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here is a lovely outline on Rev 20 11et secq
The Final Judgment aka THE GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGEMENTI. THE SETTING DESCRIBED (Revelation 20:11)
A. The throne
B. The judge is Jesus Christ.
i. John 5:22
ii. Revelation 1:13-16II. THE SUMMONS DELIVERED (Revelation 20:12-13)
A. Who will be called to the judgment?
i. The out and out sinner
ii. The self-righteous
iii. The procrastinator
iv. Lost church members
v. Those who have never heard the gospel.
1. Luke 12:47-48III. THE SECRETS DISPLAYED (Revelation 20:12-13)
A. Ecclesiastes 12:14
B. Romans 2:16
C. Matthew 12:36
D. Luke 12:2-3IV. THE SENTENCE DETERMINED (Revelation 20:13-15)
A. The sureness of it (Romans 14:11-12)
B. The severity of it (Hebrews 10:28-31)
C. Three parts to every trial
i. The evidence is presented.
ii. You make your defense.
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And GP don’t forget “JESUS IS COMING SOON! or should it be he SOON COME
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Where is HEAVEN
Here’s The One True Way To Heaven..By POPE francis1
People ask me all the time about the Christian path to heaven. How can we get there? What acts must we perform? Some think the answers are unknowable. Others believe the divine kingdom may not exist at all. But let me assure you, heaven is a very real place. I’ve been there plenty of times, and it always starts with me getting into a van with a bag of mescaline and just flooring it out west into the desert sunset.
That’s your straight shot into the city of Our Heavenly Father right there. No question about it.
The colors you see. The truths you learn. It changes you, man. But the changes are all for the better. You see past all the bullshit society has imposed on you—all its illusions. You realize there’s this whole cosmic dance going on behind the scenes, something perceivable only by opening your mind’s eye. And if that isn’t the holy place where the faithful behold the face of God, well, I don’t know what is.
There are loads of jumping-off points for heaven: Yucca Valley. The Mojave Desert. Burning Man. I’ve been to them all. Regardless of where you start, just check your emotional baggage at the door, eat a few buttons of mescalito with a good pal, and let the vibrations of the galaxy wash over you.
You may also want to confess your sins to a priest and ensure your soul is in a state of grace with God, but that’s totally up to you.
The road to paradise is never easy to traverse, not for the most pious of pilgrims. You have to rustle up gas money, pack a bedroll, bring plenty of water, and get recreational supplies from that asshole chemist in Mesa Alta—the one who definitely shorted you half a gram last time. Reaching that glorious abode where the blessed dwell in the company of angels takes some serious effort, and, hell, I’ll say it, a set of steel cojones the first time you try it.
Once you get there, though, you’ll realize all that legwork was worth it. Case in point: the time I ascended to the heavenly firmament out in Joshua Tree with this really chill chick named Grace. We had gotten a recipe for some cactus tea, and brother, when it kicked in, it kicked hard. All at once, the same vision came to both of us: A leopard with the wings of an eagle appeared in a flash of blinding light, leapt in our direction, and with a single thunderous roar revealed the stitches that hold together the very fabric of this universe. In that instant of clarity, we both got this crazy idea to just strip off our clothes, set them aflame, and trek out into the forest like a couple of Adam and Eves.
Without a doubt we reached that holy place that is open to all of mankind through the sacrifice Jesus made on the cross and the consumption of powerful hallucinogens.
Grace and I shacked up for the next week or so. She was brilliant and beautiful, and the next night she introduced me to a part of heaven I never even knew existed. Because, Christ, you haven’t really known paradise until you’ve done angel dust, gotten into your pickup truck, and gone racing 100 mph down Route 82 with a gorgeous girl like that sucking you off. That’s your heavenly reward, my friend. Pure and simple.
Here’s a word to the wise, though: There are angels in heaven, but there are sure as shit just as many demons. I’m talking about voices in your head, bugs crawling all over your skin, your friends turning into melting wax statues. I’ve even lost some of my best buddies to heaven—Mark, Gus, Eric. All great guys who deserved better than to go down swallowing their own tongues.
Even a man of great faith can be terrified when he sees stuff like that.To make your trip to paradise a little less scary, take along some experienced friends your first time. That way, if things go south, they can dump you outside the emergency room. Also be sure to steer clear of the Nevada State Patrol. I speak from personal experience when I say those guys would rather see you in hell.
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I really don’t know why that pompous fool Doctor is quoting other people writings here. He should read it to himself because he is the only one who understands and believe in that nonsense. There must be a verse for nutters like him. Trying to show off to people that he can quote the Bible. GP take that book and dump it please. It will send you nearer to Jenkins!
