Editorial Reviews. About the Author. Westlake Taylor Purkiser (–) was a preacher, Security: The False and the True - Kindle edition by W. T. Purkiser. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets.
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As a friend put it, "it's a bit like the crowd going wild because you got a three-pointer at the buzzer to go on top, but then realize that it's only the end of the first half". The end of bin Laden does not spell the end of terrorism, even though it could mean the end of Al Qaeda.
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Still, we can now at least place a war named against an age-old tactic fully in the rear-view mirror and think in more realistic terms about our security interests. Indeed, there is an opportunity for the Obama administration, with the removal of this symbol of nemesis, coincidental to the re-assignment of Gen.
David Petreaus -- the architect of U. The flow of events may now be creating the conditions to expand our political and military room to maneuver on the Asian landmass and ultimately reorient U. There may also be a chance to put our relations with Pakistan on a more balanced footing. For a while, at least, there will be finger-pointing and high political tension. But the rout of Al Qaeda in Pakistan is removing a serious point of tension and political fixation for both sides, creating room for a more open dialogue about other things.
As I pointed out to a friend of mine in Islamabad, America's interests with regard to Pakistan are complex and, to some extent, self-contradictory. The same is true when it comes to Pakistan for Americans. So, if Americans and Pakistanis truly want a better working relationship, they could start by giving each other a little more benefit of the doubt.
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To channel Disraeli, we may be neither friends nor enemies, but we certainly still have some common interests. The most promising development in Pakistan appears to be a galvanizing public discussion about the one institution that has hardly come under scrutiny and yet has had a virtual veto on governance in Pakistan since its independence -- the military. Perhaps the American removal of bin Laden is inadvertently leading to more serious civil governance and democratization in Pakistan. It's up to them more than us. What is up to us, in sheathing some of our own swords, is taking advantage of an even greater opportunity for America to change permanently how it is viewed around the world, by starting first with how we view ourselves.
On that day, when national security became globalized and other than something "over there", I noted to the Army civil affairs team I was then leading: I meant, however, with an open hand and not a clenched fist. Instead, our national security reflex response was to go out like cowboys and cavalry looking for Indians, with some disastrously costly results. Driven by the military-industrial complex, we applied the most expedient and familiar form of power we know, only to find out that we now find ourselves in a strategic environment in which soft power and diplomacy and development are really more efficacious.
Outside Iraq and Afghanistan, with which Washington has largely been obsessed for nearly a decade, in places like Africa that represent the bulk of security and development challenges around the world, "human security" and civil society challenges such as poverty and food security, rule-of-law and justice, governance, economic development and job creation, and public health contextualize the security problem.
A man who has violated the law of Moses dies without mercy at the testimony of two or three witnesses. How much worse punishment do you think will be deserved by the man who has spurned the Son of God, and profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and outraged the Spirit of grace?
For land which has drunk the rain that often falls upon it, and brings forth vegetation useful to those for whose sake it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God. But if it bears thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed; its end is to be burned. This is only for those whose sin is not deadly. There is such a thing as deadly sin, about which I do not say that you should pray. All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin that is not deadly.
If a person could not lose their salvation these warnings would be meaningless. Some say that when a person becomes a child of God, a son, he always remains a son so therefore he cannot lose Salvation. Actually the story of the prodigal son proves a person can lose his salvation. He can throw away his inheritance. In this story the wayward son had become DEAD. So, even if we remain a son, we can lose our inheritance and become spiritually dead. Because the son repented, he was accepted back into the family. We are not even our own judge as Saint Paul points out.
It is not that I have already taken hold of it or have already attained perfect maturity, but I continue my pursuit in hope that I may possess it, since I have indeed been taken possession of by Christ Jesus. Therefore, do not make any judgment before the appointed time, until the Lord comes, for he will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will manifest the motives of our hearts, and then everyone will receive praise from God. Do the following verses prove as true the doctrine that we cannot lose salvation?
Since, the above doctrine contradicts what the Church established by Christ teaches, it must be false.
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Only as long as one hears and follows Jesus do we have those gifts. Jesus has eternal life by the very essence of who He is, Life itself. The Christian possesses these gifts of eternal life and of never perishing in a way that is dependent on Jesus and dependent on remaining in a saving relationship with Him. If a Christian later rejects Jesus he then loses those gifts.
The early Christians lived in a time when life was hard. In 2 Corinthians Without Jesus Christ the pagans were spiritually dead and spiritually lost. The pagans had many gods. Jesus gives His followers the gifts of spiritual life and spiritual guidance.
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We never have to worry about losing our physical life, or of being physically lost, because He gives us these more important gifts of spiritual life and spiritual guidance. In Christ we have security as long as we remain in Christ. They have no infallible guidance as to how many books belong in the New Testament, the Bible, or to what the names of those books are. They also have no infallible guidance as to what those books mean according to their theology unless they arrogantly assume that only they and their small particular group is sincere in listening to the Holy Spirit.
T hey are spiritually lost in how to answer many questions. God does not want us to be spiritually lost in any way. Christ holds us in his hand Jn. When we receive Christ we receive the gift of eternal life, but if we later abandon our faith in Christ and reject He who is Life, then we also reject His gift of eternal life. When we are "baptized into Christ" Rom.
Why Security Assessments are Often not a True Reflection of Reality
The parable of the prodigal son teaches us that if we disinherit ourselves then we become spiritually dead. Salvation is an ongoing process. For God is the one who, for his good purpose, works in you both to desire and to work. If we go to a doctor and he tells us to take some medicine and we do not, can we say that we really have faith in what he is telling us to do? Our faith is imperfect in those instances. God perfects our faith through our acceptance of our cross that He asks us to carry.
They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand fast only through faith. So do not become proud, but stand in awe. For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you. Note then the kindness and the severity of God: And even the others, if they do not persist in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God has the power to graft them in again.
Therefore, this verse teaches that we could fail in kindness, i. Like the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have destined as fuel for the fire, do I make the inhabitants of Jerusalem. I will set my face against them; they have escaped from the fire, but the fire shall devour them. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.
He who abides in me, and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. Some Protestants understand Justification in the life of the believer as only a past event. Some will quote John We saw in Hebrews James also makes this same point. Besides, our salvation cannot be completed because we also read,. The third day is a reference to Easter Sunday, the day He rose from the dead. Salvation has past, present, and future aspects in all of our lives.
This is why the Bible speaks of it in the past, present, and future tense. Let him not seek to remove the marks of circumcision. Was any one at the time of his call uncircumcised? Let him not seek circumcision. For neither circumcision counts for anything nor uncircumcision, but keeping the commandments of God. Here, in Corinthians, Saint Paul contrasts the ritual law, circumcision, with the Moral Law of the 10 commandments.