Re: Is this guy Born Again?

Dear chette,

I really do not judge and condemn you personally and i really do love you.  i am very carefully monitoring this since the Lord showed me i had allowed a tiny amount of this to sneak in (about a week ago) and begin to contaminate the wonderful love the Lord has given me for everybody.  And i do mean sneak in.  My genuine righteous and holy indignation against sin and flesh (my own and that of others) insidiously began to migrate into a slight contamination of my love for certain people with a little bit of judgement and condemnation.  This was never intentional since i do not intentionally sin having genuinely given that up to the very best of my knowledge.  To not start a war, i reiterate that i still sin, but it is either accidental or hidden.    When the Lord points out my sin, i repent immediately and as completely as i know how... then i come to the Lord Jesus and he washes my feet.  This is because i enjoy a very deep personal relationship with the Lord Jesus.  A personal deep loving relationship with Him.  He Loves me and our hearts connect...  my Bible does not and can not possibly love me in the same way because it is not a person and it is not the Living God.   Do you see the difference?  The bible is finite and the Words of the Living God are infinite.  Again John 21: 

²⁵ And there are also many other things that Jesus did, which if they were written one by one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that would be written. Amen. 

When we limit ourselves only to what the Bible says, which the bible itself says is limited,  we are in no way allowing the Holy Spirit in his fullness and unlimitedness to lead us moment by moment throughout our Lives in surrender unto the Living God.  For example, the bible never says "Ed, i am calling you into ministry.  I want you to go and pray for homeless people in the streets.  I want you to pray deliverance and blessings for them.  And i want you to pray for lots and lots of other people too".   What the bible can not do, the Living God can speak into my heart.  Very very easy concept, but to a bible idoloter, it must be very difficult to grasp.   

Repenting of revealed sin is actually quite a blessing and is indeed the Lord's model... and yes, you won't find the exact words "the Lord's model" in the bible, but nevertheless, repenting of sin and forgiving others IS the Lord's model.  

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