How are we to reckon ourselves as being dead to sin?

[Eternally Grateful]

We've been called just about everything under the sun that anyone can call a person, lol!

But they are the ones being attacked… smh

 

[Waiting on him]

See anything about "being awakened to eternal consciousness" anywhere there? Nope, me either. Looks like Epi's teaching is adding to the word. Deception is such a strange phenomenon.

So when you were born from above, how did you know it happened?

 

[Eternally Grateful]

See anything about "being awakened to eternal consciousness" anywhere there? Nope, me either. Looks like Epi's teaching is adding to the word. Deception is such a strange phenomenon.

He is trying to share an emotional experience. A calling on high, a walk in zion in some supernatural place. An experience.

its a mix of paganism, of Buddhism, of Hinduism, of many religions all mixed into one..

 

[Eternally Grateful]

So when you were born from above, how did you know it happened?

My life changed, The word was opened to me, The things i did not understand before because they were foolish became readable the sins I loved, turned poison to me, I have the Holy Spirit in me, I started to be changed and taught by God..

I stopped seeking for things that I needed to make me feel whole. And I started sharing what God gave to me, because he made me whole..

 

[ChristisGod]

He is trying to share an emotional experience. A calling on high, a walk in zion in some supernatural place. An experience.

its a mix of paganism, of Buddhism, of Hinduism, of many religions all mixed into one..

An unbiblical melting pot of world religions outside of Christianity

 

[Waiting on him]

An unbiblical melting pot of world religions outside of Christianity

When you were born from above, how did you know it had happened?

 

[ChristisGod]

When you were born from above, how did you know it had happened?

Galatians 5:19-26
19 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; 20 idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.

I once lived continually in the acts of the flesh, could not escape them no matter how much I tried. God saved me in 1980 as I pleaded with Him to forgive me for all my horrible sins and the way I treated others. I was a hater, one who used and abused drugs, a fornicator, abusive speech, behavior, fits of rage getting into fights all the time. I didn't like school/college and hated to read. I wanted nothing whatsoever to do with God and in fact was internationally running from Him. My mother was a believer as was my future mother in law. They would preach at me but I had no interest.

That evening I was born again by Gods Spirit. I knew something happened to me as I desired to seek God through His word. I couldn't put the bible down. I started going to church to learn about Jesus with my future mother in law. I no longer hated people but felt shame for all the harm I had caused to others. My hate was replaced with love for others, I quit drinking and drugs immediately. I was experiencing the fruit of the spirit in my life. For the first time I had real peace, joy and self control as I sought Jesus and learned about the Christian life. I was discipled one on one with the Pastor and joined a small group bible study. That has not changed for me since 1980. I read and study His word daily and have continued to witness to others and have led many people to the Lord through witnessing how God had changed my life through the miracle of the new birth. God had changed my life completely and I had done a 180* turn around in the opposite direction.

God promises Eternal Life as per 1 John 5:11-13. I believed Gods word and His promises. My faith and security is in Him alone and when I do stumble or sin I'm immediately convicted of my sin and repent.

We had a big blow out and we were over, I had promised many times I would get my anger under control, drug and alcohol as well. I use to get drunk and look for fights with anyone and everyone. She had broken up with me a few times before but I always talked my way back and made promises I would be different this time. Well finally my anger got the best of me and the worst of her and I won't go into details but I physically abused her and I knew it was over and I had lost who I loved most in my life.

I knew about Jesus and there were always alter calls at those seminars I had gone to over the years but I never went forward because I did not want to be a hypocrite, I was not willing to give up my life and I knew that was a requirement.

So that evening in my bedroom I was a broken young man who not only ruined my life, but her life and her families, my families because they loved her and my mother and her mother had become friends.

I wept like never before , humbled myself before the Lord and pleaded with Him to forgive me of all the horrible things I had done to others over the years. I asked Him to come into my life and change me because I know I was a complete failure and did not have the power or the will to change my life. That night Jesus gave me a new heart, new desires and my hatred for others became love for them. I started reading my bible because I actually had the desire to know Jesus and be His disciple and serve Him the rest of my days. I no longer had the desire for alcohol or drugs. My only desire was to know Him and to obey Him.

From that day until now I have studied His word every day and have not stopped. I prayed for her salvation and I started to go to church with her mother who forgave me for the horrible thing I did to her daughter. I became friends with the pastor and he mentored me and we would take walks and run together a few times a week. I was a quick learner and was a student of Gods word. I became an active member at that church.

About a year later she called me out of the blue for she had been told by several mutual friends and family that I had really changed this time and I was a different person than she knew. So we started hanging out and I was witnessing to her and after a few months she gave her life to Christ and we started dating again. Fast forward we married in 85.


We have 4 adult children who all serve the Lord in ministry as missionaries, children’s director, associate and youth pastor and professional Christian musician on Klove.

God has truly blessed my family beyond what I could ever imagined. I've seen the Lord answer so many prayers over the past 40 plus years that I could write page after page of His faithfulness in our lives.

hope this helps !!!

 

[Lizbeth]

So when you were born from above, how did you know it happened?

What happened is that my sins were forgiven and I was awakened from being dead in sin to knowing/experiencing God/Jesus! Thanks to His tremendous sacrifice! Not shuffling Jesus off to the side as if He only slightly matters and making it all about us having a thing called "eternal consciousness".

 

[ChristisGod]

What happened is that my sins were forgiven and I was awakened from being dead in sin to knowing/experiencing God/Jesus! Thanks to His tremendous sacrifice! Not shuffling Jesus off to the side as if He only slightly matters and making it all about us having a thing called "eternal consciousness".

