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- http://myspace,com/water_spirit_blood
- About Me
- I am an Emissary for Yahushuah
proclaiming the Water Spirit Blood-
washing of rebirth
and renewal by the Set-Apart Spirit
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- Many people are claiming the blood of Yahushuah
and yet are still carrying their sins-
I have come to oped the eyes of those
who will resist Satan's effort to bring out
their carnal defensive natures which will reject this
amazing truth
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- The most embarrassing thing I ever did was:
- between me and Elohim
- I believe...
- everything proceeded and came forth from Father Elohim
Is your love for your children..."CONDITIONAL" ?
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YOUR GOD ... or ... MY GOD ... YOU DECIDE
ARE YOU TOO...
WORSHIPING A GOD OF FAILURE...
A God
Who always has to go from plan A to plan B
A God
Who is running a "disaster control operation" from heaven
A God
Who supposedly created creatures
HE CANNOT CONTROL
Creatures that will wreck His original plan
The foolish and unscriptural teaching
is that God created a PERFECT archangel
who then SINNED AND REBELLED AGAINST God
But ... BUT,
here is the evil in this teaching:
God did not INTEND,
nei… Continue
Posted on September 24, 2009 at 2:15am —
YOUR GOD ... or ... MY GOD ... YOU DECIDE (Part 2)
I believed in the Trinity ...and then I looked for myself
The Trinity as defined by
Hastings Dictionary of the Bible Page 1015:
The Christian doctrine of God
as existing in three Persons and one Substance
is not demonstrable by logic or scriptual proof
Regardless, those that believe in and teach the Trinity
believe that it is, "...a necessary "hypothesis"
that there are three persons to the Godhead:
God the Father
The Holy Ghost (Spirit)
Je… Continue
Posted on September 24, 2009 at 2:15am —
THE AWAKENING...YOU'VE BEEN WRONG ALL ALONG!!
Jesus came by Water and Blood
not by Water only
but by Water and Blood
in other words:
Jesus came by Baptism and Death
not by Baptism only
but by Baptism and Death
Not everyone claiming the Blood of Christ
will stand before him at his coming
Therefore, not everyone
claiming the Blood of Christ
will be able to SEE and UNDERSTAND
the "WATER" aspect of SALVATION
Not even if GOD himself,
PAINTED THEM A PICTURE!!
But wait- He did indeed paint ever… Continue
Posted on September 19, 2009 at 12:22pm —
Why the Gospel really is the "GOOD NEWS" for ALL mankind
Christ spoke ONLY in parables
when talking with the masses,
Matt 13:34
"ALL these things spake Jesus unto the multitude
in PARABLES; and without a parable spake He NOT unto them"
PARABLES ARE SPIRITUAL
A parable is a story
that contains in figurative or symbolic language
a higher moral or spiritual truth
Parables are HIGHER, SPIRITUAL,
GLORIOUS teachings of ETERNAL things
Literally
they are of little consequence;
Spiritually
t… Continue
Posted on September 5, 2009 at 10:24am —
PARABLES
Christ spoke ONLY in parables
when talking with the masses,
Matt 13:34
"ALL these things spake Jesus unto the multitude
in PARABLES; and without a parable spake He NOT unto them"
PARABLES ARE SPIRITUAL
A parable is a story
that contains in figurative or symbolic language
a higher moral or spiritual truth
Parables are HIGHER, SPIRITUAL,
GLORIOUS teachings of ETERNAL things
Literally
they are of little consequence;
Spiritually
they are of enormous consequence
But without knowing w… Continue
Posted on September 5, 2009 at 1:52am —
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1 Corinthians 15:55-56 NLT
Jesus lives, and so shall I: Death, thy sting is gone forever! He for me hath deigned to die, lives the bands of death to sever. He shall raise me from the dust: Jesus is my hope and trust.
Does your son or daughter have to ask you everyday
for your forgiveness/love?
Do you not love them unconditionally?
Or is your love for them dependent upon their efforts
to earn and deserve your love?
Of course not!!
