tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2736720231951988221.post5486719138585334376..comments2023-10-07T04:07:56.527-04:00Comments on The End Time: Jude 1:11- The process of apostasy revealedElizabeth Pratahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04341086233512507156noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2736720231951988221.post-4638426257517994122015-10-14T05:53:31.353-04:002015-10-14T05:53:31.353-04:00living from glory to glory, thank you for reading!...living from glory to glory, thank you for reading! The Lord enables me, the Lord sustains me, and it's all for His glory.<br /><br />Thanks for the encouragement :)Elizabeth Pratahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04341086233512507156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2736720231951988221.post-10994464160878426302015-10-13T23:42:00.153-04:002015-10-13T23:42:00.153-04:00Thank you! I am learning so much from your posts.
...Thank you! I am learning so much from your posts.<br />You are a very wise woman...<br />You have studied to show yourself approved.living from glory to gloryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07123718369605106023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2736720231951988221.post-4925696569486665652015-10-13T20:22:25.465-04:002015-10-13T20:22:25.465-04:00Bloggerjim thank you for sharing your poignant and...Bloggerjim thank you for sharing your poignant and heartfelt thoughts. It is a hard row to how, that is for sure. My own father never claimed Christ and he died last December. We can trust the Lord that all His ways are good. I'm clinging to the promise that He will allow us to forget the former things, as Isaiah 65:17 says. Likely we will be so enthralled with His glory that any sadness or questioning of why our loved ones are in hell will scatter away and be made clear when looking through the lens of holiness that is Jesus.<br /><br />May He shower you with grace and peace.Elizabeth Pratahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04341086233512507156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2736720231951988221.post-36115852749802313732015-10-13T19:38:36.936-04:002015-10-13T19:38:36.936-04:00I do not expect to see my mother in Heaven. It wil...I do not expect to see my mother in Heaven. It will be a tragedy of the worst sort. Born into the daughter of Baptist deacon in a rural area of Oklahoma, literally just out of reach of the shadow of the little church. She grew up gifted, speaking three American Indian languages, and judged an exceptional girl in the eyes of the English-speaking, American world. <br /><br />After she spent the summer as a camp counselor in Pennsylvania, the family of a well-to-do physician approached my grandparents with an offer to adopt her. My grandparents, of course, said no to the offer, but my mother and the daughter of that family stayed in touch for decades. Every Christmastime, the daugher would send my mother a sizeable check as a gift.<br /><br />But my mother was unsaved. Through her middle- and old-age years, I would occasionally ask her if she was a Christian--a born-again Christian. <br /><br />Her answer was always, "Yes."<br />Then I'd ask, "Mom, how do you know that." (You can tell that I could not see the Fruit of the Spirit in her life. Sometimes, she would grow testy at my question.)<br />"Because I believe," she would ALWAYS say.<br />"And what do you believe?"<br />"Because I have faith," she would say.<br />"That's good, Mom," I would say. "What do you believe in?"<br />"In him."<br />"What do you believe about him?"<br />There was usually some answers that did not make Biblical sense.<br />"Well, Mom, here's what I believe about Jesus Christ. The Bible says that<br />I am a sinner in Romans 3:23. It says that all have sinned and come short of the<br />Glory of God in Romans 6:23. The Bible also says that if I believe that Jesus is Lord,<br />and I confess with my mouth and believe in my heart that God raised Him from the Dead, I am saved, in Romans 10:8-19.. And finally, Mom, Scriptures say that all who call upon the name of the Lord will be saved," in Romans 10:13. It's all very clear."<br /><br />At this point, she began to show her impatience with me, a son who would dare question her salvation, she, the daughter of a deacon, who had grown up in the church.<br /><br />I said all of that to say this. She always exhibited the characteristics you described about Jude 11. . I could never hear her understanding that Salvation was establishing a relationship with God through Christ. The sin that she rushed headlong into were not huge, earthshaking disco-brawling-bar-fighting-yelling-and-screaming. The7 were the simplest of pride, well-disguised inpatience with the Gospel, and then finally, a swelling up of rejection of my witness--or anyone's witness. I asked my aunt to speak with her. <br /><br />None of it, any of it, ever shook loose from the sin in her life into eternal life that I could discern. <br /><br />The only comfort I have is the counsel of a preacher friend of mine, how with the Lord. "Jim," he said. "God never makes a mistake. I she did slip into eternal life, he will know it."<br /><br />It's all that I have left to hope. bloggerjimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13280219040560653721noreply@blogger.com