"And there is no salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men, by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12
The people of this town are the beauty, not just the looks. So things are fitting into place, and I am starting to realize why God sent me here, and why I am under so much attack.
The weather is nice it is about 80 everyday, but it does rain here more than any place in the US. We are in a rain forest area, but there is a lot more beauty to see. It is always very green with jungle like plants, and trees. To me, and I have been everywhere, it is a wonderful place to live, and defiantly it's the right place, to build a pure Christian Church. Sometimes when you get caught up in the world system, you don't even realize where you live. You forget to look at the things God has made for you. I Praise God for sending me here.
And also I say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church; and the gates of Hades shall not overpower it.
I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. Matt. 16:18-19
This place is a rock, volcanic rock, but my name is not Peter, and it is not my church but His church, and I have been hit by Hades, over and over, and I am not going down. I always was uncertain about the bind and loose, I used to think it was permitted or not permitted, then something came along, and said to me lock or unlock to me, So whatever you lock on earth will be locked in heaven. and whatever you unlock on earth will be unlocked in heaven. To me that makes better sense. When I was back in school there wasn't a teacher that could tell me that answer. The keys are, Peter's opening up the Kingdom to the Jews in Acts 2, and then to the Gentiles in Acts 10. Peter revealed Christ's true role, so then Jesus revealed Peter's true role.
This church is out to change lives, to preach Christ, to be transformed through God's word. To gain an understand our obedience to God, To find who and what we are in Christ. If Christ is in us, we can do all things, Phil 4:13. So when we become a Christian, Christ dwells in us, the Holy Spirit is in us. So nothing can separate us. Rom. 8:38-39
Christ is the head of the church, and also the body,and He is the beginning, the first born from the dead; so that He Himself might come to have first place in everything.Col 1:18. So all that trust in Christ shall conquer death, and rise and live with Him eternally. Simple facts of our Lord and the church. So we are ambassadors for Christ, 2Corth. 5:20 and God made Him, who knew no sin, to be sin on our behalf, that we may become the righteousness of God in Him. 2Corth. 5:21. The righteousness of God is a righteousness that comes from God: it is God's way of making a sinner right, or just, before Him. Christ defeated Satan at the cross, and made a public spectacle of darkness, the light of Him overcame the darkness, giving us the opportunity to live our lives in the light, through Him. Col: 2:15. In Him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the richness of His grace.Eph. 1:7. Redemption is actually two words, put into one, the first part of the word means the act of freeing or releasing by paying a ransom price. The second means the act of buying back, or paying a ransom price. So this is what Christ has done for us with His blood.
I have seen today the most evilest thing in my entire life happen, I saw the most loving warm people turn on someone so differently, that this innocent person could die. I was going to send it out to all the prayer warriors, and networks, but it is far to intense and to long of a story, or prayer. I wish people would live in the light, instead of the darkness, and how can people live like that, and have no fear or sympathy for what they have done. I have been all over this country, and nothing I have ever seen today matches this. And I have lived in the street, and not quiet ones, very hard, and very dark streets. What does a person do when they are so helpless, all you can do depend on the love of God, and the strength of God, to fix the situation. How can people change so quickly,and how do personality's change? Is it for money, possessions, accomplishments or saving there own skin? I will give it all to the Lord, and pray all night, if I have to. The power of prayer, is our best, and only thing we can do. May the Lord bless this person, and I pray for the forgiveness of them that know not what they do.
"Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Matt. 28:19-20
This is our true purpose of this church to teach. Jesus was a teacher, so many times throughout the gospels He was called teacher. Times are changing, teaching has lost it's effect, it is forgotten it is replaced with picnics, parties, holiday gatherings, and just socializing before and after church on Sunday. Our job of this church is to make disciples, and to teach them to be able to teach others, and spread the word and the teachings of Christ. A disciple is a follower or a pupil, to learn more about Christ, and to obtain the mind of Christ, and spread the word of Christ. We want so much to be like the early church, with no divisions, clicks, and other misleading's. To preach truth from Christ, because Christ is in us. Our teaching is just to let the lost, or spiritually dead, come alive, and to know that Christ is already available. We all have to understand how simple it all is. To just call upon His name, and to understand that He is Lord over all, and that He suffered and died and shed His blood for all of us, and just to welcome Him in our hearts. And to take this teaching and pass it on to the whole world.
