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We Can't Trust Our Feelings
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Are feelings a safe guide to know whether or not we are saved? According to the Bible, they are not. Consider the apostle Paul. He claimed to have lived before God in all good conscience while he was persecuting Christians, but admits he did it ignorantly in unbelief.
| Proverbs 28:26 |
He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered. |
| Proverbs 14:12 |
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. |
| Acts 23:1 |
And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day. |
| 1 Timothy 1:12-14 |
And I [Paul] thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry; who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. |
| James 2:24 |
Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only. |
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