“Shout, ‘Get thee behind me, Satan!’ — and you will have the best
time on earth. Whisper it, and you won’t.”
– Smith Wigglesworth
“Shout, ‘Get thee behind me, Satan!’ — and you will have the best
time on earth. Whisper it, and you won’t.”
– Smith Wigglesworth
A Facebook friend, Victoria Christine Bingham, wrote these wise words.
She writes this excellent, parachute folding analogy:
I was in a jump club in college. I witnessed the care with which jumpers folded their chutes — generally with more precision and concern than a lot of us make minute by minute [in our] choices.
I think the greatest doctrinal tragedy is the idea of ‘once saved always saved.’ It’s not Biblical; else, why would satan work so hard to lead Christians astray, if he couldn’t impact their salvation?
A vast quantity of scriptures teach Christians how to live AFTER they are saved, so that they may hold fast to that which they have. How many men in the churches, who think they can ‘get away’ with the sin of pornography because of this satanic lie; are on a fast track to a hellish eternity?
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Before he wrote his plaintive confession in Psalm 51, David used his eyes amiss. The consequences of that ‘benign’ sin, looking on a naked woman who was not his wife, led to a great deal of tragedy in David’s life. By the time he wrote Psalm 101:3, David had learned that there is no such thing as a harmless or benign sin, and wrote; “I will lead NO evil before my eyes.”
Jesus counseled that our acts begin with our thoughts. If we can [make] our thoughts captive, our acts will follow. Each act in our lives is a step that we take, either towards the narrow gate or away from it. The trajectory of steps over the course of a lifetime will determine our ultimate destination.
We ought to think out each step with the same kind of rationale and determination that a man uses when he folds his own parachute. Small, careful decisions can save his life.
5 minutes of pleasure earned Esau the loss of a lifetime of blessing and the enmity of God. Is it worth it?
Related:
Who-Goes-To-Heaven Scriptures — Narrow is the Way | Who are the Children of God? — “There is therefore now *no condemnation* to those who are IN CHRIST Jesus, who don’t WALK according to the flesh, but ACCORDING TO THE SPIRIT” — Includes my dream of being in danger of going to hell just for lusting while watching TV
The Low-Cut Top Epidemic: May We Be Holy
2014 Pornography Survey of ‘Christian’ Men: MAJORITY not only lusting, but into porn!!
[ video ] Jessica Rey: The Evolution of the Swimsuit — Can Modesty Make a Comeback?
Lust: Another Name For Adultery – Dan Corner
I’ve finally shared much of what I know about and what can be done through the TREMENDOUS and mostly misunderstood and underused gift of tongues. A reader thankfully put me over the edge : ) I need to re-write this someday so it’s not written mostly in a comment. But it’s all there.
Can a Christian Have a Demon? Absolutely! Most Have Many!
What does God say? Women, children and men exposing themselves to TSAs in NAKED BODY SCANNERS!
1942 Minnesota: Bathing beaches prior to the low-cut top epidemic
Amazing Dress: India Arie singing with Carlos Santana on The Tonight Show. This is grace!
All of my Lust Freedom! posts [latest appear first, 10 posts per page]
“There’s an incredible amount of young talent. Guys are coming out and winning quickly and a lot. We’re all very respectful of each other. We all root for each other. And we want to just…. It’s not like I’m out with Patrick Reed saying ‘I hope he misses this put.’ I hope he makes this, and I hope I make two in a row on top.”
– Jordon Spieth
Transcribed by Jeff Fenske from the Q&A after winning The Masters on “Live From The Masters,” 4/12/15, Golf Channel
Related:
(video) Jordan Spieth Thumbs Up Patrick Reed’s Shot! — Wishing each other well example!!!
I’m not endorsing his teaching or books. I just saw him for the first time here. This is a great quote that explains a lot!
This is why so many are getting jacked. Paul praised the “more noble” Bereans, because they not only eagerly accepted what he said, but checked the Scriptures daily to make sure Paul was telling them the truth!
We’re also supposed to be led by the Holy Spirit, Who will “lead [us] into all truth.”
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“We tend to be very good students of our teachers, and not always very good students of the Scriptures, unfortunately.”
– Joel Richardson, author of Mideast Beast, on The 700 Club, 6/16/2015
Transcribed by Jeff Fenske
“I fear many will deny the Christian faith when horrific suffering engulfs them and they realize there is no secret pre-trib rapture to get them out of this suffering. Jesus said he who endures to the end will be saved, not he who gets raptured out and misses the persecution.”
– Rick Wiles, host of TruNews
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“Destitute of the Fire of God, nothing else counts; possessing
Fire, nothing else matters.”
– Samuel Chadwick
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How to get there:
Rick Joyner: “REPENTANCE includes RESTITUTION for the wrongs that have caused injury to others”
My Dream of ‘ONE’ Happening at Abbott Loop CC!
“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible”
Leaders Who Have Hurt People But Refuse to Repent (prophecy)
[WordPower!] In Psalm 50 God Warns: “You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. … Now consider this…lest I tear you into pieces and there be none to deliver” (Hell?)
