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Originally Posted by zeek
Interesting question. Can you clarify what you mean by supplying examples of people being led by the Spirit identically instead of "differently"?
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My point, I believe, was that the Spirit has one purpose and each of us should be pulled/directed in the same way. On the other hand, I am sure that because we each are different the Spirit will affect us differently just as a drug (medication) may affect us differently, a food may taste differently to each of us, an experience may affect us differently etc. Maybe God didn’t fully understand the human experience and didn’t realize how the Spirit impacts each of us differently based on who we are so that we are all reacting differently to the Spirit of Life. The cookie cutter Spirit of Life just may not work on us humans in the way anticipated.
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Originally Posted by zeek
In Luke 12 Jesus said
That seems to be a pretty accurate description of the current state of affairs. So, perhaps the Spirit has done its job.
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Perhaps you are correct.
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Wow Dave, you really took that verse so seriously that you decided to go cold so that you could stay in Christ's mouth? Do you feel you succeeded?
The effect the "spew" verse always had on me when I was in the LC was to make me think I was lukewarm so I better get moving and stoke the fire with whatever the Lord was supposedly doing at the time. I surmised that was result the verse was intended to evoke. If you're hot you can always be hotter, cold you can always be colder. Whether you qualify for Christ's mouth... how would anybody know? Hence, the appropriate response seems to be fear and trembling no matter what you're temperature is.
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I succeeded…Unfortunately we are all probably in his mouth in some fashion and I can certainly relate to your point of never doing enough to meet God’s expectations. Fear and trembling…that can be life itself without even bringing God into the picture.
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Originally Posted by zeek
Correct me if I'm wrong but, I think what you're really asking, albeit in spiritually terminology, is what is the meaning of life, and how do people evaluate their own lives according to it. Yes? No?
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I hope I am a seeker of truth, at least making sense of truth in my own and my family’s life but not only myself but hopefully everyone has the opportunity to seek the truth for their own lives and if the Spirit of Life leads them to the deeper things of God, so be it. In answer to your question, YES.