Mistook 8am for 8pm. How rattlebrained...
Socrates: "An unexamined life is not worth living".
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The case of 911-response to terrorists attack: When being ripped, justification by other indirect means.
When valued ship sunken by Arabian pirates, justification by "legally" stealing certain excessive treasure of the Arabian Country, saying, no one is getting hurt, they got more than enough...this form of pay back is just and satisfactory?
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Mat 5:16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.
Mat 5:16 你们的光也当这样照在人前，叫他们看见你们的好行为，便将荣耀归给你们在天上的父。
Do it in the glory of God. As to whether or not one is honestly glorifying God, that's what one should be certain with NO EXCUSE.
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The main problem with the charismatic/pentecostal movement/church today is faith.
Although, their understanding of the Holy Spirit and "filled with the Holy Spirit" is also rather demented ergo exalting ONLY the Holy Spirit (emphasizing on the Holy Spirit) and perhaps unknowingly, themselves, rather than Jesus Christ, eventhough MOST of them are aware that Christ is the center of glorification and that the Holy Spirit has come to testify CHRIST (John 15:26).
Dr. Stephen Tong once said, paraphrasing Augustine: "What they gain in their curiosity will be lost in their pride" in reponse to the question: "What will happen to those who come to the Lord because of signs and miracles?". I wish I could find the direct quote of this.
Hence, the main issue is faith. The Christian faith is not superstitious faith, not self-confident faith, not blind faith, not self-built faith, these are not faith at all (Non Fide); The true faith, fidelity, faithfulness, is based on the word of God, the Truth, the Pormise of God, the Grace of God. A faith that will be a good testimony. Not one that is hypocritical. Hypocritical confession is not faith at all.
I pray that God will forgive my brothers and sisters who are persuaded by this movement of this era, and that they will come back to glorify Christ, and not themselves (whether knowingly or unknowingly). For our Lord Jesus Christ shall lose none which has been predestined and elected. Amen.
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I experimented on myself this morning. Near sleep, when going into sleep paralysis, hearing the ringing frequency as usual, I discovered that the ringing sound is somewhat a magnification of thoughts. Could it have been like the case of the high tuned echo when a microphone is near the speaker? I do not know.
But when I tried to say and concentrate on a few words in my mind, the ringing noise became the sounding of those words. Soon, I was able to project images, as if how dreams begin.
So, have I discovered something on this special state of sleep? or is it just another temporary illusion in dream? One way to find out is to test it again when it happens next time.
If all these are as I have hypothesized, then I have come a little closer to understanding the workings of human mind.
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Daily chores are good for discipline, as well as balanced personal quality: Control of anger, fighting spirit versus humility, fine tuning of paradoxical elements in life.
This is good especially for the young, such as myself. Which when I found a suitable time management for the chores, new ones would come: change of work, change of schedules, etc. Sometimes I fail, sometimes I prevail. The main cause of my failure is my own tardiness. Which I find myself struggling through frequently, which I curse, which I strongly believe, with righteous persistence in the Lord, it would bind me no more. May the Lord remember His kindness and forgive me. May He better this vessel.
I believe as long as I live, this would never cease. Nonetheless, I also believe the breakthroughs ARE going to impressive me greatly. As I have also already experienced the awe. Praise be to God.
I must continue to seek after the countenance of God for the perseverance of the saint is the eternal blessing my Lord Jesus Christ has bestowed upon me.
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May God Bless Natani and his wife, Emily.
That I pray they are called by God, to be servants of God. I give thanks to God. Many thanks for letting me see the miracles and wonders of God again and again. I pray that they have full support of the Church, the Invisible Church.
May the Lord Jesus Christ guide them, and bring them to full wisdom and abundant power, in Spirit and in truth, in service of the Lord. May it be the grace of God, that they would lay down all things and devote to God, as a couple and as individuals.
Amen.
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It would appear to be so. Only the Jehovah's Witnesses' modified the Bible.
The Mormons used the King James Version of the Bible.
However, the interpretation of the Bible is based on their own other books/doctrines, which are viewed above the Bible.
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I realized now what mistakes many of us christians make. When we discover an unblibical principle a christian leader is having, we tend to give ourselves to our own ways of dealing with the issue:
1. That everyone is entitled to their own opinion, no one is wrong or no one is perfect, or even worse, no one is right. Everyone has their "absolute" freedom.
2. We further ourselves from that person. Refusing EVERYTHING related to that person regardless of whether it is right or wrong.
Both choices, are unbiblical.
And now, one should see a third and only option left.
When I speak, I speak of one's greatness, as well as his weakness, according to wise judgement in time. Never will I want to go back to the cowardly act of picking the first two choices. The Bible is not only a living book, but the truth as well. This book records the greatness of the saints, as well as their misconducts.
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