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For sure, as long as we do our best to be obedient to His commands and if and when we slip, we confess. God bless each of you, BIG...!!!

Lloyd are you saying God won't love me if I disobey? I do understand 1John 1:9 but you seem to be saying something different.

Sorry if I gave you that impression, Kathleen. No, God loves us all the time but so often churches are preaching on the love of God that they leave the impression that we can do whatever we want and there's no consequences so long as we've received Christ into our lives. Christ shows that it will not be enough to receive Him for our Master, only in professing Him as Savior. It is necessary to our happiness that we believe in Christ, that we repent of sin, that we live a holy life, that we love one another. It is His will, that we be sanctified. I refer to Matthew 7:21-23 Kathleen, where Jesus tells that just because some did miracles and such, does not mean they are right before Him, because their hearts were not right. Judas traveled as one of the twelve, performing miracles and such, yet he is in hell for betraying Jesus. Hope that clarifies what I was saying, Kathleen. Sorry if I misled you. God bless.

That's right, Lloyd, there's a LOT of people who walk the Isle, say a prayer, accepting Jesus as savior friend but forget that it also includes receiving Him as Lord, repenting and stop trusting in our own works and trusting in Jesus Christ ALONE for our eternal life.

Of course as Rom 8 puts it, nothing can ever separate us from God's love. Neither death, life, angels, demons, our fears for today, our worries about tomorrow--not even the powers of hell can separate us from God's love.

thanks Lloyd, I probably had a knee-jerk reaction when I thought what you said was what I wrote lol... so it is not necessarily that you mis-led. I agree w/ what you are saying. I first got saved in 2000 accepting Jesus as my Savior, but I did not realize that meant He was my Lord as well. Does that mean I was not saved then? Not sure but thank God He led me to a different church in 2005 that DID teach from the Word and DOES teach that Jesus is LORD of my life! I am so thankful that God led me there and that He uses me for the work of the Kingdom :) Sure am not wholly a grown up but I pray that He will continue to change my heart!

Sounds to me that you have a right heart, Kathleen, and am glad you are one of my sisters. I'll tell you, there are none of us that are fully grown up yet and never will be fully, until we meet the King of kings. There's always something we can improve on but He always stirs us to learn more and His patience is far better than mine, one of my weaknesses. God bless.

Kathleen, I know what you mean, I did the same thing. But you sincerely gave God your heart and look what he did with it. He led you where He need you to be. It's about salvation and sanctification. Our works didn't GET us saved and they don't KEEP us saved. If you're REALLY saved, and you stiffen your neck and harden your heart, God will turn you over to the devil that your flesh will suffer so your spirit can be saved. The whole first letter to the Corinthians is written to a bunch of "carnal Christians". This link is to where Jack Hibbs of Calvary Chapel Chino Hills took over 2 years to cover the book of 1 Cor verse by verse. It sealed the deal for me. http://calvarycch.org/media_center.php this guy is an AWESOME teacher, he's not pc at all no sugar coating

What I did was download the audio, put it on my mp3 player and listened to it as I was doing stuff. Plus, I have it so I can listen again, and I intend to. Let me know what you think of his teaching.

thanks Donna! Will check him out. I love non p.c. haha, my first pastor at this church was really hard but he loved us - I am so thankful he said what God wanted me to hear!