Your love is unconditional because they are your children
and they are a part of your very being and existence
LOOK AROUND YOU
Everything and everyone you see
came forth and proceeded from God
Everything and everyone
are a part of his very being and existence
WE ARE HIS CHILDREN
WHO ARE IN THE ON-GOING PROCESS
OF BECOMING SONS AND DAUGHTERS
Sin was not an unexpected shock
that surprised even our Creator
It was and is however, an important aspect
required in the process of each of us
being made into his very image
Although it temporarily separated us from our Father
he had prepared for it and for its elimination
through the Lamb prepared before the
foundations of the world
and we, being a part of his very being
would be saved by the death of Jesus
Do you really believe
that Jesus paid for ALL sin
for ALL time with his ONE offering?
And that he did indeed reconcile
all the children who were separated by sin
back unto the Father with the shedding
of his precious blood?
IS "PERFECT LOVE" CONDITIONAL?
dependent on you doing something
to earn or deserve this "perfect love"?
Is the Father of "Perfect Love"
the Father of imperfect "Conditional Love"
dependent on you doing something
to earn or deserve it?
No my friends
Just as your children do not have to ask
for your love/forgiveness every day
as long as they shall live
Neither do the Children of God
have to ask him for his love/forgiveness
every day as long as they shall live
Just as we parents out of our love for them
want our children to see and understand their mistakes
Our Father wants us to acknowledge
our mistakes by confessing them to him
which shows him that we know our failings
and therefore can learn from them to avoid
continually repeating the same errors
AFTER THE DEATH OF JESUS
WE NO LONGER HAVE TO ASK HIM FOR FORGIVENESS
WE HAVE BEEN FORGIVEN
Satan does not want you to know this
which results in you still carrying your sins
and yet claiming the Blood of Jesus
Yes, it is Satan himself who wants you
to keep asking for forgiveness
because if you continue to ask for forgiveness;
you are denying the Correct Faith
that he already took ALL sins for ALL time
and paid the price (judgment)
for ALL sins for ALL time
This incorrect faith allows Satan to argue
that you do not have the Correct Faith
and that you have not been reborn of the "Water"
there fore you are still carrying your sins
and therefore you indeed belong to him!!
Satan wants you to keep believing
that you have to pray daily for sins;
as a never-ending requirement to be saved
Read my writing with the pictures within:
Most Christians will die in their sins
For Satan has hidden the "WATER" aspect of salvation
from almost all the professing Christians of the world
(this is NOT about our Baptisms)
William Wilbur
http://www.myspace.com/water_spirit_blood
http://livinginblackandwhite.ning.com/profile/WilliamWilbur
Phil 2:13
it is God (not man)
which works in you BOTH TO WILL (God causes us ‘to will’)
and TO DO (God causes us ‘to do’)
of His good pleasure" to bring about His intentions
After years of following Jesus daily,
the apostles were not as yet converted
In the evening of the last Passover
Jesus tells Peter:
Luke 22:31-32
"And the Lord said, Simon, Simon,
behold Satan has desired to have you,
that he may sift you as wheat;
But I have prayed for you,
that your faith fall not:
and when you are converted,
strengthen your brethren"
Yes indeed, "when you are converted"
And just when might that be?
Up until the very last day with their Lord,
the apostles all believed that they
possessed the power of free will,
which could enable them to choose
their own destiny, and that they could
and would have the strength of self determinism
and free will to maintain that course
But Jesus told His disciples
that they would all forsake Him
In other words,
Jesus was foretelling of EVENTS that would cause
(even ‘force,’ if you will) them to change their wills,
against their previously stated wills
They of course, all denied
that Jesus knew what He was talking about
Mark 14:27 & Zech 13:7
"And Jesus said unto them,
all ye shall be offended because of Me this night;
for it is written, I shall smite the shepherd,
and the sheep shall be scattered"
The disciples all said
that they would remain loyal
but Jesus said that they would all
be offended because of Him
Was there a reason
for God causing the disciples
to will loyalty to Jesus and then
in the same night to will to deny Jesus?
Does God do anything in vain without a reason?
This was all part of their conversion process!!
