I believe that when the true Gospel is clearly preached in its simplicity and purity then we have the choice of whether to believe what is taught or to not believe the Gospel. We are to some extent subject to our upbringing, environment and other factors. Yes, I agree we have a measure of free will. Your soul has been healed so that there is no longer a breach in your understanding of what God expects. Greetings again beloved57, You seem to be using the language of some form of predestination or Calvinism. 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:14–16 (KJV): 14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: 15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 12 But when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women. 6 And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did. Luke 8:15 (KJV): But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.Īcts 8:5–6,12 (KJV): 5 Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them. Matthew 13:23 (KJV): But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. There are many Scriptures that could be considered, but the following need to be considered: Through the sufferings of our Lord, sin is pardoned, and we are delivered from the power of evil: this is regarded as the healing of a deadly malady. Its very simple, Christs death effects the Salvation of them He died for, their boast is in the Cross of Christ, His stripes !Ĭlick to expand.Yes, I agree we have a measure of free will. With his stripes that is, the stripes of the Lord Jesus we are healed. to free from errors and sins, to bring about (one's) salvation: I heal, generally of the physical, sometimes of spiritual, disease, iáomai (a primitive verb, NAS dictionary) – healing, particularly as supernatural and bringing attention to the Lord Himself as the Great Physician (cf. The word healed here is the greek word iaomai: However Peter makes it clear to these believers exactly how they were healed, saved. Majority of folks believe that Jesus death merely made Salvation possible for all without exception, leaving it up to man to do something to effect Salvation for himself. What is so denied in religion today is the fact that Christs Death, effects, brings about Salvation. My “emptiness” only ended when I surrendered my life to Jesus.24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. Someone said that there is a “hole” in man’s heart that is the exact size of God, and that we will try to fill that up with many things possessions, people, good works, you name it, but until we surrender to God through His Son, all attempts to fill the hole are in vain. However, we are also born with an intense longing to be back in fellowship with our Maker. We are all born with the curse of sin and death that came forth with the Fall. who his own self bare our sins in his body upon the tree, that we, having died unto sins, might live unto righteousness by whose stripes ye were healed. These are not necessarily taught behaviors. who His own self bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness by whose stripes ye were healed. No one can deny that we are all born with a sinful nature. A perfect God cannot have a relationship with rebellious, fallen men, thus the separation. Sin was rebellion against God in the Garden of Eden and, as it separated the first man and woman from fellowship with the Lord, so it does today to you and me. There is not one single righteous person in the world (Romans 3:10 and Psalm 14:1-3).
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