So what doctrine did you form around this small verse?

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Tyler

I don't create any doctrine. I just noted that the scribes were of the Kennite line. Back when they rebuilding the temple there were no Levites returning from Babylon.
Ezra 8:15. There were plenty of Nethinims.

In John 8 Jesus spoke about their father. You could say that the Scribes had moved on up since they were sitting in Moses seat.

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James R Barnes

Somebody started this topic to hear peoples testimonies.
Maybe he would prefer to see some more of those. They sounded really interesting as well.

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David Keel

Let's get this thread back on track

After my salvation as noted early in this thread I attended the Assemblies of God for the next 8 years. I grew up in the Lutheran church. I walked away from God in 1999 and during that time is where my nic DEADn stems from. I involved myself into goth as a result. God slowly drew me back to Himself and it was only 3 years ago because I literally had a Damascus Road type thing happen to me that caused me to WAKE UP and become that solider of God.

I no longer attend any pentecostal stuff. I attend a Presb church at the moment though I am not in 100% agreement with them but the teaching is so much better than the Pentecostal churches I have attended.

btw, DEADn is like deaden. I choose it because during a time in my life I felt as if I had a deadening of soul when I walked away from God. I knew what was right and wrong. I didn't cross that line but I also refused to go to church or do anything that involved the church including radio or church people.......loosely Christians. Hence I involved myself into Gothic music for a few years. There are some today who remember that in me but don't recognize where I was during that time in my life.

I recognize God was still faithful to me. I also learned not to put my attention and focus on Christians but to keep my gaze toward God and abide in His Word even if Christians around me contradict it or advise me to go astray and so I have done as a coal miner. Drill and search the Word to keep myself as a Berean.

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John

That sounds great. Sorry I'm not the Moderator John, Lol. But how did this Damascus road experience happen ?

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David Keel

davidkeel

Here is what happened to me. I was out running and I was listening to my ipod. This happened 3 years ago. I was about 3/4 of the way to the 'finish line' when suddenly I heard a voice within me say ' Seduction'. It overpowered my hearing my ipod. It startled me so when I got home I began meditating on it wondering what is going on. I went to the Word and began being drawn to scriptures dealing with the seduction of sin and the seduction of the mind away from God, seducing spirits and doctrines of demons. Then had I had these thoughts come to me about the seduction of those groups who have the appearance of Christians but who are not......i.e. Jehovah's witnesses. At the same time my thoughts were also drawn to things in the church which appear to be Christian and are not but are empty do nothing but seduce people away from the Gospel and into itching ears. This began with the Pentecostal and charismatic churches and edged into other groups who are not pentecostal.

It helped light a fire in me to get back into the bible and get serious in prayer. Along the way I came across a show in my ipod that helped me get into the Word even more then I used to but also helped me to understand how the seduction in the church is working. Fighting for the faith .com is that program. I spent some 6 months listening to this and then guess what happens? I have an encounter with Jehovahs' Witnesses and for the next 1.5 years I end up talking with 3 groups of Jehovah's Witnesses. It helped me to understand the depth of that seduction and mind control and how people bound by it. Not long after this I found myself speaking into the lives of some friends who were pentecostal and teaching them why certain things are not of God but just empty noise and sights. Some of them stopped talking to me. I spent 8 years under the pentecostal banner so I kind of know some of things going on there. Only during this time did I understand how to judge it whereas before I was left to wonder what do I do with it. No firm foundation of discernment

This whole thing led my wife and I away from the church we were attending. It was a Nazarene church but they are a cross between Joel Osteen and RIck Warren but closer to Rick. We left and later we found out a Spanish couple who led the Spanish ministry left after confronting the pastor on some issues to which he brushed off. He and I talked about it before that happened because we both agrees about the seduction going on. We found that they eventually left that church and We found them 1 year later in the current church we attend. It is a Presb church. They are in ministry there and are leading missionary travels to South America.

This whole thing has led me to become more mature in my faith and in the Word and I only know this because of the feedback I get from people which astounds me.

John

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John

That's awesome John.

My wife and I are trying to figure out what to do about church. We are disenchanted where we attend now but I am afraid we might be disenchanted wherever we go. Lots of programs with the spirit of the world in an awful lot of churches.

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Todd

Thank you John, it's amazing how the still small voice intervened into your life. Great testimony.

Isaiah 30 v 21, 22
21 You will hear a voice behind you saying, “This is the way. Follow it, whether it turns to the right or to the left.” 22 Then you will dishonor your silver-plated idols

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David Keel