Predestination . A subject that is not easy to get ones head around though the spirit can grasp it far easier .
Make no mistake .The scriptures clearly teach that we are "predestined from before the foundations of the world unto good works that we should walk in them"
So let any or all who deny such a thing . keep silent .
If people actually went to the scriptures "to check if these things be true" rather than to all the different schools of 'theology' that are so entrenched in their positions .They either are still at the reformation or in a reverse reformation depending on who you believe .
But what does the scriptures say?
That every seed brings forth fruit "after its own kind "
A tomato seed will not bring forth apples .It is pre DESTINED to bring forth tomatoes and nothing else .
I do not believe we ,the church really understands the depths of what happened when Adam sinned and obeyed not God but his wife .
Perhaps a long hard and sober look at the Lords answer to sin may give us such a glimpse of the truth . When "he who knew no sin became sin"
be that as it may the fact is that even as" Levi was in the loins of Abraham when he gave tithes to Malchesidech ". So all men were in the loins of Adam when he corrupted himself and became subject to sin and death.
and are of his seed .
If then we are born of a corruptible seed which is of the first man that is of the earth .
Then that seed is predestined to bring forth corruption unto death .
and thus we are all born in sin and are by nature (including those who say they believe in Calvanism) " children of wrath " and as Ephesians say were as all men "children of disobedience"
Who then is excused? or not counted among such ? For all have sinned and have come short of the glory of God .Including Mary the mother of the Lords flesh .
Whether they be Jew or gentile . If any doubt it then Pauls argument in Romans is or should be enough and if it is not then this wont.
Then how is a man predestined for another end?
By being BORN again of another seed .
For while man or Adam was CREATED in the image of God . He is BORN in the image of Adam and thus "shapen in iniquity "
Being born of a corruptible seed means all men are predestined to brign forth corruption unto death .
You "MUST be BORN again " of an "incorruptible seed which is the Word of God" Means you are "translated not only from the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of Gods dear Son" But from one predestination to another .
For an incorruptible seed is also subject to that law of God whereby every seed brings forth fruit after its own kind.
Thus this seed is predestined to bring forth righteousness unto life .
To be continued.....
in Christ
gerald
Make no mistake .The scriptures clearly teach that we are "predestined from before the foundations of the world unto good works that we should walk in them"
So let any or all who deny such a thing . keep silent .
If people actually went to the scriptures "to check if these things be true" rather than to all the different schools of 'theology' that are so entrenched in their positions .They either are still at the reformation or in a reverse reformation depending on who you believe .
But what does the scriptures say?
That every seed brings forth fruit "after its own kind "
A tomato seed will not bring forth apples .It is pre DESTINED to bring forth tomatoes and nothing else .
I do not believe we ,the church really understands the depths of what happened when Adam sinned and obeyed not God but his wife .
Perhaps a long hard and sober look at the Lords answer to sin may give us such a glimpse of the truth . When "he who knew no sin became sin"
be that as it may the fact is that even as" Levi was in the loins of Abraham when he gave tithes to Malchesidech ". So all men were in the loins of Adam when he corrupted himself and became subject to sin and death.
and are of his seed .
If then we are born of a corruptible seed which is of the first man that is of the earth .
Then that seed is predestined to bring forth corruption unto death .
and thus we are all born in sin and are by nature (including those who say they believe in Calvanism) " children of wrath " and as Ephesians say were as all men "children of disobedience"
Who then is excused? or not counted among such ? For all have sinned and have come short of the glory of God .Including Mary the mother of the Lords flesh .
Whether they be Jew or gentile . If any doubt it then Pauls argument in Romans is or should be enough and if it is not then this wont.
Then how is a man predestined for another end?
By being BORN again of another seed .
For while man or Adam was CREATED in the image of God . He is BORN in the image of Adam and thus "shapen in iniquity "
Being born of a corruptible seed means all men are predestined to brign forth corruption unto death .
You "MUST be BORN again " of an "incorruptible seed which is the Word of God" Means you are "translated not only from the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of Gods dear Son" But from one predestination to another .
For an incorruptible seed is also subject to that law of God whereby every seed brings forth fruit after its own kind.
Thus this seed is predestined to bring forth righteousness unto life .
To be continued.....
in Christ
gerald