I’ve linked the recommendations I’ve made in the description of this video, or can always be found in my playlist. To view my original testimony please click below; th-cam.com/video/JfCLgxfLOkA/w-d-xo.html God bless xxx
It's soooo important to have a Bible that feels good to hold, with print we are actually able to read 🤓 My only other tip would be after reading John to start the Bible from the beginning and read through till the end. Best book ever. Who knew !! ❤
Another good one Sarah🙏🙂 You would become a very good preacher for the gospel Christ, I am so sure of that. 🙏Thank you for your videos as always and God bless you🤍
Thank you for this! I have been journaling and praying before reading the Bible. I just kind of flip through and read whatever stands out to me first. Maybe that’s a bad new age habit. I will attempt to focus more on different books and add some more structure to my time with the Word of God. Appreciate your input and am looking forward to everything making more sense in context! So glad my soon to be husband knows way more about theology than me and I can ask him when I have questions.
Oh that’s good you have your husband for support 😊 Yep, that was my first approach to the bible too, the lucky dip type approach lol But once I started with book by book my learning accelerated. There’s so much treasure in there! We are so blessed ♥️🙌🏻
Hi Sarah. Thank you for your videos. Always good content. I had a question about what you did to cleanse yourself from any attachments or attacks and also your thoughts on rosaries and statues of the saints. Thanks.
Ok so I haven’t researched this really and so I want to make it clear this is just based on the knowledge I have so far, which on this subject I’d say it little. But if you asking about an opinion I’m happy to give it. Firstly statues and rosaries are a no for me, one because I’ve never really used either, and secondly because that reminds me more of the catholic faith which I steer clear from due to the worship of Mary amoungst other things. Here is some scripture I found that’s worth you researching, but please know that I have not done an in-depth study on this and so please dig deeper; Exodus 20:45 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God” Leviticus 26:1 You shall not make idols for yourselves or erect an image or pillar, and you shall not set up a figured stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the Lord your God Isaiah 42:8 I am the Lord; that is my name; my glory I give to no other, nor my praise to carved idols I really can’t comment much more than that and that’s simply scripture I’m aware of to get you started on your own investigation 👍🏻 I think for me it’s the fact that we have a mediator with The father and that’s Jesus Christ and what we did on the cross. So to put something like an idol / statue / beads as a focal point, it seems odd to me as we simply don’t need anything to connect to God. There’s my two cents anyway and hope it helps 😂♥️ God bless xxx
Hi i agree with Sarah plus spiritual attacks read aloud psalm 23, psalm 91, the Lords Prayer, worship Jesus and pray/read your bible as it is also a weapon. Get rid of anything is occult/ new age/mary statues or pictures/rosaries, RC crucifix. James 4 God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you.
I would recommend watching the documentary on youtube from Logos bible Software called "the unseen realm", A lot of good teaching from Dr Michael Heiser, about the unseen that I had never thought of with my knowledge. 🙂🙏
@@thenewagetojesusdiaries5830 Yes, it is very informative to learn from him from an angle we have not seen as Christians. Feels like my head is still running on the old "Windovs 98" compaired to such a theologian I have to admit..😄 You're probably sharper here Sarah, God bless you 💗🙏🙂
@@thenewagetojesusdiaries5830 Heiser’s Hermeneutic The root cause of the issue with Heiser’s theology is his interpretation method, which errs on multiple levels. First, he interprets Scripture in light of pagan literature to interject polytheism into the Bible. As Peter Jones suggested of Gnosticism, “Whenever ‘Christian’ theology looks to pagan polytheism for inspiration-as it is doing now and as it did then-it discovers a titillating variety of reading techniques, without which the Scriptures of the one, true God would be strictly unusable.”2) Indeed, this hermeneutic method reigns supreme in Heiser’s writings. One critic of Heiser has similarly commented, “Heiser has a bad hermeneutical methodology because he has a bad hermeneutic philosophy. This bad philosophy has led him to bad conclusions. There have always been Christians who have tried to come up with some unique and revolutionary