Confession and Forgiveness are both needed to Reconcile a Relationship

God clearly says to forgive someone who is repentant, who realizes they harmed you, and wants to mend the broken relationship.

Luke 17:3-5 "…3 Watch yourselves. If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him. 4 Even if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times returns to say, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.” 5 The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!”…"

Relationships remain broken if the offender doesn't admit that they offended. Too many people justify being rude and mean because there is something about their target they don't like.

We are not required to forgive someone who doesn't think they did anything wrong. However, we are to treat them with the respect they didn't give us. We are to show the love they didn't show us but this is not forgiveness.

Forgiveness reconciles a relationship when there is a confession of wrongdoing and forgiveness extended all done in humility with joy that the relationship will move forward to be different than it was before. We need both sides of the same coin for a relationship to be reconciled. We need both confession of sin and forgiveness extended.

Matthew 5:44 "

"But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,"

When someone continues in the sin of pride without remorse for how they treated us and even justifying how they treat us regularly, then we are commanded to distance ourselves from them.

One thing I have experienced in the cultural family setting is certain rude ways of communicating are common and expected. When someone in the family system does not like this form of communication the rest of the group treats the outlier with contempt, a sort of group mobbing.

When the outlier does not respond in kind and even refuses to communicate with angst and rudeness they are treated as if they are doing something wrong. The one who dislikes all that angst and lack of decency and manners will be gossiped about, lied about, and excluded from the family system.

We need not be surprised by this since God told us it would happen.

Matthew 10:21-22 "…21Brother 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. "

We can expect the world to hate us and even more, so the family members who cannot force us to act like them. Control is everything to the cultic family system. They hate anyone they think shines brighter than they. Rather than changing their behavior and attitude, they attempt to bring the outlier down to their level.

The more we resist or avoid them the harder they will try to bring us down. If they cannot do it on their own then they will enlist others through gossip to come against us.

We are in a Spiritual boot camp where we will be trained through difficulties to trust in the Lord more than we trust in anyone or anything else. It is the hardship that breaks our will to follow our own hearts and builds our resolve to follow Christ.

Just as in military boot camp, the sergeants break the will of the soldier so that he will learn to follow orders and endure hardship to become strong warriors who can fight through the most difficult circumstances without breaking.

Our walk with Christ is like this military boot camp, the purpose is to become so strong Spiritually and emotionally that we cannot be moved to become like the world no matter what comes against us.

Joshua 1:9

"9 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous! Do not be terrified nor dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

Hallelujah!!!!!

Born Agains Hate Sin Especially in Themselves

No truly born-again believer can be comfortable in their sin. Anyone who defends their sin, even if it is in attitude, is not born again or eventually they will be ashamed and confess it.

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We Become Strong When the Holy Spirit Controls Us

Some of us are becoming stronger because we are on our own without support from other believers, except online. We are living as in the days of Noah and Lot in which everyone does what is right in their own eyes and few will listen.

The more time we spend reading God's Word and hearing from the Holy Spirit the less we will fit into almost anything going on around us.

False Christians follow rules they make up to appear spiritual but ignore many principles of God's Word, showing a love for their own religiosity while having contempt for God's Word.

The false Christian will follow man-made rules rather than Christ. They have anger toward anyone who corrects them Biblically and they gossip against those who expect obedience to God's Word.

Scripture twisting is common among those who want to claim Christianity their own way. Bowing to Christ is unthinkable, as they bow to their own rules but to no one else.

False Christian believe they are good enough for heaven, giving themselves the credit for their salvation while judging others who do not follow their mandates and expectations. In their mind they are going to heaven their own way.

Matthew 7:21-23 says, “Not everyone who calls out to me, ‘Lord! Lord!’ will enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Only those who actually do the will of my Father in heaven will enter. On judgment day many will say to me, ‘Lord! Lord! We prophesied in your name and cast out demons in your name and performed many miracles in your name.’ But I will reply, ‘I never knew you. Get away from me, you who break God’s laws.’”

The false Christian spends more time ruminating on this world, its politics, religion, and personal pleasure than they do thinking about Christ if they even do that at all.

A false Christian is often rude and mean when they feel justified. They lack all the fruit of the Spirit of Christ because of the indwelling pride they possess. Judging small matters or misjudging others is the way of life for those who are proud of their own false religious spirit.

They do not judge "righteous judgment" but are prone to judge according to their own mindset not based on Scripture. Sadly they snatch out-of-context passages to justify their own ideas of what the Scripture says to justify their wrong judgments. Then they are agitated when confronted with the reality of Scripture in context. They are willful to make the Word of God say what they want it to say to elevate themselves and justify their pride.

Those who love to judge others often quote out of context the scripture that says; "don't judge" leaving out the whole rest of the passage that tells us not to judge others for things when we are doing the same things. The passage is addressing hypocrisy.

Matthew 7:1-6 1 “Do not judge, or you too will be judged.

2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

3 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?

4 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye?

5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye."

6 “Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces."

In this passage, we are told not to give what is holy to dogs. This tells me that we are to discern between those who are open to the gospel and those who are dogs who have resisted the Word.

John 7:24 "24 Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment."

Galatians 5:22-23

"22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law."

We are to judge whether or not someone has the fruit of the Spirit. It is Spiritually discerned by those who have Christ living in them.

1 Corinthians 2:14 "But a natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned."

The same people who don't want us to judge will freely judge others. If we are not to judge at all then why do so many judge some people as good? If we were not to judge anyone ever then we would not be judging good or bad. However, God clearly tells us that we will be discerning right from wrong and an evil person from a born-again brother easily as we watch their walk and responses to others.

The world is in the church gatherings, the reason there is false doctrine and in-fighting. Those who are not regenerate will fight against the truth of Scripture making all kinds of rules and mandates God never made to make themselves superior as well as dominate over the group. Domination is not of God, only the Holy Spirit leads the born again believer, He alone takes priority over us and others.

1 Corinthians 1:23

"but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,"

1 Corinthians 1:25

"For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength."

Do not be intimidates by those who attempt to dominate and intimidate, resist them with the Word of God. If we do not resist them we will become like them, full of pride over rules and principles God never gave in His Word.

John 14:17

the Spirit of truth. The world cannot receive Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. But you do know Him, for He abides with you and will be in you.

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