Under an eclipse of ever-rising feeling Moving faster through my veins And bleeding out the sun That’s beating down on our necks And burning my eyes If this is a crutch for the weak Then I am the least of these So cut off my arms and break my legs So I don’t feel this anymore Choking on all of the feeling That I’m swallowing in Tasting the failure on my lips That I’ve let in And this is my last chance for survival A last ditch effort to cure my ache We’re so vain aren’t we? We’re so proud and empty We’re left leaning on our only intrigue The lies that I’ve told won’t bury us whole They won’t find us time This is the end of the story that I can forget This goes far beyond our loyalties And we feign as a shield That’s teeming with guilt and resonance But we held our heads so high We have not yet defeated failure
–Beloved, “Failure On My Lips”–
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Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. –1 Corinthians 6:9-10 (KJV)–
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Dr. John R. Rice, Adultery and Sex Perversion (Sword, 1978), pp. 6-7.
—. Hell: What the Bible Says About It (Sword, 1945).
Why does it say, “Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God?” Because we’re eternally secure and sealed by the Spirit, that’s why. That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever…I’m sealed by the Holy Spirit; and so I don’t have to worry about grieving the Holy Spirit of God. Because I’m sealed by the Holy Spirit in the heavenlies, eternally secure with Christ, and all my future sins are forgiven. Is that what the Bible says? Because if that’s what the Bible says, that’s absolute confusion. (40:00)
Don’t worry about your ministry career preacher, ’cause if I’ve changed your mind, you can always leave the SBC or PCA for the InterChurch Holiness Convention, the Free Will Baptist Church, the Wesleyan Church, the Free Methodist Church, the Global Methodist Church, the Christian and Missionary Alliance, the Church of the Nazarene, the Salvation Army, the Southern Methodist Church, or Church of Christ. If you’ve always secretly believed in Acts 2:4, but you were too afraid to admit it among your SBC or PCA buddies, then there’s always space for you at Assemblies of God, Church of God (Cleveland, TN), the International Pentecostal Holiness Church, and the Foursquare Church. Add ’em all up, and you’ve got 6.5 million strong in the United States. Not bad. Sure, you’ll have to walk away from 16 million SBC people, but your conscience will feel better won’t it? You’d think so. But where’s the itinerant evangelist of today? This is needed more than anything. The bold text indicates to me the strongest denominations on conditional security. –J.B.
Just to jog your memory some…
John Wesley – he’s the theological father of all these denominations.
If any of you cause one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for you if a great millstone were fastened around your neck and you were drowned in the depth of the sea. –Jesus Christ in Matthew 18:6 (NRSV)–
Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me. –Jonah 1:2 (KJV)–
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination. –Leviticus 18:22 (KJV)–
The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God. –Deuteronomy 22:5 (KJV)–
God says that the Sodomites were “wicked and sinners before the Lord exceedingly” (Gen. 13:13), and their sin was to Him “very grievous” (18:20). –Dr. Hugh Pyle, The Truth About the Homosexuals (Sword, 1978), p. 8–
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