Welcoem to posts!!
in the future - u will be able to do some more stuff here,,,!! like pat catgirl- i mean um yeah... for now u can only see others's posts :c
@Afrikitty
23 hours ago
"Well, when I'm feeling lowdown and lonesome, 'Sweetheart'....." No more needs to be said. Just get out of there because this man is about to destroy any relationship or friendship he might have had with anybody. The next morning...."Oh, I'm sorry...." It becomes an over riding mantra. "I don't even remember what I said...." How convenient. Noooooo, just pick up your purse and your cigarettes and leave. No more needs to be said.
Hi Don,
I hope you are having a lovely weekend. It's been hot this week, but the end of August has arrived....Yay!
YOu take care now, my dear friend.
Warm hugs and love to you.
Liz. x 🌹
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@DonsTunes
22 hours ago
Well said...enjoy the music and your day dear friend 🤎
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I never thought I would post this type of content here in my community section, but it seems to me that it is necessary for a variety of reasons that I am privy to.
A RESPONSE TO VARIOUS CONVERSATIONS AND OBSERVATIONS.
Are you finding yourself living in a situation with impossible odds? Odds that are never in your favour.
Your life is one day after another of abject misery and despair.
That lovely internet troll, who looks and sounds so nice...
You have quickly discovered that he/she hates you, he/she hates your Saviour,
and he/she hates everything you stand for.
Don't be fooled - if you are a Christian, YOU are who they prey on.
My friends - LEAVE TODAY - don't wait until tomorrow - tomorrow never comes.
Expect to have pain and expect to have pain for a very long time, as I did many years ago.
But I promise, things will get better in the long run and eventually you will be free.
May the Lord comfort and strengthen you through it all.
"...for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light." ~Luke 16:8b
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On Friday 20th June, 2014, I was proclaimed a citizen of the United States of America at 12H10 at the Thomas F. Eagleton United States Courthouse in Saint Louis, Missouri. The ceremony was overseen by the Honourable Kathy A. Surratt-States.
"I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God."
After I was sworn in, having pledged my allegiance to the United States of America alone, and foreswearing all allegiance to my own country of birth, Judge Suratt-States told us that our citizenship was irrevocable -- and that nobody could take it from us.
This means that President Barrack Hussein Obama is, to all intents and purposes, now my federal head, as I have made a solemn covenant with the United States of America, it's Constitution and its people.
However, I can be nothing to this, my new country and its people, if I did not acknowledge who I am and what I stand for in God my Saviour. The Lord Jesus Christ made a covenant with me before the foundation of the world (Ephesians 1:3-6). By His sovereign decree, He set His love on me, and by His foreknowledge, He predestined me to be called into His kingdom at a moment in time, which He alone determined. This day came on 7th March, 1987.
Because of His sovereign covenant, made with me in eternity, my true Federal Head is the Lord Jesus Christ, who purchased my citizenship in His kingdom with his blood when he was crucified and slain on a cross, according to the scriptures (1 Corinthians 15:1-4). He was buried and was raised again for my justification, which is a forensic or legal declaration by Himself that my citizenship in His kingdom and my salvation in Him is irrevocable. He has said so in His word, the Bible, proclaiming: "It is finished" - John 19:30, and: "For the gifts and calling of God are irrevocable" - Romans 11:29.
The Bible speaks of my King like this: "...our Lord Jesus Christ:... who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;..." - 1 Timothy 6:15.
Because of these truths, I become the friend of those who are my brothers and sisters in Christ, but to those who hate Him who is the author, perfector and the finisher of our faith, I become the deadliest of enemies. - Galatians 4:16.
When I pledge my allegiance to this country, its people and its flag, I proclaim: "I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
Because I am a citizen who stands under the true God of the Bible, who knows and understands the meaning of true citizenship, I am able to be what I need to be to the people of his country. To those who love her, I am their friend, and to those who hate her, I am the deadliest of enemies.
