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Hi Royston, 
how to serve in a church where your leaders don't trust and support you? (Keith)
Reply to Keith, (Interested )
thanks for your feedback and advice (Keith)
Hi Keith (Royston Ong)
Hi Royston, (Interested )
Oh i see (Royston Ong)
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Once saved always saved does not mean that we can continue to live in sin for we are predestined to be conformed to the image of Christ. For a saved person it is impossible to continuously live all the time in sin. If he insists on doing that then he will come under the chatisement of God so that he will not be condemned with the rest of the world. The chastisement of God is always a joyless and miserable time. No fun at all. The Arminian Gospel is dependent on the human will for success but Calvinism sees the finished work of Christ as the only basis for being accepted by God. Jeses said on the cross, "It is finished". One of the main problems with the Arminian Gospel is that it has no answer for someone who is struggling very hard with sin but his will is so weak and enslaved by the flesh that he just cannot do what he wants to do or is suppose to do. The Arminian can say nothing to such a person except to try harder. But this person is already trying as hard as he can. The Arminian has no answer for this problem. But for the Calvinist he is positionally accounted as righteous before God not because of his own righteousness but only through the merits of Jesus Christ, his Lord. His only plea is that "Thy blood was shed for me" and so he comes not trusting in his own righteousness but in God's manifold and great mercies. And so he faces no condemnation but boldly approaches the eternal throne to claims the crown, as his own - Charles Wesley. So, my friend, where is Wesley's Arminianism? |
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Hi Interested by Royston Ong, 2001, Oct 28
Hi Royston, it is my turn to be surprised! by Interested , 2001, Oct 28
You are right to say Charles was evangelical by Royston Ong, 2001, Oct 29
To Royston, Ah! now I get it. by Interested , 2001, Oct 29
As iron sharpens iron... by Royston Ong, 2001, Oct 30
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