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Daily Devotional – FEBRUARY 9

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Free-will? What Free-will?

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Part 3:

“Little Jack Horner Salvation”

(Continued)

To read part 1, click here…March 9th (“Free-will? What free-will!?”, Part 1)

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Little Jack Horner

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Sat in the corner,
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Eating a Christmas pie;
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He put in his thumb,
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And pulled out a plum,
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And said ‘What a good boy am I!’

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In yesterday’s devotional (click here to read), it was presented that an old radio preacher once made the comparison: that this above nursery rhyme seems to be a good metaphor concerning “Salvation by good-works”.

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In other words, there are many who are under the false notion that they have merited Salvation by some good work!

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They did some good work, just like Little Jack Horner!

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“For by grace are ye saved through faith”

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But the Bible makes it clear that Salvation is by grace alone…

…”For by grace are ye saved through faith;

and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

Not of works, lest any man should boast.”

Ephesians 2:8, 9.

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Here we see that Salvation is by grace alone, and nothing can be added to that grace!

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Little Jack Horner – WW Denslow – Project Gutenberg

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MANY DIFFERENT PRECEPTS OF TRUTH

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The great problem in Christendom, is that many do not understand that the Bible is a book of precepts, each of which presents an individual truth, which altogether, make up that one giant truth, which God calls “The Gospel of Christ”.

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Think of a giant diamond, which is made up of many little facets.

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And as you twirl that diamond in the sunlight, different facets begin to shine.

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And so it is with the Bible. Listen…

“A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it:

whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth.”

Proverbs 17:8

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So, this above verse alludes to the gift of Salvation being compared to a precious gem-stone, twirling in the sunlight.

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Hope Diamond – Wikimedia – Share-Alike License

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“ALL SCRIPTURE IS GIVEN…BY GOD”

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Thus, there are little facets of truth which seemingly contradict each other.

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But God has commanded us to search out the Bible in the following manner…

“ For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept;

line upon line, line upon line;

here a little, and there a little:”

Isaiah 28:9, 10

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And so, as this above passage reveals to us, that knowledge comes from placing precept upon precept, and line upon line, in order to rightly divide the “Word of truth”.

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Unfortunately, many have stumbled at the Word, by trying to take certain verses out of the Bible and making those particular verses the sum-total of any one particular church-doctrine!

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La Bible, Notre-Dame – Wikimedia – Share-Alike License

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ONE VERSE DOESN’T CANCEL ANOTHER

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Listen to this particular precept of truth…

“And it shall come to pass,

that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD

shall be delivered:”

Joel 2:32,

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Many theologians have decided that this above passage is the sum-total of how a person becomes saved.

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But listen to this next precept, “…and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.” Acts 13:48,

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Many in Christendom ignore this above verse altogether because it doesn’t fit their traditional church doctrine.

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“Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it”

Deuteronomy 4:2

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And so, the correct way to reconcile such seemingly contradicting passages, is to do a prayerful search of all related passages, in attempt to balance them all together, without cancelling out any one verse.

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In other words, all related verses must be accepted and allowed to shine, whenever the sunlight shines upon them.

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But many teachers and theologians feel they must wrestle away any verse or passage which contradicts that particular cherished old church-doctrine!

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“GOOD NEWS FROM A FAR COUNTRY!”

Proverbs 25:25

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The Good News is, that God has graciously given us time to correct these kinds of errors. 

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No, don’t expect the church-world to collectively repent of these errors.

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There will not be a mass repentance of these Babylonish errors!

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All such repentance must be accomplished by the individual Christian.

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TO READ PART 4, CLICK HERE…

JULY 26 (Free-will? What Free-will? Part 4: How To Prove “Free-will” or “Predestination”)

magnifying glass on puzzle – Wikimedia – Share-alike license

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TODAY’S PRAYER…

“Dear Lord, Let me simply declare all that the Bible says, not insisting that others must fall into line with church-orthodoxy…

David’s sorrow – Wikigallery – Public Domain

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READ MORE…

To explore deeper into this subject, please read…

March 9th (Free-will? What Free-will!?),

or you can also read…

“January 30th (ABC Christianity)” 

Question book magnify svg – Wikimedia – GNU license

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THE END

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TODAY’S HEAVENLY SIGN

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The photo to the right is the Pleiades Cluster. Does it appear to you like an angel?

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Well, if it does, then you are encouraged to keep reading.

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The above two verses concerning the Pleiades are all the Bible has to say about the Pleiades, directly.

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But if you will read this article, you will discover that the Pleiades represents concepts which span much of the Bible! 

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And The Heavens Declare.net will attempt to unravel this mysterious phenomenon in the night-sky, and will, hopefully, also interpret these two verses to show just what all this means, and how it might apply to our lives.

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The Pleiades (Above constellation can be seen in colder months in mid sky, traveling east to west through the night. With the eyes alone, it would appear much smaller than this. But with binoculars, it would appear more like this photo).  NASA photo by Robert Gendler 

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TALE OF TWO WOMEN

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You see, this constellation tells the tale of two women! But how can it be, that nobody has ever seen the Pleiades as a constellation of a woman?

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This article will discuss this great paradox of these two women, found in the Pleiades, and what it means scripturally to us: we who comprise the global community of Christians.

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Because this constellation (or should we say Constellations, plural), has very much to do with us: those of us who are living right now on the threshold of eternity. 

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And as you might expect, if you are at all familiar with this website, the Bible holds the key to understanding all this!

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READ MORE…

To explore deeper into this subject, please read… “The Pleiades: The Captive Angel & Mystery Harlot Constellation”

Question book magnify svg – Wikimedia – GNU license

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TOMORROW…

FEBRUARY 10 . . . . The Deserted Island Theologian!

Island of Chichimen, Cuyos Limones, Guna Yala, Panama – the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.

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