It was sent to me tonight. I LMAO.\nFrom: heirtothethrone \n\nSubject: ; ) \n\nMessage: If you don't turn from you wicked ways (repent in Jesus' Name) your going to wish you never answered this question. \nIn the Name of Jesus Christ I curse every spirit of darkness over your life and ask the Father to wash you in the Blood of Jesus and send the spirit of conviction into your life so strongly that you can not escape guilt and torment when you do things you know are wrong and even when you do wrong and don't know. Satan hates you. Jesus loves you. choose love and truth, not deception and death eternal fire.
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how'd your mom get your e mail address?
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Sarah,\nYou sound so much like me it's scary!  \n\nI recieved the Holy Ghost when I was 11 at a Pentecostal church.  I was a faithful Pentecostal for years after that, but eventually I also made some mistakes, sinned, and also left the Pentecostal church altogether.  I stopped feeling God and I believed I had blown it with Him. Years later I met a friend who was a strong Christain and he basically took me to different churches, taught me, and helped me come back to the Lord.  \n\nIn the process I learned that God never left me.  He was with me before I was born, then He filled me with the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit never left me either.  My problem was that satan was lying to me and I was believing him.  The truth is just because we are filled with the Holy Ghost and saved, it doesn't mean we will automatically become perfect or stop sinning.  We still make mistakes and when we do we need to repent and God will forgive us. Recieving the holy Ghost does change your life, but it is a process. You don't just get it and that's it. \n\nWhen God filled you with the Holy Ghost, you began a relationship with Him. It's like when a great guy asks you out.  Now you have a great new boyfriend, so what next?  Do you just ignore him and that's it.  No, you talk to him, spend time with him, build your relationship.  The two of you also make mistakes, fight, and forgive eachother.  All the while your relationship grows and so does your love.  That's how it is with God.  The problem is satan doesn't like that and the first thing he'll do is try to condemn you. You'll make a mistake and he will tell you how horrible and non spiritual you are. Those are lies. \n\nOne of the best bits of advice I have recieved is this, "Remember God is still God no matter what happens or how you feel." He created you and knew all about you before you were born.  He also knows all of your flaws and all of the good things about you.  Even still he created you and eagerly awaited for you to accept Him so He could fill you with the Holy Ghost.  He always has and always will love you and desire a personal realtionship with you. Even now, He has not changed. He is still the same God you knew before and He still wants you back.  Whatever sins you have committed, all you have to do is confess to Him and He will forgive you.  But you have to accept his forgivness and forgive yourself.  Don't hold on to the past or mistakes.  Don't accept condemnation. You don't have to be spiritual or even good because He is. Just let him give you his love and goodness. \n\nIf you want the "feeling" again, pray and ask Him for it. (I have lost it and he gave it to me again). But the more important thing to remember is that it is more than just the feeling. God is still God weather you feel him or not.  He is just as much with you no matter how you feel.  He said "I will never leave nor forsake you." Sometimes he tests our faith by not allowing us to feel him because he wants us to believe in and trust him no matter how we feel. We really can't always rely on our senses because God is so much bigger and our senses don't give us the whole picture.\n\nThere's so much more I can tell you if you want to email me.  Just remember God will never leave you no matter what you've done. (Don't believe the lie that he has.  He hasn't.) You can still run to Him and He will forgive every sin and take away all of the bad things. Always remember He has never left and He never changes. Also don't condemn yourself when you don't feel him. Everyone goes through that.  Even Jesus himself did! Those are just the times when you have to believe and trust in him more.\n\nHope this helps and God bless.
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GodShew, could you please enlighten me (and hopefully other Christians) as to what Bible you are referring to when you come up with your questions/answers/comments. Sometimes you Bless ppl in the name of God, and sometimes it almost seems as though you are cursing His Word. Although this comment may seem offensive to you, that is not what I want to accomplish. I just truly want to know, where do you stand on the TRUE Word of God?\n\nWhy do you sometimes speak in "code?" If demons are putting this in your head, you are responsible for rebuking them. Since you know SOME truths about God's Word (even though many times you twist it, as is a characteristic of Satan and his demons), you are responsible for your actions, as it is my responsibility as a Christian to tell you that.
