A new group of people who "believe in God":

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lukaswide37

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Lately, among various public known people, mainly actors and musicians, we can notice that some talk about God in a good way, thank God, pray and so on ...
(Especially some in the hip hop industry, they say in songs that they make drugs, they are gang members, and then they record a song that they pray to God, or in church they give thanks for their lives and so on)
They talk about "God", but they don't mean Jesus Christ.
They are representatives of the antichrist who will want to introduce us to tolerance for various sins, new laws of the Ten Commandments and so on...
These and others will say they will stop wars and poverty (they are going to stop something of their own making)...
..some use the letter Q and the number 17..
They will show "miracles" on tv... Talk about some kind of contract and sign...
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Beware of them ... God is only Jesus, and the Ten Commandments and cosmic laws can never be changed by anyone ..
 

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There have always been…A FEW in the music and acting business believers and converted IN Christ….but rarely are “they” the same “who leak to the paparazzi where they will be to keep their rag sheet photos on the gossip headlines”. So that is not “new”, simply rarely covered, UNTIL access to the most recent “social media” outlets.

No doubt, music AND the “entertainment” industry certainly have their big share in trashy, slutty, backroom dealings, FOR their WORK and IN their daily lives…and it is broadcast loud and clear for anyone who has eyes to see and ears to hear.

Talk “shows”….were the opportunity for the public to SEE and HEAR … musicians and actors in a light outside of their usual “work”….and doesn’t take a genius to get a peek of their true natural behavior.

Glory to God,
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Devil is a false counterfeit god.
Devil desires worship.
People of this world desire the devil and follow him.

And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, 2 in which you once walked according to the [a]course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, 3 among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.

4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), 6 and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast. 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

Your salvation is of the Lord God and His Son. It is not of yourselves, it is not within yourselves to believe, God changes the heart.
God grants to you your belief for the sake of Christ, that Christ would have brothers and God a family.

27 Only let your conduct be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel, 28 and not in any way terrified by your adversaries, which is to them a proof of perdition, but [f]to you of salvation, and that from God.

29 For to you it has been granted on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for His sake, 30 having the same conflict which you saw in me and now hear is in me.
 

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And notice this in v29, God does this so that Christ will have a family

27 Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.

29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.

30 Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.

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Which agrees with Heb 2, Christ is the captain of our salvation. And we are given to Christ as His children by God.

10 For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. 11 For both He who [g]sanctifies and those who are being sanctified are all of one, for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brethren, 12 saying:

“I will declare Your name to My brethren;
In the midst of the assembly I will sing praise to You.”
13 And again:

“I will put My trust in Him.”
And again:

“Here am I and the children whom God has given Me.”
 

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Which agrees with John 6,
our personal salvation is great and orchestrated by God according to the glorious purposes of God.

37 All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will [f]by no means cast out. 38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me. 39 This is the will of the Father who sent Me, that of all He has given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day.