interpretations. Heiser is not the first to come up with this notion of a council of gods. You can see this in Gnosticism, and Marcionism, and in other adaptations of basic Christian doctrines. I’m sure he won’t be the last.”3) Heiser responded to Howe’s criticism, stating, “I assume that the Scripture writers were communicating to people intentionally - people that lived in their day and who shared their same worldview. This assumption is in place because I’m sensitive to imposing a foreign worldview on the writers.”4) In other words, he admits his hermeneutics is focused on imposing the pagan worldview on the Biblical authors, even though the Bible itself commanded the Israelites to not enquire into the theology of their pagan neighbors (Deuteronomy 12:29-32), and to destroy any Israelite guilty of doing so (Deuteronomy 13:6-18). One simple example of this is Heiser’s discussion of pagan deities were known to inhabit gardens and mountains which he formulates an entire theology revolving around this concept imported on the Bible.5) However, the Bible condemns this pagan practice as idolatry on “high places” (Leviticus 26:30; Numbers 22:41; 33:52; Deuteronomy 12:2; 33:29; 1 Kings 3:2; 12:31-32; 13:32-33; 15:14; 22:43; 2 Kings 12:3; 14:4; 15:4, 33; 16:4; 17:11, 32; 21:3; 23:5; Psalm 78:58; Jeremiah 7:31; 19:5; 32:25; 48:35) and “groves” (Exodus 34:13; Deuteronomy 7:5; 12:3; Judges 3:7; 1 Kings 14:15; 18:19; 2 Kings 18:4; 23:14; Isaiah 17:8; 27:9) with idols under “every green tree” (Deuteronomy 12:2; 1 Kings 14:23; 2 Kings 16:4; 17:10; Isaiah 57:5; Jeremiah 2:20; 3:6, 13: Ezekiel 6:13). God rebukes this idolatry that Heiser thinks is valid biblical theology, “your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the Lord, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills” (Isaiah 65:7). Where is the logic of building a “biblical theology” by imposing pagan practices which are specifically condemned in the Bible? One of his foolish arguments for allegorizing his mountain opinion is presented in his citing of Psalm 48:1-2, stating, “As anyone who has been to Jerusalem knows, Mount Zion isn’t much of a mountain. It certainly isn’t located in the geographical north-its actually in the southern part of the country.”6) Mount Zion is on the north of the city Zion, also called Jerusalem (2 Chronicles 5:2; Psalm 135:21; 147:12; Isaiah 10:32; 30:19). He contends, “This description would be a familiar one to Israel’s pagan neighbors, particularly at Ugarit. Its actually out of their literature.”7) Another problem with Heiser’s hermeneutic is he focuses on ambiguous text, plays fast and loose with the Hebrew language whenever he can, and when he cannot twist an interpretation of the existing grammar to fit his presupposition, he becomes the textual critic and changes the text itself or uses a different text to justify his position. Other Christian apologists have complained about Heiser’s handling of the text
Hi Sarah. I hope this finds you well. Im finding on my journey that I feel a lot of confusion and struggle to discern the truth. I find that although I was raised an RC I have found myself drifting... Not into new age as such but as more open to other faiths and philosophies. I feel that I resonate with the teachings of Christ however, Im not entirely convinced that I can take every word to be literal. Also...can you confirm the 18 missing years of Christ? he was last heard in the synagogues impressing rabbi's and elders. then he emerges aged 30. I just wanted to ask your take. Much love ♥️ I'm a fan of your content and In no way discredit your message. I'm just lost and seeking clarity x
Personally I don’t think they can be explained, simply because all the theories and theologies around the apparent travelling to distant lands and discovering eastern mysticism etc are built on nothing factual. There will be so many distortions of what Jesus did / didn’t do. But the best source of anything related to Jesus is the bible, I’ve come to learn we cant find truth by searching through the lies. The more I learn from the bible, the more the lies naturally reveals itself. If you require explanations to everything single answer, I don’t think you’ll get it. Simply because no one knows, but if you look at how Moses performed miracles - I would apply the same theory on how God works, and that’s directly through people, be it prophecy, tongues, healings etc. the disciples were given the power to heal as a gift of the Holy Spirit - doesn’t make sense Jesus had to go to train with a mystic to do the same. Hope this helps and I don’t mind you raising reservations at all - as it’s only what everyone else will be thinking - there will be question marks always - as the study of someone’s life we only can go by the information we have to go by - but I think the bible answers all and once we learn it’s a supernatural book - we work not only with the logos but the rhema - which I think helps us be led to truth with prayer combined 😊 Hope that helps and just my take on it of course 🙏🏻♥️
