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Pnoga
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Posted on Friday, April 30, 2010 - 6:36 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Now unto Him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy -Jude 1:24

When you stand before the Lord on judgement day what will you say?

God: Why should I allow you into my kigdom?

You: Because of the 10 Commandments, I am a good
person, I have sinned, but look how many
times I have attempted to keep them, look
how I tried to keep the Sabbath every week

God: Yes but you have still sinned, I have to
judge you accordingly, the punishment for
sin is death.

OK now the alternative and the better way

God: Why should I allow you into my Kingdom?

You: Jesus!

God: Come on in faithful one.


Paul
Pnoga
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Posted on Friday, April 30, 2010 - 6:39 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Sorry about the typos, I have a bad habit of typing really fast and forgetting to double check. Oh well, it's still legible, good thing I won't be judged based on my typing... ;)
River
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Posted on Friday, April 30, 2010 - 8:14 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Paul, some time after God so brazenly delivered me from what I was, and changed my life for all to see.

We were sitting in the living room of my MIL, and the subject of salvation came up. This is what she said; 'I feel like I am a good person, I pay my bills, I don't lie or mistreat others, I work hard.'

As far as I know she never darkened the doors of a church till the day she died, even though she saw and witnessed the miracle of my rebirth, and her daughters (My wife) rebirth. A deliverance from alcohol in one day, gone in sixty seconds. One of her sons saw that deliverance and accepted Christ. Her father saw it, and died hating God for his son and his daughters death, and would not repent.

Her other son saw it and accepted Christ, that witness still serves for her other daughter, my sis in law.

God is his own witness to others, he does miracles to show them he is God, I had nothing to do with it, I just was along for the ride, I gladly accepted his blood covering. I have not been a good person, but one thing I have, worth more that all the gold in this world, worth more than all the respect one can have, I am covered by the blood of Jesus.

I may not look like much to this world, but I am Gods miracle, and I am covered by the blood of Jesus. I was never very impressive to my inlaws or my own parents and siblings, but I am covered by the blood of Jesus, if I owe money that I could not repay, my father will pay it, because I am covered with the blood of Jesus.

Glory too God in the highest, I am covered by the blood of Jesus.

River
Freeatlast
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Posted on Friday, April 30, 2010 - 11:37 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Pnoga, you still have not yet achieved "character" perfection. ;>)
Pnoga
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Posted on Friday, April 30, 2010 - 12:31 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

LOL, no I haven't, bummer, I'm sure I never will and that's biblical ;)
Skeeter
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Posted on Friday, April 30, 2010 - 4:50 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

River: "Glory too God in the highest, I am covered by the blood of Jesus. "

AMEN !!!!!!!

Skeeter
River
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Posted on Friday, April 30, 2010 - 9:03 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Skeeter, just every once in a while I get poetic, I have spent the last 20 minutes on this, thought I would share it with you.

I am not very good at writing poems, they always come out simple, but this came to my mind to do, so here it is anyhow.

The Crippled Shoe Shine Boy

There was a boy in a wheel chair, who shined shoes all day long’
For people who stopped by, he had a smile and a song’

There was a woman came, so well dressed and so grey’
Who said, boy, shine my shoes, and in gold, I will pay’

A young lady came, so dainty and prim’
Said boy, shine my shoes, I’ll pay you with a gem’

An old man came, said shine my shoes son’
I have a nickel for you, if they are well done’

On and on they came, till in exhaustion one day’
Another boy came. Said rest awhile and we will play’

He said I cannot run and jump, as the other do’
The boy said, where we are going, you will not need too’

He led him thru streets, of clearest pure gold’
To a stream of life, where he would never be hungry or cold’

Then he met a man, in a long flowing gown’
Said the man, with scars, come by me and sit down’

Do you remember, on your mothers knee, she told you about me?
How I died on the cross, for all the world, you see.

Now you have lived, and loved for me, welcome home my son’
From your wheel chair you are free.

