Forwarded from Morrison Kress
No Bible loving person can fail to be moved by Mary’s God-centred love; but at the same time, no Bible reader could ever fall into the trap of turning Jesus’ mother into a quasi-Saviour like figure to whom we must pray and intercede earnestly (and through whom we have access to the Father). Such thinking is a blatant distortion of New Testament faith. So do I pray to Mary? No, I don’t. Why don’t I pray to her? Let me offer you a bouquet of reasons.
1.- Mary isn’t God
One, I don’t pray to Mary because Mary isn’t God. The Bible makes it crystal clear that prayer is to be directed to God and God alone. The Bible strictly prohibits the deification of any creature in the stead of God.
I can’t help thinking how horrified mild Mary would have been had she realized that so many billions of biblically ignorant ‘believers’ would use her name to usurp the authority of the Almighty.
2.- Mary isn’t the Mediator
Two, I don’t pray to Mary because there is only one mediator between God and man. Who is that? Let Paul reply in apostolic tone: “The man Christ Jesus” (1 Timothy 2:5). The early church nowhere taught the doctrine of co-redemptrix.
Of course we don’t deny that Mary played a vital part in God’s redemptive economy- after all, she birthed the very Son of God in Bethlehem!- but to say that she is a bridge between us and God is to do away with the exclusivity of salvation in Jesus Christ. Jesus’ blood is the only access a Christian has to the presence of the Father. And only means only!
3.- Mary was a sinner
Three, I don’t pray to Mary because Mary was a sinner just like me. Mary’s joyful testimony gives witness to this awakening truth: “My spirit rejoices in God my Saviour” (Luke 1:47). Mary called God her Saviour because she too needed liberation from sin.
Mary was human, all too human. She had felt the cold bite of sin and stood in need of the saving grace of God. Mary was no sin-free saint. She shared our fallen human condition and thus disqualified herself from any potential calls to prayer-answering ministry.
4.- Mary’s not interested in little old me
Four, I don’t pray to Mary because Mary doesn’t listen to me. She has spent the best part of the last two millennia caught up in the fullness of celestial bliss. Her gaze has been fixed on the triune Godhead and she has been praising His infinite beauty to ecstatic excess ever since she got to glory.
The things of this present world matter very little to her now. She is with Jesus. She joins voices with the angelical host to sing anthems of praise unto her King. Mary doesn’t pay attention to our prayers. She doesn’t have a cell phone any more. And at any rate, if she did have one, I very much doubt she’d turn it on.
5.- Mary wouldn’t want me to pray to her
Five, I don’t pray to Mary because Mary would want me to pray to God. If I truly want to honour a person I love, the best way is to honour someone they love. If you want to make me happy; speak well about my family, my friends and my loved ones.
In the same manner, if sister Mary were still with us, she would take supreme delight in knowing that we love God with as much passion as she does. As a truly Spirit-led woman of God, she would tell us to pray to God, to look to God and to trust in God (never in anyone else).
Conclusion
I hope this short list of five observations (and the list is by no means exhaustive) should shun us from ever thinking of kneeling before the mother of God’s only Son. Mary is not be prayed to.
Yes, we admire her faith. Yes, we thank God for her ministry. And yes, we marvel at her exemplary life. But Mary is not to be sought in prayer. God is to be sought in prayer. Any prayer that is Mary-directed is foully offensive both in the nostrils of the Almighty God and an affront to the legacy of a quite wonderful woman of God.
1.- Mary isn’t God
One, I don’t pray to Mary because Mary isn’t God. The Bible makes it crystal clear that prayer is to be directed to God and God alone. The Bible strictly prohibits the deification of any creature in the stead of God.
I can’t help thinking how horrified mild Mary would have been had she realized that so many billions of biblically ignorant ‘believers’ would use her name to usurp the authority of the Almighty.
2.- Mary isn’t the Mediator
Two, I don’t pray to Mary because there is only one mediator between God and man. Who is that? Let Paul reply in apostolic tone: “The man Christ Jesus” (1 Timothy 2:5). The early church nowhere taught the doctrine of co-redemptrix.
Of course we don’t deny that Mary played a vital part in God’s redemptive economy- after all, she birthed the very Son of God in Bethlehem!- but to say that she is a bridge between us and God is to do away with the exclusivity of salvation in Jesus Christ. Jesus’ blood is the only access a Christian has to the presence of the Father. And only means only!