@@thenewagetojesusdiaries5830 thank you for that Sarah. I appreciate the time spent on listening and replying so articulately. I guess it comes down to...do you believe the Bible or don't you. For me i do believe that the essence of it is completely true and correct. but everything in this world comes down to interpretation. of both the writer and the reader. Its only my opinion that Jesus wasn't practicing Christianity. As it didn't exist until after his execution. But as you say none of us can go back 2000 years and find out. all we have is a library of witness accounts which have been edited and translated throughout the centuries. ♥️
Also I’ve only just twigged was RC means.. Roman Catholic? Check out the Third Adam videos in my playlist, especially one on he divine feminine as I believe that may clear up some things for you! To truly come to Christ we need to be born again, therefore we receive new hearts, I don’t believe this is alive with many in the RC faith personally. Think of Paul in the bible, how he was changed from one encounter - that’s what I believe Jesus does to us when we truly receive Him. Sorry long spill - you caught me on a day off work lol
@@thenewagetojesusdiaries5830 🤣 forgive me Sarah. Again thank you for this. I'll get on and have a look. I always remain open to everything. thanks again x
@@thenewagetojesusdiaries5830 I went through a spiritual awakening at the back end of 2020 and I've been quite lost ever since. I've started to see a lot of signs and synchronicity playing out and I had to investigate what it was. I don't know where to turn at all. Religion and the Bible gives me fear of doing the wrong thing by not following it. x
I’ve linked the recommendations I’ve made in the description of this video, or can always be found in my playlist.
To view my original testimony please click below;
th-cam.com/video/JfCLgxfLOkA/w-d-xo.html
God bless xxx
I just found your account and I’m devouring all your videos!! They are so very helpful. Thank you, Sarah. ❤ (I was saved on Jan 17 this year).
It's soooo important to have a Bible that feels good to hold, with print we are actually able to read 🤓
My only other tip would be after reading John to start the Bible from the beginning and read through till the end.
Best book ever. Who knew !! ❤
Great tip! I go to sleep with John on audio and I find myself rewinding the start, the first few verses a like silk. Thanks for sharing sister ❤
Yes Sarah. It always comes back to the truth of the Word❤️💙🙏Thank you Sister.
Amen! ♥️ Thank you x
Another good one Sarah🙏🙂 You would become a very good preacher for the gospel Christ, I am so sure of that. 🙏Thank you for your videos as always and God bless you🤍
Thanks for your kind words - thanks for being here and sharing this journey with me ♥️🙌🏻 God bless
Thank you for this! I have been journaling and praying before reading the Bible. I just kind of flip through and read whatever stands out to me first. Maybe that’s a bad new age habit. I will attempt to focus more on different books and add some more structure to my time with the Word of God. Appreciate your input and am looking forward to everything making more sense in context! So glad my soon to be husband knows way more about theology than me and I can ask him when I have questions.
Oh that’s good you have your husband for support 😊 Yep, that was my first approach to the bible too, the lucky dip type approach lol But once I started with book by book my learning accelerated. There’s so much treasure in there! We are so blessed ♥️🙌🏻
Very well-spoken, thank you
Thank you. Go bless x
Praise the loard. Good massage amen Jesus. Thanks madam
Thank you! God bless xx
@@thenewagetojesusdiaries5830 Welcome madam jesus blesed you
Hi Sarah. Thank you for your videos. Always good content. I had a question about what you did to cleanse yourself from any attachments or attacks and also your thoughts on rosaries and statues of the saints. Thanks.
I second this question
Ok so I haven’t researched this really and so I want to make it clear this is just based on the knowledge I have so far, which on this subject I’d say it little. But if you asking about an opinion I’m happy to give it. Firstly statues and rosaries are a no for me, one because I’ve never really used either, and secondly because that reminds me more of the catholic faith which I steer clear from due to the worship of Mary amoungst other things.
