Don't be surprised if your favorite preacher flips on you, doing a 180 when you thought you knew him so well. This is happening regularly now as God exposes the inner hearts of those who were pretending to love Christ but never became born again.
Matthew 7:15
"15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves."
The prominent preachers are falling like flies at the poison they are embracing. We are living in the last days of apostasy, more people will speak lies than are speaking the truth.
More people will love sin than love righteousness and more people will believe they are good than are actually good.
2 Timothy 4:2-4 "…2 Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and encourage with every form of patient instruction.
3 For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears, they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires. 4 So they will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths."
We are encountering many people who attend churches all over this country but become enraged when we explain their doctrines are doctrines of devils rather than truth from God. Even when we prove it to them they remain angry and will even exact revenge when possible.
Do not be surprised by any of this. The beauty of it all is that we know this is what is coming and it means we will be going home soon.
2 Timothy 3:1-5
“Difficult Times Will Come” (ragingly insane times)
3 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.
2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,
4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
5 holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these."
Saturday, February 22, 2020
Forcing People Does Not Change Hearts
Muslims are narcissists, they do not allow anyone to exist who does not think the way they want them to think. All other religions are based on forcing rules, most of which were not given by the Bible. They all want to burden people with things to do to earn their salvation. When Christ died He did it for us! He paid the penalty that we do not have to pay or earn.
Born again believers share the truth of Christ because they have love, but they sense no inclination to force anyone. Christ never forced anyone, He merely told the truth and left the decision up to the hearer.
Any "Christian" who rages because someone doesn't believe them, may not be born again. Born again believers operate from love and kindness. We may rebuke the stubborn heart and then remove ourselves but we do no harm and we do not manipulate people for the desired outcome.
When someone won't listen we pray for them and let God do His work on them. We share the gospel of peace with others so they may experience the wonderful life and inheritance that comes from knowing Christ.
2 Thessalonians 3:16
"Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in every way. The Lord be with you all."
Isaiah 26:3
"You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you."
As born again believers we love people, our hope is that they find Christ so they can be saved from their sin the way Christ saved all of us.
Born again believers share the truth of Christ because they have love, but they sense no inclination to force anyone. Christ never forced anyone, He merely told the truth and left the decision up to the hearer.
Any "Christian" who rages because someone doesn't believe them, may not be born again. Born again believers operate from love and kindness. We may rebuke the stubborn heart and then remove ourselves but we do no harm and we do not manipulate people for the desired outcome.
When someone won't listen we pray for them and let God do His work on them. We share the gospel of peace with others so they may experience the wonderful life and inheritance that comes from knowing Christ.
2 Thessalonians 3:16
"Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in every way. The Lord be with you all."
Isaiah 26:3
"You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you."
As born again believers we love people, our hope is that they find Christ so they can be saved from their sin the way Christ saved all of us.
They Must Force Others
The narcissist is not content to do as he pleases, he must force everyone else to think the way he thinks. This is why he never listens to those with opposing ideas, even if they are righteous and good. In fact, if an opposing idea comes from the mouth of someone the narcissist hates, he must pretend that person is bad for having a different view. And, he will not stop there, he will attempt to turn all the targets friends against them in retaliation for daring to be authentically themselves.
The Narcissist never shares information they simply expel their opinion expecting those who hear to bow to him. We must share our views but we are not responsible to force anyone to believe them. Never take these narcissists seriously. They are all about manipulation and intimidation, there is frequently no depth of character for them. They remain on a superficial judgemental level all of their lives judging things they know nothing about but pretend they know everything.
Proverbs 12:14-16 "…14 By fruitful speech a man is filled with good things, and the work of his hands returns to him. 15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to counsel. 16 A fool’s anger is known at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.…"
The Narcissist never shares information they simply expel their opinion expecting those who hear to bow to him. We must share our views but we are not responsible to force anyone to believe them. Never take these narcissists seriously. They are all about manipulation and intimidation, there is frequently no depth of character for them. They remain on a superficial judgemental level all of their lives judging things they know nothing about but pretend they know everything.
Proverbs 12:14-16 "…14 By fruitful speech a man is filled with good things, and the work of his hands returns to him. 15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to counsel. 16 A fool’s anger is known at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.…"
Friday, February 21, 2020
Hang the Human Traditions and Be Free
The ritual and cost of a burial with all the fancy trappings are not mentioned anywhere in the Bible. These are paganistic rituals based on making sure the body does not degrade. The services now look more like paganistic ancestor worship with all the pictures of their life while people actually speak to the dead person as though they can really hear.
