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Mike from New York wrote. If someone offers you a gift of, say, $10, what merit in you is there if you take it? What deserving of reward or praise, which is the definition of meritorious? All you did was trust the gift was a good one. There is nothing meritorious in the receiving, though it benefit you. It is the giver who is thanked for a gift. The receiver gains no merit points for the taking of it.Is the$10 yours if you don't take it? Can you reject the$10 Can you give it away? Can you lose it? Luke9:48 And said unto them, Whosoever shall receive this child in my name receiveth me: and whosoever shall receive me receiveth him that sent me: for he that is least among you all, the same shall be great. Math 10:32 Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. 33 But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven. 2 Tim 2:12 If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us: 13 If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself. The last verse is very important most readers get its understanding very wrong It does not contradict verse 12 where he says he WILL deny us if we deny him Verse 13 says he CANNOT DE |
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