On Monday, I dreamed I was with 2 kids, an older girl and younger boy. They were in kayaks in the river and I was standing in river and pointed out that they were about to go over huge waterfall. I stopped their kayaks briefly to warn them. They decided to go on. The girl made it, but the boy had switched to tricycle and drowned.
I am writing this to warn you: if you are living in sin and relying on Once Saved Always Saved Calvinist doctrine to exonerate you from your sin, you are in danger of the fire.
Romans 11 states, speaking of the chosen people, Israel:
People have been saying, "Oh this vaccine doesn't change your DNA. If it did, well then it would be the mark of the beast." Now published in the journal Current Issues in Microbiology, a team in Sweden has proved that mRNA from covid vaccines does get incorporated into the person's DNA via the action of reverse transcriptase. https://www.mdpi.com/1467-3045/44/3/73/htm
In Lord Lord, Part 1, I gathered a hefty list of characteristics of someone who is following Jesus. Once a person believes and puts their trust in Jesus, and has that born again experience, how then does one stay put with him? The characteristics of one on the narrow road from Part 1 were basically just from the Gospels. Part 2, I’ll start in on the rest of the New Testament.
I see faith as trust+obedience. If we refer to Hebrews 11, the trust part is “the certainty of things hoped for, a proof of things not seen.” But I want to focus in on how obedience is integral to this trust. The people listed in Hebrews 11 trusted God enough to obey Him.
“By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain, through which he was attested to be righteous.” Abel trusted God’s instructions on sacrifices and obeyed. Through this he was accounted righteous.
So I was thinking on these things: Sin is so horrendous that God Himself had to die to free us from it. He made a way for us at an enormous cost to himself. Yet we are told, “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.” People will be going to hell while saying, "Lord, Lord", thinking they are saved, when they are not. I pray I am not one of them.
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
If the last year and a half have not seared in your mind that there can be a worldwide conspiracy to deceive you, then it seems nothing will convince you. Perhaps, though, you believe this to be a new phenomenon. It is not.