Here is some scripture I found that’s worth you researching, but please know that I have not done an in-depth study on this and so please dig deeper;
Exodus 20:45
“You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God”
Leviticus 26:1
You shall not make idols for yourselves or erect an image or pillar, and you shall not set up a figured stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the Lord your God
Isaiah 42:8
I am the Lord; that is my name; my glory I give to no other, nor my praise to carved idols
I really can’t comment much more than that and that’s simply scripture I’m aware of to get you started on your own investigation 👍🏻
I think for me it’s the fact that we have a mediator with The father and that’s Jesus Christ and what we did on the cross. So to put something like an idol / statue / beads as a focal point, it seems odd to me as we simply don’t need anything to connect to God.
There’s my two cents anyway and hope it helps 😂♥️ God bless xxx
Hi i agree with Sarah plus spiritual attacks read aloud psalm 23, psalm 91, the Lords Prayer, worship Jesus and pray/read your bible as it is also a weapon. Get rid of anything is occult/ new age/mary statues or pictures/rosaries, RC crucifix.
James 4
God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you.
Melissa Dougherty just had her video ( satire) our on the itchy ears subject
Haha - I saw that - she’s funny!
I would recommend watching the documentary on youtube from Logos bible Software called "the unseen realm", A lot of good teaching from Dr Michael Heiser, about the unseen that I had never thought of with my knowledge. 🙂🙏
So many people recommended Michael Heiser - I must give this a watch! Thank you ✝️🙏🏻
@@thenewagetojesusdiaries5830 Yes, it is very informative to learn from him from an angle we have not seen as Christians. Feels like my head is still running on the old "Windovs 98" compaired to such a theologian I have to admit..😄 You're probably sharper here Sarah, God bless you 💗🙏🙂
@@thenewagetojesusdiaries5830 Be wary.
@@Cotswoldblonde oh really. If you can share a bit more info would be great.
@@thenewagetojesusdiaries5830
Heiser’s Hermeneutic
The root cause of the issue with Heiser’s theology is his interpretation method, which errs on multiple levels. First, he interprets Scripture in light of pagan literature to interject polytheism into the Bible. As Peter Jones suggested of Gnosticism, “Whenever ‘Christian’ theology looks to pagan polytheism for inspiration-as it is doing now and as it did then-it discovers a titillating variety of reading techniques, without which the Scriptures of the one, true God would be strictly unusable.”2) Indeed, this hermeneutic method reigns supreme in Heiser’s writings. One critic of Heiser has similarly commented, “Heiser has a bad hermeneutical methodology because he has a bad hermeneutic philosophy. This bad philosophy has led him to bad conclusions. There have always been Christians who have tried to come up with some unique and revolutionary interpretations. Heiser is not the first to come up with this notion of a council of gods. You can see this in Gnosticism, and Marcionism, and in other adaptations of basic Christian doctrines. I’m sure he won’t be the last.”3) Heiser responded to Howe’s criticism, stating, “I assume that the Scripture writers were communicating to people intentionally - people that lived in their day and who shared their same worldview. This assumption is in place because I’m sensitive to imposing a foreign worldview on the writers.”4) In other words, he admits his hermeneutics is focused on imposing the pagan worldview on the Biblical authors, even though the Bible itself commanded the Israelites to not enquire into the theology of their pagan neighbors (Deuteronomy 12:29-32), and to destroy any Israelite guilty of doing so (Deuteronomy 13:6-18). One simple example of this is Heiser’s discussion of pagan deities were known to inhabit gardens and mountains which he formulates an entire theology revolving around this concept imported on the Bible.5) However, the Bible condemns this pagan practice as idolatry on “high places” (Leviticus 26:30; Numbers 22:41; 33:52; Deuteronomy 12:2; 33:29; 1 Kings 3:2; 12:31-32; 13:32-33; 15:14; 22:43; 2 Kings 12:3; 14:4; 15:4, 33; 16:4; 17:11, 32; 21:3; 23:5; Psalm 78:58; Jeremiah 7:31; 19:5; 32:25; 48:35) and “groves” (Exodus 34:13; Deuteronomy 7:5; 12:3; Judges 3:7; 1 Kings 14:15; 18:19; 2 Kings 18:4; 23:14; Isaiah 17:8; 27:9) with idols under “every green tree” (Deuteronomy 12:2; 1 Kings 14:23; 2 Kings 16:4; 17:10; Isaiah 57:5; Jeremiah 2:20; 3:6, 13: Ezekiel 6:13). God rebukes this idolatry that Heiser thinks is valid biblical theology, “your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the Lord, which have burned incense upon the mountains,
