Today was a hard day, attempting to show the pitfalls of accepting sins in the body of Christ, was met with contempt and name calling.
I am considered "judgemental", "harsh" and "mean" for saying that we should not endorse sin in the body through the celebration of it in party fashion.
I was accused of not being sinless, therefore I should never point out sin. I was told that because everyone has sin, I should be gentle and remain silent for the Holy Spirit to speak to them.
In short, every trick and manipulation in the book was engaged to bludgeon the one who was pointing out sin.
The one Bible account that was used against my arguments was that David sinned with Bethsheba. I pointed out that David was rebuked by Nathan the prophet for his sin and because of it, David became deeply convicted over it and repented. Even so, the consequences of the sin were not removed. God didn't allow David to build the temple because of bloodshed in his household and the baby by the adulterous affair died.
It is common for pretenders to know just enough of the Bible to use it against you through cherry picking verses. Without the entire passage we are led to believe the opposite of what the Scriptures are actually saying.
Sadly the next generation is Scripturally illiterate to such a degree that they believe sin is alright because every one has sin. They believe that no one should tell another person they are in sin, while they are telling us we are wrong for speaking about sin.
We are all wrong in sin, so sin is alright, but it is sin to rebuke someone of sin, but that is not alright.
Does anyone see the problem here?
When reasoning is going out the window there is no keeping out the storm.
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Pray Until God Says Stop
It is actually possible for the Lord to tell us to stop praying for someone, because He knows their heart and that they will either become born again or they have made the choice for eternity to reject Him.
I have had this sense lately about people that I have been praying for, for more than 40 years. Nothing changes in their attitudes, the pride still abound, even greater than it was when they were younger as though the culture helped them to lean into the popular enticing ways rather than fight against them.
When we see a "Christian" getting worse,more prideful, more arrogant, more superficial, instead of better as they grow older, we have a clue that they have either never been born again or they have allowed the culture to shape their mentality. Most have never been born again because they have not understood trusting Christ for salvation, they are still trying to be good, while trusting in themselves.
Mark 4:
1 He began to teach again by the sea. And such a very large crowd gathered to Him that He got into a boat in the sea and sat down; and the whole crowd was by the sea on the land.
2 And He was teaching them many things in parables, and was saying to them in His teaching,
3 “Listen to this! Behold, the sower went out to sow;
4 as he was sowing, some seed fell beside the road, and the birds came and ate it up.
5 Other seed fell on the rocky ground where it did not have much soil; and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of soil.
6 And after the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.
7 Other seed fell among the thorns, and the thorns came up and choked it, and it yielded no crop.
8 Other seeds fell into the good soil, and as they grew up and increased, they yielded a crop and produced thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold.”
9 And He was saying, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
2 Timothy 4:3
"For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires,"
Jeremiah 11:14
""Therefore do not pray for this people, nor lift up a cry or prayer for them; for I will not listen when they call to Me because of their disaster."
Jeremiah 7:16
""As for you, do not pray for this people, and do not lift up cry or prayer for them, and do not intercede with Me; for I do not hear you."
1 Corinthians 5:5
"I have decided to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus."
Matthew 7:6
""Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before swine, or they will trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces."
This is a sad day when we realize we can do nothing to help those who have regressed or have never been born again. However, it is also a joyous day, because the burden of their foolishness no longer hangs on us, it has been given to the Lord and He knows exactly what to do.
1 Peter 5:7
"casting all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you."
God has recorded all my prayers over the past 40 years, they count for now and for eternity. Sometimes we beg God as though He must continually be reminded, I am tired and weary from the stress of the rebellion of my children, I have released them to Christ, He will do what is necessary in His timing!
In the mean time I am going to get on with my life, desiring to grow in the Lord with no one holding me back or distracting me.
Colossians 2:18
"18 Let no one keep defrauding you of your prize by delighting in self-abasement and the worship of the angels, taking his stand on visions he has seen, inflated without cause by his fleshly mind,"
Those who are in rebellion, thinking up reasons to treat us with contempt, refusing to resolve matters to enslave us to their petty quarrels, must be removed from our lives. They can keep us in a one down position, continually preoccupied with foolishness even ruining relationships because of their jealousy while manipulating to control us.
Let no one control you but Christ.
Galatians 5:22-23
"22 But the fruit of the SPIRIT (Christ) is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law."
2 Corinthians 5:14-15
"14 For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died; 15 and He died for all, so that they who live might no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf."
I have had this sense lately about people that I have been praying for, for more than 40 years. Nothing changes in their attitudes, the pride still abound, even greater than it was when they were younger as though the culture helped them to lean into the popular enticing ways rather than fight against them.