Rhydian Roberts: The Prayer — “Let this be our prayer WHEN WE LOSE OUR WAY. Lead us…guide us with your grace to A PLACE WHERE WE’LL BE SAFE” (Rhydian Roberts is Welsh, by the way)
Rhydian Roberts: The Impossible Dream (Precarious Climb and Static Photo Versions)
Benny Hester: “When God Ran” — God will RUN when we come back to Him!
Christians must not let their light be diffused in a dark and confused society,
becoming fifty shades of gray.
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The result of ‘Christians’ no longer being salt (a preservative) and light:
“It’s funny. When you get right down to it there’s not much satisfaction in revenge.”
– Benji Danton (Edward Byrnes) in Cheyenne, Season 3 Episode 9, 1957
It is important to define love correctly. If by “love,” one means “applaud a sinful lifestyle,” “ignore sin,” or “profess that actions don’t matter,” then that’s a faulty view of love.
Biblically, love is doing what is best for someone regardless of the cost. Love is therefore truthful. Deception cannot bring about the “best” for anyone.
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“They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds.”
– author unknown
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Related:
FreedomQuotes: “If you’re not catching flak you’re not over the target”
“Whoever or whatever rules over us is in fact our Lord.”
Only a life that FEELS RIGHT NOW will FEEL RIGHT WHEN…
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“If our understanding of the love of God is not first built on a solid foundation of the pure and holy fear of God, our understanding of His love will be perverted into a subtle form of man-centric idealism that is really a form of humanism.”
– Rick Joyner
(source)
Related:
”Forgiveness doesn’t mean that what they did is okay.
It means that you are no longer willing to carry toxic anger
in your heart.”
– Author Unknown
“Are Americans ignorant or apathetic?
They don’t know, and they don’t care.”
– John Loeffler on Caravan to Midnight, 10/1/14
Transcribed by Jeff Fenske
Excerpt from:
Charles Finney (1835): Instruction of Young Converts — “AIM AT BEING PERFECT. It should be their constant purpose to live wholly to God…. IF THEY SHOULD SIN it would be an inconsistency…. THEY OUGHT NOT TO SIN AT ALL; they are bound to be as holy as God is. And young converts should be taught to set out in the right course OR THEY WILL NEVER BE RIGHT”
Young converts should be taught so as to understand what perseverance is. It is astonishing how people talk about perseverance. As if the doctrine of perseverance was “Once in grace, always in grace,” or, “Once converted, sure to go to heaven.” This is not the idea of perseverance.
The true idea [perseverance of the saints theory] is, that if a man is truly converted, he will continue to obey God. And as a consequence, he will surely go to heaven.
But if a person gets the idea, that because he is converted, therefore he will assuredly go to heaven, that man will almost assuredly go to hell.
Related:
“When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.”
– Dresden James
Related:
[FreedomQuote] “It’s hard to accept the truth when the lies were exactly what you wanted to hear.”
WordPower: BEWARE, in the LAST DAYS People Will Be WILLINGLY IGNORANT
“Putting your head in the sand will not save your backside”
Willful Ignorance: Actively Resisting the Truth & Truth-tellers
From Willful Ignorance through Cognitive Dissonance to “Could I Be Wrong?”
[FreedomQuote] ”I Would Rather Know The Ugly Truth Than A Beautiful Lie”
Gandhi: Widespread Belief Doesn’t Make an Error True
“Truth … lies in the depth where few are willing to search for it.”
We need the “Third Great Awakening” to replace these “Days of Great Emptiness.”
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We can turn these “Days of GREAT Emptiness” into the “GREATEST Awakening” — when we decide to live fully in Him — right with each other in Christ, “that the world will know” (John 17)!
“God RESISTS the proud, but GIVES GRACE TO THE HUMBLE!“
Life in the Son!
Related:
Rick Joyner: “REPENTANCE includes RESTITUTION for the wrongs that have caused injury to others”
My Dream of ‘ONE’ Happening at Abbott Loop CC!
“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible”
Leaders Who Have Hurt People But Refuse to Repent (prophecy)
[WordPower!] In Psalm 50 God Warns: “You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. … Now consider this…lest I tear you into pieces and there be none to deliver” (Hell?)
Rhydian Roberts: The Prayer — “Let this be our prayer WHEN WE LOSE OUR WAY. Lead us…guide us with your grace to A PLACE WHERE WE’LL BE SAFE” (Rhydian Roberts is Welsh, by the way)
Rhydian Roberts: The Impossible Dream (Precarious Climb and Static Photo Versions)
Benny Hester: “When God Ran” — God will RUN when we come back to Him!
“Ministers have become diabolical instruments used of Satan to thwart the purposes of God and man.”
– Jeff Griffin
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Related:
“Therefore BE WATCHFUL ALL THE TIME, PRAYING that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
– Jesus in Luke 21:36
“The people who know God will never bow the knee to the evil one,
and they will not sit by and do nothing while the Devil leads the world astray.”
– Rick Joyner
“Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the Lord.”
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“Some people THINK THEY ARE FOLLOWING Jesus, but the truth is they have invited Jesus to follow them. It’s an INVERTED gospel that is no gospel at all. The REAL gospel has submission and sacrifice.”
– Mark Batterson (link)
All In: You Are One Decision Away From a Totally Different Life – August 24, 2013
by Mark Batterson
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