Dead Flies Bring a Stench

Ecclesiastes 10:1-2 "1 As dead flies bring a stench to the perfumer’s oil, so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor. 2 A wise man’s heart inclines to the right, but the heart of a fool to the left.…"

This is becoming more obvious in these last days of raging insanity. Those who think with depraved minds believe they are pleasing God.

So many are defending divorce and remarriage as though it is endorsed by God, when in fact, He hates it, does not endorse it and even condemns it.

When those who are defensive of sin come to fight with me they think they are fighting with me but they are in rebellion against God, I am merely repeating what God says. All their excuses to defy Christ will not please Him. All their attacks against God's people for speaking the truth will not please Him.

Those who defend sin are working for the devil, not only in their own lives but in the influence over others that encourage sin in those they speak to about this matter.

Those who have not been born again but claim Christianity, have only their own fallen minds with which to evaluate a matter. Those who are born again

have the mind of Christ clearly able to see the truth about sin.

1 Corinthians 2:14-16 "…14 The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 The spiritual man judges all things, but he himself is not subject to anyone’s judgment. 16“For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.…"

The natural man is more likely to make wrong judgments because their mind has not been changed by the Holy Spirit, they evaluate things according to their culture and their feelings, not according to the truth.

"Culture" and "feelings" cannot be the motivating factors in how we evaluate matters. We must think with the mind of Christ according to His Word without prejudice to change the Bible to say what we want to believe.

Those who love their sin and their families more than they love Christ will mock, demean and gossip against those who have resolved to obey Christ no matter what comes at them. The attacks are nothing, they are only proof of the attacker's rebellion against the word of God.

Since the pretenders cannot openly attack God with their accusation and hatred, they will attack God's messengers. They are perverted enough to believe if they only attack a person claiming to be a messenger of God, God will not judge them for their rebellion.

Since "feelings" are stronger in them than rationale and righteousness they will choose to believe their feelings count as righteousness. They will believe by choice that coming against God's people is the righteousness of its own.

We can and are experiencing more of these irrational attacks on our character merely by speaking the truth from the Bible. The world sees us as pariahs to be rejected and expunged from the community and family.

Who is behind all this mess? It's very simple, the father of lies is behind it, the devil himself. He is busy twisting the minds of those who have no defenses against him, these are many in the church today.

1 Peter 5:8

"Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour."

James 4:7

"Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you."

Resist the devil by using truth and when someone will not listen then remove yourself. Those who cannot control your emotions through mocking and demeaning will run away when they see you are not emotionally or spiritually moved by their antics.

Revelation 12:12

"Therefore, rejoice, O heavens and you who dwell in them! But woe to you, O earth and sea, for the devil has come down to you in great wrath, because he knows that his time is short!”

When we know where all this hate comes from, we do not have to take the attacks as personal from the person the devil is using, they are only pawns and puppets to do the devil's bidding. While the devil convinces them he is telling them the right things or that their own thoughts are equal to God's thoughts, they pride themselves on their good ideas.

When we know all this we can praise the Lord retaining our great joy and still act loving to wretched people who do us harm. We do not have to be their good friends or keep company with them, but we can be steadfast when forced to be in their presence. The steadfastness includes truth as well as all the fruit of the Spirit.

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."

The fruit of the Spirit does not have to be affected by the evildoer. We have it no matter what comes at us. Christ lives in us, we have nothing to fear and need not act according to emotion.

Jesus Christ wept before going to the cross and He wept over Jerusalem, that they rejected Him. But He went to the cross anyway and He did no harm, only good when He was on this earth. YES, we can be like that too, doing no harm, lacking reaction to evils done against us, even full of joy in spite of all that comes against us. This does not mean that we are never angry, but our anger against sin is controlled and motivated by the Holy Spirit Who lives in us. Nothing should be done or expressed that is not the working of the Holy Spirit.

Romans 8:8-10 "8 Those controlled by the flesh cannot please God. 9 You, however, are controlled not by the flesh, but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ. 10 But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness."

Hallelujah!!!! May the Holy Spirit reign in the heart of every born-again believer!

