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GOD has certainly revealed hIS LOVE for the world through hIS only begotten son JESUS CHRIST !!! [[Summary Page 33]]
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 11115844:MV8xNzQ3MzcxXzI5NzA4NzMxX0NFMEE4MzA=] [quote:Troubled Waters...:MV8xNzQ3MzcxXzI5NzA3MTgzXzVERjQ3QzMz] [quote:Anonymous Coward 10978371:MV8xNzQ3MzcxXzI5Njk0NjA0X0RBRkY2QjI3] [quote:Once4All:MV8xNzQ3MzcxXzI5Njk0MzE4X0NDOTlENEE2] [quote:Anonymous Coward 10978371:MV8xNzQ3MzcxXzI5Njk0MjMwX0YxQjY1NDIx] [quote:Once4All:MV8xNzQ3MzcxXzI5Njk0MTA5X0ExMDEwMTFG] [quote:Anonymous Coward 10978371:MV8xNzQ3MzcxXzI5NjkzNjEwXzU5NUVBNkM2] [quote:Once4All:MV8xNzQ3MzcxXzI5NjkzMjM4XzYyQkFFNEFB] [quote:Anonymous Coward 10978371:MV8xNzQ3MzcxXzI5NjkzMTcyX0U0NDU3NkU5] [quote:Once4All:MV8xNzQ3MzcxXzI5NjkzMTMxXzE5MjBFMjU3] [quote:AmazingGRACE:MV8xNzQ3MzcxXzI5NjkzMDcwX0I4OTdERjI=] [quote:Anonymous Coward 10978371:MV8xNzQ3MzcxXzI5NjkyNzQ3XzMzM0NBNzI=] [quote:Once4All:MV8xNzQ3MzcxXzI5Njg2ODg0XzhGRDEyRDFF] :flower::flower::flower::flower: [color=red][b]Have You Accepted Jesus As Your Savior Yet? What Are You Waiting For? He loves YOU !!![/b][/color] :flower::flower::flower::flower: [/quote] Then he can tell me to my face..like a NORMAL person would who wanted to inform someone else of their love. I will NOT accept words. Or doctrines. Until he stands in front of me and says "I LOVE you"...then its all so much CRAP..so many words..and words are CHEAP! [/quote] HE tells you everyday of your life that HE loves you.... by giving you the air that you breath..... by giving you another day to live.... by giving you food and water to sustain you.... by giving you loved ones to cherish and nurture.... by giving you beauty through a marvelous creation of nature.... colors, trees, forests, oceans....ect. by giving you eyes to see.... ears to hear.... and by giving you life itself!!! HE made you. You are HIS creation, whether you want to accept it not. HE doesn't have to answer to your demands. Who are you but dust?? HE gave you life....and HE can snuff it out. If I were you, I'd re-think your position. [/quote] You're right Grace. God's plan of salvation is clear to the pure in heart. The pure in heart will see God and see His Kingdom already. If a person is condemned it is because they love darkness more than The Light. [/quote] I HATE darkness..I hate evil..I HATE it all with a passion. Yet I am NOT LOVED! [/quote] You are alive and have the opportunity to be a part of the Kingdom of God forever. If you seek Him you will find Him. The responsibility is your now. Why would you say you are not loved? [/quote] Cause I am alone and unknown to anyone. I have about as much LOVE in my life as your average maggot does..NONE. NO one gives a rats rear end about me..and if I died tomorrow NO one would give a shit. All I have known all my life is BULLSHIT..and more BULLSHIT..backstabbed by friends..let down by a GOD who SAYS he loves me but does not do a damn thing to make it real. Its all words..all I have ever had from anyone is words...its the actions I look for..the REAL love..not the mamby pamby "Jesus loves you" rubbish that is just more words. I could tell YOU that I love YOU..but it would be meaningless because you are there..I am here..we would never meet..so my words mean NOTHING. Its the same with God..HE is there..SURROUNDED by people and angels that LOVE HIM..its all well and good for him..he has it made..he is surrounded by friends and by love.. But for me..here..now in this pathetic shithole lonley life..I have NO one....so tell me..how are more WORDS going to make me beleive if all I have ever had is WORDS that have as yet failed to make me beleive? [/quote] How are you possibly going to find Love with that kind of attitude? I don't know what is 'blocking' you from finding God. Perhaps you need to forgive someone or even yourself. But, i can tell you this, God manifests Himself to the MEEK and the POOR IN SPIRIT. I'm not hearing either one of those from you. Humble yourself before God and He will lift you up. Placing demands on Him won't do it! [/quote] I am not DEMANDING anything..just asking for what is a natural huamn thing..to be LOVED..and to KNOW I am loved..not just told from some parrot..or book. Is LOVE too much to ask for? I used to be so soft..so gentle...so poor in spirit like you said.. But years have passed..all I DID have in my life that HAD any love vanished one by one... IT HURTS..especially for a soft hearted person like me.. So am I to be CONDEMNED because I HURT??...cause I just want to be LOVED?? Time keeps ticking..soon will tick the final seconds of what has turned out for ME to be a complte waste of a life.. WHY? I started out so well..so full of hope and joy and..well..its all gone...nothing left now but death..and an empty shell of what ONCE was a vibrant hope filled very much alive man.. What happenned to me??..where did my heart go? Where did life go? What was it all about anyway? [/quote] [u]I don't believe your pity party.