Pastor John,
Amen! When I read the “Remembers”* from chapters 1&2 of the Iron Kingdom book you are working on, I wanted every heart God has out there to know this. It does something inside of me for them when I read it! Here are some of them:
- When the new birth is redefined, everything is redefined.
• Believing is where the journey with Jesus begins.
• It is possible to believe in Jesus and not yet have the Spirit.
• Everyone who believes in Jesus should be told that believing is not the experience of new birth; it is the path we must take to receive it! - One of the craftiest ways the wicked have found to destroy the foundations of the Faith is to redefine them.
- Truth redefined becomes a lie in disguise.
- Even if we speak the same language, if we have different definitions for the same word, we might as well be speaking different languages.
That is so good, Pastor John! That is exactly what has happened, and we now are divided by that different language.
- The body of Christ was created by the power of God in the second chapter of Acts.
AMEN!
- In turning to elements of the world, believers had to “mind earthly things” in order to please the men who led them to do it
- By the time of the Synthesis, the believers who “minded earthly things” were so dull of heart that they rejoiced in it as the fulfillment of God’s ancient promises.
And it will do the same thing to us if we take our minds off of Christ and get it on the things of this world. I know that is true because I have felt it.
- Christians absorbed Rome as much as Rome absorbed Christians; the Synthesis was both a conquest and a victory.
- The world cannot receive the Spirit; therefore, the world requires a religion it can practice without it.
- With every new doctrine or ceremony, however, early Christians were introducing another Jesus, another spirit, and another gospel.
Whew! That is what my heart says when I read this. I just wanted to tell you what reading this as a child of God feels like. I feel the words that God has given you. And it puts a pull in my heart for other hearts out there to hear them and feel them. This is so good, Pastor John!
Beth
* IK Remembers The Synthesis Book 4
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