT -6
I also remember what a comfort the Word brought to another brother who posts on another MB... Yes, praise the Lord Marilyn! What was a blessing to help a brother who was hurting... very good word put on the armour the fight is on... Glad you enjoyed it Babysteps... |
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I dont know maybe God will send them back and all kinds of things got suposed it confused me about what really does happens to them 
i kind of dont think in terms of strange morphis type things like what was said and so i dont think that God will put them in a science lab or something and disect there brain to find out how come they killed themselfs ;D
and i hopeing to eat to much of everything today ;Dhave a great Thansgiving i read about sequia the indian christian who helped save the pilgrims it was good