Thanks Mike. Love this line... “ We have no idea who the unregenerate elect are. We must get the gospel to everyone so God will use its general call to strive with the hearts of those elect who have yet to believe. When ungodly people attack us, make fun of us, ridicule us or simply… Continue reading God Will Judge the Ungodly
Category: Ten Lists Bible Plan 2020
The Cost of Following Jesus
A good message on the narrow way.
Old John Bunyan speaks to this in various chapters of Pilgrims Progress and also in his short work….The Strait Gate,
or, Great difficulty of going to heaven.
John Bunyan48
Published twelve years before John Bunyan died in 1688.
“The Lord awaken poor sinners by my little book.” – Excerpt
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by Mike Ratliff
62 But Jesus said to him, “No one, after putting his hand to the plow and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.” Luke 9:62 (NASB)
One of the most tragic aspects of the growing apostasy of the Church, with its roots in Pelagianism and Semi-Pelagianism, is the viewing of salvation as “easy” or something that can be planned or manipulated by men. Along with this, those who are its proponents must necessarily view God as somewhat less than Sovereign. They also do not teach that those who come to Jesus must necessarily become subject to Christ as their Lord. What did Jesus say about this?
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Spiritual Truth comes from God not by Intellectual Reasoning
Mike has a good message.
Matthew 5:10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
by Mike Ratliff
15 Then she said, “Behold, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and her gods; return after your sister-in-law.” 16 But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or turn back from following you; for where you go, I will go, and where you lodge, I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God, my God. 17 Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. Thus may the Lord do to me, and worse, if anything but death parts you and me.” 18 When she saw that she was determined to go with her, she said no more to her. Ruth 1:15-18 (NASB)
God’s ways are not our ways. His ways are higher than ours. Those who have moved on into God’s stride have learned to view their circumstances in light of who God is. On the…
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Today’s Reading – Job 1 & Psalm 63
Well I confess despite Sheltering in Place, it is all too easy to neglect and even more difficult to keep up with my Ten List's Bible Reading. Just finishing 630 chapter today the half way point of the year. And since there are just under 1,200 chapters in the Bible, I am barely keeping up… Continue reading Today’s Reading – Job 1 & Psalm 63
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