I love your optimism, Barbara! However, not intending to be a negative Nelly (or a judgmental Jeff, for that matter ๐), I canโt help but think that Romans 1:18-32 applies to the current cultural rot we are seeing in our country. Verse 28: โFurthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, toโฆ
I love your optimism, Barbara! However, not intending to be a negative Nelly (or a judgmental Jeff, for that matter ๐), I canโt help but think that Romans 1:18-32 applies to the current cultural rot we are seeing in our country. Verse 28: โFurthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.โ When God โ(gives) them up to a depraved mind,โ the resulting societal decay is rapid and irreversible, unless we as a culture come to repentance. I just donโt see that happening. I pray I am wrong. Either way, come quickly, Lord Jesus. ๐๐ป
Jeff thank you for your thoughts and I agree with your Romans scripture. I agree with Sharon's Matthew 6:10. Tom mentioned to look for the fruit. Please know there will be no fruit when God gives them over to a depraved mind as shown in Romans above. Only true conversion as noted in Romans 10:8-13 can save a depraved mind. Our sharp divide exists in the USA and only after true conversion can change come:
Then James 1:21: Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
And then one can move forward and learn humility to make amends and apologies which Mr. Collins and others can not do in their depraved state.
We must transcend knowledge and search for wisdom and understanding, (Proverbs 4:7).
Finally it would serve Mr. Collins well to use the new understanding to study God's word.
He could be fit for service instead of pretending and lying. I pray he turns himself in for treason and starts a movement that others may follow.
I pray he reads all of our posts and he may come to this understanding: James 1:22-25.
But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror; for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต๐ด ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ต ๐ข ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฌ, this man will be blessed in what he does.
I love your optimism, Barbara! However, not intending to be a negative Nelly (or a judgmental Jeff, for that matter ๐), I canโt help but think that Romans 1:18-32 applies to the current cultural rot we are seeing in our country. Verse 28: โFurthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.โ When God โ(gives) them up to a depraved mind,โ the resulting societal decay is rapid and irreversible, unless we as a culture come to repentance. I just donโt see that happening. I pray I am wrong. Either way, come quickly, Lord Jesus. ๐๐ป
Jeff thank you for your thoughts and I agree with your Romans scripture. I agree with Sharon's Matthew 6:10. Tom mentioned to look for the fruit. Please know there will be no fruit when God gives them over to a depraved mind as shown in Romans above. Only true conversion as noted in Romans 10:8-13 can save a depraved mind. Our sharp divide exists in the USA and only after true conversion can change come:
Then James 1:21: Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
And then one can move forward and learn humility to make amends and apologies which Mr. Collins and others can not do in their depraved state.
We must transcend knowledge and search for wisdom and understanding, (Proverbs 4:7).
Finally it would serve Mr. Collins well to use the new understanding to study God's word.
He could be fit for service instead of pretending and lying. I pray he turns himself in for treason and starts a movement that others may follow.
I pray he reads all of our posts and he may come to this understanding: James 1:22-25.
But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror; for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต๐ด ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ต ๐ข ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฌ, this man will be blessed in what he does.
It happened to Saul/Paul!! So it can happen. If we agree to pray for him, it could happen!
Agreed! Let us pray that it will happen and this change will sweep this nation back to righteousness! Amen
If that were genuine why stop the Barrington declaration wouldn't they be glad of help . NO because it was deliberate...
Exactly. They knew exactly what this would do!! There was big money being made. Shameful crimes. They should be tried for murder!
Itโs not letting me leave a heart..
AMEN!