He is the stone which was rejected by you, the builders, but which became the very cornerstone. Acts 4:11
The chief cornerstone, or capstone, or head cornerstone, or headstone, or even the foundation of the earth, all describe Christ as the main stone, for the building of the church. Without Him, there wouldn't be any church, without the foundation, the church would not be able to stand. When the people rejected Christ, they rejected the One who would complete the plan of God for all mankind.
I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but through Me. John 14:6
It is hard sometimes for people to fully understand this, this is a teaching of Christ himself, there is no other way to be saved. God wanted Jesus to be the Savior of the world; and nothing or anything is equal to Jesus Christ. He is our teacher, who died for our sins, taught us the light, and rose from the dead, to prove that He is God's Son. People find this hard to swallow, there is no other way, unless they want to remain in their sins. For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Rom. 3:23 It is not is being a nice person, or just believing in God, and think you will enter heaven, you won't. You have to come to Christ, to know Him, and except Him. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Rom. 6:23 Our lives should have a pure focus on Jesus, God planned this so we could have an eternal relationship with Him. If one person could read this and understand it, my work has been accomplished.
Sometimes we all need to get away and spend time with our Father, good time, may it be just walking around this park, or walking along the beach, it does settle me down, and there are times when I feel the presence of God. He brings me peace, as I pray, although I have gone through alot of difficulty just getting here, and now trying to finish this project and rely totally on Him, I have had some fear, I am not perfect, and there hours of desperation, where I will seek another job, and if I receive it, there would not be anytime for this church. This is my work and during this long period of time God has been with me. Anytime I would try to do something else, He would pull me out of it, and continue with teaching me the ways of His Word. Everything that God has taught me I wish I could remember it all, but the teachings are all there, and they come out when He chooses. Faith is the key, no matter how hard we get attacked, because sometimes God does permit it, just to make us stronger, and to rely on Him for all things, not on your bank account, and how much money you have coming in, and going out, this is where you find peace. To give everything to Him, your worries, problems, and things of the future. He is there, and He will never leave us, or forsake us.
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, shall guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.
Finally , brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, what ever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. Phil.4:6-8
The LORD will guide you always;
he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame.
You will be like a well-watered garden,
like a spring whose waters never fail. Isa. 5:11 NIV
20 Spiritual Gifts
Romans 12
4 For just as we have many members in one body and all the members do not have the same function,
5 so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
6 And since we have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, each of us is to exercise them accordingly: if (prophesy), according to the proportion of his faith;
7 if service, in his (serving); or he who teaches, in his (teaching);
8 or he who exhorts, in his (exhortation); he who (gives), with liberality; he who (leads), with diligence; he who shows (mercy), with cheerfulness.
Prophecy
Serving
Teaching
Exhortation
Giving
Leadership
Compassion, mercy
1 Corinthians 12
4 Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit.
5 And there are varieties of ministries, and the same Lord.
6 There are varieties of effects, but the same God who works all things in all persons.
7 But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.
8 For to one is given the word of (wisdom) through the Spirit, and to another the word of (knowledge) according to the same Spirit;
9 to another (faith) by the same Spirit, and to another gifts of (healing) by the one Spirit,
10 and to another the effecting of (miracles), and to another (prophecy), and to another the (distinguishing of spirits), to another various kinds of (tongues), and to another the (interpretation) of tongues.
11 But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually just as He wills.
Wisdom
Knowledge
Faith
Healing
Miracles
Discernment
Tongues
Interpretation
1 Corinthians 12
27 Now you are Christ's body, and individually members of it.
28 And God has appointed in the church, first (apostles), second (prophets), third (teachers), then (miracles), then gifts of (healings), (helps), (administrations), various kinds of tongues.
29 All are not (apostles), are they? All are not (prophets), are they? All are not (teachers), are they? All are not workers of (miracles), are they?
30 All do not have gifts of (healings), do they? All do not speak with (tongues), do they? All do not (interpret), do they?
Apostleship
Helps
Administration
Ephesians 4
7 But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ's gift.
8 Therefore it says,
" WHEN HE ASCENDED ON HIGH,
HE LED CAPTIVE A HOST OF CAPTIVES,
AND HE GAVE GIFTS TO MEN."
9 (Now this expression, "He ascended," what does it mean except that He also had descended into the lower parts of the earth?
10 He who descended is Himself also He who ascended far above all the heavens, so that He might fill all things.)
11 And He gave some as (apostles), and some as (prophets), and some as (evangelists), and some as (pastors) and teachers,
Evangelism
Pastoring
Prophecy - is speaking what God wants said with clarity, creativity, and power. It is also called the gift of Preaching. The primary ministry in this gift is not prediction, but in confronting people with the truth about God and man--with conviction and repentance as the result.