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HERE YOU GO AC
A Thief In the NightI. EXPECT A SURPRISING DAY (1 Thessalonians 5:1-2)
A. Acts 1:6-8
B. 2 Peter 3:8-9II. ESCAPE A SUDDEN DESTRUCTION (1 Thessalonians 5:3-4)
A. The Day of the Lord
i. Joel 2:1-2
ii. Jeremiah 30:7
iii. Daniel 12:1
iv. Matthew 24:21
B. A solemn day (Revelation 6:15-16)
C. A sudden day (1 Thessalonians 5:3, Matthew 24:36-39)
D. A sure day (1 Thessalonians 5:3)III. ENDURE A SURROUNDING DARKNESS (1Thessalonians 5:4-9)
A. Be aware and wise up (1 Thessalonians 5:5)
B. Be awake and get up (1 Thessalonians 5:6-7)
C. Be alert and dress up (1 Thessalonians 5:8)
i. Keep your heart right – the breastplate of faith and love
ii. Keep your head right – the helmet of salvationIV. EXPERIENCE A SURE DELIVERANCE (1 Thessalonians 5:9-11)
A. Explanation (1 Thessalonians 5:9)
i. 1 Thessalonians 1:9-10
ii. Luke 17:26-30
iii. Ezekiel 16:49-50
B. Expectation (1 Thessalonians 5:10, 4:17)
C. Edification (1 Thessalonians 5:11) -
In the Twinkling of an Eye
I. WHAT – THE SACRED MYSTERY OF RESURRECTION AND RAPTURE (1 Thessalonians 4:16)
A. 1 Thessalonians 4:17
B. 1 Corinthians 15:51-52
C. How are we assured of the rapture? (1 Thessalonians 4:14-15)
i. By the saving work of our Lord.
ii. By the sure word of our Lord.II. WHO – THE SAVIOR AND THE SAINTS (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17, Revelation 20:5-6)
III. WHEN – A SUDDEN MOMENT THAT IS CLOSE AND CERTAIN (Matthew 24:36)
A. Signs of His coming
i. Matthew 24:38-39
ii. Matthew 24:42,44
iii. 1 Corinthians 15:51-52
B. Sounds of His coming
i. 1 Thessalonians 4:16
ii. Numbers 10:9-10IV. WHY – A STRATEGIC MOVE OF RESCUE, REUNION AND RECEPTION (1 Thessalonians 4:17)
A. Rescue – 1 Thessalonians 1:9-10, 5:9
B. Reunion – 1 Thessalonians 4:17
C. Reception – John 14:3
V. WHERE – IN THE AIR (1 Thessalonians 4:17)
A. A. Song of Solomon 2:10 -
Why The Cross?
I. THE SUBSTITUTIONARY PURPOSE OF THE CROSS (1 Peter 3:18)
II. THE SUFFERING PASSION OF THE CROSS (1 Peter 3:18)
A. The emotional suffering (Luke 22:41-44)
B. The physical suffering
C. The spiritual suffering (Isaiah 53:10 and 1 Peter 3:18)
i. Habakkuk 1:13
ii. Psalm 23:4
III. THE SATISFYING PROVISION OF THE CROSS (1 Peter 3:18 and Colossians 2:14)
IV. THE SAVING POWER OF THE CROSS (1 Peter 3:18) -
Salvation
INTRODUCTION
A. Man’s greatest need is salvation (Luke 19:10)
B. Only two categories of people: saved and lost
C. Romans 10:1-4II. THE FREENESS OF SALVATION
A. Salvation is not a reward for the righteous; it is a gift for the guilty
B. Many people will miss Heaven because they think they’ve not sinned
C. Philippians 3:4-7
D. The worst form of human badness is human goodness, if human goodness keeps you from salvation
E. The law demands perfection; only the gospel gives perfection in the Lord Jesus Christ
F. Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believes (Romans 10:4)III. THE NEARNESS OF SALVATION (Romans 10:6-10)
A. Jesus Christ has already made the provision of salvation available to us through His incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection
B. Salvation is by God’s grace through faith
C. Confess that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead (Romans 10:9-10)
D. Many people miss salvation by wanting Jesus as Savior only; He must also be Lord
E. Taking Jesus as Lord means taking yourself off the throne of your life and putting Jesus upon the throne of your life
F. If we are ashamed of Jesus, He will be ashamed of us (Mark 8:38, Matthew 10:32-33)IV. THE RICHNESS OF SALVATION (Romans 10:12-13)
A. Anyone who turns to Jesus in repentance and faith will be saved
B. There’s no one so good they need not be saved and no one so bad they cannot be saved
C. God’s boundless resources are made available to those who call upon Him -
NUTTER AT LARGE!