God totally humiliated them by proving to them
that their own will was not free
to do what they wanted, but that
Phil. 2:13
"it is God (not man) which works in you
BOTH TO WILL (God causes us ‘to will’)
and TO DO (God causes us ‘to do’)
of His good pleasure"
to bring about His intentions
In just one night God smashed
the presumed free will of all the disciples
and they lost confidence in their flesh after that night
There are two things that constantly
oppose and change the will of man,
so that it cannot be said that the will
is free to will its own destiny
for even a day or an hour
What are these two factors
over which man has absolutely
no control whatsoever?
CIRCUMSTANCES
and
GOD’S WILL
CIRCUMSTANCES:
God changes the minds and wills of mankind
around the world, a billion times a minute,
through circumstances that "you know not"
which are actually the cause of your choices
and your changed choices
We are often if not most of the time
completely unaware of what actually
caused us to do or say or think as we do
How did all the disciples will
to remain loyal to Jesus no matter what,
at one moment in time, and in the next moment
they all changed their will to forsake Him?
What changed their wills?
Circumstances!!
One moment they were at ease and safe
in the upper room, and at a later moment
they were in the garden surrounded by Roman Soldiers!
Fear was the circumstance
that caused their (un-free) wills to change
So it was the presence of certain circumstances
that caused the disciples to will as they did
But what caused the circumstances
to be as they were to ensure
that they would will appropriately
to fulfill Christ’s prophecy concerning
their denying and forsaking Him?
GOD’S WILL:
Who was in charge of all these circumstances,
which caused the disciples to change their wills?
Why God, of course
They did not want to change their wills
They did not desire to deny their Lord and Saviour
They did not wish to make liars of themselves
They did not want to be shown to be cowards
Well then, why did they change their wills
if they did not wish to change their wills?
Were they free to not change their wills?
No, they were not free.
The fear inside of them caused and made
(and yes, FORCED, if you will) them to change their will
And Jesus Himself told them
that they would change their wills,
so how pray tell could it have been otherwise?
God knew exactly what was needed
to make all of the disciples change their wills
God said that they would change their wills
and forsake Jesus,and God was not about
to be made a liar
Peter did not even know what it was that caused him
to deny Christ until the "cock crew"
In our above example with the disciples,
not only did they change their emphatically
stated will, but, they did so against their stated will
Even when they willed to change their will,
they did so against their original desired will
Peter did not want to deny Christ
but he was made to deny Christ
by the mere fact that the alternative (fear)
was greater than his desire to remain loyal
And so, how was he "free" to remain loyal?
He wasn’t
Peter was no more "free" to not deny Jesus
any more than he was "free"
to be loyal in his original choice
Both choices were caused,
and once something is caused to happen,
it could never had been otherwise
Once the cause is set in motion,
the effect must follow
God brought about circumstances that
caused, made, forced, Peter to do
what he didn’t want to do
How then, can such a forced will, be free?
Peter didn't will to deny Jesus,
but he was clearly caused to do so
This is an example of how God causes men
to change their will even when it is against
their initial will to do so
How much easier and unrecognizable
are the millions of choices we make
in which we very willingly make the decisions we do,
because they often appear to be pleasant, profitable,
and desirable choices?
This example
of the disciples forsaking Jesus is so important!!
Can we believe that Jesus
could have told His disciples the following:
"And Jesus said unto them,
All ye shall be offended because of me this night,
but then again,
maybe not all of you will be offended,
seeing that all of you have a free will
Or maybe this to Peter:
"And Jesus said unto him (Peter)
Verily I say unto you, that this day, even in this night,
before the cock crow twice, thou shall deny me thrice,
but then again,
maybe you won’t deny Me three times,
seeing that you have a free will
that does not need to deny me even once
It doesn’t depend on what I say,
or circumstances brought about by my Father,
or what God declares,
but rather on your own "free will"
Sounds a little silly
when we look at it logically doesn’t it?
Yet this is the contention
of those who believe in "free will"
Maybe Peter will,
but then again maybe Peter won’t,
NOT EVEN GOD KNOWS FOR SURE
Almost sounds like blasphemy, doesn’t it?