Serving - is a gift which expresses the love of Christ by taking care of lowly or time-consuming tasks to allow others to be more effective ministers. Similar to the gift of Helps, but here the work performed is menial rather than skilled. Those with this gift are the truest and highest leaders in the church, and ought to be recognized as such.
Teaching - is the ability to understand and communicate the Christian faith so as to make the truth clear to others. The result of this gift is the equipping and maturing of others in the body of Christ so that they will grow in grace and be more effective disciples.
Exhortation - is the gift of being able to encourage others by well timed and wise counsel. This gift builds the Body of Christ by helping new, young and adolescent disciples to turn from sin and believe in the power of the Holy Spirit. Also called the gift of Counseling, or the gift of Encouragement.
Giving - empowers one in a sensitive way to detect material or financial needs and meet those needs with Spirit inspired generosity. Recipients of help from Christians with this gift have a clear sense that God has provided, not man.
Leadership - in the Greek is actually "he who provides leadership in giving aid". These go first and lead by example, so that others are motivated to follow. Those with the gift of leadership are quick to identify problems and show by doing how to minister to those in need.
Compassion - transcends both natural human sympathy and normal Christian concern, enabling one to sense in others a wide range of emotions and then provide a supportive ministry of caring and intercessory prayer. Also called the gift of Mercy.
Healing - is a "sign gift" which enables one to function as an instrument of God's healing grace in the lives of hurting people. The gifts of healings (double plural in the Greek text) include miraculous healing of the body, the mind, the emotions, and relationships.
Miracles - is another "sign gift" where the gifted person is able to cast out demons, show a supernatural sign to unbelievers, or perform a public healing--even in a hostile and unsupportive situation--all to the glory of God. Those with this gift will be humble, broken people, full of the fear of God.
Tongues - enable some Christians (1 Cor 12:30) to praise God either in another language not learned (Acts 2) or in ecstatic utterance which is not an earthly language (1 Cor 14). In either case, one's prayer is directed to God, not to other people (1 Cor 14:2).
Interpretation of Tongues - is required if speaking in tongues is exercised publicly in a loud voice. This gift allows one to declare to others the intent or meaning of the public ecstatic utterance, so that the entire Body is built up.
Wisdom - is special illumination that enables one in a specific instance to grasp divine insight regarding a fact, situation, or context. This gift is useful in directing the Body in what to do next; in making God's will known.
Knowledge - is an ability to remember Scripture or have it supernatural quickened, or to know a fact or truth about a person or situation revealed directly by the Holy Spirit--sometimes termed a word of knowledge.
Faith - as a gift is an extraordinary confidence in God that is unshakable by situations, pain, apparent failure, or ridicule. This gift strengthens the individual and other believers (by example) to endure persecution and wait upon the Lord.
Discernment - is the heightened ability to read or hear a teaching, to encounter a problem, or to consider a proposed course of action, and then determine whether the source behind the teaching, problem, or action is divine, merely human, or satanic. This will be a much needed gift near the End of the Age.
Apostleship - is the ability to communicate across cultural barriers and plant churches where there is no knowledge of the gospel. It is usually accompanied with a distinct calling and a miraculous lifestyle. In Greek (apostolos) "a sent one", or "a messenger", a Missionary.
Helps - enables one to assist people in skilled ways that are supernaturally enhanced by the anointing of the Holy Spirit. The helped person has the impression that they have been touched by God. Those with this gift should be highly esteemed in the Body.
Administration - is a gift that provides insight into other people's spiritual gifting as well as natural talent, which allows for placing people who want to minister in a particular way together with those who need just this ministry. These are "well connected" advisors in the body.
Evangelism - is a special ability to lead unconverted persons to a saving knowledge of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The person with this gift has the wisdom to know when, who, and how to call the rebellious into the Kingdom of God. Evangelists are the spiritual "obstetricians" in the church.
Pastoring - is the collective (plural in Greek) ministry of the Elders to "shepherd" an individual or community of Christian believers. This gift is a special passion and empowering to lead people into green pastures, steer others away from danger, fight off predators, and bind up wounds.
