Hey! Today....well...tonight where I'm from, I'm going to be talking about the word reprobate. Now, in the dictionary that I have reprobate is "unable to be approved of; rejected; useless". It's something that you really don't what to describe you. God has verses like the one in Romans 1:28 "And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;" What the verse is saying that these people have been taught God's word, but they didn't keep it in their hearts. They didn't want to learn from it. So, as punishment, God made their minds useless, reprobate. Those minds lead them to do things and ruin their lives. You DON'T want that to happen to you. Trust me. If you anger a holy, all-powerful, all-knowing God, there's no way out except accepting Christ as Savior and submitting your will to God. In II Corinthians 13: 5-7, Paul speaks on being reprobate.
5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
6 But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.
7 Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.
I know that King James Version can be very confusing, but basically, Paul's saying that if we're saved we have to look at our lives and see if we're being reprobate. Are we useless to God because we fail to use the opportunities that He gives us? Jesus is in us once we're saved, and we must shine His light to the world so they'll se what a wonderful God He really is. As Christians, we can't be reprobates. Yes, we aren't perfect. The last verse affirms that. We ust have to pray that God will help us. Yes, we will stumble and fall, but God will help us back up again. What a wonderful promised that He has given to us. Matthew 5:16 "Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven."
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