He laughed and ran and jumped, but on his body he looked down’
No one came to see him, as it fell upon the ground’

Then he remembered well, on that faithful day’
When he prayed from his wheel chair, and accepted Jesus blood’
Bowed his head to Jesus, saw eternal life in flood.

He lay in a hospital, wracked with pain was found’
Covered with the blood of Jesus, in his sad old nighting gown’

A doctor came and saw him, looked down with dismay’
Said boy we cannot help you, you have nothing in which to pay’

He turned to the man, whose scars in side and hands’
Said sir are you the one, who the others turned down?’


He said yes, they turned me down, to keep their precious Gold’
I would have given them everything, if in my blood they would go’

But do not fret my child, you who plunged beneath the flow’
Come with me, into eternity, because by my blood, you did grow’

He led the boy away, from that body crumpled below’
To a land where there are no cripples, where milk and honey flows’

If you will listen to me now, and kneel at yon cross’
You will live and not die, nor ever suffer loss’

Throw your gold and works aside now, leave it in the mud’
Plunge in that precious fountain flow, be washed in the saviors blood’
River

If you copy and paste it to MsWord, then center it, it looks better.
Hec
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Posted on Saturday, May 01, 2010 - 12:04 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I like this, River.

Hec
Nowisee
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Posted on Saturday, May 01, 2010 - 1:52 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Thanks, River, for the poem (20 min.? wow).

Thank you, Jesus, for shedding your blood to give us the gift of heaven, always to be with you!

I heard a quote by D.L. Moody the other day saying that the first 1,000 years in heaven he would spend just looking at Jesus.

I read a quote by Charles Spurgeon this morning, speaking about the verse from Song of Solomon 5:13 ("His cheeks are like a bed of spices, banks of scented herbs."):


quote:

You know where the bed of spices is. Many times you have smelled the perfume of the scented herbs. Go to your Beloved and find love and joy in Him.

That cheek so cruelly beaten with a rod, so often moist with sympathetic tears and then defiled with spittle; that cheek as it smiles with mercy is a sweet fragrance to my heart. Oh Lord Jesus, You did not hide Your face from shame and pain; therefore, I will take great delight in praising You.




Isn't that beautiful?
Skeeter
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Posted on Saturday, May 01, 2010 - 4:13 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Writings by River and Spurgeon... River you are in good company :-)I REALLY, REALLY like them both !
Psalm107v2
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Posted on Saturday, May 01, 2010 - 8:05 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Isn't it amazing that the one who died and took our judgment also stands our defense and holds us up as He does it. I never will cease to be amazed. His grace is a gift that keeps on giving!!

Enoch
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Posted on Sunday, May 02, 2010 - 10:23 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Speaking of who we want by our side: "Every character is to be weighed in the balances of the sanctuary; if the moral character and spiritual advancement do not correspond with the opportunities and blessings, "wanting" is written against the name." {RH, March 19, 1895 par. 12}

Salvation by works, or what?

I'm glad I understand that 'wanting' is written against every one of us (for all have sinned), but the solution is not "improving in accordance with our opportunities." The solution is placing our whole trust in Jesus Christ, who has provided our redemption full and free.
8thday
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Posted on Tuesday, May 04, 2010 - 8:09 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Such a huge contrast. Love the poem and the quote!! - (the Spurgeon one that is. ha.)

It's not Law and Grace, but Grace upon Grace - as John puts it. It saves, redeems, transforms, and fuels our deepest love and desires - if what is called graces does not perform all this - then it's not Grace but a cheap sentiment. (read that somewhere.)

Sondra
Colleentinker
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Posted on Tuesday, May 04, 2010 - 12:02 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Nowisee, that Spurgeon quote is truly beautiful. And Mary, thank you for the RH quote...I believe it's important to be overtly reminded that these things "we" say about Adventist theology actually are true; these are the things the "continuing and authoritative source of truth" actually wrote. And note that the quote you shared above was actually a "later" quote--1895.

Colleen

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