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Ragingly Insane Times

In the 1970's we were taught by teachers and even church members to trust our feelings. We know how wrong this is just by looking at what has happened to families and how morality and love have been expunged from our culture all around the world.

2 Timothy 3:1-5
"3 This know also, that in the last days perilous (ragingly insane) times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away."

There is nothing more obvious to us than these ragingly insane ways of thinking all around us every day now. It is clear that Christ is coming soon and those how are looking for Him have great joy.

Titus 2:12-14 "…12 It instructs us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live sensible, upright, and godly lives in the present age, 13 as we await the blessed hope and glorious appearance of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ. 14 He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.…"

 
Hallelujah!!!!

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Following Feelings will Destroy the One Who Does It

Anyone who operates on the basis of their feelings will become irrational causing much division over unimportant matters.

Youthful Marriages

I am weary of hearing; "we divorced because we were so young when we married."

Youth is not a bad thing in a marriage. I was sixteen when I became engaged to my husband and 18 when we married. Next month we are celebrating our 50th wedding anniversary. "I was young when I married" is just an excuse as though that is relevant. My husband and I grew up together, we matured as we worked through problems. One does not mature first and then marry, one matures because of marriage. Those who do not mature are those who are self-focused and bail out before there can be a breakthrough in healing. Often delaying marriage and children causes a sort of stunted growth.

We did not stay together because things were always wonderful and perfect, that kind of marriage is a fantasy.

We stayed together because we were committed to marriage, even when there might have been temptations to end the marriage through difficulty we could not bring ourselves to separate because of our love for one another and above all because we knew it was against God's commands.

Even before we were born again there was a sense of failure and displeasing God if we became divorced. Many years ago divorce was a scandal even among unbelievers. Most people did not divorce two generations ago. Our aunts and uncles on both sides remained married their entire lives and they were not born again. There was a cultural stigma attached to a failed marriage even if those staying together didn't know that the command to remain married came from God.

Now we have "Christians" fighting and devouring one another to defend divorce as though it were acceptable to God. This is the result of the self-esteem teaching that promotes self-focus.

Malachi 2:16

16 “For I hate divorce,” says the Lord, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with violence,” says the Lord of armies. “So be careful about your spirit, that you do not deal treacherously.”

What part of "I hate divorce" says God, do we not understand?

The children in the 70's generation were raised by the culture that taught one only has to do what one wants to do. Anyone who taught self-sacrifice for the greater good was mocked and rejected as pariahs to be shunned and avoided.

The idea that one should stay together in a marriage is seen as ridiculous to many who are used to and indoctrinated by the idea that no one should have to endure anything they don't wish to endure.

1 Corinthians 2:13-15 "…13 And this is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom, but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words. 14 The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 The spiritual man judges all things, but he himself is not subject to anyone’s judgment.…"

Our world is deteriorating in every area and aspect because the Bible is not the standard for truth for most families.

This cannot be fixed, but we can encourage one another to remain steadfast in our resolve to make the Bible our standard even if no one else does.

We can live in obedience to God and His principles even when we are mocked for doing so or rejected entirely by family and community. We can even do this with great joy in our hearts.

Matthew 5:11-13

11 “Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me. 12 Rejoice and be glad, for your reward in heaven is great; for in this same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

Disciples and the World

13 “You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt has become tasteless, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by people."

As long as we understand that our rejection is no fault of our own but the fault of those who refuse to obey the Bible, we can live in total peace that we are pleasing God. Let's never forget that if someone mocks or demeans us for our stand for Christ that is entirely on them not us.

I say these things because they are getting worse as we head toward the tribulation. We will be raptured because we know Christ, but the mentality of the tribulation and end of the end times began some time ago and grows worse every day. We will not be under God's wrath as those who will enter into the tribulation but we will see rejection and persecution before that time of God's wrath, enduring the wrath of the devil and those who hate God.

Be encouraged, God said this would happen! This is why we must ignore the feelings that well up inside of us when those who are evil come against us. They will try to make us feel like villains for standing for truth. Don't pay any attention to them remembering it is the devil who puts this in the minds of lost people.

No one can destroy the glue that binds two people by the hand of God in marriage. It cannot be done, only death breaks that spiritual bond.