It is blasphemy to argue that when God
prophesies, states, and intends
that someone do a particular thing,
that the person is still at liberty
because of his supposed free will,
to not do what God has said
Yet this is what the theory of "free will" demands
The fact that God has a foreknowledge of everything
proves that free will is an impossibility,
True "free will" could alter the future
and therefore God could not
have an absolute and true knowledge of the future
Therefore, it is a grave error to state
that man has a free will that is not
"made" or "caused" to do as it does,
and yet state that God knows in advance
the only possible choice that a person must make
How can one believe
that if God states that a person will make choice A,
that he is nonetheless still at liberty to make choice B?
Let me restate that:
Can God say that you WILL make choice A,
but you can make choice B?
Can God say that such and such, WILL happen
but that it doesn’t need to happen?
The disciples WILL forsake and deny Christ,
but they have a free choice NOT to forsake and deny Him?
God knows in advance
that something WILL be a certain way,
and yet it doesn’t have to be that way?
Peter thought he possessed free will:
Matt 26:33
"Peter answered and said unto Him,
Though all men shall be offended because of you,
YET WILL I NEVER BE OFFENDED"
Jesus responded that Peter
had no freedom of the will
to stick by such a statement
"Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee,
That this night, before the cock crow,
YOU SHALL DENY ME thrice" (Ver 34)
Peter again responds
from the throne of his presumed free will
and CORRECTS Jesus to His face:
"Peter said unto Him,
Though I should DIE WITH THEE,
YET WILL I NOT DENY THEE
Likewise also said ALL THE DISCIPLES"
(Ver 35)
And the rest is history
When Peter
was confronted the third time we read this:
Matt 26:74 & 75
"Then began he to curse and to swear,
saying, I KNOW NOT THE MAN
And immediately the cock crew
and he went out, and wept bitterly"
Free will? Where? Give it up!!
What about all of the other disciples
who also thought they possessed this power
of free will and self-determinism?
Matt 26:56
"But all this was done,
that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled
Then ALL THE DISCIPLES FORSOOK HIM, AND FLED"
Free will? FREE will? FREE WILL?
Where?
If you still believe man has a will that is "free"
from external and internal causes, beyond his control,
then your arguments are not with me, but with God’s Word
Now for maybe the most profound
and all-encompassing statements in all Scripture:
Eph 1:11
"In Whom (GOD) also we have obtained
(‘obtained’ not ‘earned’) an inheritance,
being PREDESTINATED
(our ‘destiny’ was ‘pre’ arranged by God, not us)
according to the PURPOSE OF HIM
(not the free will, OF US!)
Who WORKS ALL THINGS (EVERY thing)
AFTER THE COUNSEL OF HIS OWN WILL
(not OUR OWN WILL)
How to have every prayer
that you will ever pray-
answered....Guaranteed!!
First you must know and believe:
Elohim is a Sovereign God,
knowing ALL THINGS
before you even ask and
Eph 1:11
Who works ALL THINGS
after the council of HIS OWN WILL
Jesus himself, revealed an amazing truth
during his most serious moment in prayer
in the garden of Gethsemane after
the last supper with his disciples
Mat 26:36
Then cometh Jesus with them
unto a place called Gethsemane,
and saith unto the disciples,
Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder
Mat 26:37
And he took with him Peter
and the two sons of Zebedee,
and began to be sorrowful and very heavy
Mat 26:38
Then saith he unto them,
My soul is EXCEEDINGLY SORROWFUL,
even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me
Mat 26:39
And he went a little farther,
and FELL ON HIS FACE, and prayed, saying,
O my Father, if it be possible, LET THIS CUP PASS
from me: nevertheless not as I will, BUT AS THOU WILT
Was Jesus sincerely, with all his heart, requesting that
IF AT ALL POSSIBLE "let this cup pass?"
YES, He surely was!!
Did God answer the prayer of Jesus to "let this cup pass?"
NO, He didn’t!!
Yet, did not Jesus get His prayer answered?
YES, He surely did!!
How so?
Because Jesus’ greater desire
was that his Father’s will be done,
rather than "let this cup pass"
Jesus has just shown us
not only the answer to ALL answered prayer
but also the answer to ALL unanswered prayer!!
