Can't wait to hear what's to come 😊

Have the belief in your own ability to do this, Lionel, and if this piece is anything to go by... you're onto a winner. Excited for you.... 🥰

Absolutely. What amazes me is that even with the signs of these times, there are few of us watching/waiting for the rapture of the church.

Absolutely; just what I said! That finale was quite something!

@Jennifer Everett Agreed, the sooner repentance comes the absolute better! Why wait for such a weighty decision?! Even so, it says that All who call on the name of the Lord will be saved [believing in Christ in true repentance]. For some who make heartfelt, genuine decisions even later than sooner: God knows who are truly His.

But that's also music. There is many music where it's off-beat.

@@trioxx2942 For example?

​@@zah_old For example it's up to the discretion of the composer, ie the choosing of the artist and his own creativity.

that's the beauty of music! It's versatile

@@icedcoffee278 Great reply. :-)))

@Nevan Crazy this discussion on Lionel's thread, but to layer on your comment nd clarify. Yes faith in Christ is what gets us in the Door and how we come to God, how we are initially Justified and have relationship with Him. But in James it says that faith without works is dead. So to recap, we are saved by faith but rewarded according to our works which are tested as by fire. If we love Him we will obey Him. :-)

@@patriciaeverett5001 I can agree with that. I'm just making clear the most misunderstood subject on salvation, is that works play no part in our justification, and those who do believe that they have to be good enough to keep their salvation have not accepted Jesus' free gift, because we are saved by His power and work alone.

@@DeltaVe Then I respectfully agree to disagree. Yes it is at first a free gift to reiterate, it is a gift of God lest any man should boast. But if we do not obey Him if we don't bear good fruit of Holy Spirit/results of obedience to God, if we don't keep Him as our first love, if we don't stay connected to the Vine which is Christ, if we don't endure to the end, if we give up as did three categories in the Sower and the Seed parable including the one who didn't even let the good seed root in himself, oh yes there can be a giving up. Nd a great Falling Away Jesus warned about! And in Revelation 3:5 it says we can even have our names removed from The Book of Life. [Egads.] So there is no once saved always saved. We have to live our faith. But yes initially God is the one who does the saving. Jesus is the one who hung on that cross for us we could not do that for ourselves. Lastly and I'll repeat myself: if we love Him [God] we will obey Him--and that's what Jesus Himself said. Best.

Yeshua did not die in our place and undergo what we deserve as a child of wrath from God, He died as God allowed by the hands of evil people although while innocent and separated from sinners as a new creation as the greater goal to in behalf of many sinners for the sake of their sins to put its enslavement to death in the body that we become the righteousness of God in our progressive restoration to be conformed to the image and glory of Yeshua's Humanity as a new creation, inheriting His Human Nature as our Federal Head and being participants of His narrow path and all that a righteous lifestyle brings in a broken world. Yeshua's Nature was mortal( likeness of sinful flesh) but He was never spiritually dead nor enslaved to sin as a child of wrath is. Thus never partook in such a nature that deserves divine wrath as a enemy of God. His Human Nature called the new creation was preserved that the elect would inherit that Human Nature being baptized into Yeshua as participants in His nature and lifestyle while righteous. That is why it is by permission only to suffer as Yeshua. What He suffered in life and death was without wrath from God. That we are promised by God by Faith in who He is but also what Yeshua's Testimony concerning His lifestyle would accomplish of all those who partake in it.

@@patriciaeverett5001 righteous works are a product of our salvation by God's Mercy working through Gods gifted and permitted repentance and faith as the working of God through the Holy Spirit. Our obedience to God is the product of our salvation as well and is also the working of God in us, who works in us to work and will toward His good pleasure, nothing righteous can be accomplished apart from Messiah Yeshua's working.