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Desire to be a vessel of honor unto the Lord Jesus Christ?
Join For His Glory for a discussion on how
https://christianforums.net/threads/a-vessel-of-honor.110278/
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Taking the time to pray? Christ is the answer in times of need
https://christianforums.net/threads/psalm-70-1-save-me-o-god-lord-help-me-now.108509/
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Admonishing their neighbour is through showing the right way, ( labouring among them.) not saying the right way. ( people hidden on forums.)
1 Thessalonians 5:12 And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;
How are you kind on a forum, how do you forbear on a forum, how do you think you can speak truth, when you can show none of it. ( love/charity/kindness in deed and truth, not in word or tongue.)You lack the spiritual fruit of forbearance:
24And a servant of the Lord must not be quarrelsome, but must be kind to everyone, able to teach, and forbearing. 2 Timothy 2:24
You could probably use a little kindness, too.
1 Corinthians 13:4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
1 John 3:18 My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
19 And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.
I am using kindness for you, and all you return is false accusation, and you are corrected with every word you can return to me.
Psalm 141:5
Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.
Proverbs 27:6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
Proverbs 27:5 Open rebuke is better than secret love.
But only a wise man will increase in learning. ( and stop teaching others when we are predicted by God of many false teachers rising to DECEIVE MANY.
Proverbs 9:8 Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
Proverbs 9:9 Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
Alfred, scripture for your ears:
2 Timothy 4:1 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.
3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
5 But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
Reprobate is self assurance.
Men lovers of their own selves.
Romans 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
That proves you are not what you say you are by YOUR OWN MOUTH/OWN COMMENDING.
Reprobate debate and are boasting, high minded people now.
Proverbs 27:1 Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
2 Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.
Romans 11:20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
21 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
2 Corinthians 10:18 For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.
Well, for starters, by not talking down to people.
By patiently enduring where others are, spiritually.
No, this is what 'admonish' means in Romans 15:14:
to instruct
νουθετεῖν (nouthetein)
Verb - Present Infinitive Active
Strong's 3560: To admonish, warn, counsel, exhort. From the same as nouthesia; to put in mind, i.e. to caution or reprove gently.
Romans 15:14 - Paul the Minister to the Gentiles
I myself am convinced, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, brimming with knowledge, and able to instruct one another.
biblehub.com
"Reprobate" is "worthless".
I pray none of us here online will be reprobate on the last day.
I know you dont want to know what Peter says but here it is:
1 Peter 4:17-19 (New International Version)
17For it is time for judgment to begin with the family of God; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who do not obey the gospel of God? 18And,
"If it is hard for the righteous to be saved,
what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?"
Jesus is the Judge.
Arrogance is not of Christ.
Amen to that.
Please come soon dear Jesus !
Yep.
Fair and just.
Not a respector of men.
No, it isn't.
Neither is sin or accommodation for sin.
Not at all.
If the man who has turned from sin says he is a Christian, shouldn't we believe his judgement?
We are told to judge ourselves.
"But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man." (1 Cor 2:15)
"Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
"Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life? " (1 Cor 6:2-3)
"For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged." (1 Cor 11:31)
It is those who won't judge themselves who may find themselves on the outside looking in on the last day.
Matthew 7:21
True and False Disciples
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.That is not you being kind, kindness is to not talk, is is to love in deed and in truth.
That is how we know we are of the truth. ( your dichotomy is to think talking is kindness.)
Did Jesus, the Apostles of the Lord, anyone of the believers we see the thousands in Acts, do like you, to be talk or more than what you can show yourself. ( maybe they are only forum trolls.)
1 John 3:16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
17 But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
18 My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
19 And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.
Instruction is through what we heard of the Apostles, what can you instruct anyone on the forum with, what has anyone on the forum heard of you. ( can you show the same as the Apostles of the Lord, or you can show nothing of yourself, in kindness/instruction, they gave by example more then talk.)No, this is what 'admonish' means in Romans 15:14:
to instruct
νουθετεῖν (nouthetein)
Verb - Present Infinitive Active
Strong's 3560: To admonish, warn, counsel, exhort. From the same as nouthesia; to put in mind, i.e. to caution or reprove gently.
Romans 15:14 - Paul the Minister to the Gentiles
I myself am convinced, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, brimming with knowledge, and able to instruct one another.biblehub.com
2 Corinthians 11:23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
24 Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.
25 Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;
26 In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;
27 In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
28 Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.
Philippians 4:9 Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
What is worthless/without profit, is being without good works.
The evil works that the reprobate do constantly is listed, fornication, wickedness, coveting, full of envy, debate, deceit, divisions, whispering, backbiting, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventing evil things, disobedience, without understanding, covenant breakers, no natural affection, strong opinionated, unmerciful.
Romans 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
James 2:14 What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?