If you always pray, "not as I will, but as THOU will,"
all of your prayers will be answered too!!
Whether you always get what you desire
or you do not get what you desire,
if your greatest desire of all desires
is for "THY WILL be done,"
then you can rest assured that from this day forward,
all of your prayers will always be answered!!
Elohim's WILL which is his intention for the way
he has already preordained everything to go,
will always be done!!
And believe me,
No prayer has ever changed
what God has planned or purposed to happen
exactly as he preordained and WILLED for it to happen
If it is God’s intention
for you to be blessed by some particular favor,
and God INSPIRES you to pray for that favor
then it will surely be given to you
If on the other hand,
if it was not God’s intention
for you to be blessed by some particular favor,
then no amount of praying
will cause God to grant it to you
Either way, God’s will must and will be done,
and if that is your GREATEST DESIRE in your prayers
then whether you receive some particular favor
or you don’t receive it, nevertheless,
your prayer will be answered!!
1John 5:14
And this is the confidence that we have in him,
that, if we ask any thing
ACCORDING TO HIS WILL,
he heareth us
Rom 8:26
Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities (weaknesses):
for we know not what we should pray for as we ought:
but the Spirit itself maketh intercession (prayer) for us
with groanings which cannot be uttered
So what should you pray for?
Anything you desire that aligns with God's WILL
If God has blessed you with your physical needs
of food, clothing, shelter, and transportation-
then pray for the qualities of love, mercy, forgiveness,
kindness, gentleness, meekness, faith, courage,
knowledge, understanding, wisdom,
patience, self-control, and thankfulness!!
God is our Father and Jesus is our Saviour
God wants to hear from you!!
Talk to him!!
About anything and everything important enough
for you to think about or be concerned about
And always be thankful!!
At night when you lay down to sleep, spend a few minutes,
and thank God not only for your loved ones;
but even for your pillow, your bed,
the shelter over your head,
your refrigerator, your indoor plumbing,
the water you have to drink
and above all these, the Father who loved you
so far beyond your understanding,
that he sacrificed his only Son
so that you may live and become
his very image and Son/Daughter
if he does not understand-
his need for Salvation
YOU...Have a Terminal Illness
One of the hardest things
the Lord has to get us to realize-
IS HOW SICK WE REALLY ARE
Why?
Because we dont see ourselves as sick
We don't see ourselves as that bad
Infact, we like to think
that we are pretty good people;
who don't really go out of our way to harm others
or do those things that we consider that bad
And because of this type of carnal thinking
we don't really see the need
for what we are really in need of
CHRIST AND SALVATION!!
Imagine
If I was a doctor and I called you in
and said that I have some very bad news for you
Then I told you
that you have HIV
After the initial shock...
I then spent the next 15 minutes telling you
about all the things you may be going through
in the weeks to follow
The severity of this matter
would begin to be very obvious
but then,
I look up at you and smile and say:
BUT WE NOW HAVE A CURE!!!!
Do you SEE, how once you understand
the serious situation you are really in
and THEN find out that
THERE IS A CURE!!!
Then and only then
can you LOVE and APPRECIATE the CURE
WE CAN NEVER LOVE
AND APPRECIATE OUR SAVIOR
IF WE DONT SEE AND UNDERSTAND
THAT WE HAVE A TERMINAL ILLNESS
AND WE ARE DEAD WITHOUT HIM
Once we realize the truth of our situation
Nothing else could ever be
more important than the CURE
William Wilbur
myspace.com/water_spirit_blood
william-wilbur@blogspot.com/
http://livinginblackandwhite.ning.com/profile/WilliamWilbur
Phil 2:13
it is God (not man)
which works in you BOTH TO WILL (God causes us ‘to will’)
and TO DO (God causes us ‘to do’)
of His good pleasure" to bring about His intentions
After years of following Jesus daily,
the apostles were not as yet converted
In the evening of the last Passover
Jesus tells Peter:
Luke 22:31-32
"And the Lord said, Simon, Simon,
behold Satan has desired to have you,
that he may sift you as wheat;
But I have prayed for you,
that your faith fall not:
and when you are converted,
strengthen your brethren"
Yes indeed, "when you are converted"
And just when might that be?
