But when it comes down to it, obeying the voice of God included the sacrifices, although I do understand that only the priests preformed them. But see the typology - OUR high priest performed the sacrifice, and we have faith in that finished work - and ultimately are obedient to the voice of God.

"Hi JSL, you must be new in town, for you no not our ways.
Allow me, this is what we do
The second comment above yours (was yours even seen)
I will let William Tyndale do the talking on this one,
(A dead man, not Gods Word
But then you can trust Tyndale, a great man of God, we also like to use other great men of God, like, Calvin, Moody , Weapon of Mass Instruction,
Idiot Files, there words will not return void, for they will cause Division, and you know division is how one is saved, right?
he predated Calvinism, which is an outward shew of deeds, filled with the commandments of men.
(we don't always agree, its more of a down to earth approach to the Gospel, Another Gospel for the most part, thats what we have fun with around here)
man of himself cannot be saved unless he keep the law of God, thorow faith in Christ Jesus
ye cannot find it, unless you have a 1526 Tyndale
(see)
"For this cause the 115th psalm calleth all men liars
(We really like to use verses against each other, you know how contradicting the Bible is)"

You made me laugh ( i'm not being facetious either. Very witty - and mostly right too.)

"The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water, and he moveth it withersoever he wills"

In Isaiah it says

"Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing."

Yes - I have heard James Knox, and what a preacher!! I wish they would put some preaching by Harold Sightler on this site...he's one of my favorites, along with Lester Roloff.

One of my favorites is Attorney David Gibbs. This man can rip your face of without hardley raising his voice. One of the most convicting messages I've heard him preached was called "That spirit of Jezebel". He said that spirit was sweeping America and the Church.

Otts:
What "evidence" can be shown of a "blessing": large numbers? emotionalism? Rogers' returning from the dead?

Although a Southern Baptist, Adrian Rogers was a great preacher and a man of God. I wish he would have left the Convention, but he was a preacher

Hinn, Copeland, Et.al. I agree they are frauds, so please don't put them in the same catagory.

1. Sam Davison - Oklahoma City
2. Dominic Pennachetti - Philladelphia, PA
3. Clarence Sexton - Powell TN
4. Johnny Pope - Houston, TX
5. R. B. Oulette - Lancaster, CA
6. Adrian Rogers (recently deceased) - Memphis, TN

This is an interesting statement, seing I have been told on this site that if one is saved, he is a Calvininst. What if I can't stomach the doctrine of Calvin? You call me an Arminian...but I detest the doctrine that you can lose your salvation ( and actually Calvin called it the Perseverance of the Saints - but WE don't Persevere, JESUS keeps us and presents us faultless before the throne. Sounds like works to me), so how can I be an Arminian. Just like you put God in a box, you wish to put everyone else in a box and slap on a lable.

I have said it seems like a very small God who can not handle the free will of man. Weak people micro-manage and control with their thumb pressed down on their subjects.

And the thing is, is it not so that everyone has the faith necessary to believe (we get on airplanes and sit on chairs and never realize they take faith to do so)?
Where the problem seems to lie is not belief, but in surrender. John 3:19 says:
1And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

How is it an error? Does not love cause God to give space for people to repent? Isn't God's longsufferingness the epitome of love and grace? Isn't God's chastisement love?

I agree that God is a consuming fire, and destroys his enemies, but didn't he even give space to Pharoh to let Israel go before he brought the plagues? Wasn't it love that struck down Nebbuchadnezzer to like like a cow, and brought him to extole the true living God?

The Bible says that God IS Love, just as in the same manner God IS light, and God IS truth. Can God ever be dark? Can God ever do what is not truth? Can God ever not love?

"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"