It is a chore and not appreciated by anyone

work in the service of the Lord is its own reward

as far as i understand it

It is work

I remember that Jesus said "they have their reward"

I think he was pointing out something similar. But you know I know nothing.

Did He say it is it's own reward?

No he meant that if you do work for a _reason_ then your reward comes for that reason alone

You can love your job.

Or work*

if you do work in order to get something, such as a thank you, or money, then thank you or money are the rewards

What He meant was that the hypocrites receive their reward in this world, borrowed against the next

Only taking a break will allow you to see yourself, stuff others see about you.

If a politician wants a photo op of praying in order to get votes, he gets those votes, but not necessarily more

"If the home is worthy, let your peace rest on it; if it is not, let your peace return to you. And if anyone will not welcome you or heed your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that home or town. Truly I tell you, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town." This is the work.

Careful: A self-deceived person can tell himself the same.

If the admins tolerate me, they tolerate me. When they stop, I move on to some other group ruled over by some other admins.

do you feel stress or anxiety?

Do we have any street preachers here?

✋

I have not taken the ass of any one of ye, nor have I wronged any one of ye. Heaven forefend I should derive any benefit from speaking out.

j/k

"Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and encourage with every form of patient instruction" is not mere vanity

Do you honestly think you wouldn't have said the same thing to Jesus Himself? "Look at this guy trying to exalt his vast intellect over everyone."

Merely for responding to heresy with truth

it's nice to read the scriptures. What do you think about God?

What do you mean by God?

what do the scriptures mean by God?

They don't say God, they use different names that mean different things.

no, no no I want to know what you think.

by "no, no no" that was my backspace button

The question is ill-defined. What's usually translated as God in English is Elohim, which is God as manifest in Creation and/or acting with attribute of judgment.

headache.

But typically if someone is into Eastern religions, whose inner aspects are on the outside, their conception of God is the panentheistic God, the All, Brahman

I have the impression that you are indexing a factual database. But who or what is doing the indexing?

It would be totally cool if you were A.I.

God can do anything!

Do you mean accessing? Indexing is a means of optimization.

Are you asking what I consider my self? I don't understand the question.

What is the conversion rate between mexican pesos and pounds sterling?

ok, I was just checking, it's procedure

You can play something like this during breaks

Just make a compilation of Top Trump insults

Oops sent it to the wrong server

Haha wrong chatroom, i'd probably have to keep it silent for the time-being.

Lol k

How Paul answered when followers of Apollo accused him of "relying on his own understanding": When one says, “I am of Paul,” and another, “I am of Apollos,” are you not mere men? What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, even as the Lord gave opportunity to each one.

Acts 6:13, when they accused Stephen of "relying on his own understanding": They presented *false* witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking against this holy place and against the Law. For we have heard him say that Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses handed down to us.”

If they were *false* witnesses, then Stephen must have spoken *for* the Law, *for* Jerusalem, and *for* the traditions the Moses handed down.

Not based on his own understanding; based on the tradition that Moses received from the mouth of the Lord.

Out of curiosity, what sort of information did Moses receive from God? And I just want to know who wrote it down and stuff like that was it just the Ten Commandments or was it a whole book that he wrote?

I guess I could Google it but right now I'm just walking around on my phone

Were those pure of heart, @Sar

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Who, Paul?

The tradition passed down to the Church Fathers from Moses, affirmed and elaborated on by Jesus Christ and His disciples and St. Paul, concerns the correct way to interpret the Bible

What's your first name Sar?

John

You familiar with Ted Shoebat?

I love Shoebat

And do you happen to be Catholic?

I'm Orthodox Christian

What country you from?(Ted turned catholic is that right?)

I believe his father Walid turned Catholic after marrying a Mexican woman, but his son was maybe always traditional Catholic

I'm from Texas

I feel his father Walid is wiser to what Islam really is and the dire necessity of arming ourselves with the Word, lest we have no defense against their heresies

it seems to me that islam is coming as a result of widespread atheism

The saints have always called Islam "the chief heresy" or "the final heresy". If you look at the heresies the modern generation of Christian has fallen into, they are all sourced from Islam.

Sure, it can only infect where there is no immune system. That immune system is sound doctrine.

a muslim man once told me "you should become muslim, then you can have several wives"

the look on his face was pretty wrong

Here in Sweden if you look at the mosques, it's mostly POC's, and you get the impression the churches are unused. The only reason for christian church membership is that as soon as people are born in sweden, they are automatically registered with the national christian church.

they have to "manually" deregister

otherwise, you really get the sense that almost nobody believes in God, let alone Jesus

i think that's why Islam has taken Europe

Why's the church so weak in America?

I think churches became weak because of weak preachers, or just blowhard preachers who say nothing but say it loud

We've let the country slide into hell. Atheism on the rise. Families are breaking up, and even the "together" families are faking it.

preaching should be a more engaging process rather than just reading out scriptures completely uninspired, and then singing hymns

churches have bored themselves and hypocrited themselves to death i think

There's backlash in America by the silent majority that you don't see in other countries to the same extent. But we are definitely falling away. Even evangelicals now. And there's a reason for it but I'm not sure I should say.

Trump is so refreshing, but we the people need change, badly.

People are definitley responding to the simplicity of Jesse's messages, that's hopeful.

taking action with it.

forgiving, praying, etc.

lot of reports of dropping negative habits.

krishna said "the atheists, who are lost to themselves and who have no intelligence, engage in unbeneficial, horrible works meant to destroy the world.”

how you know all that stuff @J_G_ and don't know the Bible?? What's ur background?

that sounds true to me

i have no background in this, I promise you that Jesse turned me to God and I have no Idea why but I ended up at the Bhagavad Gita

i still don't know what that is and not googling rn

and not to just rest on it, but I can see that Krishna said similar things to what Jesse says.

so you're not an indian or whatever?

I'm an American but stranded in Sweden for 10 years

hah. how that happen?

I met a girl from here, ended up switching countries hoping my imagined success would just translate over.

hahahaha

just hopping over, thought I would find a good job etc. well that didnt happen

i'd pick up krishna too

Does she have golden hair?