Usually, the bold ones cannot preach right; and the smart ones are not bold enough to preach.
Nonetheless, the unison of both, ah but the art of a servant of God.
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One main reason people do not dare to rebuke (Titus 2:15), because they are unclean themselves, or that they believe they could never always resist temptation to sin even after salvation. They want "absolute freedom", thinking that absolute freedom exists in mankind even before salvation, not realizing such actually leads only to death.[@more@]
The more I stress on the validity of predestination, the more the need I feel to evangelize. Otherwise, I would be a hypocrite.[@more@]
The mysteries of God's creation. Everytime, a new side is shown, how I praise God for His magnificent wonders.
It is not wise to be bounded in the house of men because the direct creation of God is far more amazingly perplexed and wonderful.
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For example:
One day you died and found out that Osama Bin Laden is in heaven and you're not.
So, to grasp the grace of God, one needs to understand the meaning "grace".
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Today, I have fixed ShuZhan's cell phone after our weekly prayer meeting. It was done quickly because it's easy.
The cellphone was dropped and all it was displaying a blank screen that was lighted on. So turning it off is not working either. Obviously the only option was to take out the battery and reload. Voila!
But what's interesting is that this little scenario can be based on the plan of God. Men sinned, thus although they are alive, their perfection is corrupted, gone, their spirits are dead. Unless God resurrect them, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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After almost a year of disaster with this computer that I might have been ripped off from craigslist, I may have resolved the issue.
All the resolutions that I had come up with have failed from time to time. Except this, eventhough I'm still in the process of reinstalling Windows XP, it seems to work through all the "sighing" points. I think this is it.
Ah yes. So what is the problem? I believe it is something I have, quite unbelievably, missed. It seems that all the rest of the original components and parts are fine except the fan for the CPU. It has only 1 side of the metallic hook which secures it on the CPU so that the CPU would not overheat. And without the other hook, this have made it difficult to be able to completely attach its surface to the entire surface area of the CPU. The single hook has caused such imbalance. So I removed it and just hardly pressed it onto the CPU so that it stuck to the CPU with whatever's left of the thermal paste on the CPU.
I did not even notice the missing hook of the CPU fan. Well, the lost of time, a few months, and money spent on the extra but now ready-to-be-sold parts, I do consider worthwhile because I learned something or rather something I have realized to take note of.
If I was ripped off when I bought this, then I have learned something he has not. His brother, if that is really his brother, has even asked me to hang out together since we are into the tech stuff. I may just do that, if I could find that email address in my gmail archive. Then again, it could have been caused by a minor accident which lost the pin while moving the tower to my place, could it not? Hardly. It may not be something so easily missed since he gave me a free ride home.
Now I'd just have to find a second hook. Otherwise, it's not so assured.
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The oriental culture usually perceives faith differently than that of the Western.
Faith of the East is usually in the realm of superstition, or developed from the realm of such, blind loyalty, blind faith.
While faith of the West is of the question of true or false, logical or illogical, sense or no sense.
True faith consists of the wisdom, word of God, promise of God, and righteousness.
Therefore, when we see someone has "fallen from the grace of God" which in non-existence in the eternal design of God for one will never fall away forever if he is under the limited atonement of God, that does not mean that God has failed nor that he had been saved at some point before but that he had failed to understand the meaning of grace and salvation. He had simply come to God before under false faith, which is not faith at all. Perhaps he had come to believe God because others around him have, or that he had no other choice as he felt being around christians are more comfortable (so another religion with "more comfortable" community would have changed his mind), or that he thought all religions are the same and since his friends and family are mostly christians, he'll pick this one (which can be swayed by Unitarianism).
A faith without the promise of God is no faith. A faith without the word of God is no faith. A faith without walking with God is no faith. A faith with these AND anything else that's above these is no faith. For example: A faith that is all about how you love God based on your own understanding of love, how you are able to feel God's presence in a self-promoting self-confident way in order to love and have a relationship with Him, with the addition of Bible study and some charity because they are the tradition of the Church...is no faith. For true knowledge of anything with God is obtained from the word of God and the promise of God. No one can gain such on his own. His freedom is not absolute. Only God's is. All men's freedom have been corrupted, no one has the freedom to be good without God's help. The freedom that is thought to be good is actually the depraved freedom since the fall of mankind which has no definition of good that is considered to be the perfect or the perfected perfection by God.
So even faith, true faith, is given by God to individuals, not of one's own free will. It is not blind faith, nonetheless, it is supra-rational. Such is also the word of God.
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It seems that the graphic card is fine...even the ATI one.
Could it be the CPU itself that's causing all these nonsense?
Well, I will look into it.
So now the parts that haven't been tested fully are CPU, HDD & CD/DVD-ROM.
Hope this is over soon.
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Entered date: 01-24-2006 2:00am
Have mercy upon me, O Lord.
Oh God, please remember your loving kindness.
And forget my trespasses.
I have sinned a great sin against you, Lord.
The morning of 24th, I have been adviced on the same, yet I cannot follow.
Time.
I cannot judge time correctly. And now, at 8pm, I have done it again. This time
making others wait without eating any meal, as I am the one bringing the meal.
A wise man discerns both Time and Judgement, the Bible says.
I am so useless, I am so pathetic.
You have said, "let your yes be yes, and no, no". How can I not heed seriously?
Lord, please show me thy mercy from your everlasting grace.
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