CJ Hallas

That last part hits hard: Luke 6:35-36 But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, BECAUSE HE IS KIND TO THE UNGRATEFUL AND THE WICKED. Be merciful just as your Father is merciful. He is kind to us, those who were dead in sin and rebelling against him. Us, who are ungrateful and wicked. We needed a savior and didn't deserve one. The example He sets for us is unparalleled. Lord help us to love our enemies like you loved us. Help us to live like your children. Help me in this God.

@LeeFoo9 Everyday is an opportunity to advance His kingdom. Everyday is a gift to be light in a lost world.

I am MORE than ready to go home.

Every prophet, priest, and king in the OT typifies the Lord Jesus Christ. He fulfills all three offices. He is the Final Prophet. He is the Eternal Priest and sacrifice. He is the High King of Heaven.

@ScottRoberts Amen. Its a great lookup tool, but all theology should come from spirit led study of scripture.

AI can be a useful tool, but it is a terrible theologian. It has no fear of God, no submission to Scripture, and no soul to be sanctified. It simply remixes human ideas, including error, heresy, and half-truths. If you let AI shape your theology instead of the Word of God, you won't get sharper, and you'll wander and drift aimlessly. Stay anchored in Scripture, not LLMs.

@dogfacenolan @dalepartridge Correct. And all we have to do is focus on surrendering to the first one. God only.

@CovenantSiege @dalepartridge God Family Country One cannot survive without the others

The third world isn’t a place, it’s a people.

@thisisfoster The answer is that there is only one truth, Jesus Christ. Everything outside of his word is corrupted by sin. So to trust in systems or princes or kingdoms of this world whether they be conspiracy systems or traditional systems, is foolishness.

I had some friends who got really deep into the QAnon stuff. I tried repeatedly to help them see that while a small part of it might have some basis in reality, most of it was just crazy nonsense. Of course, they told me to “do your own research,” which I had already done. The more I tried to get them to consider the facts, the more entrenched they became. Eventually, I just let it go. I had made a real effort, gotten nowhere, and wasted a lot of time. Now most of those same friends have rejected all of it. I brought it up to one of them a few months ago, and they said, “I don’t ever want to talk about that again.” They realized how much they had been spun up by all the online propaganda and craziness of the time. More of that to come.

Couple of days ago I posted my conversation with @pj_schreiner on the resurrection (specifically his new book on the topic). Since then a few people have wrote comments or messaged me stating that Jesus’s resurrection was a spiritual *not* a physical event. The word used in the New Testament that we translate as “resurrection” is anastasis. The term holds all the regular understanding we would ascribe to a physical rising or standing up, not merely spiritual revival. The general sense of anastasis is “raising” and could even refer to erecting a building, standing up, or even becoming well after being ill. However, the specific sense of anastasis as resurrection from the dead is the primary meaning in the NT, and is certainly the focus in 1 Cor. 15. The Gospel accounts and Paul’s usage provide strong evidence against a purely spiritual interpretation. Acts 2:31 emphasizes that Christ’s body “did not experience corruption,” indicating bodily continuity. Paul’s primary agenda is defense of a literal resurrection from the dead for both Christ and then all people, and for Paul, a physical resurrection, a literal was-dead-but-is-now-alive-again transformation is crucial for the Christian life. The distinction between revivification and resurrection is crucial here. The raising of Lazarus or of the widow of Nain’s son was a restoration to temporary physical life (they came to life only ultimately to die again after), not a resurrection to permanent life. Jesus’s resurrection transcends this category entirely. A distinctive feature of the Christian view of resurrection is that the dead are not only revived but also transformed. Along with Christ, a Christians’s resurrection at the end of this world will bring personal transformation and exaltation as well as the return of life. This transformation involves the whole person; what is raised and transformed is not some impersonal corpse but dead persons, who are transformed outwardly and inwardly — we’re not talking zombies here people. The Gospels describe a bodily resurrection with transformed properties: those raised to the resurrection “do not marry” and “cannot die anymore, because they are equal to the angels and are children of God, being children of the resurrection.” (Luke 20:27-36) This describes not a disembodied spirit but an embodied existence fundamentally altered in nature. Everything we read about in scripture points overwhelmingly to bodily resurrection rather than purely spiritual continuation. Now go get your free copy of Dr. Shreiner’s book The Hope of the Resurrection at mbts.edu/wesley-huff-gi….