When we see a "Christian" getting worse,more prideful, more arrogant, more superficial, instead of better as they grow older, we have a clue that they have either never been born again or they have allowed the culture to shape their mentality. Most have never been born again because they have not understood trusting Christ for salvation, they are still trying to be good, while trusting in themselves.
Mark 4:
1 He began to teach again by the sea. And such a very large crowd gathered to Him that He got into a boat in the sea and sat down; and the whole crowd was by the sea on the land.
2 And He was teaching them many things in parables, and was saying to them in His teaching,
3 “Listen to this! Behold, the sower went out to sow;
4 as he was sowing, some seed fell beside the road, and the birds came and ate it up.
5 Other seed fell on the rocky ground where it did not have much soil; and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of soil.
6 And after the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.
7 Other seed fell among the thorns, and the thorns came up and choked it, and it yielded no crop.
8 Other seeds fell into the good soil, and as they grew up and increased, they yielded a crop and produced thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold.”
9 And He was saying, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
2 Timothy 4:3
"For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires,"
Jeremiah 11:14
""Therefore do not pray for this people, nor lift up a cry or prayer for them; for I will not listen when they call to Me because of their disaster."
Jeremiah 7:16
""As for you, do not pray for this people, and do not lift up cry or prayer for them, and do not intercede with Me; for I do not hear you."
1 Corinthians 5:5
"I have decided to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus."
Matthew 7:6
""Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before swine, or they will trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces."
This is a sad day when we realize we can do nothing to help those who have regressed or have never been born again. However, it is also a joyous day, because the burden of their foolishness no longer hangs on us, it has been given to the Lord and He knows exactly what to do.
1 Peter 5:7
"casting all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you."
God has recorded all my prayers over the past 40 years, they count for now and for eternity. Sometimes we beg God as though He must continually be reminded, I am tired and weary from the stress of the rebellion of my children, I have released them to Christ, He will do what is necessary in His timing!
In the mean time I am going to get on with my life, desiring to grow in the Lord with no one holding me back or distracting me.
Colossians 2:18
"18 Let no one keep defrauding you of your prize by delighting in self-abasement and the worship of the angels, taking his stand on visions he has seen, inflated without cause by his fleshly mind,"
Those who are in rebellion, thinking up reasons to treat us with contempt, refusing to resolve matters to enslave us to their petty quarrels, must be removed from our lives. They can keep us in a one down position, continually preoccupied with foolishness even ruining relationships because of their jealousy while manipulating to control us.
Let no one control you but Christ.
Galatians 5:22-23
"22 But the fruit of the SPIRIT (Christ) is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law."
2 Corinthians 5:14-15
"14 For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died; 15 and He died for all, so that they who live might no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf."
Monday, March 23, 2015
If There is no Love, There is no Salvation
"Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us." (1 John 4:7-12 KJV)
Franklin Graham Told The Truth
Franklin Graham told the truth here, sadly though religious leaders came against him. It is no wonder our country is a mess, when the religious leaders don't know any better than to teach young people to disobey authority.
I completely agree with this, I have said it to my husband. I know I will not be shot by the police, because I am not in places where crimes are occurring and I do not resist authority. If an officer approached me to speak to me I would not fight back, act snotty or resist in any way. I would speak to him with respect calmly while answering everything he wanted to know.
No one can tell me that these rebellious young people who fight back are completely innocent. We don't fight back when we are innocent, we submit and explain things willingly and clearly.
I completely agree with this, I have said it to my husband. I know I will not be shot by the police, because I am not in places where crimes are occurring and I do not resist authority. If an officer approached me to speak to me I would not fight back, act snotty or resist in any way. I would speak to him with respect calmly while answering everything he wanted to know.
No one can tell me that these rebellious young people who fight back are completely innocent. We don't fight back when we are innocent, we submit and explain things willingly and clearly.
Sunday, March 22, 2015
Christ Did It All
It's all about Christ or nothing about Christ.
If you believe you can lose your salvation, you believe that you have to do part of the work in obtaining your salvation. This is blasphemy, to think that you have to help God save you.
Ephesians 2:10 "10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them."
If you think you have to work to maintain salvation then you are no different than every other pagan religion of the world.
Catholic, Muslim, Hindu, Jehovah Witness, Seventh Day Adventists and many others are all working their way to heaven. They depend on a particular work or set of works to earn their way into heaven. Some of them let God help them a little, but they continually camp on works as their propitiation instead of Christ.