[/u] If you were meek and sought God wholeheartedly you would find Him. End of story. [/quote] Wholeheartedly?? How can you search for God wholeheartedly when you dont have a WHOLE HEART? What does it mean anyway?? Ive heard it so often..ive tried to do it..I spent years searching..looking...wondering...and ive come to the conclusion that I must have missed something along the way..IF there was something to be found then by now I SHOULD have found it. How does one look for God wholeheartedly as YOU describe it? I might have been taught wrong..I MUST have been taught wrong..because after over 40 years of journey..I have not found yet. Seen glimpses..a few false hopes..mirages in the desert...but still no closer to when I set out to find. Have I been going in circles then? ..following WORDS..that only lead to more emptyness? Thats why at this stage of my life ive had enough...I have looked long and far...and found nothing but more words..more books..more doctrines..more CRAP..all meaningless. I have looked up all my life asking WHERE..WHY?..HOW? But silence reigns.. People talk about a PERSONAL encounter...thats all well and good if you have actually HAD one. The last time I felt anything was over 30 years ago....and I was young and impressionable and blinly beleived whatever bullshit I was told..and blindly felt whatever THEy wanted me to feel. So how does one find the answer among so many confusing and contradictory paths? Seek and you shall find... But ehere was no time limit on that...do I have to search another 30 years..not that I have that long..to finally FIND what it is I am looking for? LOVE?..thats all..just love... But all I find is more...emptiness. [/quote] I can tell you how to find Jesus, and once you do, HE will reveal His love towards you. No, not in person, but through the Holy spirit, which shall dwell in you once you accept Jesus into your heart. This might be hard for you to comprehend, b/c it is a supernatual event that occurs within ones soul/heart. I cannot describe it, nor do I totally understand it. I just know b/c it has happen to me personally. BTW- its not too late at age 40, or for that matter at any age. I was 40 yrs of age when I found Jesus, I am now 56. Believe me or not, I know just where you are coming from, for I had those exact feeling you have described. Now, how to find Jesus: I am sure there are other ways, but this is how I found the Lord Jesus Christ. Though I was quite skeptical, I decided to find out once and for all if Jesus was real or just a fairy tail. I prayed for Him to reveal Himself to me while reading the four gospels. I read the NIV version b/c at the time it was easier for me to understand. Well, to make a long story shorter, before I finished reading them for the first time the Lord had opened my eyes that He was indeed the Son of God, the savior of mankind, the messiah, and yes, He loved me with a love that was unseachable. At that very moment I fell on my kness and begged the Lord to forgive me and I asked Him to come into my life and become the Lord of my life. Thats when the power of the Holy Spirit came indwelled inside of me. Anyway I continued to read them (4 gospels) over and over again. I couldn't get enough of His Word, and by doing so my faith just kept growing and growing. since then I have read the bible in its entirety many times. It really is amazing that the more you read God's Word the more enlighten you become that it is indeed the true Word of God. Sorry for rambling on, I just though that maybe my testimony might be of some value to you. I hope you will make an honest effert to seek Him out. I would like to pray for you if you wouldn't mind. Much love, In Christ Jesus, TW :hf: [/quote] Excellent testimony TW. Maybe it will be its own thread someday!!! :hf: [/quote]
Original Message
So it has been over 2000 years and the topic
is still Jesus Christ. He was announced, He lived, He was
murdered but He rose again and ascended into Heaven. In
all of this God reveals how much He loves the world.
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John 3:16
"For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life."
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