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Good mornin' everybody!...My Christian brothers & sisters, the irresolutors & the heathens!, how is everyone today on this fine, beautiful 2nd day of June?...I'm fine myself thankyou!

Let me start today with the Lord's prayer. For you irresolutors & heathens, I don't know what you do, you have no instruction manual, no guide for your lives but we Christians have a instruction manual and it's called the Holy Bible and the author is God. Ok let's recite the Lord's Prayer. Fee free my irresolutor & heathen brothers & sisters to recite the prayer below. Ok let's bow our heads and pray.

Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever, Amen.----Matthew 6:9:13

Praise the Lord Almighty!!

The Book of Isaiah

The author is Isaiah or his followers, the events of chapters 1-39 occurred during Isaiah's ministry, so they were probably written around 700 B.C. Chapters 40-66 however, may have ben written near the end of his life, around 681 B.C.

Isaiah's long ministry lasted almost 60 years and covered the reigns of four kings, including Hezekiah. The prophecies of Isaiah were primarily given to the people of Judah, although his messages applied to the northern kingdom of Israel as well. Isaiah lived through the dark days of the civil war between Israel and Judah (734-732 B.C.) and saw the destruction of Israel by Assyria in 722 B.C. Isaiah used the grim lesson of Israel's fall to teach King Hezekiah of Judah to trust in the Lord. Isaiah also spoke about events that took place after his own time, including the coming exile of Judah to Babylon and the deliverance that God would provide afterward. Isaiah also warned the nations surrounding Israel and Judah that they, too, would be judged for their actions. In the end, however, Isaiah offered a message of hope and comfort for Judah, promising that God would restore them after their punishment was completed. Isaiah's messages, like those of most prophets, made him few friends during his lifetime. Nevertheless, he faithfully continued to bring God's message to the world.

Praise the Lord Almighty!!

Why Were You BORN?

Is there PURPOSE for human life? Does life, after all, have real meaning? Here is the awesome truth!

(Note: If you want the entire 23 parts to this series go to website: thetruechurch.net. Also br. van who currently is a heathen gave you Part 14 of 23 three days ago but yesterday he didn't give you part of 16 of 23 and so today I continue with part 16 of the series. I guess the Good Lord only needed to use the heathen a few days, again as they say the Lord works in mysterious ways.)

The prophet Isaiah explains this also: "But now, O Lord, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand" (Isa. 64:8).

And in calling us forth from the grave, in the resurrection, God will have a desire to finish the work of his hands. The model, from which the finished spiritual product is to be molded, is material substance---mortal human clay.

In the creation of Genesis 1, God formed and shaped man physically, into God's image. But we do not, as humans, have the spiritual character of the perfect God. During this life-time, for those whom God calls, if they yield and respond, God begins to re-form and shape them spiritually, while they become more and more like him in spiritual character.

For this grand and glorious purpose, God has marked out a duration of seven thousand years! Each 24-hour day of the Genesis 1 creation was a type of one of the seven millennial days of the spiritual creation.

Except for those whom God specially and individually calls, for the first six millennial days, God leaves man to write his lesson in human experience. Man made the choise of relying on himself under sway and influence of Satan. God is allowing man to demonstrate beyond question his helplessness---without God's Holy Spirit--to live in a way the produces peace, happiness, and universal abundance.

Or, the parallel: God is allowing Satan the six millennial days for his labor deception and evil. And on the seventh millenial day he shall not be allowed to do any of his evil work---he shall be imprisoned (Rev. 20:1-3), while the living Christ brings truth and salvation to the world.

Now let's look briefly at the importance of redemption in all this. What is redemption?

We read in Ephesians 2:8, 10 "By grace are ye saved through faith....For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them". Notice, there are good works to salvation.

The "we" in New Testament language usually means Christians---those truly converted. We, then, are God's workmanship. Yes! "Created"---now being created---to what objective---to what purpose? Note it! "Unto good works"! Unto perfect spiritual character!

Now the apostle Paul is here is not speaking of Adam's creation, six thousand years ago. He is speaking of Christians, now, being created---unto good works. We are his workmanship---the Creator is still creating. He is molding, fashioning, changing us, transforming us to his own noble, righteous, holy, spiritual character. Yes, creating in us this perfect character.

Redemption, therefore, is a process!

But how "the god of this world" ( 2 Cor, 4:4) would blind your eyes to that! He tries to deceive you into thinking all there is to it is just "accepting Christ"---with "no works"--- and presto-chango, you're pronounced "saved."

The Bible reveals that "he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved" (Matt. 24:13) "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature..." (2 Cor. 5:17). Yes, a new creation!

"And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; and that ye put on the new man, which after God is (being) created in righteousness and true holiness" (Eph. 4:23-24).

It all begins in the faculty we call the mind. Repentance, the first step in salvation, is a change of mind. We believe through the mind. The receiving and indwelling of the Holy Spirit is a renewing of the mind. Gradually, through Bible study, learning to live by "every Word of God," being continually corrected, keeping in constant prayer, the yielded person develops the very mind of God. And thus the new man---a holy, spiritual character---is being created in righteousness, and in true holiness.

No, it's not my poor reading comprehension skills but rather it's your very poor ability in formulating a question to make it perfectly clear as to what you are trying to convery over to the one's taking on your question, to get a response that you expect.. It's you that can't comprehend your own question...lol must be that ape-like animal creature mentality of yours...lol j/k sometimes I like to throw in some humor, otherwise this thread will be too boring...lol

You specically asked on post #1504 on pg. 61, "Name one time where a previous unknown phenomena on earth was discovered and the cause of it had a supernatural explanation?" Examples: Earthquakes, Rain, thunder, lighting, fire, rainbows ect...all at one point were thought to be the direct work of deities and or the supernatural. Once we found out what the real cause was it turned out to be a 100% natural and scientific explanation.

And I told you about the phenomena that occurred in Fatima, Portugal in the year 1917, during the 1st World War, where approx. 70,000 people discovered and saw this phenomena where they saw the sun literally dance in the sky and the explanation of it could only have been supernatural, a sign from the Heavens, a sign from God. Witnesses later spoke of the sun appearing to change colors and rotate like a wheel. Before the astonished eyes of the crowd, whose aspect was biblical as they stood bare-headed, eagerly searching the sky, the sun trembled, made sudden incredible movements outside all cosmic laws - the sun 'danced' according to the typical expression of the people.

And so mrgetrich, this dancing of the sun witnessed by approx. 70,000 people, cannot be explained by natural and scientific explanation, it is the work of God. Till today no scientists can explain why it happened. Remember now this is 1917 and no one had cell phone cameras, or hand held video cameras...lol but in attendance there were newspaper reporters and photographers and so they must have gotten some photo evidence. But read this entire story of this biblical occurence. One could go to wikipedia and type in: Our Lady of Fatima.

Lastly, if my answer failed the question you asked, try using a different way of formulating it because evidently you didn't ask the way you really wanted to but I indeed answered it the way it was presented....oh yeah!

And if you can't believe 70,000 witnesses, who are you?, being an individual, wanting people to believe you that your great, great, great, great, great grand dad was an ape-like animal creature from the Blue Lagoon....huhuhaha!...huhuhaha!...huhuhaha!

So God created human beings, in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. ---Genesis 1:27

Praise the Lord Almighty!!