Why Does God Remove People From Our Lives?

God removes people from our lives for a reason, He removes anyone who will stand in the way of the calling He has on our lives. We can trust Him.

When Christ is more important to us than anything and anyone else we will not agonize over the loss of someone who walks away or ignores us. They do it for evil but God means it for good.

We see this in the account of Joseph when his brothers were jealous, throwing him into a well to be sold off into slavery. That action on the part of the brothers was evil but God used it to eventually elevate Joseph to a prominent position, in which he was an authority over his brothers.

Genesis 50: 20 "

" As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good,"

When we feel a loss because of rejection of others when we have studied our own heart in light of Bible truth and found that we could find nothing that we did to cause angst in others, then we can rest assured that God has a purpose, either for this life or for the next.

We must always be sure that we are not at fault, ready to own our flaws and bad judgment, however, in our day there are many people ready to accuse believers of what the others are doing and we are not. Just as Christ was accused of doing His miracles by the power of the devil, we too will be falsely accused in this age of apostasy.

Good is being called evil and evil is being called good in our day and the born-again believer is a particular target of the devil and all those who are influenced by him.

Matthew 5:11

“Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account."

I have been gossiped about and lied against because I would bring scripture to the conversation in the presence of Christians. In our day most people who say they are Christian have no interest in learning God's Word or even obeying it. They are satisfied to know enough to feel safe but so little they are often violating it unknowingly. Those who violate the scriptures unknowingly will be held accountable for being lazy in refusing to ask the Holy Spirit and search for the answers in the Bible.

Proverbs 11:9

"With his mouth, the godless man would destroy his neighbor, but by knowledge, the righteous are delivered."

Proverbs 19:9

"A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will perish."

Psalm 109:2

"For wicked and deceitful mouths are opened against me, speaking against me with lying tongues."

If we speak boldly about the Word of God and remain faithful to His teachings we will experience those who would lie against us, it's a promise from God's Word. The beauty of knowing this is that we do not have to worry about it, we can leave it with Christ, choose carefully our close friends, and sense no obligation whatever to remain friends with people who attempt to ruin our walk with Christ.

Please remember that God warned us that members of our own families would be against us. He made it clear that we can and must remove them from our lives in order to follow Christ.

Luke 14:26-27 "26“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters— yes, even his own life— he cannot be My disciple. 27And whoever does not carry his cross and follow Me cannot be My disciple.…"

Matthew 10:37

"Anyone who loves his father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me;"

John 12:25

"Whoever loves his life will lose it, but whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life."

Matthew 10:36 For I have come to turn ‘a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. 36 A man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.’ "

We are seeing this as a common occurrence in our day, many children have turned against believing parents, accusing them of things that were not true in order to absolve themselves of their own disrespect and dishonor of their parents.

Some may judge this post as a negative one but it is just the opposite. Those who have been rejected can be encouraged that our Lord warned us of these things to help us learn to move past the attacks and the rejection into a full and joyful life with believers who love the Lord as we love Him.

We have not lost anything when the bio family rejects us, we have gained loving and kind brothers and sisters in Christ who walk in the Spirit and demonstrate all the fruit of the Holy Spirit as a lifestyle. Our family changes from those we were born to, toward those who are born again in the family of Christ.

Matthew 12:48-50

"But he replied to the man who told him, “Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?” And stretching out his hand toward his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers! For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”

John 13:34-35

"A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Matthew 12:50

"For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”

See that? Those who love God and live a lifestyle of doing His will are those who are members of the family we are born-again into. We no longer are members of the bio-family who carry our blood unless they too are members of God's family.

One of the reasons so many Christians do not grow in holiness and even regress if they do some growing is because they remain continually with blood relatives who do not love the Lord. They spend more time with their bio-relatives than they do with their born-again family. It ought to be the other way around, we should spend most of our time with born-again brothers and sisters than we do with bio family.

This does not mean we don't love our bio-families, it just means that they are no longer family and that we cannot relate to them anymore because we have been Spiritually and emotionally changed into new creations while bio-family who are not born again remain rebellious thinking in opposing ways to God. These people will hold us back from Spiritual and emotional growth as we diminish our walk to keep them happy.

In Matthew 10:36 it is clear that those in bio-families who are not born again will come against us because of Christ. We must live a life of peace in Christ with most of our relationships to be those who love Christ. We can witness from time to time to the unsaved but they cannot become our constant companions.

Just Saying!

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Evidence of the Born-Again Experience

Do not be left behind, self reflect while seeking Christ to discern if you are in the body of Christ or if you are in need of repentance for salvation as a tare.

Attending a church gathering or even "God speak" is not evidence that someone is born again.

The evidence of a born-again experience is the presence of the Spiritual traits of the Holy Spirit. The fruit is not works nor what we say, it is the ever-present and invisible but discernable qualities of God's own character.

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."

No child of God lives a lifestyle of sin, even if that sin is continual pride and resistance to instruction from His Word.

Matthew 7:15-20

You, Will, Know Them by Their Fruit

15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. 16 You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? 17 Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Therefore by their fruits you will know them."

