Oregon is a state full of narcissism. I grew up there and saw the evil. Before all these terrible laws were made I lived among sudo-christians who never spoke of their faith to anyone, or rarely and only if asked. The family members I knew fell into all kinds of modern thinking more interested in building up their own superiority than humbling themselves to be cleansed. The Lord took me away from that area after I was married and before I was born again. I believe He wanted me to be removed to protect me from following the example of those who love their self righteousness and pretending.
When I returned from time away my eyes were so widely opened to the evil of this form of Christianity that I could never be fooled again.
I am thankful that when we ask the Lord to show us truth He will open our eyes so widely that they can never be closed again.
Those that love their apostate Christianity will not want any part of those who love truth. They will even warn other family members against us to remove any influence we can be that might test their faith to challenge what they have been taught and have chosen to believe all their lives.
The Bible for these people is a book of suggestions, they mix its truth with paganism and psychological error to justify what they desire to believe.
The challenge here is to check everything we believe with the Bible. Not going to the Bible to makes it say what we like, but to actually seek the Holy Spirit for truth and allow Him to show us what the Bible says and what it means.
Anyone who is seeking Christ will see the dross burning off as the Lord reveals to them all the things they thought were true that were sinful.
John 14:6
"Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."
Want to know truth? Take everything you believe to prayer asking God to expose it if it is wrong and replace it with Scripture. In order to do this though, one must want truth more than they want comfort and friends.
This is truth; when you have decided to obey God and seek truth, you will be rejected by the pretenders, unsaved family and many you never thought would be disloyal to you or to Christ.
Luke 21:16 "…16You will be betrayed even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and some of you will be put to death. 17And you will be hated by everyone because of My name."
Those who are not interested in truth will hate you, they will concoct gossips about you that were never true, claiming they know you and your intents, when they know nothing about you. They have developed thoughts about you to justify their anger against you. They will take a small innocent thing and blow it up to look evil when it was good. These are all tactics of the devil, he is the one behind their thoughts and ideas.
Do not be discouraged by these people and their minions, they are only obeying their father the devil, they are pawns without truth and light.
1 Peter 5:7-9 "…7 Cast all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you. 8 Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. 9 Resist him, standing firm in your faith and in the knowledge that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kinds of suffering."
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