I am a man in desperate need of grace, and have been blessed to know the all -
sufficient Grace of God in Christ Jesus my Savior.
Not exact matches
But until we come to the end
of ourselves then we are going to do and say what we want, even as it was with me: It's one thing to be a heathen, even as I was, but a whole other ball game to set our hearts on
God and His truth; yet, that can only come when we are sick and tired
of being sick and tired
of our own lives and we just give up, we know then who has given up by the one they advocate for, even has given place to: Paul said; with my heart I want to do what is right, but my flesh does what I hate: This is when
God's
grace is
sufficient, because our hearts are right with
God, but our flesh is not: There is a war going on within these temples, therefore; even as our flesh wins out to do what we hate, our hearts are set on
God and His ways which has been established in the Word
of Truth, which then causes us to stand and speak forth what we believe, even as this causes a rending to happen within us, for Christ to be formed in us this needs to be, as we come up in His glories even for a better resurrection for them who believe: The heart wars against our flesh, even as Christ wars against the man
of sin within: For out
of the abundance
of our hearts our mouth doth speak, therefore; if we speak not the Wholesome Words
of our Lord, Then our hearts are still wicked: But to advocate for wickedness instead
of Christ, one has become a teacher
of lawlessness, he then advocates for the man
of sin: Many who have come out
of religion has done this, as they went from one mountain top «from the extreme right»
of self exaltation (Religion) to the other mountain top «to the extreme left»
of the (Heathen) and missed the valley in - between that is takes to humble us: One extreme to the other, and missed Jesus: Jesus is taking ones through the valley's to strip us down
of all who we are before exalting us to be just as He, even as the Christ in us overcomes that man
of sin (Adam) through theses valleys
of contrast that cause a rending to happen within; and when we are rent in two, we stand on His word
of truth, so we too can become one with Him, even as Jesus is with our Father: This is how Christ is formed in us: Thank - you Father; in Jesus Name Alexandria
The worst harm done by gratuitous, judgmental proclamations that «AIDS is
God's damning curse upon homosexuals» is precisely in the tremendous temptation on the part
of the AIDS sufferer to believe it, thus raising one more obstacle to faith in
God's all -
sufficient grace.
Truly
Gods Grace is
sufficient 2 Cor 12:9 and it is the power
of salvation to everyone who believes Rom 1:16 - 17, Acts 20:24.
Believe me our folks in our church have gone through lots
of issues and the comments or praises
of God are more like, «His
grace is
sufficient to get us through it.
At that time I said rather just what I had always tried to say, namely, that beside
God we can have no other
gods, that the Holy Spirit
of the Scriptures is enough to guide the church in all truth, and that the
grace of Jesus Christ is all -
sufficient for the forgiveness
of our sins and the ordering
of our lives.
Modern man has taken his cue from the Renaissance and feels that man is both good and self -
sufficient, thus rejecting the Reformation idea that man is finite, corrupt, and in need
of God's
grace.
You really need to look back and take a long hard look at if you were really «all in» as a follower
of Christ... thats all a Christian really is, just to believe in what he did for you and that his sacrifice and
grace was
sufficient not to be condemned by
God.
Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self -
sufficient to feel the necessity
of redeeming and preserving
grace, too proud to pray to the
God that made us!
If what you interpret Paul as saying is that before creating all the myriad galaxies and star systems
God decided that They would put some humans on the third planet from an insignificant star on a little arm
of a middling galaxy and that the first hominids chosen role would be to perform pretty much to spec and do something silly and rebellious (arguably without
sufficient information as to consequences for themselves and their off spring, oh, and for serpents) and cause affront to the tripartite godhead warranting separation
of Gods grace from all their offspring; then we are left with people being chosen from way back before the Big Bang to do some terrible things like killing babies or betraying Jesus who was chosen on the same non date (time didn't exist before creation) to die in a fairly nasty fashion and thereby appease the righteous wrath
of himself and his fellow Trinitarians by paying a penalty as a substitute for all future sins (
of believers?)
We do not need the
grace of God to withstand crises — human nature and pride are
sufficient for us to face the stress and strain magnificently.
Air don't make a sound or noise but me know it's there... when a brave man takes a stand the spins
of others are stiffened... intoxicated with unbroken success we have to come to self
sufficient to feel the necessity
of redeeming a preserving
grace, too proud to pray to the
god that made us.
For anyone facing such difficulty, strength in Christ and the
grace of God is
sufficient.