The gift table and definitions are based in part on K. C. Kinghorn's Gifts of the Spirit
All scripture reference on the spiritual gifts are taken from the NASB
The Canons of the Council of Orange 529 AD
CANON 1. If anyone denies that it is the whole man, that is, both body and soul, that was "changed for the worse" through the offense of Adam's sin, but believes that the freedom of the soul remains unimpaired and that only the body is subject to corruption, he is deceived by the error of Pelagius and contradicts the scripture which says, "The soul that sins shall die" (Ezek. 18:20); and, "Do you not know that if you yield yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are the slaves of the one whom you obey?" (Rom. 6:12); and, "For whatever overcomes a man, to that he is enslaved" (2 Pet. 2:19).
CANON 2. If anyone asserts that Adam's sin affected him alone and not his descendants also, or at least if he declares that it is only the death of the body which is the punishment for sin, and not also that sin, which is the death of the soul, passed through one man to the whole human race, he does injustice to God and contradicts the Apostle, who says, "Therefore as sin came into the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all men sinned" (Rom. 5:12).
CANON 3. If anyone says that the grace of God can be conferred as a result of human prayer, but that it is not grace itself which makes us pray to God, he contradicts the prophet Isaiah, or the Apostle who says the same thing, "I have been found by those who did not seek me; I have shown myself to those who did not ask for me" (Rom 10:20, quoting Isa. 65:1).
CANON 4. If anyone maintains that God awaits our will to be cleansed from sin, but does not confess that even our will to be cleansed comes to us through the infusion and working of the Holy Spirit, he resists the Holy Spirit himself who says through Solomon, "The will is prepared by the Lord" (Prov. 8:35, LXX), and the salutary word of the Apostle, "For God is at work in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure" (Phil. 2:13).
CANON 5. If anyone says that not only the increase of faith but also its beginning and the very desire for faith, by which we believe in Him who justifies the ungodly and comes to the regeneration of holy baptism -- if anyone says that this belongs to us by nature and not by a gift of grace, that is, by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit amending our will and turning it from unbelief to faith and from godlessness to godliness, it is proof that he is opposed to the teaching of the Apostles, for blessed Paul says, "And I am sure that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ" (Phil. 1:6). And again, "For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not your own doing, it is the gift of God" (Eph. 2:8). For those who state that the faith by which we believe in God is natural make all who are separated from the Church of Christ by definition in some measure believers.
CANON 6. If anyone says that God has mercy upon us when, apart from his grace, we believe, will, desire, strive, labor, pray, watch, study, seek, ask, or knock, but does not confess that it is by the infusion and inspiration of the Holy Spirit within us that we have the faith, the will, or the strength to do all these things as we ought; or if anyone makes the assistance of grace depend on the humility or obedience of man and does not agree that it is a gift of grace itself that we are obedient and humble,
he contradicts the Apostle who says, "What have you that you did not receive?" (1 Cor. 4:7), and, "But by the grace of God I am what I am" (1 Cor. 15:10).
CANON 7. If anyone affirms that we can form any right opinion or make any right choice which relates to the salvation of eternal life, as is expedient for us, or that we can be saved, that is, assent to the preaching of the gospel through our natural powers without the illumination and inspiration of the Holy Spirit, who makes all men gladly assent to and believe in the truth, he is led astray by a heretical spirit, and does not understand the voice of God who says in the Gospel, "For apart from me you can do nothing" (John 15:5), and the word of the Apostle, "Not that we are competent of ourselves to claim anything as coming from us; our competence is from God" (2 Cor. 3:5).
CANON 8. If anyone maintains that some are able to come to the grace of baptism by mercy but others through free will, which has manifestly been corrupted in all those who have been born after the
transgression of the first man, it is proof that he has no place in the true faith. For he denies that the free will of all men has been weakened through the sin of the first man, or at least holds that it has been affected in such a way that they have still the ability to seek the mystery of eternal salvation by themselves without the revelation of God. The Lord himself shows how contradictory this is by declaring that no one is able to come to him "unless the Father who sent me draws him" (John 6:44),
as he also says to Peter, "Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jona! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven" (Matt. 16:17), and as the Apostle says, "No one can say 'Jesus is Lord' except by the Holy Spirit" (1 Cor. 12:3).
CANON 9. Concerning the succor of God. It is a mark of divine favor when we are of a right purpose and keep our feet from hypocrisy and unrighteousness; for as often as we do good, God is at work in us and with us, in order that we may do so.
CANON 10. Concerning the succor of God. The succor of God is to be ever sought by the regenerate and converted also, so that they may be able to come to a successful end or persevere in good works.
CANON 11. Concerning the duty to pray. None would make any true prayer to the Lord had he not received from him the object of his prayer, as it is written, "Of thy own have we given thee" (1 Chron. 29:14).
