Pre-Trib Rapture Too New To Be True

The New Creation is not our Own Work but Christ's

When Christ changes us into a new creation the old is gone never to return. He changes us when we trust in Him, He cleanses us when we confess, 1 John 1:9 and He keeps us until He comes for us. It's all about Him!

Ephesians 2:10

"10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them."

2 Corinthians 5:17

"17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, this person is a new [a]creation; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come."

Galatians 2:20

"I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me."

If someone is trying real hard to be good enough to earn heaven they are walking in the flesh and not changing their hearts. It is Christ Who changes hearts in response to those who wish to be changed by Him.

We have nothing good in us or the ability to change ourselves. We can change a few ways we act to feel better about ourselves but we cannot change our hearts from within. The outer change is merely superficial and temporary, without the ability to change the heart.

It is only Christ Who can change a heart into a completely new heart. When this happens the Holy Spirit comes into us to replace our own filthy spirit. The old is gone and the new remains until we go home to God.

Restoration can only happen God's Way

Restoration of relationships can only come through repentance and a desire to be changed by Christ.

1 John 1:9 "9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."

Love is Greater than our Opinions

I agree too!!! The devil is having a hay day with all the fighting over personal choices that are not sin or even addressed in the Bible.

Healed by the One Blow from the Father to the Son

God said that we were healed by His stripe, notice it is singular. Our Spirit is healed by the one blow from the Father on Jesus Christ as an offer of spiritual healing for those who would trust in Christ.

The single blow from the Father was laying the sins of the world upon Jesus when the Father could not look upon Him because of that sin. Christ paid for that sin we have only to believe Him, repent confessing our own sinfulness trusting Him to change us.

This is not about physical healing, although God does do that, it is about our spirit being changed into a new creation by the Spirit of Christ coming to live in those who have repented and trusted in Him.

When God said "you will do greater works than I" He was not referring to the healings and other miracles. He was referring to the greater work of bringing the gospel to the world with the message of salvation for anyone who will repent and trust in Christ.

John 14:11-12 "…11 Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me—or at least believe on account of the works themselves. 12 Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever believes in Me will also do the works that I am doing. He will do even greater things than these because I am going to the Father."

Those who wrongly interpret the "greater things" as miracles are missing the most important message of all, which is the gospel.

John 14:13–14
"13 Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it."

All the work of evangelism must be done in the power of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit knows the exact words every person needs and in what tone of delivery. No one can give a formula for this work.

God has given different gifts to each believer as well as different talents. We are to walk in our Holy Spirit gifts and talents and not in the flesh.

If anyone attempts to instruct you in rules and techniques they are usurping the Holy Spirit in us.

Never Wrestle With a Pig

Narcissists create shame in their own hearts because they know the mean things they do to others.

They keep doing mean things over and over again attempting to get a reaction that absolves them of the shame caused by all they do to their targets. They must pretend their target is a bad person to relieve the guilt of their mean behavior.

There is a strange phenomenon in the mind of the bully. They think if they poke at their target long enough the target will blow up in anger and prove they are as bad as the narcissists know they are, only they do not admit their own sin, they place it on the target for blowing up.

This is why God said; "do good to those who mistreat you." We must remain innocent in our own hearts while the narcissist has only themselves to see.

Luke 6:27-28 "27But to those of you who will listen, I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, 28bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you."

It is good to avoid those who are bullies, perhaps telling them the truth once and then walking away if they do not receive the correction.

2 Timothy 3:1-5 tells us what a bully looks like in these end days and what to do about them in verse 5; "avoid them."

The main objective is to remain in the Spirit, demonstrating love, joy, peace, gentleness, kindness, longsuffering, and self-control, no matter what the bully is doing.

We are not to throw our pearls before swine, meaning we are not to continue to attempt to convince a stubborn person. Allow them to think they have won by refusing to engage or answer their foolishness.

When we know that God sees it all and has our back we do not feel the need to win an argument with anyone.

We do not have to forfeit our personality, our beliefs, or anything else to the narcissist through fear, however, we are wiser to disengage with the narcissist and leave them to swim in their own mud.

Matthew 7:6 " 6 Do not give dogs what is holy; do not throw your pearls before swine. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and then turn and tear you to pieces."

Someone once said; "never wrestle with a pig in the mud, they love it and you'll just get dirty."

Only Christ is Worth Living and Dying For!!!!

Everyone is born, Christ's birth was important not because He came but why He came.

What makes Christ so special is that He is God, came to die for other people's sins, died a brutal death, and was separated for a short time from His Father while the sins of the world were laid upon Him.

He died and rose from the dead proving He is God. Now He has gone to His home, our home too, for the born-again believer and is preparing a place for us.

John 14:1-3 "1“Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe in Me as well. 2 In My Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and welcome you into My presence, so that you also may be where I am.…"

I prefer to remember our Lord as the conquering hero having overcome sin on our behalf, even though He has no sin in Him. Jesus Christ is not dead, He rose from the dead proving He is God and one day soon He will rule over the world from Jerusalem.

Hallelujah, those of us who are born again have an amazing inheritance and abundance of love from our Lord Jesus Christ, that nothing on this earth can compare to that, nothing on this earth is worth living or dying for, only He is worth living for and dying for.

Hallelujah!