Gold Tried in the Fire - Robert J. Wieland
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TEV.<br />
Of course, when you read "<strong>the</strong> Lord," it means<br />
God. The Fa<strong>the</strong>r, <strong>the</strong> Son, and <strong>the</strong> Holy Spirit are<br />
one. The "voice" we hear is that of <strong>the</strong> Holy Spirit,<br />
Christ's Vicar. There is no possibility that we can<br />
lose <strong>the</strong> path, with Him stay<strong>in</strong>g beside us all <strong>the</strong><br />
way like that.<br />
If we fall <strong>in</strong>to s<strong>in</strong> while we have help like that,<br />
it must be for one of two reasons: ei<strong>the</strong>r we have<br />
rebelled aga<strong>in</strong>st <strong>the</strong> Helper Himself, or we don't<br />
understand and believe <strong>the</strong> "good news." The latter<br />
is <strong>the</strong> problem with untold numbers of s<strong>in</strong>cere<br />
people. They th<strong>in</strong>k <strong>the</strong>y know and believe; and<br />
consequently when <strong>the</strong>y fall, <strong>the</strong>y th<strong>in</strong>k <strong>the</strong>re is no<br />
power <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> gospel or that <strong>the</strong> Lord has reneged on<br />
what He promised to do. Or, what may almost be<br />
worse, <strong>the</strong>y th<strong>in</strong>k that <strong>the</strong>y aren't "cut out" to be<br />
Christians, that God has somehow predest<strong>in</strong>ed<br />
<strong>the</strong>m to be lost. The real problem is <strong>the</strong>y have<br />
never grasped how good <strong>the</strong> "good news" of <strong>the</strong><br />
gospel is.<br />
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