Election

It is becoming more and more apparent that most people in churches today, including the pastors, are almost totally ignorant of the things of God. Now before I go any further, just know that the statement I made might seem a bit prideful but I assure you that God is breaking over this fact and I take no credit for what God has shown me in His Word, to God be the glory, without Him i am nothing.
I have been taught my whole life that to say that God pre-ordained some for heaven and some for hell is not Biblical. Let's look into this together. On my last blog if you will remember we looked at Jesus when He said "You do not believe because you are not of my sheep" and this is a totally different statement than "You are not of my sheep because you do not believe". You do not become His sheep by believing, you are His sheep pre-destined before the foundation of time and that is why you now believe. Now with that in mind let's look into verses like John 3:16 "For God so loved the WORLD that he gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have eternal life."(emphasis added) What does God mean when He says "the world" and "whosoever"? We are going to use Scripture to interpret Scripture which by the way is the only real way to get an accurate interpretation of Scripture. Acts 15:17 says "So that the rest of mankind may seek the Lord, Even all the Gentiles who are called by My Name" This verse is referring back to the book of Amos in chapter 9. Look at how God said "the rest of mankind may seek the Lord" We know that the rest of mankind cannot mean every single person so what does it mean? "The gentiles who are called by my Name". What does the world mean in John 3:16, it is trying to get across the fact that salvation was not only for the Jews but also for the Gentiles.
One last thing. People always quote the verse in 1 Peter that says "God is not willing that any should perish but all come to repentance" in support of the fact that God wants all men to be saved. This is a very foolish argument. If it truly is God's will that all come to repentance then he is a failure and we should immediately stop worshiping him. Not only do some not come to repentance but more do not than do and if it is his will that all men be saved then satan has been victorious over him. This is not Calvanism this is the Bible. Our God is not a failure and nothing can stand in the way of His perfect will. Satan does not win when someone goes to hell. It was God's will and He still reigns victorious. Just read your Bible and stop taking all the stupid things you hear from the pulpit seriously. If you will truly study His Word and meditate on His law and His work He will reveal Himself to you believer. That is my encouragement to you, chase hard after God so that you may know Him and enjoy Him.

you are not my sheep

In the book of John Jesus is talking to a crowd in chapter 10 and Jesus says in verse 26 "But you do not believe, because you are not of my sheep". Now if that were written today by most evangelist it would say " you are not my sheep because you do not believe". There is a major difference between these two statements mainly that one is right and one is wrong and of course Jesus is right. It is not that you believe and then you become His sheep. Could it be that we are predestined to be His sheep and that is why we have believed. John 10:15 says "As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep." Could it also be that only God's wrath toward the sheep was satisfied on the cross. Think about it, if God's wrath toward all men for all time was satisfied,knowing what satisfied means,then no one would go to hell but God's wrath has not been fully satisfied has it? God sovereignty goes beyond Him just knowing all things it is that He is directly involved in making everything happen. Our God is awesome and our doctrines about His salvation are very weak and we must be very careful. I am not doing away with will i am simply saying this " God regulates all the movements of men so that they still have the exercise of their will" I know that this is not fully conceivable. I want to know what you think.

95% correct/ discipline

I know that it has been like a million years since my last post but I am back.

Recently i have had to ask myself some big questions that have had a major impact on my life and i will pose one of them to you. Should you and i be involved in something that is 95% correct when it comes to Scripture? I realize this is a much more difficult question than some may think because nowadays it seems like it is hard to find anything that is even 80% Scripturally correct. So is it ok and i really am asking for some advice because it is impossible to find.

I am not saying that we cannot make mistakes but Scripture says that God will discipline us and we will fess up to it and move on to greater holiness and i do not see very much of this either.

To give an example, lets say that i cussed in this blog and in doing so i made a pretty good point. Was it wrong for me to cuss? Only an idiot would say that it was not. So then i receive many e-mails from people condemning what i had done and so a few days later i come back on this blog and try to back up what i did with Scripture saying that people in the Bible made offensive statements and so that is all i did. Is there a difference between saying something that may offend someone and unwholesome talk? Of course there is, the gospel is an offense to some but it is definitely not unwholesome talk, while cussing is. What person would condone what i did? I hope that none of you would. Would you consider me a role model for holiness?