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Bismarck
Tadpole
Joined: 01 Apr 2007
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| Dust wrote: | ...
Proverbs 3:5
Trust in YHWH with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding
This, in context with other passages, does not say 'do not apply your own understanding', but rather trust in the providence of the Lord over your own power, or lack of power to understand. Accept God and His word as being truthful, trustworthy, and authoritive, knowing that your own understanding, and/or the understanding of others (organizations even) does not warrent this same sort of trust.
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I saw a bumper sticker the other day that read, "Don't Believe Everything You Think". 'Tis good advice. At the same time, what other ordinary mortal men say comes from what they think... and if they shouldn't even believe it, neither should you. I feel that if you open your heart/mind to YHWH-Elohim, He will gradually lead you towards Truth. |
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theseldomscene
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Joined: 17 Mar 2005
Posts: 7817
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| Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 6:15 pm Post subject: |
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| biz wrote: | | I feel that if you open your heart/mind to YHWH-Elohim, He will gradually lead you towards Truth |
that sounds lovely friend  ...how does one open his heart to this alphabet?... |
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Silver Surfer
Emperor of the World
Joined: 12 Jul 2003
Posts: 3255
Location: Hayden, Idaho, USA
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| TheWord wrote: | The indwelling Spirit is always spoken of as a gift that is given after belief. Below is a selection of Scriptures which suggest such a sequence.
John 7:39 But this he spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in him would receive; |
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John 14:15-17 “If you love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he will give you another helper, that he may abide with you forever—the Spirit of truth.” |
Notice the sequence....keep the commandments FIRST, then the Holy Spirit comes to do His thing. | Quote: |
John 14:21 “And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”
John 14:23 “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word; and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.”
Acts 2:38 “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”
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Acts 5:32 “And we are his witnesses to these things, and so also is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey him." |
Obedience comes FIRST, then the Holy Spirit does His thing.
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Gal 3:2 Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? |
Compare this to John 14:15 above.....
| Quote: | Gal 4:6 And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!”
Eph 1:13 In him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise. |
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Matthew 5:11 Blessed are ye, when [men] shall revile you, and persecute [you], and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. |
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