God bless America!
Soli Deo Gloria!
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Universal Atonement Disproved From The Covenant of Grace
by Monty L. Collier
PART ONE
"And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me. Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul."
(Jeremiah 32:40-42)
Arminians and Papists, as well as many others today, argue for universal atonement, which is the idea that Jesus Christ died for each individual man, not with the intention of actually redeeming them, but merely to make salvation possible upon the sinner fulfilling the condition to believe by using his so-called free will. Note: for the advocates of universal atonement, the death of Christ was not effectual, nor was it definite, and it carries with it the idea that, because men must use their will to do the work of believing and meeting the required condition for salvation, because their salvation depends ultimately upon their own willpower (not the omnipotent will of God alone), it was possible that Christ may fail to save anyone—in fact, since some are lost, it follows necessarily that Christ did fail to achieve His intention to save some. According to the advocates of this universal atonement, man is not totally depraved, not entirely inclined to hate God and do only evil, but his will is still free and capable of doing the good work of believing the Gospel. In this scheme of universal atonement, both man and God contribute a part of the work required to save the sinner. This is called synergism, and it asserts that Jesus is but half a savior, while man is the other savior. This synergist scheme asserts that salvation is by grace and works, that justification is by faith and works, and that justification is a process of sanctification, which depends upon the obedience and achievements of sinners. Behind this universal atonement is the belief that God loves the reprobates and decretally desires their salvation. This synergist package comes complete with a categorical denial of the following Bible-doctrines: the Omnipotence and Omniscience of God, the Immutability of God, the Sovereign Absolute Predestination of God in All Things, Unconditional Election, Original Sin, Total Depravity, the Justice of God in Justifying His Elect, Limited Atonement, Irresistible Grace, Monergism, Justification by Faith Alone, Salvation by Grace Alone, The Suretyship of Christ Alone, Inward Sanctification by Grace alone, the Perseverance and Preservation of the Saints, and the Scriptural teaching that All Glory Is to God Alone.
However, by contrast, the Bible teaches that God absolutely predestinates all things from eternity, that all things happen necessarily according to His eternal purposes, and due to Jehovah's omniscience and omnipotence, none of His decretal desires can fail to be accomplished. This means that men and angels have never had free will, for God alone has free will. The thoughts and choices of God's rational creatures are all determined by Jehovah, and no creature can choose to do something other than what God has ordained. Part of God's predestination was the decree for Adam to break the Covenant of Works and plunge the human race into death, sin, and misery. As the appointed representative for all his natural descendants, when Adam sinned against the terms of this first Covenant, his guilt was not only charged to his account, but to all of his natural posterity. This made natural man liable for Adam's guilt, as well as all their own personal sins that would follow—and follow they did, for Adam's natural descendants are not only born guilty, but they each inherit his wicked nature. They spring into the world at emnity with God, hating God, and their wills are entirely inclined to do evil. They are incapable of doing any good thing. Left to themselves, they are spiritually dead in their sins and doomed under the condemnation of God's Law.
But, as our lead text teaches, there is a second covenant—a better covenant with better promises. This unilateral covenant was also predestinated from everlasting for the purpose of glorifying God in His Son Jesus Christ by predestinating unto life a definite and peculiar people unto salvation—a people predestinated in Christ. Those God eternally purposed to save are called His elect. Their predestination unto life is based on His eternal love for them and His attribute of unmerited kindness and favor (by grace alone). These elect people were given to the Son to be His bride and church. The Son was sent by the Father to be their Surety and Mediator, to work and merit all the things Adam failed to achieve in the Covenant of Works. The Son and Surety of the Covenant of Grace was predestinated in this covenant to come down from heaven, to take human nature and become like us in all things (sin excepted), to be born in a state of humility, having our guilt charged to him from the moment of His arrival, so Jesus, our Emmanuel, can suffer for our sins as He lives a life of perfect obedience, fulfilling all manner of righteousness in our stead, being Himself perfect and without the slightest sin. The Son of God in this Covenant of Works agreed to come as our substitute, expiate our sins (pay and endure the punishment we deserve for our sins), propitiate the infinite wrath of God (endure God's full fury turned away from us and poured onto Him at the cross), and so covering us from the condemnation of the Law. As our Surety, Jesus not only satisfied the penalty for our sins, but He also provided an active obedience by performing all the good deeds Adam and us should have done. This passive and active obedience provided by our Mediator completely satisfies the totality of the Law's demands. By Christ's vicarious life and death, Jesus purchased and obtained for us everything we need to be justified and saved—even the very faith to receive the Gospel.
