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anjaandreas -> God is Almighty ,all knowing . (7/3/2009 6:53:55 AM)
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First of all let me say I do not believe in predestiny but men has a free will to follow God .
How ever I do believe God is Almighty and all knowing .
To me this are two different things....
I believe GOD IS IN CONTROL ALWAYS.
This to me is the basic of Eph 1:4 ,even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without blemish before him in love
God did not change his plan because of Satan or because of the Sin men ( Adam and Eve) .
I believe God knows all ,yes from the early begin
BEFORE THE WORLD IS CREATED
This is what I read in the verses in Eph 1:4,5
God did not change his Plan .
He did form FIRST His One Son, this SON would create men and all thing in heaven and on earth Col1:13-20
See I believe many do not understand the complete truth what this means ?
If GOD in his plan formed a seed ,the plan of a seed in his Son ...before his Son created heaven and earth .....
only then we can see the full light of the scripture in Eph 1:4.
I believe God did see from the begin what was to come.
How Eve seduced by Satan eat fruit from the tree of good and evil.
Satan his seed would play a big part in Gods Plan,as the Son and his seed would play a big part in Gods plan.(Gen 3:15).
Do read Gen 3:15 once more now compare this verse to Rev 12:1-5,17
What do we see here now ?
Do you see the woman talked about ,do you see here seed ?
Do you see the promised seed in Rev 12:1-5,17 and Eph1:4 ,do you see the woman talked about in Gen 3:15 is not just Eve ?
WHO IS SHE ,READ REV 21:22-27
Now did God knew of all this before it happened ,Yes I think he did .
Remember how Jesus picked Judas to fulfill the scripture ,that all could be fulfilled in the plan of Christ sacrifice .
READ ROM 9:21.
Why do i say so ?
Because this is proof to me the Devil has no Power or control over God,s plan but God himself.
As Jesus from the begin called his disciples one by one by name ,he also knew what Judas was about ,
THAT JUDAS WOULD BETRAY HIM.
I believe this is why Jesus choose Judas.
Jesus knew ! Act 4:28,Luce22:21,22,1Peter11,
God knew Satan coal from the early begin.
God is always one step a head of Satan.
God is Almighty.
This i can read in Eph1:4
I do feel God is helping to set us free, to see his plan and how we fit in.
I hope this will help ?
Now what happened to our family .
This is my personal testemony.
For 32 years we were Jehovah witness.
But we decided to leaf the Watch Tower organization based on what we found out about their connections they have (NGO/DPI ) inside the UN.
We wrote them a letter that we could not stay bounded to any religion who do act in this way.
That we have to follow our one true shepherd that we need to listen to his voice more then to the voice of a stranger.
God was calling us to come out.
We were so happy we decided to leaf this organisation,God made our faith grow stronger and stronger every day to put our trust only in him so we could act as we did
To walk at his hand ,the hand of our shepherd ....John 10:28,29
We put our compete trust in him only.
That particular morning it was snowing it was a winter day .
It was snowing as i walked to the mail box to mail my letter.
As I walked i sow every thing has become white around me ....
not a sound just the snow under my feet as i walked on.
It was early that morning as I walked ....
It was a new fresh day ,a good day to start again I thought.
We knew we would lose all our friends who still are inside this organization still.
But we decided to leaf them any way .
I was crying [:(] ,32 years of my life were inside this letter,32 years we were inside the watchtower Organization.
To me it felt like divorcing my self from a husband who betrayed me .
I opened the mailbox and prayed as i enter my letter.
"Jehovah please help me ,my whole life is in your hand now .
I give my self to you and you only to help our family to become save in your care
I know you love your sheep , for you tooled me in your word .John 10.
I believe you will not forsake your sheep , I know you will bring us were we belong.
We put our trust only in you Jehovah.
No longer we put our trust on any men who claim to be appointed to become your organization on earth."
That summer we baptized our self in the name Yeshua , after reading Rom 6:4-12.
It says this : Or don’t you know that all we who were immersed into Messiah Yeshua were immersed into his death?
We were buried therefore with him through immersion to death, that just like Messiah was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection; knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.
For he who has died has been freed from sin.
But if we died with Messiah, we believe that we will also live with him; knowing that Messiah, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no more has dominion over him!
For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God.
Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Messiah Yeshua our Lord.
Now we are free ,we are truly really free in Him.
God is in control of our live now , we died and we resurrect in his blood ,we live by his spirit .
God is in control of our live now and move by his spirit.
We know Yah,shua Messiah is our savior .
Jehovah /Jesus is our Saviour Messiah.
How true is his word.
1John4:4:13 By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. 4:14 We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world. 4:15 Whoever confesses that Yeshua is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God.
We remain IN HIM ,we are in his care now to walk every day in his presence.
We tell about his glory and his power and love about how he cares for his sheep.(John 10:28,29)Heartbeat
We tell about his name,that there is salvation in none other, for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”
Act 4:10
Be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Yeshua the Messiah of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, in him does this man stand here before you whole. 4:11 He is ‘the stone which was regarded as worthless by you, the builders, which has become the head of the corner.’
4:12 There is salvation in none other, for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”
1Ti 4:10 For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have set our trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.
2 Sam22:3 God, my rock, in him I will take refuge;
my shield, and the horn of my salvation,
my high tower, and my refuge.
As we walk on to become more Holy in him we share his love to others
Many ex witness do not like to hear we believe Jehovah /Jesus is our savior,but we can not stop to tell about his power and his love he showed to us
The Father of our Lord will love all who love his Son .Joh14:6,Act4:12.
We walk in the light of his spirit now.1Joh2:26-29
To become One in Yeshua Messiah and through him we are one in the Father of our Lord.
John 17:21 that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me. 17:22 The glory which you have given me, I have given to them; that they may be one, even as we are one; 17:23 I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me, and loved them, even as you loved me.
No one can stop his joy inside us ....this fountain of joy inside our heart,
And no one can stop us to tell the world about his love.LoveLove
1:2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Yeshua the Messiah.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Messiah; even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without blemish before him in love; having predestined us for adoption as children through Yeshua the Messiah to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire, to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely bestowed favor on us in the Beloved, in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace (Eph1:3-6).
Faith ore religion ?
I my self walk in spirit but not in religion .
To walk in faith in newness of live in Yeshua messiah .John 3:5-7 [:D]
This to me is why Jesus says :
John 4:24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
Not some building group of people who gather together in some place ,but ...Eph2:19-22
you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the holy ones, and of the household of God, being built on the foundation of the emissaries and prophets, Messiah Yeshua himself being the chief cornerstone; in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord; in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.
So why do we seek God inside religion ?
http://timothy-kline.com/thoughts/2009/06/20/does-your-religion-matter-part-1/
Jesus says to the Samaritan woman(and to all of us )this in John 4:21-23,it says :
Yeshua said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father. You worship that which you don’t know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews. But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshippers.
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
We walk in spirit ,not in religion.
God freed us form religion through his Son Yeshua Messiah.
Eph2:4-10
But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Messiah (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Messiah Yeshua, that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Messiah Yeshua; for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 2:9 not of works, that no one would boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Messiah Yeshua for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
(1John2:26-28.)
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