Authentic born-again believers do not rage against someone for challenging them to self-reflect. Authentic believers do not continue acting in shamefully angry and controlling ways to have whatever they want. It is impossible to be a narcissist when the Holy Spirit lives inside.

1 John 3:4-9

"Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. You know that He appeared to take away sins, and in Him there is no sin. No one who abides in Him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen Him or known Him. Little children, let no one deceive you. Whoever practices righteousness is righteous, as he is righteous. Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil. ..."

Those who are not convicted of their sin, even fighting to defend it, cannot be born again, they never knew the Lord as their Savior.

Those who love the Word and Jesus Christ more than they love themselves, are those who are born again.

Romans 8:7

"For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God,

for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot."

John 14:15 "15 If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. "

Notice God said, "if you love Me, you WILL keep My commands." It's not a command or a suggestion it is a statement of fact.

Who Gets the Glory will be a Clue!

Most "Christians" today love their worldly thinking based on the culture more than they love the Word of God. Christ is called "The Word", think about it.

Who gets the glory if Christ does not?

Just Saying!

Embellishment of the Bible Leads to Sin and Apostasy

I have had more Christians than anyone else come against me for speaking scripture and exposing truth.

When they tell me of a false worldly way of thinking and I correct it with the Bible they rage as though I did something wrong.

I didn't rage when they told me their false doctrine, I listened and then calmly told them they were wrong because the Bible says the opposite of what they just said.

Most "Christians" today do not want to hear the Bible they want only to think according to their own desired belief unconcerned at whether or not God said it.

We live in a world of fantasy thinking in which most people, Christians included, are easily offended if someone attempts to bring rational, logical, and truthful thinking to a discussion. They love their personal fantasies more than they care to know the mind of God.

2 Timothy 4:3 "For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but having itching ears, they shall heap to themselves teachers in accordance with their own lusts."

We can discern a false believer though how adamantly they oppose the teachings of Christ. An authentic born-again believer loves to hear about the things of God, although sometimes they have been influenced by false teachers and it will take a strong conviction from the Holy Spirit to convince them the teaching they heard was not from God but from the devil.

I knew a lady once who had attended a "prayer seminar" on how to pray. The seminar was a week-long and the syllabus that she purchased was 700 pages or so thick. She was excited to boast to others that she had taken this seminar and was reading the notebook feverishly to learn every nugget of information. There is no fun in taking such a seminar unless one can boast about it to others, its an effective attention getter for them.

Sadly, she did not need this fancy syllabus, all she needed was the Bible. Christ Himself taught us to pray in a very simple way, that is to address the Father with praise and thanksgiving, asking for His will, not our own, requesting our daily needs, asking forgiveness for any sin in us while forgiving others who have requested our forgiveness and keep us from temptation and safe from evil.

Matthew 6:9-13

The Lord’s Prayer should have been called the Lord's teaching on prayer.

9 “Pray, then, in this way:

‘Our Father, who is in heaven,

Hallowed be Your name.

10 Your kingdom come. Your will be done,

On earth as it is in heaven.

11 Give us this day our daily bread.

12 And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.

13 And do not lead us into temptation but deliver us from evil."

If all we ever knew about prayer was this teaching it would be all we need. Christ kept things simple, they were not complicated, but in pride, many people want to make things complicated to sell books, appear superior and gain a following to themselves.

God is not glorified when we go beyond His teachings, embellishing and expanding them into our own ideas. In fact, this is sin and adding to the Bible.

Deuteronomy 4:2

"2 You shall not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor take away from it, so that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I am commanding you."

Beware of those who come with extra-biblical writings to impress others with their false knowledge.

Sadly too, so many people who follow these fancy and contrived ideas with scripture mixed in, are doing it to appear special themselves. They cannot attend these seminars without coming back to share all their new knowledge with boasting as though one cannot know how to pray unless they have attended one of these seminars.

I am here to tell you that we do not need these self-elevating seminars to learn how to pray. All we need is the Bible and the Holy Spirit.

John 16:13-15

"But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come. He will glorify Me, for He will take of Mine and will disclose it to you. All things that the Father has are Mine; therefore I said that He takes of Mine and will disclose it to you."

The Holy Spirit disclosed to us everything we need to know within the pages of the bible. The writers of the Bible did not write from their own minds, they wrote what the Holy Spirit told them to write. After this was finished we had everything we will ever need, that is His Word the Bible and the Holy Spirit to guide every aspect of our lives.

We need not go to seminars that add to what God said nor do we need monstrously long modern writings to explain what He plainly said in His word. It is valuable to go to the original languages from time to time to discern the mind of a Jewish writer to clarify the meanings.

Too many people add their own ideas based on psychology or secular thinking to the Bible to make it say what they like, this is sin and will be dealt with eventually.

Revelation 22:18-19 "18 I testify to everyone who hears the words of prophecy in this book: If anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book. 19 And if anyone takes away from the words of this book of prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and the holy city, which are described in this book.…"

It is not possible to develop a book of 700 pages on prayer without adding to the Bible, even God didn't give us that many pages so why would we need more than what God wrote. Just Saying!

Parable Of The Tares - Continued Part 2

Parable Of The Tares: Part 1