CANON 12. Of what sort we are whom God loves. God loves us for what we shall be by his gift, and not by our own deserving.
CANON 13. Concerning the restoration of free will. The freedom of will that was destroyed in the first man can be restored only by the grace of baptism, for what is lost can be returned only by the one who was able to give it. Hence the Truth itself declares: "So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed" (John 8:36).
CANON 14. No mean wretch is freed from his sorrowful state, however great it may be, save the one who is anticipated by the mercy of God, as the Psalmist says, "Let thy compassion come speedily to meet us" (Ps. 79:8), and again, "My God in his steadfast love will meet me" (Ps. 59:10).
CANON 15. Adam was changed, but for the worse, through his own iniquity from what God made him. Through the grace of God the believer is changed, but for the better, from what his iniquity has done for him. The one, therefore, was the change brought about by the first sinner; the other, according to the Psalmist, is the change of the right hand of the Most High (Ps. 77:10).
CANON 16. No man shall be honored by his seeming attainment, as though it were not a gift, or suppose that he has received it because a missive from without stated it in writing or in speech. For the Apostle speaks thus, "For if justification were through the law, then Christ died to no purpose" (Gal. 2:21); and "When he ascended on high he led a host of captives, and he gave gifts to men" (Eph. 4:8, quoting Ps. 68:18). It is from this source that any man has what he does; but whoever denies that he has it from this source either does not truly have it, or else "even what he has will be taken away" (Matt. 25:29).
CANON 17. Concerning Christian courage. The courage of the Gentiles is produced by simple greed, but the courage of Christians by the love of God which "has been poured into our hearts" not by freedom of will from our own side but "through the Holy Spirit which has been given to us" (Rom. 5:5).
CANON 18. That grace is not preceded by merit. Recompense is due to good works if they are performed; but grace, to which we have no claim, precedes them, to enable them to be done.
CANON 19. That a man can be saved only when God shows mercy. Human nature, even though it remained in that sound state in which it was created, could be no means save itself, without the assistance of the Creator; hence since man cannot safe- guard his salvation without the grace of God, which is a gift, how will he be able to restore what he has lost without the grace of God?
CANON 20. That a man can do no good without God. God does much that is good in a man that the man does not do; but a man does nothing good for which God is not responsible, so as to let him do it.
CANON 21. Concerning nature and grace. As the Apostle most truly says to those who would be justified by the law and have fallen from grace, "If justification were through the law, then Christ died to no
purpose" (Gal. 2:21), so it is most truly declared to those who imagine that grace, which faith in Christ advocates and lays hold of, is nature: "If justification were through nature, then Christ died to no purpose." Now there was indeed the law, but it did not justify, and there was indeed nature, but it did not justify. Not in vain did Christ therefore die, so that the law might be fulfilled by him who said, "I have come not to abolish them but to fulfil them" (Matt. 5:17), and that the nature which had been
destroyed by Adam might be restored by him who said that he had come "to seek and to save the lost" (Luke 19:10).
CANON 22. Concerning those things that belong to man. No man has anything of his own but untruth and sin. But if a man has any truth or righteousness, it from that fountain for which we must thirst in this desert, so that we may be refreshed from it as by drops of water and not faint on the way.
CANON 23. Concerning the will of God and of man. Men do their own will and not the will of God when they do what displeases him; but when they follow their own will and comply with the will of God, however willingly they do so, yet it is his will by which what they will is both prepared and instructed.
CANON 24. Concerning the branches of the vine. The branches on the vine do not give life to the vine, but receive life from it; thus the vine is related to its branches in such a way that it supplies them with what they need to live, and does not take this from them. Thus it is to the advantage of the disciples, not Christ, both to have Christ abiding in them and to abide in Christ. For if the vine is cut down another can shoot up from the live root; but one who is cut off from the vine cannot live without the root (John15:5ff).
CANON 25. Concerning the love with which we love God. It is wholly a gift of God to love God. He who loves, even though he is not loved, allowed himself to be loved. We are loved, even when we displease him, so that we might have means to please him. For the Spirit, whom we love with the Father and the Son, has poured into our hearts the love of the Father and the Son (Rom. 5:5).
