Gospel Testimony

@MomC3P91 You're welcome. All doing well thanks. Pray you and yours are well also. Just had a special gospel tent series and they were very fruitful, thank God. God is working and the Lord's coming,near. Here's the full version of that : m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFHHOB…

@GospelTest Thx for the info.. Hope you and yours are well.. ☺️

Weird stuff… burning cedar smell across Lake Michigan area. Hot, humid, and very smoky outside. Air quality is very unhealthy. Canadian Wildfires isn’t something I ever thought I’d say in the 64 years I’ve lived. Canada isn’t known for dryness. Neither did I know that smoke could travel this far without dissipating. Like I said, weird stuff.. youtu.be/1Qc5pPEviCo

@MomC3P91 Their future vision for the world sounds so much like what you we see, revealed in the scriptures. Antichrist, one-world gov, ability to shut one's access to buying/ selling ect. I don't obsess with it because I know the Lord is in control but I do listen to what they tell us.

@GospelTest Do they tell you the ‘why’ according to their insanity? Or just that they’re doing it?

@MomC3P91 You don't have to go down rabbit holes on this. The Canadian gov website for Agenda 2030 will tell you everything.

@GospelTest I try not to do rabbit holes currently, but I’m also not saying things aren’t weird. 😅 That said, if Jesus doesn’t have us, then nobody does. No one can ‘keep’ themselves in this world. There’s too many ‘weird’ things happening.

@joshwhitlatch Absolutely and yet some would have us believe that he preached a law based gospel. Completely absurd.

@EvanPaul05 Context answers everything.

Glad you asked 4 verses earlier “By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ, once for all”

@osasisHERESY Context. Abiding is speaking of "communion", not "union".

How do you not understand that abiding in Christ has nothing to do with works?

@RiderforJesus They get angry because it hurts their self righteous image.

Heretics on YouTube get uncomfortable the moment you start preaching about salvation by grace through faith alone.

@BrysonGray Wrong, true believers Are in the Spirit. The question they need to ask is this, does the believer want to bring the practical in line with their position?

You can’t walk in the flesh and the spirit at the same time. You have to pick one.

@Nora86550493821 It's anti-God and anti-human and these wicked men will give an account. "And the kings of the earth...hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; 16 and said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne"

@GospelTest Yes!!!! Truth!!

The smoke is bad here in Virginia! There’s something nefarious with these so-called wildfires! It smells like plastic, sulfur, heavy metals most likely full of pesticides! Jesus said they’ll be smoke, fires & destruction in the end times! Please Come quickly,Lord Jesus!🥺🙌🕊️🙏🎺

@Nora86550493821 And what you're smelling is glyphosate. That is the accelerant that they've been spraying to make it highly flammable.

@Nora86550493821 It's everywhere, for we have them all across Northern Canada right now. It's the elites burning our countries down so that they can implement their antichrist UN Agenda 2030.

@BootlegBishop @BrysonGray Bryson isn't saved, which is why he's so blind to the truth.

Sin interrupts fellowship with God, not relationship. The blood of Christ is stronger and more powerful than your transgressions. We have access to the Great High Priest to confess and He is faithful and just to forgive us (I John 1:9). Bryson, stop coming off like you don't fall short in some capacity everyday. You're not even credible with such a stance and the Apostle John call you a liar (I John 1:8).

Sin can though

@BrysonGray Only to blind, self-righteous religious man. Not according to scripture, nor the efficacious work of Christ.

@joshwhitlatch It just demonstrates that "broad is the way, that leads to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat".

When I came to X to give the gospel i had no idea it would turn into a debate space

@MICAH_SIXEIGHT @EllaFlash Sorry Micah but you really make no sense and there's nothing lukewarm about grace. I'd go as far as saying that you're disregarding and or downplaying the efficacy of the work of Christ. This "dark Jesus" you speak of is really bordering on the side of blasphemy.

@EllaFlash @GospelTest I'm sorry, but your exegesis is passive, lukewarm, and unbiblical, and I've clearly laid that out from the scripture with no personal interpretation, manipulating it. No dispensationalism blinding me to it. So I hope to see all of you on the other side of this one day.