3.- Mary was a sinner
Three, I don’t pray to Mary because Mary was a sinner just like me. Mary’s joyful testimony gives witness to this awakening truth: “My spirit rejoices in God my Saviour” (Luke 1:47). Mary called God her Saviour because she too needed liberation from sin.
Mary was human, all too human. She had felt the cold bite of sin and stood in need of the saving grace of God. Mary was no sin-free saint. She shared our fallen human condition and thus disqualified herself from any potential calls to prayer-answering ministry.
4.- Mary’s not interested in little old me
Four, I don’t pray to Mary because Mary doesn’t listen to me. She has spent the best part of the last two millennia caught up in the fullness of celestial bliss. Her gaze has been fixed on the triune Godhead and she has been praising His infinite beauty to ecstatic excess ever since she got to glory.
The things of this present world matter very little to her now. She is with Jesus. She joins voices with the angelical host to sing anthems of praise unto her King. Mary doesn’t pay attention to our prayers. She doesn’t have a cell phone any more. And at any rate, if she did have one, I very much doubt she’d turn it on.
5.- Mary wouldn’t want me to pray to her
Five, I don’t pray to Mary because Mary would want me to pray to God. If I truly want to honour a person I love, the best way is to honour someone they love. If you want to make me happy; speak well about my family, my friends and my loved ones.
In the same manner, if sister Mary were still with us, she would take supreme delight in knowing that we love God with as much passion as she does. As a truly Spirit-led woman of God, she would tell us to pray to God, to look to God and to trust in God (never in anyone else).
Conclusion
I hope this short list of five observations (and the list is by no means exhaustive) should shun us from ever thinking of kneeling before the mother of God’s only Son. Mary is not be prayed to.
Yes, we admire her faith. Yes, we thank God for her ministry. And yes, we marvel at her exemplary life. But Mary is not to be sought in prayer. God is to be sought in prayer. Any prayer that is Mary-directed is foully offensive both in the nostrils of the Almighty God and an affront to the legacy of a quite wonderful woman of God.
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If you have not been teaching your close friends and family about the Satanic Edomites ✡ who rule over the world and want to enslave or kill us all, then you are making a mistake. Your words will often fall upon deaf ears, but at least you will know that you did your best. Organize with others. Train with others. Stockpile ammunition. The time will come when our doors are being knocked down because we will be considered enemies of the state. Most importantly, pray to our Lord Jesus Christ for guidance. He will come for us soon.
5 This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. 6 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
1 John 1:5 - 7 KJV
1 John 1:5 - 7 KJV
Forwarded from 45TH DIVSION
Mormonism and Jehovah's Witness are both based on the Kabbalah.
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Inspirational video for you all. I know that the conditions that have been emplaced on us by Zionist's can by heavy on the heart, but we must stand together for the future.
22 A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
Proverbs 17:22 KJV
22 A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
Proverbs 17:22 KJV
Forwarded from Finding Truth (OS) (Flat, Stationary Birb)
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Forwarded from NWO IS BOLSHEWISM
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Forwarded from Audio Bible KJV read by Alexander Scourby
Forwarded from Brother Augustine
If you can bear it, these past 18 months have been a blessing to us all. What was taken from you? Movie theaters, bars, sporting events, trust in politicians, faith in government, belief in the power and competence of man. Through the scourge of these hard days, Christ has stripped from you everything that kept you from Him; He pulled back the veil, took away your distractions, brought mortality and persecution and the afterlife to the forefront of your mind and attention. All the things He wanted you to focus on before, things you hid from yourself through escapism and entertainment, He is now forcing you to look at and meditate on constantly. Praise Him for all things! For He knew, in your weakness, there was no better way to get your attention on Him than to take away everything *but* Him. And in so doing, in showing you the Truth, He has shown you the way to salvation. ☦️
How this gender-confused, psychopathic female made it to E-6 is beyond my understanding.
Forwarded from The Dollar Vigilante (Official Channel)
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Woke soldier says she’ll shoot Americans who disobey her if martial law is declared.
Forwarded from Christ Alone (Zion)
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Catholics pls explain.