Up until the very last day with their Lord,
the apostles all believed that they
possessed the power of free will,
which could enable them to choose
their own destiny, and that they could
and would have the strength of self determinism
and free will to maintain that course
But Jesus told His disciples
that they would all forsake Him
In other words,
Jesus was foretelling of EVENTS that would cause
(even ‘force,’ if you will) them to change their wills,
against their previously stated wills
They of course, all denied
that Jesus knew what He was talking about
Mark 14:27 & Zech 13:7
"And Jesus said unto them,
all ye shall be offended because of Me this night;
for it is written, I shall smite the shepherd,
and the sheep shall be scattered"
The disciples all said
that they would remain loyal
but Jesus said that they would all
be offended because of Him
Was there a reason
for God causing the disciples
to will loyalty to Jesus and then
in the same night to will to deny Jesus?
Does God do anything in vain without a reason?
This was all part of their conversion process
God totally humiliated them by proving to them
that their own will was not free
to do what they wanted, but that
Phil. 2:13
"it is God (not man) which works in you
BOTH TO WILL (God causes us ‘to will’)
and TO DO (God causes us ‘to do’)
of His good pleasure"
to bring about His intentions
In just one night God smashed
the presumed free will of all the disciples
and they lost confidence in their flesh after that night
There are two things that constantly
oppose and change the will of man,
so that it cannot be said that the will
is free to will its own destiny
for even a day or an hour
What are these two factors
over which man has absolutely
no control whatsoever?
CIRCUMSTANCES
and
GOD’S WILL
CIRCUMSTANCES:
God changes the minds and wills of mankind
around the world, a billion times a minute,
through circumstances that "you know not"
which are actually the cause of your choices
and your changed choices
We are often if not most of the time
completely unaware of what actually
caused us to do or say or think as we do
How did all the disciples will
to remain loyal to Jesus no matter what,
at one moment in time, and in the next moment
they all changed their will to forsake Him?
What changed their wills?
Circumstances!!
One moment they were at ease and safe
in the upper room, and at a later moment
they were in the garden surrounded by Roman Soldiers!
Fear was the circumstance
that caused their (un-free) wills to change
So it was the presence of certain circumstances
that caused the disciples to will as they did
But what caused the circumstances
to be as they were to ensure
that they would will appropriately
to fulfill Christ’s prophecy concerning
their denying and forsaking Him?
GOD’S WILL:
Who was in charge of all these circumstances,
which caused the disciples to change their wills?
Why God, of course
They did not want to change their wills
They did not desire to deny their Lord and Saviour
They did not wish to make liars of themselves
They did not want to be shown to be cowards
Well then, why did they change their wills
if they did not wish to change their wills?
Were they free to not change their wills?
No, they were not free
The fear inside of them caused and made
(and yes, FORCED, if you will) them to change their will
And Jesus Himself told them
that they would change their wills,
so how pray tell could it have been otherwise?
God knew exactly what was needed
to make all of the disciples change their wills
God said that they would change their wills
and forsake Jesus,and God was not about
to be made a liar
Peter did not even know what it was that caused him
to deny Christ until the "cock crew"
In our above example with the disciples,
not only did they change their emphatically
stated will, but, they did so against their stated will
Even when they willed to change their will,
they did so against their original desired will
Peter did not want to deny Christ
But he was made to deny Christ
by the mere fact that the alternative (fear)
was greater than his desire to remain loyal
And so, how was he "free" to remain loyal?
He wasn’t
Peter was no more "free" to not deny Jesus
any more than he was "free"
to be loyal in his original choice
Both choices were caused,
and once something is caused to happen,
it could never had been otherwise
Once the cause is set in motion, the effect must follow
God brought about circumstances that
caused, made, forced, Peter to do
what he didn’t want to do
How then, can such a forced will, be free?
Peter didn't will to deny Jesus,
but he was clearly caused to do so
This is an example of how God causes men
to change their will even when it is against
their initial will to do so
How much easier and unrecognizable
are the millions of choices we make
in which we very willingly make the decisions we do,
because they often appear to be pleasant, profitable,
and desirable choices?