Faith Is Never Alone Galatians 5:6 "For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through (expressed through) love..." This is the pivotal understanding that guards against both legalism and license. It's describing active faith, walking in the Spirit. Actively practicing the faith apart from legalism and the law. Not through cheap grace, not through merit either, but by walking in dependence on the Spirit who produces love, joy, peace, patience…and all the rest. I'll say it again, faith in Christ is the only thing that counts for justification. But that faith is never inert. It works through love, which is the first and greatest fruit of the Spirit. These principles are not at all at odds with the idea of justification by faith alone. Faith is never alone, but for so many, the phase "justification by faith alone" seems to suggest to them that they are claiming that the origins of their justification is founded in their personal experience or opinions. Some hear "faith alone" and think it means a private, subjective feelings or an intellectual assent with no life change (cheap grace). And others fear it downplays holiness, obedience, or love, so they swing toward adding merits or the law. Paul and James both refute these distortions of the gospel. Both taught that justification is by faith alone, but not by a faith that is alone. Does that make sense? It seems clear to me but for too many, (those who seek to promote sacramentalism), this is a hard truth to swallow. And fundamentally, at the core of their objections is a difficulty with regard to dependence on the Spirit who produces spiritual fruit. For them, without adding something to Christ’s sufficiency for justification, we're all left to our own devices to make our way through the fog of biblical misinformation. It's too unsure to trust the Holy Spirit, too problematic. There needs to be authority and they fundamentally ruin that genuine concern by wrongly leaning on a human organization to accomplish the work already being performed by The Holy Spirit. This stems from early on after the end of the so called "apostolic period". Early on there was a strong emphasis on the Spirit’s direct work in the churches (see the book of Acts and the epistles). Makes sense, the Spirit was miraculously successful in spreading the word throughout the world. But as the generations passed; concerns for unity, combating heresy, and pastoral care led some traditions to formalize their institutional authority and hedge the means of grace in ways that, to many (including myself), moved beyond the New Testament pattern. Scripture repeatedly warns against this sort of drifting from simple dependence on Christ and the sufficiency of His Word and Spirit. Thinking that these things were "channels to grace" was like viewing the serpent (Numbers 21) on the pool is the source of God's power. Can these "channels" serve a purpose? Of course they can, their role is to point to something beyond themselves. But that's not the danger. The concern is in the worship. Hezekiah destroyed it because it had turned into an idol. What was meant as a pointer to God’s mercy and power had become a substitute for direct trust in the Lord Himself. Scripture is full of cautions against this kind of drift. Where is the power in the crucifixion? In the wooden beams or the man/God who was sacrificed there? Jesus Himself used the bronze serpent as a picture of faith in Him (John 3:14-15), but the point was always faith in the Savior, not the object. Plain Truth: The Spirit convicts, regenerates, seals, indwells, leads, and produces fruit. It's all His work. 1/2 👇continued

@MICAH_SIXEIGHT @EllaFlash Right, but you have to read it in it's setting to know what James is saying. He's not dealing with justification before God.

No one said His work isn't sufficient, or at least I haven't. What I see happening is many folks can't put two and two together. They can't see that faith is not alone because in their mind all they hear is there's no such thing as faith alone. When I say faith is not alone, I'm repeating what I read in the word. Where it clearly shows that a faith that is dead is not faith at all.

@MICAH_SIXEIGHT @EllaFlash You know you can never measure up so just be careful you're not tying your performance to your salvation. It won't be accepted.

@EllaFlash @GospelTest All we can do is obey the cost of discipleship that Jesus clearly, not ambiguously, laid out in His word. Not try and fit it into our lifestyle choices.

@BrysonGray Christ is the Lamb of God who took away the sin of the world. John 1:29 Do you believe God or not? Pretty simple.

There is no scripture that says “your past, present, and FUTURE sins are already forgiven!” That’s made up like most things people believe in.

@BrysonGray God says regarding the believer, "their sins and iniquities will I remember no more." You say God forgives up until you make a profession of faith, but not future sins. How many of your sins were future when Christ died?