None of these religions assure anyone of their salvation, just as those "Christians" who think they can lose their salvation. If you are working to keep your salvation then you agree with these pagan religions that part of the work is yours, Christ didn't do it all and you cannot know if you have salvation until the day you die, because you don't know if you will sin big enough to lose it tomorrow. You don't know how many sins you have to commit for the Holy Spirit to fly out of you.
Those who believe they can lose their salvation do not trust Christ because of all the promises He made about saving us, changing us and keeping us, are ignored as though He never said them. The excuse they use is that we can walk away from Him, meaning part of our salvation is up to us.
When they say they believe we are saved by grace, they live and breathe as though they are not. Grace is grace for obtaining salvation as well as keeping but they deny the keeping part.
The truth is that there is deep pride that makes them want to maintain some of the control, while bragging that they can do it.
I am here to tell you, no one can keep their own salvation by following the Law or any other good deeds. Many will get to heavens gate and hear these terrible words, "I NEVER KNEW YOU." They will hear them because they placed their trust in themselves rather than completely on Christ. Here is what they will say:
Matthew 7:21-23
"21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’"
Don't think you will get to heavens gate and be able to tell the Lord that you kept the commandments, it won't get you in.
When I get to heaven I will tell the Lord that I trusted in His Son Jesus Christ, and that will get me in, nothing else, nothing added.
If you believe you can lose your salvation, you believe that you have to do part of the work in obtaining your salvation. This is blasphemy, to think that you have to help God save you.
Ephesians 2:10 "10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them."
If you think you have to work to maintain salvation then you are no different than every other pagan religion of the world.
Catholic, Muslim, Hindu, Jehovah Witness, Seventh Day Adventists and many others are all working their way to heaven. They depend on a particular work or set of works to earn their way into heaven. Some of them let God help them a little, but they continually camp on works as their propitiation instead of Christ.
None of these religions assure anyone of their salvation, just as those "Christians" who think they can lose their salvation. If you are working to keep your salvation then you agree with these pagan religions that part of the work is yours, Christ didn't do it all and you cannot know if you have salvation until the day you die, because you don't know if you will sin big enough to lose it tomorrow. You don't know how many sins you have to commit for the Holy Spirit to fly out of you.
Those who believe they can lose their salvation do not trust Christ because of all the promises He made about saving us, changing us and keeping us, are ignored as though He never said them. The excuse they use is that we can walk away from Him, meaning part of our salvation is up to us.
When they say they believe we are saved by grace, they live and breathe as though they are not. Grace is grace for obtaining salvation as well as keeping but they deny the keeping part.
The truth is that there is deep pride that makes them want to maintain some of the control, while bragging that they can do it.
I am here to tell you, no one can keep their own salvation by following the Law or any other good deeds. Many will get to heavens gate and hear these terrible words, "I NEVER KNEW YOU." They will hear them because they placed their trust in themselves rather than completely on Christ. Here is what they will say:
Matthew 7:21-23
"21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’"
Don't think you will get to heavens gate and be able to tell the Lord that you kept the commandments, it won't get you in.
When I get to heaven I will tell the Lord that I trusted in His Son Jesus Christ, and that will get me in, nothing else, nothing added.
Seek Truth Through Prayer
Why do so many people believe that doctrinal error is alright as long as everyone agrees that each decides for himself what he wants to believe. This reminds me of the scripture that says;
"In the last days everyone did what was right in their own eyes"
When there is doctrinal disagreement, we need to go back to scripture, using the original languages if need be, to come to a CORRECT understanding of what God meant.
The problem is that too many people love their cultural traditions and things taught by men, they just can't let go of them. No matter how clear the message from the word is, they refuse to see the truth.
How can someone fight so bitterly to defend that which God condemns or fight bitterly to avoid obeying what God commands, if they are seeking Him?
The only answer to the previous question is that many even most of those claiming to be believers are not seeking God, they are heaping up for themselves teachers that give them the answers that they like rather than what is truth.
The admonishment here is to actually go to prayer when you are challenged about a matter. Seek truth not personal desire or comfort.
"In the last days everyone did what was right in their own eyes"
When there is doctrinal disagreement, we need to go back to scripture, using the original languages if need be, to come to a CORRECT understanding of what God meant.
The problem is that too many people love their cultural traditions and things taught by men, they just can't let go of them. No matter how clear the message from the word is, they refuse to see the truth.
How can someone fight so bitterly to defend that which God condemns or fight bitterly to avoid obeying what God commands, if they are seeking Him?
The only answer to the previous question is that many even most of those claiming to be believers are not seeking God, they are heaping up for themselves teachers that give them the answers that they like rather than what is truth.
The admonishment here is to actually go to prayer when you are challenged about a matter. Seek truth not personal desire or comfort.
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