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Don't fall for this claptrap.  \n\nI get these emails from time to time, and immediately delete them.  \n\nPeople who send them originally, or who forward them, are basically saying that these emails will work like some kind of lucky charm.  \n\nAnd, as you probably know, belief in such "lucky charms," as if they have some sort of power in themselves, is un-Christian and un-Biblical.  \n\nIt's a borderline violation of the First Commandment, which prohibits idolatry and belief in any divine power other than God.  \n\nIn fact, I give you permission to copy my answer here, and to paste it as a reply to anyone who sends you such an email in the future.  Hopefully, it will give them pause before ever sending or forwarding another one again.
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Dear Obsessed:  What you said, is fine.  I think if I were going to do an offering prayer, I might say something like this:\n\n"Father, through your divine Holy Spirit Who exists in the souls of each and everyone of us, I offer these partnership monies for Him to use where He knows it is best needed.  Because the Holy Spirit exists within us and knows each of us as Himself, I ask Him to bring these funds to where it will be used for the most good and its highest use.  Holy Spirit, You know who and You know where. . .into your hands I place this offering.  Amen.\n\nBest regards, Lana
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Dear Mary,  You are funny girl.\n\nEvidently you haven't heard.\n\nGod issued an upgrade on all the things you mentioned.\n\nHe knew the new age was coming before any human knew, so He sent His son to address the new issues and get rid of some of those troubling ones. \nHe made it clear the Jews (Israelites ) were a proud and stiff-necked people (they still are) so He had to ride herd on them in a major way. But after they beat the crap out of His son and killed Him, He decided to take the message to the Gentiles. That's the whole rest of the world in case you don't know who that refers to.\n\nSo give the big guy a break will you. He is willing to put up with human nonsense and make changes when necessary. \nHe disapproves of your sexy dressing because He would feel bad if some perv grabbed you and messed you up. He doesn't want that to happen to you because whether you know it or not, He cares what happens to you.\n\nBTW, some of the atheist pervs are hoping you will post some sexy pics at your 360.
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I had to reply to a question that he asked and was deleted, I hope you don't mind:\n\nServing God is a privilege and a great sense of joy and peace.\nIn order to stand up to a world where everything is OK and nothing is wrong; it takes a whole lot of integrity. It takes courage to be different, to stand up for what you believe in, even when doors slam in your face. It takes love for others and coming outside of oneself to make the effort to share what knowledge you have in hopes of giving someone life. How many other things can you do that could give you that joy? All other things that do give some sense of satisfaction are temporary and for the, "here and now." How many things can you do that last forever? Things that can change a person's life and make it better; forever. It is not an easy way out in fact it is dealing with this world's problems head on. And what is this world’s problem?\nRevelation 12:9\n9  So down the great dragon was hurled, the original serpent, the one called Devil and Satan, who is misleading the entire inhabited earth; he was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him. \nSatan Myth Or Sinister Reality?\nhttp://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2002/10/15/article_02.htm \nWhat happens to the loyal and the wicked?\nPsalms 37:28, 29\n28 For Jehovah is a lover of justice,\nAnd he will not leave his loyal ones.\nTo time indefinite they will certainly be guarded;\nBut as for the offspring of the wicked ones, they will indeed be cut off. \n29 The righteous themselves will possess the earth,\nAnd they will reside forever upon it. \nWhy do Christians try to talk to people? Not only is it love for others but it is a command from God.\nEzekiel 3:11\n18 When I say to someone wicked, ‘You will positively die,’ and you do not actually warn him and speak in order to warn the wicked one from his wicked way to preserve him alive, he being wicked, in his error he will die, but his blood I shall ask back from your own hand. \nSo what can we do now, whose side are we on?\nProverbs 2:4\n4 if you keep seeking for it as for silver, and as for hid treasures you keep searching for it, 5 in that case you will understand the fear of Jehovah, and you will find the very knowledge of God. \nEzekiel 33:11\n11 Say to them, ‘“As I am alive,” is the utterance of the Sovereign Lord Jehovah, “I take delight, not in the death of the wicked one, but in that someone wicked turns back from his way and actually keeps living. Turn back, turn back from YOUR bad ways, for why is it that YOU should die, O house of Israel?”’ \n\nLearn more use your bible, or contact someone to help you understand the importance of the knowledge available in it.\n\nhttp://www.watchtower.org/
