"Misunderstood Truths in
the Kingdom of God"
Pastor J. R. Wilhite, author
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There are a few truths that are greatly misunderstood.
Being saved is all that I need. Well, yes it is, but it is only a
beginning. It would be like going on a date and saying after
one date I know all I need to know. Then you marry that
person thinking you know them, to find out you never knew
them at all.
Our Salvation is the same as that relationship, or marriage.
The only way it last and grows is by comunication. And
if you never learn how to comunicate, your relationship
will never grow, eventually it will wither and die. (read
Mark 4:11-25)
We need to depend on our spouse, trust them, have
confidence in them. Believe in them, love them, talk to
them. And they need to do the same. Well many of us
are saved and never grow, and what happens next is
our relationship never gets of the ground and it withers
and dies. So once saved always saved is not true,
salvation is a gift. And like any gift you can abuse,
miss use it, or cast it away. And since it is a gift we
can do all these things.
Gifts of the Spirit, a better word used would be
manifestations of the Spirit. If they were true gifts
then you could use them when ever, and you would
have the same ones. Well, haven't you noticed most
of the time you can not use your gift. And some
times it is a different one. The truth is that the Spirit
manifest the item you need at the time you need it in
you. So instead of gift(s) of the Spirit it should be
manifestations of the Spirit.
Prayer, most people constantly pray over and over
for the same thing. What's wrong don't you believe
He (God) hears you? If He does, don't you believe
He answers? Do you think He is deaf?
There are two factors to prayer, first pray and believe.
Then show your belief, by not praying for that again
but praise God for it until it is complete.
The second part of prayer is that after you pray, God
starts working on it, either His word, angels or His
Spirit get busy. But things have to be done to bring
the pray through to you. It would be like driving a
stretch of freeway and every 50 feet is a tree in the
middle of the road. Well to continue you would have
to get out of your car and move the tree. Well that
is what is happening with your prayer, God has
His angels, or Spirit out moving the objects from
the path to get your prayer to you. Now if on the
road you get weary and turn back you never make
it to your destination. The same is true if you stop
standing for the prayer by either turning away, or
praying against it, or stop praising or stop believing.
God took that life, or God did that. No God does not
do anything. He set everything in place 2,000 years
ago so we would be blessed, but if we do nothing
we loose. It is like; knowing how to start a car,
that is not the same as knowing how to drive it.
But a lot of people blame God, for what their
lack of knowledge caused if you drove a car on
a freeway without instruction you may cause
a lot of accidents and some deaths, that was
not their fault, you can not blame them for
being on the road. It was yours due to a lack
of knowledge. And that is what we are doing
when we blame God for things He never had
a thing to do with.
Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack
of knowledge: because thou hast rejected
knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou
shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast
forgotten the law of thy God, I will also
forget thy children.
And if you are saved you are a priest read
Revelation chapter 1.
Praying to bring someone back from the dead
is about as Christian as sacrificing people (if the person
who is dead is saved). If we pray for someone to live when they are saved, we are praying
for them to leave God and join us, that is selfish,
and self is of Satan. If you are of God, and some-
one joins God, then we should rejoice. Now if they
are not saved, we can and should pray for them to
come back until they are saved. But if we believe
in God and the next life, then we should never grief
that comes from Satan, we should rejoice they are
where we will be soon.
If any of the above offends you, pray about it and seek
God's guidance.
The following may offend if you do net seek God's
guidance a head of time before reading.
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