{"id":14452,"date":"2023-07-18T01:30:03","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T05:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=14452"},"modified":"2023-07-18T01:30:03","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T05:30:03","slug":"07-16-2023-sunday-service-sermon-on-1-john-53-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=14452","title":{"rendered":"07-16-2023 Sunday Service Sermon on 1 John 5:3-11"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sunday School was on Prayer (week 6). We did <strong>Imprecatory Prayer<\/strong> (invoke a curse or evil): Psa 7, 35, 55, 58, 59, 69, 79, 83, 109 &amp; 137.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Someone mentioned that some wickedness (i.e. Nazi, child rape, etc.) are just so bad that they cannot be saved. <strong>Catholicism influence I bet<\/strong>. Degree of wickedness is <strong>irrelevant <\/strong>when it comes to Gospel and salvation. So good thing Pastor Chris <strong>attempted <\/strong>to correct it, though quite so subtly that I bet many wouldn't notice that it was a sort of correction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The term imprecatory is a first for me, though the concept isn't. I have once pondered upon 1Cor 5:5 where Paul \"delivers unto Satan those involving in sexual immorality for the destruction of the flesh so that their spirit may be saved. I think it is relevant. David his Psalms in the OT does seem more imprecatory than Paul in NT. Paul's imprecatory prayers aim still for salvation of the wicked soul. <strong>After doing a search in LOGOS, Van Til has more to say in some of his works.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>on <strong>Wordless Prayer<\/strong> (psa 46:10 &amp; Matthew 6:5-6) - the terminology is sort of new to me. Though if it's about being still as in Psa 46:10, then it's also same as Psa 4 and so on. I think the phrase wordless prayer is begging for too much. When we are silent, we could direct ourselves to God, such is already a wordless prayer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It's interesting during the Sunday School, the pastor eventually concluded some discussions to motives.<strong> I have always wanted to state that Christianity is the only religion of motives.<\/strong> Because of this, when the charismatics turned true substance to superficial things, this is because it is ultimately affected by motives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday School was on Prayer (week 6). We did Imprecatory Prayer (invoke a curse or evil): Psa 7, 35, 55, 58, 59, 69, 79, 83, 109 &amp; 137. Someone mentioned that some wickedness (i.e. Nazi, child rape, etc.) are just &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=14452\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theologization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14453,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14452\/revisions\/14453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}