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It's weird how this issue triggers exactly the same sort of responses the second time around.  Except this time we get a funny from a guy who thinks the US Constitution is trinitarian instead of a guy ranting about albigensians being murdered in the middle ages.  It's kind of discouraging.  \n\nAs for the second invitation to leave the country: thanks, I already accepted.\n\nFor me, this question is really, how should we as Christians respond to systematic institutional evil?  What do we do when we're surrounded by extraordinary violence, worship of money, pervavise corruption?  Answering this question requires some understanding of the dynamics of evil as well as the reasons people refuse to admit its presence.  It also requires an honest assessment of the demands Jesus makes on his followers, and the kind of universe Jesus lived in, the kind of universe his words and life create for his followers.  \n\nI don't have the definitive answer to this question, because I haven't been able to come to conclusions about many of those issues.  But at a more basic level, there are some simple realities that I think can't be denied:\n\n1.  Jesus was not violent and he didn't advocate violence in his followers.  His message was above all that the greatest victory comes through the greatest nonviolence.  So: Jesus' followers should strive to live a nonviolent lifestyle.\n\n2.  Jesus was not rich and didn't advocate money-seeking in his followers.  He warned strongly about the dangers of wealth, though he never went so far as to condemn it categorically.  So: be satisfied with what you have; don't seek wealth; share generously; live simply.\n\n3.  Jesus placed his father above every idol, every principality and power, every institution.  He was not 'patriotic' with regard to either Israel or Rome; and in the end both Israel and Rome conspired to crucify him.  But even so, he was no firebrand advocating revolution either -- recall his nonviolence.  The same is true of his followers: they should withdraw their patriotic allegiance from their nations and transfer that allegiance to God.  This implies that they should also open their eyes to the realities of what the powers of this world are and do -- and resist them.\n\nI wish I could learn these lessons myself.  In 1976 during the bicentennial celebrations, Dorothy Day was asked if she had a message to give America.  \n\nHer one word reply: 'Repent.'
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Say no to people who, perhaps unknowingly, are messengers of Satan trying to keep people from attaining eternal life through the salvation offered by Jesus Christ!  Jesus is Lord!  I'm sorry, you can't change that.  Have you read the Bible?  The good guys win.
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Hello The Cookie Monster.. :)\n\nYes, Jesus is Awesome..for I serve and Awesome God.. :)\n\nI thank Jesus that He said: Love one another as I have Loved you..to Love our neighbor as our self..\n\nBlessed are the peacemakers..\nBlessed are the merciful..\n\n\n\nBecause His Love Has set me Free..\n\nJesus means the world to me..\nBecause His Love has set me Free..\nNot to fear the way I used to do..\nBut to walk with Him and be renewed..\nHis Love, I can never repay..\nFor the terrible pain He suffered that day..\nNot for Himself did He die..\nBut for Everyone He was crucified..\nSo please don't turn your backs to the Savior's cry..\nIt wasn't just for me..\nBut for YOU, He died..\n\n\nIn Jesus Most Precious Name..\nWith Love..In Christ.. :)
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Thank you, beautifully said. \n\n'Why do you point out the piece of dust in your brother's eye when you have not removed the bit of wood in your own'\n\nPeople who claim to be following Christ and then self righteously point out sins in their brothers and sisters are commiting an even bigger sin than what they are pointing out. They are 'wolves in sheep's clothing.' The ONLY, ONLY 'bit of wood' (sin) that we are supposed to be pointing out is our own. 'Why do you say 'Lord, Lord' and then not DO as I say?'\n\nIt is the sinful nature that does this, and is a sign that a person is NOT what they claim to be. When we die to the sinful nature, with Christ on the cross by being reborn again from above, we stop acting from it; we produce good fruit. A person who does this is NOT following Christ but following the sinful nature, which is ruled by 'satan' and is antiChrist.\n\nAstonishing isn't it? The hypocrites claiming to love God.
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It sounds like it was written by a new zealous believer who is immature in the faith.  We should use love and not condemnation to win the lost.  Condemning a person for there sin only makes them mad.  Besides we are all sinners in need of a savior.  Also no one could kill Jesus, he gave his life because he loved us.
