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<FONT FACE="Trebuchet MS"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>On 10/10/09 4:18 PM, "RAY MARSDEN" <<a href="ray.marsden@btinternet.com">ray.marsden@btinternet.com</a>> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'>The outworking of regeneration is not just the journey towards all truth by the leading of the Holy Spirit but the empowered dynamic witness in living out that truth to the world. We have been given all things necessary for the work of the Lord and the apprehension of every successive truth must bear fruit in our own growth in holiness, in our better expression to love our neighbour and in our competence to bring the lost to Christ. There are only front line soldiers in the work of the Lord and very few of them are not wounded at some time or other and many of them would actually die if they were fighting in the right war.<BR>
We have been given a present of inestimable value to use in the markets of time and eternity. It would be a significant move forward if we stopped just analysing the box in which it came, or just thanking the sender, or just losing ourselves in inexplicable expressions of joy, or just creating ornate rituals celebrating the giving. Unfruitful theology is a most divine road to Hell paved with the definition of every good doctrine at the end of which the dreadful words are heard "I never knew you"<BR>
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Hi Ray, <BR>
Not sure if you think this article is unfruitful, but I expect it to bear fruit. It is born out of revelation and repentance as I was in prayer and the Lord was revealing to me my hesitancy in proclaiming Him to others. Something broke in my spirit as I realized what it was that was holding me back. Bad doctrine is a stronghold which Paul says we pull down to make every thought captive to Christ. If we have a mistaken belief about who God actually is, it will thwart our witness or cause it to miss the mark. Paul asked others to pray for him that he might proclaim the message with all boldness as he ought. Boldness of our proclamation is what I am talking about and I believe the Lord’s power will be present when we are not hesitant about his goodness. <BR>
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Jeff<BR>
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