(New living Translation.) The hardness of heart is a true thing which people choose and overtime their heart becomes harder and harder as the previous verses protest before these in Matthew 13.
Jesus rejected at Nazareth, the choice of unbelief.
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Angels left their abode. They made a choice.
Adam had made his choice, and then he himself blamed God, and the wife which he had gave him.
Man seemingly has a choice, that they have to make when it comes down to it, and so did the Angels in Heaven. These are just two scriptures that I base my reasonings concerning people having choices.
There are believers who choose faith;
Then there are people who faithfully place faith in unbelief.
These are just some of my own personal reasonings, Jesus gives a reason too.
Everyone in this world has a choice; Just as Adam and Eve.
Adam had made his choice, and then he himself blamed God, and the wife which he had gave him.
Man seemingly has a choice, that they have to make when it comes down to it, and so did the Angels in Heaven. These are just two scriptures that I base my reasonings concerning people having choices.
There are believers who choose faith;
Then there are people who faithfully place faith in unbelief.
These are just some of my own personal reasonings, Jesus gives a reason too.
Everyone in this world has a choice; Just as Adam and Eve.
Again, because the people where offended by him, they “refused” to believe in Jesus, and he again could only do few healings and Jesus himself was amazed by their unbelief.
Every day is a choice, to have faith in the Lord Yeshua whom died, was buried and raised again, while things start at the cross, there is newness of life in being born again by the spirit.
The resurrection itself is part of the good news, so was his coming back, the great news today is that God is no longer mad at anyone because their sins was paid for. It’s just what will they do with this information.
It’s similar to the woman who had a problem for years, she heard about Yeshua, started to seek Yeshua, the founded Yeshua and she was healed because of her faith in trusting he was the messiah, and she was healed from her problem.
We go to doctors and that is not wrong to do. It’s the heart that needs healing ultimately to Love God and love others, by and through the strength of the Lord Yeshua.
Even in the afterlife, I still believe there is a choice… to remain outside the gates or to seek after God, but there people who simply refuse too do so…
Every day is a choice, to have faith in the Lord Yeshua whom died, was buried and raised again, while things start at the cross, there is newness of life in being born again by the spirit.
The resurrection itself is part of the good news, so was his coming back, the great news today is that God is no longer mad at anyone because their sins was paid for. It’s just what will they do with this information.
It’s similar to the woman who had a problem for years, she heard about Yeshua, started to seek Yeshua, the founded Yeshua and she was healed because of her faith in trusting he was the messiah, and she was healed from her problem.
We go to doctors and that is not wrong to do. It’s the heart that needs healing ultimately to Love God and love others, by and through the strength of the Lord Yeshua.
Even in the afterlife, I still believe there is a choice… to remain outside the gates or to seek after God, but there people who simply refuse too do so…
As an old friend on here used to call it: "abundant death" rather than the "life more abundantly" of which Jesus speaks.
Posting here a copy of an old writing of mine:
Death More Abundantly or...
"The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." John 10:10
In my own experience, and from what I have seen or read about in others, "churches" ... that is in the people forming church groups [denominations, assemblies, etc.] there really is a lot of this happening, taking hold of death instead of Life.
After a person has a real special personal encounter with God that first time, which should be the beginning of a growing relationship with God in which the person begins to become like God, what often happens? Someone has already established, or in the case of a new group establishes, rules, and has defined, or now defines, them in writing... or otherwise set in concrete. Now they have an order of services perhaps even supported [apparently] by scriptures but very often put into place by men according to what is comfortable or convenient for men.
These things are then done, including described essential doctrines, written creeds, etc., which so often effectively quench the lead of the Holy Spirit, which really was/is available to lead them. The newbies come in, unless they refuse to let go of what God has given them, and are taught and receive all of these streamlined ways to "death more abundantly" offered in so many places... including Christian Internet forums.
So then after perhaps really having begun their gatherings together with the Lord in lively Life-filled meetings it diminishes and down the way some may wonder what has happened? [Some of course blindly follow along toward the ditch... very close now, which they are never able to see.]