The new birth, a new creation in Christ. Hallelujah

 

[Episkopos]

What happened is that my sins were forgiven and I was awakened from being dead in sin to knowing/experiencing God/Jesus! Thanks to His tremendous sacrifice! Not shuffling Jesus off to the side as if He only slightly matters and making it all about us having a thing called "eternal consciousness".

Yeah...nothing real like that. Like actually being born in a heavenly place or anything. Just a religious decision that your sins are forgiven...because its the word and the word is never wrong.

 

[Episkopos]

To you the gospel itself is dogmatic and nutty. Because it is foolishness to the perishing. I hope you will think about that. You made a wrong turn somewhere along the way and need to get back to the truth.

The gospel is about the power to free people from the bondage to sin. Jesus came to set the captives free. If you have not known that power...then you have not known Christ and are not yet born again.

Grace is the power of God us-ward who believe. But God is the one that decides who is raised to new life in Christ...not people. It is by the will of God not men....and certainly not by a religious decision.

 

[ChristisGod]

The gospel is about the power to free people from the bondage to sin. Jesus came to set the captives free. If you have not known that power...then you have not known Christ and are not yet born again.

Grace is the power of God us-ward who believe. But God is the one that decides who is raised to new life in Christ...not people. It is by the will of God not men....and certainly not by a religious decision.

Wrong a believer has Gods spirit in them and they are a literal temple where God dwells via the new birth which is a result of believing and receiving the gospel message . Born again through the gospel , the word of God , the power of God into salvation for everyone who believes . You teach a false gospel and deny the new birth. You deny being a new creation in Christ.

 

[Lizbeth]

Yeah...nothing real like that. Like actually being born in a heavenly place or anything. Just a religious decision that your sins are forgiven...because its the word and the word is never wrong.

Oh it was heavenly. God was revealing Himself to me. I could hardly stop crying for a whole week, I was so happy there was a God after all. And it was miraculous.....one minute I didn't believe, the next minute I believed and knew. And also knew it was a power and faith outside myself. It wasn't like a conscious deliberate "choice" I had made. My addiction to nicotine disappeared poof...no more cravings. Swearing stopped automatically without any effort of mine. No more lying either. I heard someone on the subway using the name of Jesus as a swearword and it cut me like a knife. My life just turned around 180 degrees and I began walking in a new direction. Nobody told me to read a bible, but I was miraculously drawn to start reading it....and understood it, when before I had tried to read it and nothing made sense. I began hearing His voice right away then too. He told me what job to take, I was just finishing nursing school and was worried about my son with regard to shift work and long hours.......and He told me something encouraging about my son as well ( I was a single mom at the time, my son was 7). The Lord is so faithful, that son of mine is just turned 44 now, we sure have been through a lot he and I, but he returned to the Lord just last year and has cleaned up his life and is walking with Jesus now. \o/

 

[Lizbeth]

The gospel is about the power to free people from the bondage to sin. Jesus came to set the captives free. If you have not known that power...then you have not known Christ and are not yet born again.

Grace is the power of God us-ward who believe. But God is the one that decides who is raised to new life in Christ...not people. It is by the will of God not men....and certainly not by a religious decision.

More false assumption on your part....you can read my more expanded testimony if you want.

 

[Eternally Grateful]

The gospel is about the power to free people from the bondage to sin. Jesus came to set the captives free. If you have not known that power...then you have not known Christ and are not yet born again.

Grace is the power of God us-ward who believe. But God is the one that decides who is raised to new life in Christ...not people. It is by the will of God not men....and certainly not by a religious decision.

see nothing about being justified, nothing about being freed from condemnation, nothing about the cross.

a false hope. That has no power is what you present

 

[Eternally Grateful]

More false assumption on your part....you can read my more expanded testimony if you want.

His people do not walk in the spirit, they don’t go to church, they don’t have power

its why they attack so much when people show them, because they have no power

 

[amigo de christo]

An unbiblical melting pot of world religions outside of Christianity

And its the one that all false religoins are fast running too . They found common ground under a lie .
But as for the lambs we gonna point to CHRIST .

 

[GTW27]

3 Testimonies today, Praise The Lord! And they have conquered him by the blood of The Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their own lives even unto death.

 

[amigo de christo]

Oh it was heavenly. God was revealing Himself to me. I could hardly stop crying for a whole week, I was so happy there was a God after all. And it was miraculous.....one minute I didn't believe, the next minute I believed and knew. And also knew it was a power and faith outside myself. It wasn't like a conscious deliberate "choice" I had made. My addiction to nicotine disappeared poof...no more cravings. Swearing stopped automatically without any effort of mine. No more lying either. I heard someone on the subway using the name of Jesus as a swearword and it cut me like a knife. My life just turned around 180 degrees and I began walking in a new direction. Nobody told me to read a bible, but I was miraculously drawn to start reading it....and understood it, when before I had tried to read it and nothing made sense. I began hearing His voice right away then too. He told me what job to take, I was just finishing nursing school and was worried about my son with regard to shift work and long hours.......and He told me something encouraging about my son as well ( I was a single mom at the time, my son was 7). The Lord is so faithful, that son of mine is just turned 44 now, we sure have been through a lot he and I, but he returned to the Lord just last year and has cleaned up his life and is walking with Jesus now. \o/

Thats right dear sister . We glory in the LORD . they glory in men and the flesh .
Point to Christ Jesus till the last breath dear sister . HE is our hope and our salvation .

 

[ChristisGod]

But they are the ones being attacked… smh

It’s called projecting and hypocrisy