Its a sort of lack of faith to think that God told us we will return to dust but do everything we can to prevent that from happening as though God cannot put us back together. It might even be denying that we will have a new body, why else would we need to preserve the old one.
1 Corinthians 13:3 "And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing."
It is also a lack of understanding that once a person dies they can no longer hear you or see you. They are gone, for the born again believer we celebrate that death because we know they were born again and really are in a better place than here and that we will see them again.
I do not attend the funerals of those who were not born again. God said; "let the dead bury the dead." I cannot bring myself to say: "he is in a better place" to relatives when the life of their loved one demonstrated clearly that they rejected Christ.
Luke 9:59-61
"…59 Then He said to another man, “Follow Me.” The man replied, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.” 60 But Jesus told him, “Let the dead bury their own dead. You, however, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.” 61Still another said, “I will follow You, Lord; but first let me bid farewell to my family.”…:
In this passage the man mentioned had a living father, he wanted to wait for his father to die before following Christ. Christ clearly instructed him to leave his father to follow him and allow the unsaved in the family to bury his father.
If we look into the Word of God searcing for truth we find that so very much of what we do as believers in Christ have no basis in the Word of God. Follow the traditions of men if you must, but don't say everyone must do what you do if it is not clearly described in the Word.
Some people say Christ was buried, so our culture puts people in the ground with dirt over them. But this is not how Christ was buried. If we are going to use Him as an example of how to bury someone then we would need to find caves in mountains in which to place the bodies.
God never gave us clear mandates as to how to bury our dead. He left this matter up to personal choice. The sad thing is that many people are offended if we don't do it the way our ancestors have been doing it for hundreds of years as though that fact is proof it is the way it "should" be done.
Born again believers have many choices that are not spelled out in the Word, we have no obligation to be buried the way everyone else says to do it, we can choose for ourselves as led by the Holy Spirit.
It is amazing how simple and stress-free the born again life is when we scrape away all the man-made meaningless traditions that are a burden to us.
I rejoice in the simplicity of the Christian walk. No longer bowing to traditions of men I am at peace with God.
Its a sort of lack of faith to think that God told us we will return to dust but do everything we can to prevent that from happening as though God cannot put us back together. It might even be denying that we will have a new body, why else would we need to preserve the old one.
1 Corinthians 13:3 "And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing."
It is also a lack of understanding that once a person dies they can no longer hear you or see you. They are gone, for the born again believer we celebrate that death because we know they were born again and really are in a better place than here and that we will see them again.
I do not attend the funerals of those who were not born again. God said; "let the dead bury the dead." I cannot bring myself to say: "he is in a better place" to relatives when the life of their loved one demonstrated clearly that they rejected Christ.
Luke 9:59-61
"…59 Then He said to another man, “Follow Me.” The man replied, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.” 60 But Jesus told him, “Let the dead bury their own dead. You, however, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.” 61Still another said, “I will follow You, Lord; but first let me bid farewell to my family.”…:
In this passage the man mentioned had a living father, he wanted to wait for his father to die before following Christ. Christ clearly instructed him to leave his father to follow him and allow the unsaved in the family to bury his father.
If we look into the Word of God searcing for truth we find that so very much of what we do as believers in Christ have no basis in the Word of God. Follow the traditions of men if you must, but don't say everyone must do what you do if it is not clearly described in the Word.
Some people say Christ was buried, so our culture puts people in the ground with dirt over them. But this is not how Christ was buried. If we are going to use Him as an example of how to bury someone then we would need to find caves in mountains in which to place the bodies.
God never gave us clear mandates as to how to bury our dead. He left this matter up to personal choice. The sad thing is that many people are offended if we don't do it the way our ancestors have been doing it for hundreds of years as though that fact is proof it is the way it "should" be done.
Born again believers have many choices that are not spelled out in the Word, we have no obligation to be buried the way everyone else says to do it, we can choose for ourselves as led by the Holy Spirit.
It is amazing how simple and stress-free the born again life is when we scrape away all the man-made meaningless traditions that are a burden to us.
I rejoice in the simplicity of the Christian walk. No longer bowing to traditions of men I am at peace with God.
No casket, no cost: Tennesseans go back to 'natural' burial
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