and blasphemed me upon the hills” (Isaiah 65:7). Where is the logic of building a “biblical theology” by imposing pagan practices which are specifically condemned in the Bible? One of his foolish arguments for allegorizing his mountain opinion is presented in his citing of Psalm 48:1-2, stating, “As anyone who has been to Jerusalem knows, Mount Zion isn’t much of a mountain. It certainly isn’t located in the geographical north-its actually in the southern part of the country.”6) Mount Zion is on the north of the city Zion, also called Jerusalem (2 Chronicles 5:2; Psalm 135:21; 147:12; Isaiah 10:32; 30:19). He contends, “This description would be a familiar one to Israel’s pagan neighbors, particularly at Ugarit. Its actually out of their literature.”7)
Another problem with Heiser’s hermeneutic is he focuses on ambiguous text, plays fast and loose with the Hebrew language whenever he can, and when he cannot twist an interpretation of the existing grammar to fit his presupposition, he becomes the textual critic and changes the text itself or uses a different text to justify his position. Other Christian apologists have complained about Heiser’s handling of the text
Hi Sarah. I hope this finds you well. Im finding on my journey that I feel a lot of confusion and struggle to discern the truth. I find that although I was raised an RC I have found myself drifting... Not into new age as such but as more open to other faiths and philosophies. I feel that I resonate with the teachings of Christ however, Im not entirely convinced that I can take every word to be literal. Also...can you confirm the 18 missing years of Christ? he was last heard in the synagogues impressing rabbi's and elders. then he emerges aged 30. I just wanted to ask your take. Much love ♥️ I'm a fan of your content and In no way discredit your message. I'm just lost and seeking clarity x
Personally I don’t think they can be explained, simply because all the theories and theologies around the apparent travelling to distant lands and discovering eastern mysticism etc are built on nothing factual. There will be so many distortions of what Jesus did / didn’t do. But the best source of anything related to Jesus is the bible, I’ve come to learn we cant find truth by searching through the lies. The more I learn from the bible, the more the lies naturally reveals itself. If you require explanations to everything single answer, I don’t think you’ll get it. Simply because no one knows, but if you look at how Moses performed miracles - I would apply the same theory on how God works, and that’s directly through people, be it prophecy, tongues, healings etc. the disciples were given the power to heal as a gift of the Holy Spirit - doesn’t make sense Jesus had to go to train with a mystic to do the same. Hope this helps and I don’t mind you raising reservations at all - as it’s only what everyone else will be thinking - there will be question marks always - as the study of someone’s life we only can go by the information we have to go by - but I think the bible answers all and once we learn it’s a supernatural book - we work not only with the logos but the rhema - which I think helps us be led to truth with prayer combined 😊 Hope that helps and just my take on it of course 🙏🏻♥️
@@thenewagetojesusdiaries5830 thank you for that Sarah. I appreciate the time spent on listening and replying so articulately. I guess it comes down to...do you believe the Bible or don't you. For me i do believe that the essence of it is completely true and correct. but everything in this world comes down to interpretation. of both the writer and the reader. Its only my opinion that Jesus wasn't practicing Christianity. As it didn't exist until after his execution. But as you say none of us can go back 2000 years and find out. all we have is a library of witness accounts which have been edited and translated throughout the centuries. ♥️
Also I’ve only just twigged was RC means.. Roman Catholic? Check out the Third Adam videos in my playlist, especially one on he divine feminine as I believe that may clear up some things for you! To truly come to Christ we need to be born again, therefore we receive new hearts, I don’t believe this is alive with many in the RC faith personally. Think of Paul in the bible, how he was changed from one encounter - that’s what I believe Jesus does to us when we truly receive Him. Sorry long spill - you caught me on a day off work lol
@@thenewagetojesusdiaries5830 🤣 forgive me Sarah. Again thank you for this. I'll get on and have a look. I always remain open to everything. thanks again x
@@thenewagetojesusdiaries5830 I went through a spiritual awakening at the back end of 2020 and I've been quite lost ever since. I've started to see a lot of signs and synchronicity playing out and I had to investigate what it was. I don't know where to turn at all. Religion and the Bible gives me fear of doing the wrong thing by not following it. x