If we love Christ we will pray and delve into His Word to find His heart and desires for me. Not my own but His!!!!
Romans 13:8
"Be indebted to no one, except to one another in love. For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law."
Galatians 5:14
"The entire law is fulfilled in a single decree: "Love your neighbor as yourself."
James 2:8
"If you really fulfill the royal law stated in Scripture, "Love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing well."
John 14:15
"If ye love me, keep my commandments"
John 14:21
"He that hath my commandments, and keeps them, it is He that loves me: and he that loves me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him."
John 14:15-31
"15 If you love me, keep my commandments."
John 14:21
"He that has my commandments, and keeps them, it is he that loves me: and he that loves me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him."
John 14: 23 "Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. 24 He that loves me not keeps not my sayings: and the word which you hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me"
When someone says its legitimate to divorce and remarry even though Christ said if we divorce we are sinning and if we remarry we are committing adultery, then that person who says the opposite of what God says is lying against Him and defying the commands of Christ.
When someone lives in sin with a partner they are not married to before marriage they are sinning against God when He said not to commit fornication, sleeping together before marriage. Those who live this way and defend it or defend it in others are defying the Word of God, lying against Him, and promoting this immorality in others who are watching.
Those who say they are Christians but treat their parents disrespectfully with rude comments and covert ill-mannered and impertant language or gestures are defying God's Word in refusing to honor their parents.
Those who refuse to leave their father and mother after they are married and place their parents above their spouse are defying God's Word when He commanded us to leave and cleave to our spouse, making them our partners in life with whom we decide all matters. Parents ought never to interfere in the decisions between their married children just as adult children should mind their own business in the affairs of their own parents.
When we follow God's commands and pay close attention to His principles, we will be blessed with better relationships and emotional and spiritual growth. Gossip, and interference in the lives of others to appear superior are condemned by God.
1 Thessalonians 4:11-12
"11 and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life and attend to your own business and work with your hands, just as we instructed you,"
Attempting to interfere in the lives of others to dominate and judge them without cause is condemned by God. Only "know it alls" do these sorts of things and they always repeat what they think they know to others to gain allies who will elevate them.
My suggestion is to eliminate the gossiper from your life and all their followers too. They will do nothing to further your walk with Christ and will continually look for things to judge, always in a way that criticizes often without knowledge or information or based on their own guesses rooted in their own desired belief out of jealousy or anger usually over nothing very important.
When we realize this about those who pick and choose passages to twist to their own desires we can learn to not react to anything they say and do as well as who should be removed from our lives.
Proverbs 29:8-9 "…8 Mockers inflame a city, but the wise turn away anger. 9 If a wise man goes to court with a fool, there will be raving and laughing with no resolution."
We are living in a day and time when we will encounter more of these troublemakers than we do godly people who live in love and kindness.
Many people will hate God and us too for loving Him. They will employ the tactics of the devil and enlist other ungodly people to follow their lead in their dastardly deeds of destruction. God said we can rejoice in this knowing we do not have to become like them.
Matthew 10:21-23 "…21 Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rise against their parents and have them put to death. 22 You will be hated by everyone because of My name, but the one who perseveres to the end will be saved. 23 When they persecute you in one town, flee to the next. Truly I tell you, you will not reach all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.…"
Most of the believers I have known, the ones who love Christ with all their heart and the ones who speak the truth are being rejected by nearly all family members as well as blocked from service in the public arena.
When we love Christ it is going to offend superficial cultural Christians and other unsaved people who love their comfort and who refuse to self-reflect about their own lives.
Isaiah 66:5
"You who tremble at His word, hear the word of the LORD: "Your brothers who hate you and exclude you because of My name have said, 'Let the LORD be glorified that we may see your joy!' But they will be put to shame."
Luke 21:19
"By your patient endurance, you will gain your souls."
Hallelujah!!! We need not be dismayed by this and we are allowed and even commanded to remove ourselves from those who wish to destroy our walk with Christ whether or not they claim to be a Christian.
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