This example of the disciples forsaking Jesus is so important!!
Can we believe that Jesus
could have told His disciples the following:
"And Jesus said unto them,
All ye shall be offended because of me this night,
but then again,
maybe not all of you will be offended,
seeing that all of you have a free will
Or maybe this to Peter:
"And Jesus said unto him (Peter)
Verily I say unto you, that this day, even in this night,
before the cock crow twice, thou shall deny me thrice,
but then again,
maybe you won’t deny Me three times,
seeing that you have a free will
that does not need to deny me even once
It doesn’t depend on what I say,
or circumstances brought about by my Father,
or what God declares,
but rather on your own "free will"
Sounds a little silly
when we look at it logically doesn’t it?
Yet this is the contention
of those who believe in "free will"
Maybe Peter will,
but then again maybe Peter won’t,
NOT EVEN GOD KNOWS FOR SURE
Almost sounds like blasphemy, doesn’t it?
It is blasphemy to argue that when God
prophesies, states, and intends
that someone do a particular thing,
that the person is still at liberty
because of his supposed free will,
to not do what God has said
Yet this is what the theory of "free will" demands
The fact that God has a foreknowledge of everything
proves that free will is an impossibility,
True "free will" could alter the future and therefore
God could not have an absolute and true
knowledge of the future
Therefore, it is a grave error to state
that man has a free will that is not
"made" or "caused" to do as it does,
and yet state that God knows in advance
the only possible choice that a person must make
How can one believe
that if God states that a person will make choice A,
that he is nonetheless still at liberty to make choice B?
Let me restate that:
Can God say that you WILL make choice A,
but you can make choice B?
Can God say that such and such, WILL happen
but that it doesn’t need to happen?
The disciples WILL forsake and deny Christ,
but they have a free choice NOT to forsake and deny Him?
God knows in advance that something WILL be a certain way,
and yet it doesn’t have to be that way?
Peter thought he possessed free will:
Matt 26:33
"Peter answered and said unto Him,
Though all men shall be offended because of you,
YET WILL I NEVER BE OFFENDED"
Jesus responded that Peter had no freedom of the will
to stick by such a statement
"Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee,
That this night, before the cock crow,
YOU SHALL DENY ME thrice" (Ver 34)
Peter again responds
from the throne of his presumed free will
and CORRECTS Jesus to His face:
"Peter said unto Him,
Though I should DIE WITH THEE,
YET WILL I NOT DENY THEE
Likewise also said ALL THE DISCIPLES"
(Ver 35)
And the rest is history
When Peter
was confronted the third time we read this:
Matt 26:74 & 75
"Then began he to curse and to swear,
saying, I KNOW NOT THE MAN
And immediately the cock crew
and he went out, and wept bitterly"
Free will? Where? Give it up!!
What about all of the other disciples
who also thought they possessed this power
of free will and self-determinism?
Matt 26:56
"But all this was done,
that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled
Then ALL THE DISCIPLES FORSOOK HIM, AND FLED"
Free will? FREE will? FREE WILL?
Where?
If you still believe man has a will that is "free"
from external and internal causes, beyond his control,
then your arguments are not with me, but with God’s Word
Now for maybe the most profound
and all-encompassing statements in all Scripture:
Eph 1:11
"In Whom (GOD) also we have obtained
(‘obtained’ not ‘earned’) an inheritance,
being PREDESTINATED
(our ‘destiny’ was ‘pre’ arranged by God, not us)
according to the PURPOSE OF HIM
(not the free will, OF US!)
Who WORKS ALL THINGS (EVERY thing)
AFTER THE COUNSEL OF HIS OWN WILL
(not OUR OWN WILL)
It is such a blessing to me
to meet those that really
believe the Bible
Do you really, I mean REALLY!!
BELIEVE the BIBLE?
Do you really, I mean REALLY!!
BELIEVE the first half of 1Cor 15:22
"FOR AS IN ADAM...ALL...DIE?" (ALL OR MANY?)
Do you really, I mean REALLY!!
BELIEVE the last half,
"EVEN SO IN CHRIST
SHALL ...ALL... BE MADE ALIVE?" (ALL OR MANY?)
