let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.”...
Later in the letter thatwe know as 1 John, he wrote: “This is how you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God. But every spirit who does not confess Jesus is not from God.” (1 John 4:2-3) The way you can tell...
The fact that there were truths which Christ Himself could not teach is a lesson which men who profess to teach in Christ's name have too seldom learnt. St. Paul found in it a rule for his own practice. He, too, fed men with milk because they could not bear meat. (Comp. Note on...
Were they to encounter one of the companions of God who, if he could, would, freely and joyously, offer up ten thousand lives as a sacrifice for his Beloved, so great would be their fear, that they forthwith would profess their faith in Him, whilst privily they would vilify and exec...
But Melchior was one of those men who always do the opposite of what is expected of them and of what they expect of themselves. It is not that they are not warned—a man who is warned is worth two men, says the proverb. They profess never to be the dupe of anything, and that the...
They profess never to be the dupe of anything, and that they steer their ship with unerring hand towards a definite point. But they reckon without themselves, for they do not know themselves. In one of those moments of forgetfulness which are habitual with them they let go the tiller, and...
16 They profess to know God, but in works they deny Him, being [d]abominable, disobedient, and disqualified for every good work. Footnotes Titus 1:4 NU Christ Jesus Titus 1:6 debauchery, lit. incorrigibility Titus 1:7 Lit. overseer Titus 1:16 detestable New American Bible (Revised Edit...
They are closer to Me than those who profess to represent Me on Earth, but who are hypocrites, just as the Pharisees were. Give Me your hand. No matter what deeds you have done, I will alight upon you. My Prayer, given to you now, will bring you into My Heart and...
So too will those who profess Christ in one breath while denying Him in another, those leaders will not escape the judgement. They too will pay a much higher price and receive a greater judgement than those they have lead astray (James 3: 1) It has been said if you marry the spirit...
If mutually exclusive theologies can both exist under the umbrella of “Church”, as is claimed in Protestantism, then the truth can never be known, and the Church can never be obeyed, and there can be no unity of “one” Church we profess in the creed. By the way, I am an ...