In the Covenant of Grace, as our lead text says, the Lamb of God definitely had us in mind, not to turn away from us, but to do us good. That is, He lived and paid the ransom for our sins by dying on the cross in our room and stead. Jesus' intention was to do us good, to wit, to not make salvation merely possible—but to actually redeem us, reconcile us to God, and to remit all of our sins. Christ did not fail to do us good. He succeeded. In the Covenant of Grace, the Son of God promises to give us faith and put the fear of God in our hearts. He promises that we will never depart from Jesus—never cease to believe in Christ—and we will never lose our salvation or judicial state of justification before God. In fact, Jesus promises to rejoice over His elect and do them good. Now since Jesus is God Almighty, who always accomplishes all of His eternal purposes and desires, do you think that Jesus is lying when He makes these solemn covenant promises?
No, Jesus has kept His promise to obtain faith for us and to see it applied to us at His exact predestinated time. Because Jesus' death is effectual, and because Jesus intercedes and mediates for all He died for, everyone of His elect are irresistibly made to believe the Gospel. All who believe the Gospel are members of the Covenant of Grace—they are the elect in Christ alone.
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Universal Atonement Disproved From The Covenant of Grace
by Monty L. Collier
PART TWO
Of course, not everyone in the history of this world believes the Gospel. Some never believe the Gospel. Jesus warns sinners of the consequences of never believing the Gospel: "I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins" (John 8:24). The Bible says: "He that believeth not shall be damned" (Mark 16:16). The last book of our Bible tells us: "But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death" (Revelation 21:8). Our logically consistent Bible, which always teaches truthfully and cannot err, says: "All men have not faith" (2 Thessalonians 3:2).
So, from the Covenant of Grace, we can necessarily infer that since all men do not have faith, since some men will never believe the Gospel and be damned, and since Jesus promised to obtain faith in the Gospel for the salvation of His chosen people in the Covenant of Grace—and to infallibly apply it to all of them for their free justification before God—it follows that Jesus never intended to live and die for all men, nor save all men. It is necessarily implied from the Covenant of Grace that Jesus Christ, our blessed Surety, intended to die only for His elect, pay for their sins alone, and to save them. God limited the atonement of Christ to the elect alone. The redemption accomplished by Christ alone and applied by the Holy Spirit to the elect was a particular redemption—not a universal atonement. Jesus died for His sheep (the elect), not the goats (the reprobates): "I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine. As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd. Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again."
(John 10:14-17)
"Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities."
(Isaiah 53:10-11)
In conclusion, since the Father promises to give the Son whatsoever He asks of Him—"Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession" (Psalm 2:8)—since Jesus' requests to the Father are always heard and accepted—"Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me. And I knew that thou hearest me always" (John 11:41-42)—it follows that Jesus Christ never intended to save the reprobates, never prayed for their salvation—"I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine" (John 17:9)—and so limited the atonement to the elect, which is a particular redemption for His people alone.
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Ps 65:4 Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts:
"But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ. More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ, and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith..." Philippians 3:7-9
"Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. HE WILL WIPE AWAY EVERY TEAR FROM THEIR EYES, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore..." - Revelation 21:3-5