@HwsEleutheroi In this world we will have trouble, but Christ has overcome the world and his kingdom is not of this world. So we do not need to fear men who cannot take our souls.

No, the Biden Regime was anti-Christian, biased...simply illegal? Who could have guessed? One single election and those people, without restraints, are back in power. x.com/DefiantLs/stat…

Be careful who you spend your time with and who you listen to on social media. "Show me your friends and I will show you your future." J. Maxwell Proverbs 13:20 He who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm. If much of your time is spent listening to foolish influencers you will become foolish and suffer harm. God keep me focused on you and surround me with wise men of faith.

@elegantferal61 @dalepartridge Everyone is delusional. Jer 10:14 "Every man is stupid and without knowledge." All man made religion is a lie. Mat 15:9 "In vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men." People create false religion for themselves. We can worship God or ourselves.

@CovenantSiege @dalepartridge All religion is a lie that creates delusional people.

@Torchfi1 @dalepartridge I don't think we can handle the fruits of our civilization either, haha. It's pretty obvious we aren't capable of self governing whether that is our system of govt or our own habits and lives. We need God's grace.

@CovenantSiege @dalepartridge Completely true, the way that is accomplished isn’t by giving them the fruits of our civilization they aren’t ready for, they must claw there way up as we have for hundreds of years, without that they will never be able to unfuck their countries.

@A_Doggette @ScottRoberts I 100% agree with you. My caveat for myself is that He is God and I am not, so when I call out sin in the church it has to be from a place of humility and not pride.

@ScottRoberts Roughly a quarter of Jesus’s recorded activities included conflict with religious institutions, up to and including violent rage and calling people names, all while remaining without sin.

Before you point out everything wrong with the church, ask yourself: Are you praying for her? Serving her? Submitting to Scripture within her? Criticism is easy. Faithfulness is harder.

@ScottRoberts Yeah, his answer is troubling. Tons of I statements. We live in a time when we have so much information but so little knowledge of the truth. The are so many who claim to know Christ but have no idea who Christ is.

You don't have to "hope" or wonder or guess that you have eternal life, like apparently Michael Knowles does. "I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may KNOW that you have eternal life." - 1 John 5:13

It does not matter what I feel. It does not matter what I want. It does not matter what I think. God is who He is and has revealed Himself through scripture. His ways are not my ways and his thoughts are not my thoughts. The only way that I can know God and his character is through studying his word.

Proverbs 10:5 He who gathers crops in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son. Matthew 9:37 The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. John 15:2 He [The Father] cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit. If you are in Christ but not producing fruit its time to repent and ask God for guidance. God's word condemns those who do not produce good fruit. You cannot be in him and stagnant. We are all to be building the kingdom, making disciples, and converting the lost. God help me to produce good fruit that expands your harvest.

Oh, may God produce in his church more and more the witness of the new life, the testimony of holiness, love, meekness, temperance, godliness, and grace: these are the gospel’s logic, its syllogisms and demonstrations, which none can refute.

Many people pray when they’re in trouble and then when the trouble passes, they don’t. They pray when there’s time, but when they get busy, they don’t. Why? Because in their prayer life, they’re trying to get things from God, but they’re not trying to get God. They’re not after knowing God. – @timkellernyc Sermon, Confident in Love gospelinlife.com/podcast

When we offer God less than he deserves Our lives are to be living sacrifices. Are we giving him our best? Or giving him the parts of us that are blind and crippled? Malachi 1 Breaking Covenant Through Blemished Sacrifices 6 “A son honors his father, and a slave his master. If I am a father, where is the honor due me? If I am a master, where is the respect due me?” says the Lord Almighty. “It is you priests who show contempt for my name. “But you ask, ‘How have we shown contempt for your name?’ 7 “By offering defiled food on my altar. “But you ask, ‘How have we defiled you?’ “By saying that the Lord’s table is contemptible. 8 When you offer blind animals for sacrifice, is that not wrong? When you sacrifice lame or diseased animals, is that not wrong? Try offering them to your governor! Would he be pleased with you? Would he accept you?” says the Lord Almighty. We are the royal priesthood in the new covenant. Our duty is to offer ourselves as a sacrifice to God. He wants our best. Governor could equal boss in our context, are we giving our boss our best but not our God? -- God help us to give you our best today.