Do you really, I mean REALLY!!
BELIEVE the BIBLE?
Rom 5:19
For by one man's disobedience
MANY WERE MADE SINNERS
so by the obedience of one
SHALL MANY BE MADE RIGHTEOUS
Do you really, I mean REALLY!!
BELIEVE the BIBLE?
2Peter 3:9
The Lord is...not willing that ANY should perish
1Tim 2:4
Who will have ALL men to be SAVED
and to come unto the knowledge of the truth
1Tim 4:10
because we trust in the living GOD,
who is the SAVIOUR of ALL men,
specially (but not only) of those that believe
Do you really, I mean REALLY!!
BELIEVE the BIBLE?
Rom 11:32
For God hath concluded them... ALL ... in unbelief,
that he might have mercy upon ALL
Do you really, I mean REALLY!!
BELIEVE the BIBLE?
Luke 3:6
And ALL flesh shall see the salvation of God
Do you believe that Jesus
only "wants or wishes" to save the world?
Do you believe "our Savior, God,
Who wants and wishes for
all mankind be saved
and come into a knowledge of the truth"
is a proper translation of 1Tim 2:4?
Do you believe that
"Who WILLS that ALL MANKIND BE SAVED"
is also the proper translation?
Do you believe Isa 46:11?
"I have spoken it
(as in He has spoken it in 1Tim 2:4 for example)
I WILL ALSO BRING IT TO PASS:
I have purposed it,
I WILL ALSO DO IT"
And here is a double witness
for the stubborn hearts:
"I AM GOD, and there is none like me
Declaring the end from the beginning,
and from ancient times
the things that are not yet done,
saying, My COUNSEL SHALL STAND,
and I WILL DO ALL MY PLEASURE"(Isa 46:9-10)
You CANNOT believe both;
that God "wills" to save all mankind
and that He will perform all His "pleasure"
and bring about all that He has "spoken,"
and then believe
that He will NOT save all mankind
and will NOT accomplish all His will
and will NOT do all His pleasure
and His counsel will NOT stand
John 12:32
And I, if I be lifted up from the earth,
will draw ALL men unto me
1John 4:14
And we have seen and do testify
that the Father sent the Son
to be SAVIOUR of the WORLD
1John 2:2
And he (Jesus)
is the propitiation (atoning sacrifice)
for our sins: and not for ours only,
but for the sins of the whole WORLD
2Cor 5:19
To wit, that GOD was in CHRIST,
reconciling the WORLD unto himself,
not imputing their trespasses unto them;
and hath committed unto us
the word of reconciliation
John 1:29
Behold the Lamb of God,
which taketh away the sin of the WORLD
God sent Jesus...
to be SAVIOUR of the entire WORLD
Can Jesus be SAVIOUR of the entire WORLD
and NOT SAVE the entire WORLD ?
Will Jesus fail the Father
and not save the entire world?
Heb 9:27
And as it is appointed
unto men once to die,
but after this the judgment
Isaiah 26:9
for when thy judgments
are in the earth
the inhabitants of the world
will learn righteousness
1Cor 3:15
If any man's work shall be burned
he shall suffer loss but he himself
shall be saved yet so as by FIRE
ALL things work together for good
and Jesus will save the entire world
The Prize and "High Calling" of God
is to be in the first resurrection
and be able to stand before him-
and not to go through
Purification by Fire
Remember the Bible teaches us
1Co 12:3
and that no man can say
that Jesus is the Lord,
but by the Holy Ghost
and then goes on to say
Rom 14:11
For it is written,
As I live, saith the Lord,
every knee shall bow to me,
and every tongue shall confess to God
Isa 45:23
I have sworn by myself,
the word is gone out of my mouth
in righteousness,
and shall not return,
That unto me every knee shall bow,
every tongue shall swear
Thus it shall be so;
even with the "non-believers"
Rom 10:13
For whosoever
shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved
AND BELIEVE ME
those who have "their part" in the Lake of Fire
will be calling upon the Name of the Lord
and they will bow before him
and they will confess his name
and they will learn righteousness