I'm glad to see that your faith amazes others who attribute your love to God.
I dont think the Spirit of God Who is Love amazes others, in fact they call His way to be like Him and perfect as He is perfect as blaspheme to have the God Who is Love as your own mind, Spirit.
Just ask if they are perfect even as your Father in haven is perfect and see.
Ask them if the same signs follow you sense you believe?
Ask them if it is impossible for them to be in sin sense they are born of God. 1 John 3:9.
Ask them if they walk as He walks in His same light.
Ak them if they are one in the father with He in you and you inHim as one as He was in Jesus and Jesus was in Him were one? John 17.
Ask them if they picked up that cross and continued where Jesus left off as he commands of us?
Take care not to blame unbelievers for doubting your deeds if those deeds look to be less than divine to them. They could be right, after all.
It isn't hard to see if the divinity of Christ, Gods anointing, is at work in the other for if they are Gods anointed they will do and act exactly as Jesus did. Not only that you will be treated just as Jesus was by the same mentality of.
Yes, the church as I've said is badly in need of reform. I submit that purging sin from the church should be a high priority in that reformation.
Bur because our churches has turned Jesus Christ into an enterprise, they are going to tell people what they want to hear instead of teaching that what Jesus taught because off they did their revenue from those pews would dissipate, for people would be out on the highways and by ways doing as Jesus did.
I've recently realized that I should accept Jesus as my Lord and Savior. I am now a follower of Christ.
Im not saying this to be canny, but Ive heard so many say the same then tell me they are sinners. You cant follow the ways of Jesus Christ and be a sinner, that is impossible for in Christ there is no sin, it is those outside of Christ who are the sinners. Jesus is Lord only if one obeyed his Lord, master.
If I shouldn't seek what another says about God, then I shouldn't seek what you just said about God which means I should seek what another says about God! In other words, it's logically impossible for me to take your advice here.
Dont trust me, that is a futile mistake, trust what Jesus said you should be and would be if you received from God that what he came to reveal to man that we may receive the same from God.
But Paul fought with Peter--are Paul and Peter then not God's people?
They are not if they are not like Him as Jesus was like Him.
That's correct, and we can and should have the sinlessness from God that Jesus had from God. Jesus lived a sinless life to prove we can live sinless lives too.
AMEN. 1 John 3:9.
If we so live, then doing so is the "ultimate apologetic." Actions trump words every time, and unbelievers know that.
Agreed, the hardest thing for religious minds to do is give up that right to themselves and what they think, speculation from ignorance and to receive from God the very same as Jesus received from Him in Matt 3:16. A renewing of the mind to actually have God as your own mind.
it is very difficult for the flesh mentality, carnal mind, to accept the things of Gods anointing, which is Christ in you that you may walk as He walks in His same light as Jesus did with the same signs following. Not very many are of Christ, only say they are from limited knowledge of Who Christ is.
The only way one can know Gods truths is to be like Him, He in you and you in Him as one and receive the same as Jesus did from God Himself in Matt 3:16. Cant know God any other way.