PSALM 103:8-14 The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in mercy. He will not always strive with us, nor will He keep His anger forever.
Journal Entry 47 – Picked on Pinterest
November 1st (Wednesday) 2017
Notice something different? No, it’s not the new month.
I was amazed at how fast I ate my snack. For once, I didn’t worry about whether I was saved or not, since I knew that I just had to trust God and not try to take matters into my own hands. For if I tried to take matters into my own hands I would be working and the only proper wages of work is death.
Galatians 2:21-3:4 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.
Galatians 3:6, Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.
A boss must pay his workers properly for their works. However, God’s standard is perfect. Our works can only ever offend Him. We cannot possibly be saved of works, for so if we were, then God would find our works satisfying, though they are of sin. Light and darkness cannot have a fellowship, so it’s salvation by grace through faith alone!
Romans 6:23, For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
At lunch I worked in the library. Like when a loved one leaves another, they leave something valuable with them so that they know that they will return, the same applies to God. To show proof that Jesus Christ will return to us, we get another comforter; the Holy Spirit, who we are sealed by unto the Day of our Redemption, when Jesus Christ comes back to claim His purchase!
Annoyingly, my headphones had trouble playing music. It really made me feel a lesser mood and frustrated, yet with more Assurance of Salvation and faith, I felt better.
After lunch brushing my teeth as daily. A person randomly said hi to me when I was having my big coughs again. Every day my coughing gets worth.
What people get’s wrong is that people thinks that some people are good while some are bad. WRONG! We are all bad, because we all have any sort of badness (sin). Now am I for condemning another person just because they sin a little bit differently than I? No! But, I’m all about righteous judgement. Just because we all sin doesn’t mean we should be more tolerant to sin. It’s main purpose is not to be a social hangout, learn how to parent (aka beat your children as most errant teach [I still agree with past Song on this one, corporeal punishment is physical abuse!] or to listen to stand up comedians. It’s to worship God. God is against sin, but not just that, He absolutely hates sin!
Good thing I’m a born-again Christian.
When I got home, instead of eating I went straight to my. There, I turned it on, went upstairs and got the keys to unlock the drawer where I put the piece of paper with the password to my email to get the forgot password to get a temporary password on said email to then use.
Matthew 6:5-6 And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
What I can’t tolerate is the fact that some people are absolutely against the Eternal Security of a believer, once again in the typical insecurist/Lordship Salvationist way mixing up being a believer with a disciple. If we could lose the gift of salvation, then it never really was a gift in the first place. So thus, God would have lied. If we could never have Assurance of our Salvation that rests forever that moment we are saved, than it’s impossible to have the blessed hope. So thus, God would have lied. What about the Holy Spirit’s seal, or being born into God’s family or being a part of the vine of Jesus Christ, or in the hands of the Father and the Son. Either we’re stronger than God and can get out of His grasp, or God is lying. Both of these would be impossible, thus Conditional Security is impossible.
Besides, imagine if we could lose our salvation. At what cost? What kind of special sin would God tolerate? So much for His perfect standard, doesn’t He hate all sins equally, because they are all a disobedience to Him. Imagine the horrors of Heaven, having to worry their all the time about whether we will lose our salvation or not. If we’re going to be preserved in Heaven, then why doesn’t God do that now? God wants to save as much as He can and will not forsake us.
Ephesians 1:13-14, In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.
Hebrews 6:18-20, That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil; Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
This stress that I feel, worrying if I’m saved just right, it’s useless pain like the above verse of Paul in Corinthians of unnecessary pain. Verses like the millions in Heaven cheer me up. As how INFJ’s are such a rarity in the world, it will be impossible if all of these people obsessed over this salvation thing as much as I am doing right now. Meaning, that I don’t have to obsess over these salvation things to be saved. While some people think that Eternal Security is a licence to sin, I say otherwise. Instead of doing good works out of fear of punishment [Sheol, the realm of the dead, is temporary mental suffering. Hell will be empty as everyone will go to Heaven!] I do them out of my love for the Lord Jesus Christ! Amen! God doesn’t deal with His children (believers) by spanking them or any other bizarre form of corporeal punishment that they have. Instead, He disciplines us with other things, and doesn’t’ cause us to go into anger (that which is commonly seen by the child after the spanking). If we spank our children, then we make them want to do good works out of a fear of punishment rather than out of the love of the Lord Christ Jesus!
Col. 3:20 Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.21 Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
Eph. 6:1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.2 Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise;3 That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.4 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
I got home at 4:30 PM, now it’s 7:30 PM. I’m tired, I haven’t eaten yet and am satisfied with what I have discovered about salvation, that we are saved by faith alone in Jesus Christ, once saved always saved! The eternal security of the believer, the Holy Spirit that seals us unto the Day of the Lord’s Coming. Amen! I thank God for showing me these truths and for helping me to bring every thought captive to the Lord, so that I may resist ever so strongly the temptations of the world and flesh. In Christ, I am whole, a work in progress, that work which God will do until I am in Heaven, because the Lord never leaves things unfinished... [Even though I didn’t know about Universal Salvation at this time, this was some good foreshadowing lol. God will not leave creation unfinished, all of creation will thus become believers in Christ[
Philippians 1:6, Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
This is the only weekend I get, because other weekends I’m working, constantly. I just want some time alone. How wonderful that time is. That’s, what I’m looking forward to the most in Heaven. Alone time with God, and then I can finally rest at ease. That’s all I want. I don’t want more money, power, family, companionship, property, wisdom. I want to be happy. That’s all I want and that’s all I’ve ever wanted. I’m glad that I’ve found out that that’s only possible through faith alone in Jesus Christ. Once saved, always saved, this is the closest thing to peace I will get on this world, I’m just holding unto my blessed hope for the next…