And we know and also believe that It took a while to find a free site to get this good biblical information and learning and teaching, You know there has been so many words written long ago that we all should follow, we must under the blessing of God preach and teach these words from the holy scriptures, the world now is completely falling apart and we have to stick to certain aspects to what is good and bad we must follow the word to a tee, we know for sure the day that Adam messed up everything went down hill and great people have been trying to hold this world together by these ancient writings, the situation is square that Abel, and all the righteous others that are spoken in (Hebrews 11) plus we can’t miss Noah who listened to God and he and his family were saved from a world wide disaster, that is what we are facing now, we can’t forget the big men like Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and of course the Apostle Paul and whoever wrote the book of Hebrews, God is a God of faith we must retain it and have the same faith or more then some of these great men, suffering helps us to understand what Jesus went through to save our souls from the second death and to give us the wisdom to carry on sound doctrine for others who are interested to want to be on that train to heaven, or that stairway what ever or how we look at it. We all have been given the divine grace and mercy otherwise you would not be here reading this right now. The thing is like I said before even after coming to our Lord being baptized we still have to control our free will into loving others and our Lord and Word. People have to understand that if we don’t change our hearts now we will never make it into heaven, just because we said the sinners prayer and is not even in the bible which I can not explain, that is all people today want to do, say the prayer and your saved, no things are not that easy. Let us go over some scriptures and just give you that extra hope. For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake; (Phil 1:29 KJV), Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ: (Phil 1:6 KJV) For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. (Eph 2:8-10 KJV) 25Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful. (1Cor. 7:25 KJV) 13Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. (1Tim. 1:13 KJV) Paul says many words that go along with these scriptures, He admitted that he obtained mercy to be faithful, He didn’t say because I was faithful, (but to be faithful), and what have you that you did not receive? For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it? (1Cor. 4:7 KJV) --- Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. (James 1:17 KJV) John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven. (John 3:27:KJV) There are many scriptures that can prove the case for grace, but they were absent because of briefness, we don’t need much when we have the main few, and these are adequate. God gives us everything we need, and if we have to die a martyr so be it, all we need is Christ, these last three years of tears and I am down to the wire to see if I am going to get fixed, 2 days away and now answers over a hundred bucks and some cab fare for a man’s life, and all that stuff on the 30th to destroy the money on the credit card just in time no warning, you turn you computer on and it says well your not protected, you have 0 days left , no warning no it took me so much or God blessed me so much that I was finally in the green on the last church card, and I have days to round up money, you know what kind of stress I am under? My appointment for this doctor is on the third and today is the 1st late at night. But the thing is God told me this morning that everything is going to be alright, I should have more trust, but when you have 3 years work on this site to save lives, I could have just bought a Harley and just been having fun everyday, meeting people and having fun, I chose the church and the money for the church and to make it better, I thought about that today, and here I sit alone stranded can’t even hitch-hike into town for a prescription. I was sweating all over and I was nervous, can anyone blame me. And the rain came down so hard even bad for the truck because the water leaks into the computer, it rained so hard today it sounded like a hail storm. Then I go to pop in a tape and that was all broken then I had to tear apart the whole tape area just to find the head cleaner and I was already asleep because I vacuumed the waiting room, why do I call it the waiting room no one ever waits there. Maybe some day when I get my counseling stuff going, or the Biblical counseling going, I need people. God bless everyone!
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The Councils of Orange (or the Synods of Orange) comprised two synods held at Orange, France. The first took place on November 8, AD 441, under the presidency of Hilary of Arles, with Eucherius of Lyons also being present. Seventeen bishops attended the meeting. Thirty canons (or judgements) were passed, dealing with unction, the Permission of penance, the right of asylum; recommending caution to bishops in the ordination of foreign clergy, the consecration of churches outside of their own jurisdictions, and other matters; imposing limitations on the administration of ecclesiastical rites to those who were in any way defective, either in body or mind; and emphasizing the duty of celibacy for those belonging to the clerical state, especially deacons and widows, with express reference to canon viii. of the Synod of Turin (AD 401). The exact interpretation of some of them (ii., iii., xvii.) is doubtful. Canon iv. is alleged to be in conflict with a decretal of Pope Siricius; and ii. and xviii. betray an inclination to resist the introduction of Roman customs. These canons were confirmed at the Synods of Arles about 443.
On July 3, 529, another synod took place at Orange, which in the mean time had passed under Burgundian and then Ostrogothic rule. This meeting, for which occasion was given by the consecration of a church built by the governor of Gallia Narbonensis, was attended by fourteen bishops under the presidency of Caesarius of Arles. Its decrees, which have a certain importance in the history of Augustinianism, received the papal sanction.
The Councils of Orange (or the Synods of Orange) see below-V