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:: Sigh... ::\n\nprophet*\nGabriel*\nGod. *\nDo you believe me?*\nWill you be my follower and enjoy a new perfect RELIGION?*\n\n\nLearn to type.\n\nAnd, no, I won't.
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One of my favorite verses, and actually one of the two verses that I try to live my life by.  The other being "seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all things will then be given to you".\n\nThe verse "he that seeks to keep his life shall lose it, but he that loses his life for my sake, shall find it" means to me....that the more I give up my "rights" in life, the less I go after what I think I want for myself, the more I give up pursuing the things of the "world" and the more I give up my life for Jesus to do with as He pleases...the more "myself" I truly become.\n\nI never have felt more at peace, more my true self, then when I have given up my own will and choices and asked Jesus to guide my every step, thought, word.  Funny, isn't it?  You think by serving yourself you'd get what you want in life.  I've found by serving Him first (which means, putting others first), that's when I've found true happiness and fulfillment.
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My sister, all fall short of the golry of God, you, me and everyone else! King David new the Commandments yet still he let his fleshly desires send his friend to be killed so David could have his friends wife! And David was called by God "A man after God's own heart.". Jesus miracle on the cross has covered you from these things, and you are right to grieve and be sorry because God loves the penitent(or humble) person! You've done wrong yet so did all the Apostles at one time or another so take heart my sister, for God hasn't abandoned you! I will pray for you and hope that you will do the same for me, and God bless you and have faith!
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Okay, this is my understanding of it from all I've read here on Y!A and elsewhere... Please correct me if I've made any mistakes...\n\nIn the beginning, God made a bunch of rules. Those who followed them went to heaven and those who broke them went to hell.\n\nBut they were really difficult rules, so God decided to send Jesus to the world. Jesus was God's son, but he was God Himself, too. Plus the Holy Spirit. And the "Word made Flesh". And many other things too.\n\nJesus's mission was to spread the word of God, his Father (i.e. Himself), but he was also our Saviour. This he accomplished by dying. You see, everyone is a sinner, and no-one can live up to God's rules. God seems to have realised that in due course. He could have, say, changed the rules or just absolved us all by fiat, but this whole kill-My-son (i.e. Myself) thing seemed easier.\n\nJesus was predestined to die for our sins. It was his calling. This is why he hid from the Romans like a fugitive, and why Pilate, Judas and the Jews are all condemned for their complicity - because they wanted to kill a man who wanted to die and was preordained to die. Their crucial role in carrying out God's plan to redeem us all is why we should hate them today.\n\nWhen Jesus, who willingly died and could have prevented it if he had wanted, was on the cross, he called out 'Father, why have you betrayed me?' This means, 'Father (i.e. myself), why have You (i.e. I) abandoned me (i.e. Yourself) when I'm carrying out the mission that you (i.e. I) decided to undertake in the first place?' This is because God, who is omnipotent, could not bear to look sin in the face, and Jesus (i.e. God) had become sin at that moment. Then Jesus died.\n\nExcept he didn't die. He spent a long weekend somewhere and then he was resurrected. So Jesus died for our sins, but he didn't die. He was raised again and now sits at the right hand of God. Except that he is God. But anyway, we can all go to heaven now, where we couldn't before Jesus died/didn't die for us.\n\nOf course, we can still go to hell. Jesus died for our sins, but it doesn't count unless you accept him as your Saviour. Plus, if you're Catholic, you also have to confess and repent and atone. And if you're Protestant, it doesn't much matter anyway, because God decided where you were going before you were born. Plus there's something about wine and thin little wafers.\n\nSo then... what have we learnt? Well, God's law is eternal, but God's law is really harsh so He gave us a hand by sending His son/Himself to die. Except that he didn't die. Because he died/didn't die, people can go to heaven. But they still have to follow God's law, or else they'll go to hell. Just like it was before God sent His son/Himself to die/not die on the cross in order to absolve/not absolve us of our sins.\n\nI hope this clears up any misunderstandings... It's all very clear and logical when you approach it the right way.
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Did you know that John 3:16 perfectly sums up the entire message of the Bible? http://tinyurl.com/ojljl\n\nIf I were to try and rewrite it, it would be imperfect.\n____________________\nYou sent me an email but I cannot reply as your email address has not been "confirmed".