When a person is fulfilled in Christ, they are actually enabled to enjoy God’s temporal blessings in this life more, not less.
When a person is fulfilled in Christ, they are actually enabled to enjoy God’s temporal blessings in this life more, not less.
Psalm 145:9 says, “The LORD…has compassion on all he has made.” Our God is a meticulously compassionate God. The Scripture testifies that God cares about cattle and livestock and sparrows and lilies…you can bet your bottom dollar he cares about you.
God certainly speaks to mankind through natural revelation. In other words, God speaks by what he has made. However, natural revelation, while sufficient to condemn mankind, is still missing a few things.
Mantra Meditation (or Eastern Meditation) seeks to “empty” the mind of all rational thought in order to achieve an intermediate state of “oneness” with everything, and therefore, oneness with the “god” who is in everything (the heresy of Pantheism). This is a dangerous and foolish practice. Not only does it cause the individual to be vulnerable to demonic oppression, it …
The Apostle Paul was willing to say “I am the chief of sinners.” So why are we so afraid to acknowledge our own sinfulness? Perhaps, this reveals the fact that we still struggle to believe that the Gospel is a message of grace, not works.
Virtually every church has to kick people out from time to time. The only question is, are they doing it biblically? Are you apart of a local church that practices church discipline according to scripture?