Even more what's required where an Old understanding revisit's enough that it then takes out the previously perceived "New One"?
Sounds like it could be the very question that needs to be asked in the roller coaster life of an "Addict" doesn't it?
How new is the following as such an event that has yet become a part of a greater present day reality?
When will the manifestation of these events be something considered as "New" which then gets white washed (painted over) by an OLD understanding in terms of someone being deceived?
2 Thess 2:9-10
The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with the work of Satan displayed in all kinds of counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders, and in every sort of evil that deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved .
NIV
If you can allow it, Is it Jesus that saves you or is it the "Truth" that saves You? Wouldn't that depend on knowing if there was any difference between the two?
Unless you already Know all there is to know about Christ and the full intent of His coming, why are so many scared to hear anything except all that they tell themselves they're already familiar with? And that while continually claiming to be "Imperfect"?
What I'm suggesting is NOT about being perfect. Instead it's more about "Allowing" yourself to be "Perfected".
Just think if everyone viewed the "Gospel" that concerns Christ the same way what would such an environment be like? Will those who are there find that such a place Only accommodate's the likeness of Only You?
Some might suggest such a place to be boring because of the lack of differnces, yet will not all those who find themselves judged "Righteous" also find themselves One with God?
Shouldn't that also point to the NEED to know what causes God to consider one to be righteous?
The same God whom also tells those who suggest they "Believe" in Him and all that He is capable of as if Our God in common, "Be Holy as I am Holy"?
Such a man that says he also deeply desires to be One with Who? At what point does such a "Desire" also suggest as though a "Desire" God also Gave to you?
Is not the Holy Spirit the only spirit held in common that is also part of Who God is?
In terms of divisiveness, why did Stephen suggest to some when he did, You're JUST like you fathers who continually resist the Holy Spirit"?
What were they refusing to accept as if the very correction needed to remedy their differences?
What if knowing what cause those differences then proves not only the man to be in pursuit of God but also proves those who are Not in FULL pursuit of God with ALL their Heart, Mind, Soul and Strength?
Lets then suggest we do have a come to Jesus meeting and then decided on who IS pursuing and who is NOT pursuing God with ALL that God has made them to be? How much different then would we find anyone?
At what point does a person "STOP" studying the words of God? Is this a reflection of anything? Maybe a vacation or short sabbatical that doesn't end? Does this person stop when they assume they know ALL they need to know in order to be saved? Exactly what is the onset of "Backsliding"?
In a word picture would this look like the man at the dinner table who pushes himself away as if declaring himself "Full".
What elements participate in the "Renewal" of the mind? Will it be more of the same which then renews the mind? Will it look like the man who gets a new brief case and takes the contents from the old brief case and places them in the "New" one?
Don't believe what I suggest, then consider what most call "Baggage" that's brought into each succeeding and so called "New" personal relationship they enter into?
What makes anyone assume most people don't take this same approach when they enter into a relationship with Christ? If their approach towards relationship IS all that they Know about trur relationship, then exactly who's getting the short end of all that this person is?
Wouldn't the qualification of a "New" relationship depend upon the One they had to leave in order to be One with the One they're NOW with?
Can you at least commit to the thought and admit it, every TRUE Love song written points to commitment doesn't it?
It's easy to suggest "The devil's in the details", yet why won't many allow the thought "All that there is to Know about Love is most assuredly in the "Details"?
Those same type of details many claim as if their own imperfection when they fail at Loving another the way they too want to be Loved?
God tells AND shows us how we should also "Learn" to Love doesn't he, yet why have we become so satisfied with the redefining of what Love is in terms of what "Truth" also is in the sight of God?
In terms of "Jealousy" how do "You" find and understand this word? The next question might be, how does this word define the character which "Represents" God?
And why would the God that also wants t be seen as "One" also be named "Jealous"?
Could it have anything to do with paying the only thing man truly has that is also his own? And if that were Mand attention, does not God deserve and realize our "Full Attention" so that we might come to Know His "Intentions" that are also full of what He's also made us to be?
Ex 34:14
Do not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God .
NIV
Why is Love such a mystery? And what is that defines a "Mystery" except all that we do NOT know?
Eph 5:25-33
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.
In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church— for we are members of his body.
"For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh." This is a profound mystery — but I am talking about Christ and the church.
However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
NIV
Now to him who is able to establish you by my gospel and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery hidden for long ages past, but now revealed and made known through the prophetic writings by the command of the eternal God, so that all nations might believe and obey him— 27 to the only wise God be glory forever through Jesus Christ! Amen.
NIV
Eph 1:9-10
And he made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ, to be put into effect when the times will have reached their fulfillment — to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ.
NIV
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