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Ephesians Chapter 2
1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
7 That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
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Cud dear GP do u think that a mere mortal soul can discern all them chapters and verses. Even yourr bible admonis us for not beliving the things that can be seen. and pretending to belive those things that can.T be seen………..like heaven and helll……and ressurrection…….and tranfiguration…..and turning water into wine. healing a blind man…..and healing a woman with an issue of blood. for ac heavean is the inner soul that dwells within that gives one a peace that passeth all understanding
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yES AC YOU CAN
MANY SIMPLE PEOPLE CAN AND HAVE
ITS SO VERY SIMPLE…………YOU BELIEVE
JUST LIKE WHAT THEY TAUGHT YOU IN SCHOOL AND YOU BELIEVED IT
WELL AT LEAST I BELIEVED WHAT THEY TOLD ME IN SCHOOL
2 COR 5: 7 For we walk by faith, not by sight:
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@ GP
Hi Doc. Nice to see you still trying to knock some sense into these non-believers here on BU. However, it seems to me that you may be just bashing your head against a brick wall as far as getting them to see the light. Remember the forces of darkness turn away from and shun the light.
But, as I said its nice to see you here. Keep the faith.
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But u know what GP the things that were taught to me in school those principals and teachings can be converted and applied to everyday issues. for e.g i was taught the sun rises in the east and there is evidence which can been seen. no need to decipher orwait for delivered promise to belive. BTW are you saying that heaven or a glimpse can only be ascertained through faith which is an intangible force Through which the mind perceived as being real
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HI hOODIE
AC THIS THE ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTION
Hebrews Chapter 111 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
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On FAITH ac belives that it subjected to the POWER of Positive thinking, It is basically a philosophy that awakens and propels the mind in to rationalising that the impossibiliies are possible . Jesus did address the issue of faith . in one of his parable , liken it to a grain of mustard seed, there is nothing hocus pocus about FAith even though CHristain teaching would prefer people to bel;ive that Faith only come through the word of the holy scripture, i submit to you that there are many aethesist who have used faith in there everyday life to propel them to great heights.
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THE BIBLE TEACHES IN Romans 10:17
So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
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my point to u GP is that not all religions or religionist read or ascibed to the teachings of the bible and therfore having the belief of FaITH can be acquired through other principles of teaching
if as the bible states Faith comes by hearing one would assume a person can be taught to have . howeverthe bible also states that acessing the tools and ingredients necessary to acquire faiith can only be received through the word of GOD which ac would disagree,
it takes great faith for a woman to go through child labour repeatedly knowing that in a split second her live can be over and might have never even open a bible or entered a christain church or prescribed to biblical teaching, if that is not faith then what is it, -
ANIMALS GO THRU CHILD BIRTH WITH OUT FAITH
CHILD BEARING IS A NATURAL THING
IT WAS ALWAYS MEANT TO BEYOU EITHER BELIEVE THE BIBLE OUR YOU DONT
IF YOU DONT THATS OK
BUT BIBLICAL FAITH IS DEFINED IN HEBREWS 11 AND ROMANS 10
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YES child bearing is natural. however there are risk involved .howeverv there must be a great level of faith upon which a woman draws in order to go through the pain and thevfear of not knowing the endresult. as a womanwho have been blessed i do recall a sense of fear and worry with each child i bore. so then what else coukd it be than having a reservoir iof faith that would not inhibit my motherly instinct from wanting to have another child.
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THIS SHOULD BE FUN
God is never wrong
A king who did not believe in the goodness of God, had a slave who, in all circumstances would always say “my king, do not be
discouraged, because everything God does is perfect. He makes no mistakes!”One day they went hunting and along the way a wild animal attacked the king. His slave managed to kill the animal, but could not
prevent his majesty from losing a finger.Furious and without showing his gratitude for being saved, the nobleman asked “Is God good? If He was good, I would not have been attacked and lost my finger.”
The slave replied: “My king, despite all these things, I can only tell you that God is good, and he knows why these things happened. What God does is perfect. He is never wrong!”
Outraged by the response, the king ordered the arrest of his slave.
Later, the King left for another hunt, this time alone. He was captured by savages who engaged in human sacrifices.
On the altar and ready to sacrifice the nobleman, the savages discovered that their victim did not have one of his fingers. According
to them, only a whole person with all his/her parts intact could be offered to the gods. The King without a finger was deemed an abominable sacrifice for their gods. So they released the King.Upon his return to the palace, the King authorized the release of his slave. He received the slave affectionately. “God was really good to me! I was almost killed by the wild men, but for lack of a single finger, I was let go! But I have a question: if God is so good, why did he allow me to put you in jail?”
The slave answered, “my King, if I had gone with you on this hunt, I would have been sacrificed instead because I have no missing finger. Remember everything God does is perfect. He is never wrong. He made you keep me in jail so I would not be with you on the hunt.”
Often we complain about life, and negative things that happen to us, forgetting that nothing is random and that everything has a purpose.
Every morning, offer your day to God, don’t be in a rush.
Ask God to inspire your thoughts, guide your actions, and ease your feelings. And do not be afraid. God is never wrong!
You know why this message is for you? I do not know, but God knows, because He never makes mistakes…….What you do with this message is up to you.
May God put in your heart the desire to send it to someone.
God knows why He chose you to receive this message.
Please bless someone with it.
God is never wrong!
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