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Originally Posted by Dordrecht
I guess you are the authority on discernment?
I know one fellow who came to Christ at one of Billy Grahams crusades in the 1950's when he was having meetings in Europe.
That man is right now still involved in eastern Europe preaching the full gospel message.....
Be careful what you say, God can do anything.
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God will not operate outside of His will.
Are they saved?
Everyone that believes in Jesus Christ: even in His name are saved.
Are they following Him by faith? No. Keeping their commitment to follow Him is a conifidence placed in man or in themselves: that is not the same thing as living by faith in the Son of God of Whom our confidence rests in that He will finish what He has begun in us.
I have walked that doubleminded road of the religious flesh long enough. Even though He was and still is with me always, I had followed Him in vain and in misery, but no more.
Having been delivered, I will not compromise the faith in Jesus Christ to give partiality to anyone testifying of their commitment when scriptures plainly states it is a false witness:
John 5:31 If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.
And a false witness is what defiles a man:
Matthew 15:18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. 19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: 20 These are the things which defile a man:
So how about every believer be careful about what they say in how they bear witness?
Matthew 12:34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. 35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things. 36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. 37 For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
John 2:24 But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men, 25 And needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man.
So what are we testifying of: the believer's commitment or our faith in Jesus Christ, because they are not the same thing. His words plainly says so and warns against false witnessing.
So when will believer be careful about what they say in that regards?