Apostle Paul admonished people with these simple words:
"Quench not the Spirit." I Thess 5:19
Very simple words, but by many never understood, or forgotten, or simply passed by... For too many who really had received Life, the Life, which Jesus brought, is it not effectively a fall back and a turn back to death? And as our friend @bbyrd009 has mentioned often a pursuit of "death more abundantly"?
"He must increase, but I must decrease." John 3:30
That is how the Baptist expressed it but doesn't it seem to anyone that someone has effectively reversed the words so that it is now too often the "old man" of people on the increase and the "new man" on the decrease? Moving away now from Life and plunging into death: On the way to salvation like Lot's wife but then turning back with a yearning look back toward death... and then dead, unmoving salt. A pillar in their church!
Hello John,
That is an interesting insight. I know I been in and out of many churches. There was some the focused on making it hip and cool especially when I was a teen. Then there was churches who were like pentacostal in nature.
About two years ago, dude kept talking about Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, songs for about 25 minutes or so, and then read like one section of some random verse in the Bible.
There was all kinds of things in hypercritical not of the people but of the church itself in what is represented. I don’t trust any church any longer, and I find some of the means gone through as emotionalism, I’m not really judging the people themselves but the church and the way it functions. It just doesn’t make sense.
I though we go there to learn the Bible, and what it means for us today, I found a person who did such work and he helped me by the spirit of Christ in him. I don’t believe everything he said all the time, and he always like never trust me, read your Bible and test all things and find out yourself.
All the music, the coffee, the energy drinks and games, and antidotal stories doesn’t help us learn when we can actually hear a person it could be a woman it doesn’t matter to me anymore. Just going chapter by chapter and helping us understand it at least being lead by the spirit and trying to be true the nature of the contents, benefits people more than the other things.
In the end, I think I see what your friend is saying, in some churches they say do this, pay your tithe, be a members do as we say, and the focus of Jesus and his eternal life given nature slips away from us.
That is an interesting insight. I know I been in and out of many churches. There was some the focused on making it hip and cool especially when I was a teen. Then there was churches who were like pentacostal in nature.
About two years ago, dude kept talking about Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, songs for about 25 minutes or so, and then read like one section of some random verse in the Bible.
There was all kinds of things in hypercritical not of the people but of the church itself in what is represented. I don’t trust any church any longer, and I find some of the means gone through as emotionalism, I’m not really judging the people themselves but the church and the way it functions. It just doesn’t make sense.
I though we go there to learn the Bible, and what it means for us today, I found a person who did such work and he helped me by the spirit of Christ in him. I don’t believe everything he said all the time, and he always like never trust me, read your Bible and test all things and find out yourself.
All the music, the coffee, the energy drinks and games, and antidotal stories doesn’t help us learn when we can actually hear a person it could be a woman it doesn’t matter to me anymore. Just going chapter by chapter and helping us understand it at least being lead by the spirit and trying to be true the nature of the contents, benefits people more than the other things.
In the end, I think I see what your friend is saying, in some churches they say do this, pay your tithe, be a members do as we say, and the focus of Jesus and his eternal life given nature slips away from us.
Mark 6:
4. But Jesus said unto them, A Prophet is not without honor, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his house.
Jesus grew up in Nazareth and 'prophetically' in fulfillment, He shall be called a 'Nazarene'.
Moreover, 'prophetically' in fulfillment, the 'Messiah' is to be born in the city of David, 'Bethlehem'.
But the Jews also claim Jesus is from Galilea, and a 'Galilean'.
John 1:
46. And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?
Now, is it a matter of choice by the Jews, or a matter of fact, a mind set ordered by GOD?
Romans 11:
8. (According as it is written, GOD hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear:) unto this day.
Shalom in Jesus name
4. But Jesus said unto them, A Prophet is not without honor, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his house.
Jesus grew up in Nazareth and 'prophetically' in fulfillment, He shall be called a 'Nazarene'.
Moreover, 'prophetically' in fulfillment, the 'Messiah' is to be born in the city of David, 'Bethlehem'.
But the Jews also claim Jesus is from Galilea, and a 'Galilean'.
John 1:
46. And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?
Now, is it a matter of choice by the Jews, or a matter of fact, a mind set ordered by GOD?
Romans 11:
8. (According as it is written, GOD hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear:) unto this day.
Shalom in Jesus name
