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Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Is it Scriptural: Keeping the Marriage Bed Pure -Jack Kelley

 

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Keeping the Marriage Bed Pure

Q. We have been in a discussion on “sodomy” in our Christian forum. Hebrews 13:4 warns us to keep the marriage bed pure.   Does this mean a married couple can’t practice “sodomy” or any other so-called  unnatural sexual acts?

 

Q. The Bible doesn’t contain a list of approved sexual acts for married couples. The admonition to keep the marriage pure bed relates to husbands and wives keeping themselves exclusively for each other. I’ve come to the view that what ever a married couple freely agrees to in the privacy of their own bedroom is OK as long as the highest standards of mutual love and respect are maintained. Neither party should ever feel pressured into performing an act they feel is inconsistent with that goal. But anything they both believe will help express their love for each other is permissible.

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Monday, August 29, 2011

Is it Scriptural: Turn It Over To Jesus -Jack Kelley

 

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Turn It Over To Jesus

Q. What does it mean when Christian friends of mine tell me to turn all my troubles over to Jesus, or lay it (them) at the foot of the cross. I’m going through some difficult personal issues and all I hear from my Christian friends is that I need to pray about it and lay my troubles at the foot of the cross or turn it all over to Jesus. When I ask them to explain, they can’t.  They just tell me that Jesus will take care of it. Does this mean I say a prayer about my circumstance, tell Jesus that I turning it all over to him, and then ignore the problem and move on hoping the Lord will take care of the issue? I can tell you that my prayers are going unanswered and I’m not believing that Christ is taking on my problems for me.

 

A. Solving a personal problem can be difficult because the solution is often beyond our control. Making ourselves responsible for a result we don’t have control over is a recipe for stress.  Turning a problem over to Jesus doesn’t mean we ignore it or stop working on it.  It means we change our perspective about it.  We still apply whatever skill or ability we have but we add two things to the mix.  First we pray for divine assistance in finding a solution.  Second we turn the outcome over to the Lord, subordinating our will in the matter to His.

There’s really no risk in this because we know that God is working everything together for our good (Romans 8:28), and giving Him the responsibility for the result takes the stress away.  We just have to be willing to let the Lord produce the result He wants in a situation, even if it turns out to different from the one we wanted.

So laying our problems at the foot of the cross means deciding to let His will be done in a matter, and letting Him work through us to achieve it. Jesus said, “Come to me you who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest” (Matt. 11:28).

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Friday, August 26, 2011

Is it Scriptural: Jesus Is Lord -Jack Kelley

 

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Jesus Is Lord

Q. Is 1Corinthians 12:3 to be taken literally that NO ONE can say Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit?

 

A. I believe during the Church Age 1 Cor. 12:3 should be taken literally.  No one can sincerely say Jesus is Lord except by the Spirit because only born again believers want to have Jesus as their Lord.  Non believers don’t think He’s the Lord and in any case wouldn’t want Him to be.

But at the 2nd Coming, after they see Him return in glory to take command of planet Earth they’ll be forced to admit He’s the Lord of the whole Earth (Phil. 2:9-11, Zech. 14:9) even though they won’t have accepted Him as their Savior. This is why the people of Earth will mourn when they see Him coming on the clouds with power and great glory (Matt. 24:30).

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Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Is it Scriptural: Can We Lose Our Salvation? -Jack Kelley

 

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Can We Lose Our Salvation?

Q. In referring to the security of our salvation, you have said,  “There’s not a single verse anywhere in Scripture that even hints of Him removing His mark, unsealing the Holy Spirit, or rescinding His guarantee.”  Could you please explain Rev 3:5  “He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.”  How can the Lord blot out someone’s name from the book of life if the name was never written in the book of life or if the person will not be removed by the Lord?

 

And in Rev 2:5  “Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.”  From where did these people fall and what do you understand that the Lord will remove their candlestick means?

A. Everyone is listed in the Book of Life from the time of their conception (Psalm 139:16). People get blotted out for failing to do what’s required to be saved from their sins.  If you take Rev. 3:4-5 together you’ll see the Lord was saying that a few people in Sardis were saved, and if the others would do what they had done (obeyed what they had received and heard, which was the gospel) they too would be dressed in white (saved) and the Lord would never blot their names out of the book  of life.  He wasn’t threatening to blot their names out of the book, He was promising that if they accepted the Gospel he would not blot them out.

And in Rev. 2:5 the Lord was criticizing the church at Ephesus of falling from a pure devotion to their first love (the Lord) into a works based community that was in effect so busy in the service of the Lord that they no longer had any time for Him. According toRev. 1:20 each candlestick represented one of the seven churches, so by threatening to remove it He was threatening to disband the congregation at Ephesus. It had nothing to do with the salvation of individual members, but with the church’s focus on works instead of worship.

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Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Is it Scriptural: Can My Grandmother Still Be Saved? -Jack Kelley

 

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Can My Grandmother Still Be Saved?

Q. Would you tell me if there is any biblical basis for my belief that  prayers for the softening of a person’s heart who has already died will be heard from God and accepted? My understanding and view is that God is Lord of the Past, Present and Future; that he exists beyond my comprehension, over and above any time constraints. Because  I view him thus, I believe that my prayers for a softening of my late grandmother’s heart that will lead to her salvation combined with the belief that God desires all to be saved can lead to an intervention in her life by the Lord such that her belief will turn towards him. I’ve asked other Christians what they think about praying for dead loved one’s salvation and have been told by some that ‘what’s done is done and you can’t pray for someone who is already dead’ , but others have agreed with my view and think anything is possible with God. Biblically, which view is correct?

 

A. It pains me to have to say this because I can tell you loved your grand mother very much.  But it appears from the Bible that the over riding purpose of our life is to choose whether to accept the Lord’s death as payment for our sins or not.  When we die the time for making that choice expires and if we haven’t chosen the Lord by then it’s too late. The thought that anything is possible with God doesn’t account for the fact that He has made the issue of salvation a matter of our choice.  Hebrews 9:27 says that man is destined to die but once and after that to face judgment.

But you can take heart in knowing that no one knows what might have taken place in your grand mother’s mind in the last moments of her life.  If with her dying breath she asked the Lord to forgive her sins and accepted Him as her Savior then you’ll see her in Heaven.

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