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John 15:3
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3 You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.
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why has free speech been allowed for 2000+ years and then all of a sudden its an issue.
i am all for free speech
free speech hasn't been an issue until now supposedly. free speech should always be allowed. maybe we just need more police, army, navy, cameras, etc.... but not a law against free speech. we don't need people cracking down on free speech.
if free speech has been fine until now, i see no reason for a crack down on free speech.
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Grace – Different Audiences and the Message of Holiness
Hi Everyone,
May I suggest that not everyone who goes to church is a Christian?
If this is true, then we must realize that while the writings of Paul, John, and the other authors of the books in the New Testament were addressed to both believers and unbelievers, those writers at times wanted to convey different messages to the separate groups. For example, if a preacher says to a congregation “You need to be saved”, he is addressing unbelievers who are not currently saved, whereas if the same preacher were to say “You needed to be saved”, he is addressing believers who have been saved.
I know this is ridiculously simple, but that’s the problem. We have not heard a clear separation of messages in the writings contained within the Bible. Therefore, believers are receiving messages meant for unbelievers, and thus losing confidence in their reality in Christ. Likewise, unbelievers can be receiving misinformation about their condition.
We simply want recognize that there are those who visit church communities who have not yet placed their faith in Christ, and the proper message should be given to the proper group for which it is intended. This is a true situation today, as it was for the churches to which Paul and others were writing. Among the receivers of all these letters were also unbelievers who were investigating Christianity.
Paul, for example, urges unbelievers to not neglect salvation (Hebrews 2:3), or in the case of 1 John 2:9, John targets the unbeliever, that he should not claim to be in the light and thus be lying. We need to differentiate in this epistle those who "claim" and "say" from those who "abide" and "are".
Consider the following fact that the Bible states about Christians: We are ALWAYS in the light.
Ephesians 5:8 “…you were formerly darkness, but now you are Light in the Lord…”
Thessalonians 5:5 “…you are all sons of light and sons of day. We are not of night nor of darkness”
1 Peter 2:9 “…so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.”
Additionally, in the first chapter of 1 John, John speaks to people who say (claim) they neither have sin nor have sinned. These particular people are not Christians, but rather Gnostics who are associating with the believers to whom John is writing. In other words, he is telling the unbelievers to recognize their sin condition and sinning, just as much as he tells his little children—the believers in chapter 2—that they are secure and have an advocate when they sin.
The fact that multiple audiences can be addressed by the same letter is seen in other places, for example, Hebrews 6:4-8. Here the writer speaks to people who have not been saved, only enlightened. This means that they have heard the truth of Gospel: that they should place their faith in the once-for-all perfect sacrifice of Jesus Christ instead of the sacrifices of lambs, bulls, and goats, but they have not done so.
In the next verse, Hebrews 6:9, the writer makes it clear that he changes his audience and is now addressing a different group of readers--those who have salvation.
My point is this: don't confuse and apply to yourself what was addressed in these letters to unbelievers who were among the Christians, for there were certainly differing messages to those who were in differing conditions.
If we confuse Paul's admonition to unbelievers (or the admonition of any other writer in the Bible) with instructions to believers, then we will certainly experience confusion in our secure position in Christ, including that we would begin thinking that we are a sinners, and not saints. This is, in part, what is meant when we are to "rightly divide the word of truth".
In my next email I will cite a few more applications of this issue. Just remember: if you are a Christian, then there are certainly messages in the Biblical writings that no longer pertain to you. (If you've been saved, do you really need to be saved again? Or, if God has completely forgiven you of all your sins, past, present and future, do you really need to be forgiven again?)
Grace=Peace
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Hi everyone!
Please take the time to read this. You will find it very helpful.
Just as I discussed in my last email, that certain messages and teachings are being mixed and given to both believers and non-believers, so we also have the problem of misunderstandings of certain words in the Bible.
Take, for example, the confusion people experience when they don't understand the biblical uses and definitions of the words "holy" or "sanctified".
If we hear in our minds "I need to sin less" or "strive to sin less" when we hear these words, we do not understand the word in its biblical use. The words "holy" and "sanctify" stem from the same Greek/Hebrew word and simply means "to be set apart or consecrated"; apartness, sacredness; to be (causatively make, pronounce or observe as) clean (ceremonially or morally): - appoint, bid, consecrate, dedicate, declare as holy, treat as holy; to be selected, to be pure, be holy, be sacred, be regarded as holy.
It signifies an act or state in which people or things are set aside for use in the worship of God, i.e., they are consecrated or made sacred for that purpose. They must be withheld from ordinary (secular) use and treated with special care as something which belongs to God. This word is used with various objects: the altar in the temple, the priest, the mountain, the Sabbath, buildings, fasts, wars and battles. It was anything which was reserved exclusively for God, and its opposite is secular or profane. The above definitions and clarification overwhelmingly describe holiness/sanctification as a condition. (The above two paragraphs are taken from the AMG Complete Word Study Dictionary.)
My point on this is as follows: when we hear the words holiness or sanctification and tack on our own interpretation of "to sin less", we are adding a definition that the Bible does not support.
The ultimate result of this is that Christians refuse to recognize the full meaning of having been proclaimed holy and sanctified by God.
Again, since even things could be proclaimed holy, that alone destroys our definition of "to sin less". Would we say that Jesus needed to "sin less"? Of course not. But in John 17:19, He says that He has "sanctified" Himself. Clearly, the word does not mean to sin less.
Furthermore, and most significantly, the condition of holiness or sanctification is something we can't even do (or manage or maintain) ourselves. Once again, God gets all the glory and credit for this (2 Thess 2:13).
We are not sinners and should never refer to ourselves as such, especially since Paul did not either. We are Saints, even though we occasionally sin. And guess what, even when we sin, we remain holy, sanctified, and clean (ceremonially and morally) for one reason and one reason only: our holiness, sanctification, and cleanliness is not something for us to procure and keep: it is found in the person of Jesus Christ. This is the state in which we abide and for which He remains faithful.
And I must declare the following most emphatically: any idea that supports the notion that we become holy or sanctified by our behavior is idolatry, for it refuses to recognize the completed work of the cross:
"Jesus' last cry from the cross, Tetelestai! ("It is finished!") is a good example of the perfect tense used in this sense, namely, "It [the atonement] has been accomplished, completely, once and for all time."
I am against sin and sinning, but we must recognize the biblical use of words such as I have addressed here and how they apply to us and affect our lives.
I hope these two emails have introduced you in a greater way to the peace that exists between God and you. Knowing that, you should now be able to stop striving and rest in your permanent condition in Christ. May you enter His rest by faith.
Grace=Peace
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i agree with most of this video, but can't Jesus use anyone and anything? In the bible Jesus used a donkey which spoke.
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John 15:3
New International Version (NIV)
3 You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.
Do You Want to Know JESUS For REAL???
i agree with most of this video, but can't Jesus use anyone and anything? In the bible Jesus used a donkey which spoke.
howie399b 17 hours ago
Jesus uses many ways to get our attention, yes, BUT He wants us to come directly to Him! Are you ready to go directly to Jesus and learn from Him? Or are you just hearing things secondhand and content with it?
warningthepeople in reply to howie399b 7 hours ago
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John 15:3 (NKJV) You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
John 15:3 (NKJV) You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
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