I am a Jesus follower.Are you a Christian?
If you answer, are you not judging yourself?
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I am a Jesus follower.Are you a Christian?
If you answer, are you not judging yourself?
Admonishing their neighbour is through showing the right way, ( labouring among them.) not saying the right way. ( people hidden on forums.)Not everybody:
Romans 15:14
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.
Alfred, scripture for your ears:
Reprobate is self assurance.Really we are the judge of our own standing in the Lord.
Only in the last day of judgement will we be proven right or wrong.
Paul wrote..."Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?" (2 Cor 13:5)
Final judgement for sure.
I feel that self-assurance must be based on the truth, so unless one is lying to themselves, their judgement will be spot on.
Man can't be doubting their entire lives about their standing in Christ.
Isn't that faithlessness?
That proves you are not what you say you are by YOUR OWN MOUTH/OWN COMMENDING.Are you a Christian?
If you answer, are you not judging yourself?
Yes, He is, but why can we not also know whether or not we are "in Christ"?
Not at all.
I am simply saying we know within ourselves where we stand.
No thanks, as I am not reprobate.
I know where I stand in relation to my new Father.
Well, for starters, by not talking down to people.How are you kind on a forum...
By patiently enduring where others are, spiritually....how do you forbear on a forum
No, this is what 'admonish' means in Romans 15:14: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;
I hope so.I am a Jesus follower.
"Reprobate" is "worthless".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,
Is she not allowed to answer a direct question without being accosted ?That proves you are not what you say you are by YOUR OWN MOUTH/OWN COMMENDING.
I know you dont want to know what Peter says but here it is:Are you a Christian?
If you answer, are you not judging yourself?
Yes, He is, but why can we not also know whether or not we are "in Christ"?
Not at all.
I am simply saying we know within ourselves where we stand.
No thanks, as I am not reprobate.
I know where I stand in relation to my new Father.
Jesus is the Judge.I hope so.
Let your actions illustrate your judgement.
Amen to that.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?"
Yep.Jesus is the Judge.
No, it isn't.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.so do you agree self-assurance is wrong?
You are userping Jesus' Lordship, friend.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 7:21Not 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.
That is not you being kind, kindness is to not talk, is is to love in deed and in truth.Well, for starters, by not talking down to people.
By patiently enduring where others are, spiritually.
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
What is worthless/without profit, is being without good works."Reprobate" is "worthless".
I pray none of us here online will be reprobate on the last day.