Salvation

What Really Happened in the Garden

Ian Johnson April 16, 2024 0 Comments

God created the first human, male and female, as a being like himself with whom he could share his life and his creation. But the disobedience of the first humans introduced shame, which drove them away from God and hindered them from agreeing with God about their sin and returning to him. This is always the effect of shame, which comes from us, not from God.

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Sin, Offense, Guilt and Shame–Definitions, God’s Work and the Social Order.

Ian Johnson April 6, 2024 0 Comments

Defines the common sets of terms pertaining to sin, offense, guilt, shame and honor, with a discussion of God’s work and initial comments on the importance of their confusion in maintaining the social order.

Desire to have our own way, Merit, Peril of Seeking Power, Peril of Seeking Respectability, Purpose of the Church, Rejecting God, Repentance, Replacing Relationship with Morality, Salvation, Sins versus sin, Social control and statecraft, What is sin?

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The Son of Man has Power on Earth to Forgive Sins

Ian Johnson February 23, 2024 0 Comments

When Jesus said that the son of man has power to forgive sins on Earth, he was referring to his humanity–and ours. God has already forgiven. Like Jesus, we have the power–and the mission–to offer forgiveness on Earth.

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The Power of My Forgiveness and Unforgiveness, Revisited

Ian Johnson February 19, 2024 0 Comments

My forgiveness or unforgiveness of you has real power. If I hold onto a grudge against you, or you hold onto a grudge against me, it binds both of us, limits the Body of Christ, and affects the whole world, until it is released. So we must properly deal with grudges.

Church purpose versus church growth, Divisions in the Church, Forgive as we forgive, Forgiveness and Unforgiveness, Reconciliation, Restoration of God's Image, Restoration of our Relationships

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And be in us our King of Peace

Ian Johnson December 25, 2023 1 Comment

The hymn “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel” celebrates the arrival of God among us in the form of Jesus. The post highlights that God does not simply bring peace to the world; instead, he will ultimately judge and create a new, peaceful world. Those who have faith in God’s promises will have inner peace amid the world’s chaos and opposition.

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Part 7J. The Importance of Kindreds

Ian Johnson November 13, 2023 0 Comments

The importance of broad family and kindred groups to God’s work on Earth and my initiative to my own.

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Part 7H: Is God Speaking? Determining Who is Speaking.

Ian Johnson November 4, 2023 1 Comment

God gives us tests to use to determine whether a message we hear came from him or from somewhere else. Most of these tests apply regardless of whether the message comes from an internal voice or through the mouth or writings of another person who claims to speak for God. They start with the overarching test “do I recognize my Shepherd’s voice in what is said?”

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God’s Work and Voice in Me, Part 7F: To Speak or Not to Speak, that is the Question

Ian Johnson October 30, 2023 1 Comment

If God is still speaking to us, why don’t we hear him more? This presentation reviews the reasons given in Scripture.

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You Are Not the One to Build, Part 5: God’s Callings for All of His Children and Friends

Ian Johnson August 20, 2023 1 Comment

God “calls” all believers to love one another and to be conformed to the image of His Son–to be made, by God, to be just like Jesus. There is also a number of other things to which God “calls” all believers–almost all of them things we simply let him do to or through us, and all of them summed up by loving each other and being remade into His image.

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You Are Not the One to Build, Part 3: God Making Peace with the World Through the Most Notorious Sinners!

Ian Johnson July 13, 2023 0 Comments

Linked text to accompany the third in a series of videos about God’s gifts and callings for people, which he sometimes gives to notorious evildoers. Discusses Moses, King David and Saul of Tarsus, who literally got away with murder. Or did they?

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What Really Happened in the Garden

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The Son of Man has Power on Earth to Forgive Sins

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The Power of My Forgiveness and Unforgiveness, Revisited

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And be in us our King of Peace

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Part 7J. The Importance of Kindreds

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Part 7H: Is God Speaking? Determining Who is Speaking.

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God’s Work and Voice in Me, Part 7F: To Speak or Not to Speak, that is the Question

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You Are Not the One to Build, Part 5: God’s Callings for All of His Children and Friends

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You Are Not the One to Build, Part 3: God Making Peace with the World Through the Most Notorious Sinners!

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