Mike da Tigah

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60s are perfect

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Depends on what you’re doing

Friday 53/79

Saturday 57/81

Sunday 59/82.


And only 8% chance of rain

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God's saving love is absolutely conditional. Jesus said to "repent and believe" for eternal life. We have a responsibility to turn away from our sins and obey God as He has commanded as an evidence of the salvation that we have through Christ.

If this guy is an unrepentant homosexual, he should have no expectation that he is saved. If he were saved, the Spirit would be convicting him to repent of his homosexuality.

ETA: I should clarify that God's general love of benevolence is unconditional, but His saving love is particular to His elect, and His elect will most certainly repent and trust in Christ. There is no one whom God loves in election that will continue in unrepentant sin. Whom He foreloved, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, Jesus. Those who do not repent show no evidence of God's saving love towards them.

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Except for the fact that the Greek word for repent, Metanoia “ literally means to change your mind not immediately change your ways so you don’t sin anymore. None of us could ever approach God if not for grace and His unmerited salvation that Christ paid the price in full for. Some sins go almost immediately, and the other things are a battle, and continue to plague us, and take a while, but if you don’t believe first that God’s word us true, and we measure ourselves by His morality and truth rather than our own, there’s a very fundamental issue here with unbelief and salvation because you haven’t believed that Jesus is God, and His words and standards are the only truth we measure ourselves by.

This is all more to do with a change of heart, and an affirmation of the fact that God’s word is now the truth, not what they think is truth. It’s always about what you believe.

Dad 23, mom 20

That was absolutely nutso. You better have man skills and lots of courage and determination to even attempt that. Thanks for sharing. Well worth the time.

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I forgot that only perfect people can believe in Jesus.

Look at all his apostles they were all the best people!

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But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

Matthew 9:13

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Clearly knowing that there are NONE righteous, no not one (Psalm 14:1-3), His mercy is poured out to those who believe upon and are now reliant solely upon His righteousness and not their own self righteousness, those looking for a savior and not their righteousness to save them.

I say this regardless of denominational affiliation, and not as an excuse for non involvement in an actual true sound biblical church body, but rather as a means of actual pursuit of the one true God in our personal lives we are accountable for.

I’d argue to day that it is far better to stay home with a KJB, and sound biblical resources faithful to scripture alone over man’s doctrines than to put yourself under the myriad of different rat poisons being passed around in most churches today that keep people bound to what they need to do over what God has already done, those that get your focus on you and not God, those who complicate the simplicity of the Gospel because they place you in some process you have to do to save yourself over trusting in THE savior of mankind. Those who do also take context of scripture out in order to lessen, add to, or flat out pervert what scripture is telling us in order to further the doctrine they really believe in over what scripture is telling us.

There’s nothing worse than corrupted and misplaced faith. We like to focus on the most egregious of those in well established cults, but condone those who’ve through modern so called bibles have added to, taken away, and reinterpreted scripture in order to wrap their man made doctrines into the one true faith in Christ alone so as to add just a drop of arsenic to the bottle of water so that it destroys the entirety of water you’re consuming.

The very first thing Satan did in the garden was to get man to question God’s word by misusing what God actually said. He did the same with Christ in the wilderness. He does the same today with us with religion, and don’t think he doesn’t. That’s his game, and that’s all he has to do to get you off track and cripple you.

The one key element in all of life is “who do you believe”. Is it God, or man? One is the truth, and the other just one more great deception. I trust the source, the scripture alone, namely the only one we know that’s come from the original text from the churches of Ancient Greece we’ve had handed down to us for 2000 years or so, the KJB. God did not wait 1900 years or so to deliver His trustworthy word for mankind to be discovered in the land of Gnosticism.

God also did not put His church under the authority of a denomination that says there are many ways that lead to God and God’s salvation, or one that put so little faith in Christ’s intercession that it puts a human being alongside God as a co-intercessor to God as our co-high priest.


This is the narrow way Christ spoke of that few would be that find it. It’s not in what man says but what God says. That’s the same thing that has been going on from the garden to present.

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It’s a building

The church is the people

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Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

1 Corinthians 3:16

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As Jesus left the temple and was walking away, His disciples came up to Him to point out its buildings.

“ Do you see all these things?” He replied. “Truly I tell you, not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.”

Matthew 24:1-2

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But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.

John 4:23

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When Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, He yielded up His spirit. At that moment the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth quaked and the rocks were split.

Matthew 27:50-51

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Christ’s Church is not in a building, nor an organization, or a denomination. It is in the hearts of those who have believed solely upon Jesus as their savior, and none other, not a church, denomination, leader, tradition, or themselves.

Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life.

Women need direction, and men are supposed to be the spiritual leaders for just that reason, and yet they’re falling down on the job.

This country needs to toss out their modern bibles, get back to the KJB , turn off their liberal feel good teachings, and get back to well established biblical teaching roles. The parents are confused, the kids are confused, their gospel is confused, as is everything else. It’s not coincidental. It’s a pattern

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What do Protestants think of all the Marian apparitions at places like Fatima and Lourdes ? What about all the healings at Lourdes ? The conversions of the Mexican people attributed to Our Lady of Guadalupe? Why should we believe Pastor Jim from Kenner interpretation of the English translation of Bible more than the Church Fathers all who believed in the true presence in the Eucharist ? Which Protestant denominations are the “ real ones “. Etc etc

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There’s only one truth, and it’s scripture, just as there’s only one savior, Jesus Christ.

Whoever you’re trusting in is your savior. If it’s Christ and what he finished 2000 years ago, then your reliance is in Him alone. If it’s in your ability to either be a good person, keep yourself saved, maintain your salvation, or add to your salvation, then you’re trusting in yourself, and so you’re your savior. Religion wants you to earn it through your finished works, but scripture tell us that it is only in Jesus’ finished work where we find salvation. It is all dependent on who your faith is in. Even if it is some of you, your trust is in yourself as the savior, not Jesus alone, because He is the only perfect one to live on this earth and when we believe in Him alone, and what He did on our behalf, that is credited unto us for righteousness, the righteousness of Jesus.. We are all untrustworthy, inconsistent, and incapable of the perfection God requires for entry into Heaven. That’s why it has to be in Jesus alone, not you.

2000 years ago, Jesus hung on a cross and paid for all of your sins. You and all of your sins being in the future, which ones do you have to pay for, and which ones did He miss?

We are saved by believing upon, trusting, and relying upon Jesus according to scripture. We are not saved by an affiliation, denomination, or work we do. It’s in Jesus alone