Christopher000 wrote:
By the way, glad to read that, John, but it also speaks to the ongoing issue that you don't seem to ever do your own research on anyone or anything. Seems whatever you believe is based solely upon your own personal opinion, or what you've heard others say about something/someone. This is a dangerous way of determining right from wrong, good from evil, truth from fiction, and separating false doctrine from God's clear Word.

Anyone who saw me REALLY believed I was saved. But my heart was dead, cold and full of sin. I was using God for my own purposes and ends. God will never be a means to anyone's ends. Listen to Paris Reidhead's sermon Ten Shekels and a Shirt.

http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=10180222445

Jon wrote:
PaulB: yes, some amazing treasures are being thrown away, including Bibles! I recently obtained a significant collection of works by Spurgeon, 2 very nice leather bound NASB bibles, and a digital hymnal programmed with over 2000 hymns. All for about ten bucks. The digital hymnal sold for almost 1000 dollars new!

Jon wrote:
Keep your eyes open at yard sales etc. I have run across some amazing books, that you no longer find in these stores, usually for almost nothing. I would guess that almost half of my collection has been obtained in this way.

Well at these dumps we have what's called Share-Sheds. This where people bring stuff that they don't want and pick up stuff they do. You can find anything from clothes, books, computers, you name it. We found about six books by JC Ryle and John Bunyan! Couldn't believe the blessing.

My son was born at 25 weeks. Very premature. According to them, he was not a human being. Well then what was he? They would have us believe that inside the womb he was a non-person, but as soon as he was born he magically became a person.

They then got mad and defensive and said I was convoluting the facts. I just plainly said, it has to be SOMETHING. It can't be nothing.

If it's not a person (of course it is), then it has to fall into the animal category. If that's the case, then why aren't you protecting it? You protect dogs, and eagle eggs and white moths, how come you're not protecting this animal?

Obviously because they know better. They know full well it's a human being inside, they just don't want to admit it as doing so would make them accountable.

Dave wrote:
paulB, thankyou for your kind words to John yurich.
God bless

Dave wrote:
The truth can be offensive for those looking for justification of their lifestyles

John Yurich USA wrote:
I know for a fact that I am saved because I surrendered my life to Christ to become my Savior and Lord and I trust entirely in Him alone for salvation.
PaulB, I know I am saved because of the above statement.

Dr. Tim wrote:
If you don't know by the Word of God, you will never know at all--I John 5:13, Romans 1:16, I Corinthians 15:1-4, Acts 11:14.

Dr. Tim wrote:
John Yurich wrote: "Everybody at that Baptist Church accepts that I am truly saved." Sir, with all due respect, it matters not a whit whether everybody, anybody, somebody or nobody at that church accepts that you are saved. What matters is whether Jesus knows you (John 10:27, cf. Matthew 7:23) and if YOU know that you have eternal life--I John 5:13. If you don't know that you're saved, don't let anyone convince you that you are; if you DO know you're saved, don't let anyone anyone convince you that you're not.

NeedHim wrote:
Paul B;
Spurgeon; Discernment isn't simply a matter of telling the difference between what is right & wrong; rather it's the difference between right & almost right.

NeedHim wrote:
Some other videos & scriptures to break down his bad theology & other false teachers, done in love. For how unloving it's n't to warn one, their is always a way that seems right, but leads to spiritual destruction to one & others. As the narrow way, comes with a great cost, for grace, means, one must die to self, & follow Christ at what ever the cost is, all the while counting the cost amen!
Gals 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; & the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me & gave Himself for me.
http://so4j.com/joel-osteen-false-teacher

Connor7 wrote:
Chris is agent 86, he's still trying to figure out how to do the cone of silence, I on the other hand am far superior than him, and I'm trying to be humble, I have a car that is not only decked with guns, but one of the guns shoots out vegemite, it's to ward off any impending Aussies
it's standard equipment which, our less inferior friend, does not have, and remember that remark he made about you brushing the donkeys teeth? That's because that's his "side job", he's on a mission in Mexico, and his cover is a car washer, which includes washing and brushing the teeth of donkeys.
And he keeps on using his shoe phone, I don't know why, the thing doesn't even work anymore, hopefully he'll figure it out and just use an iPhone.

Christopher000 wrote:
A couple of years or so ago, Olsteen was being interviewed and was asked if he considered homosexuality a sin, and if practicing homosexuals were hellbound. I wish I could remember the answer verbatim, but he answered without answering to the specifics. The answer was beyond vague, and I likened it to the Popes response to the same, "Who am I to judge?"
Hellfire and brimstone, the hard hitting truth, that is, is exactly what people don't want to hear anymore. Either tell them exactly what they want to hear, be vague enough that everyone believes they are accepted, or don't even touch on the potentially offensive topics, and your church will bust at the seams.

Osteen is a businessman that knows how to market himself and his message and sinful man will lap it up.

Seriously? I used those examples to make my point. Did I say you mentioned bartenders and strip club owners? No, of course not. But the parallel is exact. No more should a Christian be a football player or a basketball player or even a polo player than he should be a bartender or the like.

Geoff wrote:
It was a joy to see so many posting here rejecting these vanities of the world and walking in the narrow way of righteousness. Thank you for sharing your thoughts, it was a great encouragement to me.

It's hard sometimes but we must stand for the truth. We must go against the flow. We must stand firm even when our brothers and sister ridicule us.