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What is the Good News?
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10/03/05 02:07 AM
10/03/05 02:07 AM
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What is the message that is to fill the earth with glory?
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Re: What is the Good News?
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10/03/05 04:19 AM
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Jesus the Son of God, who became like us, died for our sins, overcame death, is in Heaven interceding for us, and will come again to take us home. I hope I am close ![[Smile]](images/icons/smile.gif) God Bless, Will
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Re: What is the Good News?
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10/04/05 02:30 AM
10/04/05 02:30 AM
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Matthew
1:21 And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.
1 John
3:5 And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.
1 John
3:8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
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Re: What is the Good News?
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10/03/05 03:50 PM
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Good quotes and statments guys!
How does Jesus do these things? (i.e. how does He take away our sin? how did His death defeat the powers of darkness?)
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Re: What is the Good News?
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10/03/05 09:24 PM
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quote:
Matthew 4:23 Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness among the people.
Matthew 5-7 is a rich and nourishing meal! quote:
John 53Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 54Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. 55For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. 56Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him. 57Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. 58This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your forefathers ate manna and died, but he who feeds on this bread will live forever." 59He said this while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.
Many Disciples Desert Jesus
60On hearing it, many of his disciples said, "This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?"
61Aware that his disciples were grumbling about this, Jesus said to them, "Does this offend you? 62What if you see the Son of Man ascend to where he was before! 63The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.
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Luke 4 17The scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written:
18"The Spirit of the Lord is on me,
because he has anointed me
to preach good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners
and recovery of sight for the blind,
to release the oppressed,
19to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor."[e]
20Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him, 21and he began by saying to them, "Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing."
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Re: What is the Good News?
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10/05/05 02:27 AM
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I believe Jesus earned the right to own our sin and second death when He lived and died the perfect substitutionary life and death. For reasons that are not perfectly clear, Jesus has the right and authority to forgive our confessed and forsaken sins (and the sins we commit ignorantly and innocently) and to empower us to “go, and sin no more.”
He implants within us, the moment we’re born again, the mind of the new man. And, so long as we are abiding in Jesus and partaking of His divine nature, the Holy Spirit dwells within us, seated supremely upon the throne of our soul temple, and empowers us to develop our new man traits of character, to mature in the fruits of the Spirit. By beholding Christ, we become Christlike.
2 Corinthians
3:18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, [even] as by the Spirit of the Lord.
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Re: What is the Good News?
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10/05/05 01:35 AM
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Mountain Dude Are we to all achieve the same "level of perfection" here on Earth? And actually not sin?
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Re: What is the Good News?
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10/06/05 02:29 AM
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Well, Beach Dude, those are good questions. I think it is helpful to remember that moral perfection is a gift we receive the moment we're born again - not something we achieve after years of trying real hard not to sin.
Born again believers begin perfect (i.e., whole) and, like Jesus, they become perfect (i.e., mature) as they grow in grace. We begin with a clean slate (perfect) when we're born again, and as we grow and mature be become more and more perfect (mature).
Will everyone reach the same "level of perfection", or maturity, in this lifetime? No, of course not. Not even eternity is long enough to exhaust our potential to become more perfect, more mature, to become more like Jesus. The difference, though, isn't measured in sin. Rather, the difference between one stage of perfection and another is maturity.
Can we actually cease sinning? Why not? According to the promises of God we do not and cannot sin. That is, while we are walking in the Spirit and mind of the new man, while we are abiding in Jesus and partaking of the divine nature, we will not, do not, and cannot commit a known sin. That's good news, eh?
Do you see what I mean?
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Re: What is the Good News?
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10/05/05 08:27 PM
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The good news is about Christ. A man who claimed to be the Son of God, said He would die, and be resurrected. These events happened.
Our current situation with the steady decline and corruption in the world are prophetic words that are being fulfilled that Christ said would happen. So with all the bad things happening He promised us He would come again and take us to be with Him.
Thats the good news, and one must be born again. Its actually very simple.
God Bless,
Will
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Re: What is the Good News?
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10/05/05 11:06 PM
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All of the answers I've seen so far seem to be centered on us. Is the Good News only about us? That is, is all that matters is that good things happen to us?
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