The new evil is "preaching" we are told by rebellious people who want to believe they know everything that we should not "preach at" anyone or that we should not "lecture" our children.
No one has been able to answer the question, "why not preach or lecture?" Are these now the four letter words of the 2000's.
1 Corinthians 1:21
"For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe."
If anyone wants to tell me I should not preach or lecture anyone, then perhaps those are people who hate to be told they may not know something or that they are not the only ones who have wisdom and knowledge.
Proverbs 28:4-5 " 4 Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, But those who keep the law strive with them. 5 Evil men do not understand justice, But those who seek the LORD understand all things.…"
Prideful people hate preaching and lectures, they also have an aversion to saying what others might not like. If others don't like them, then they will not be popular. Many of these prideful people measure their value on how many people like them rather than developing godly character to be useful to God.
To say that; "we should say things so people will receive them", is to say that if we just say everything just right, all who hear WILL accept it. This couldn't be farther from the truth. It is also to say that if we did our best in the Spirit to convey a message and the person becomes angry, then we must have done something wrong.
Most people rejected Christ, did He not say things properly according to modern psychology. How about the apostles, they were all martyred, did they not say things correctly.
Human effort in preaching to manipulate people into complying, is not Biblical and is damaging, as we can see from the mess the modern apostate church is in today.
We are to be led by the Holy Spirit in the things we say and we are to preach, teach, lecture, speak boldly as we are led by Christ. To follow formulas made up by men who are taught by evolutionists, believing that man is nothing more than another animal, therefore if we train them right they will automatically respond the way we think they should, is not Biblical and even works against the Spirit.
Mankind is not like the animal kingdom, the Pavlov dog experiment does not work on people as it does with dogs, when a bell rings the dog knows to take a treat. Mankind has a will and thought patterns that are not controlled by stimuli.
There are many prideful people who are walking around thinking they are doing everything right because lots of people like them. They are basing their assessment of their character on the responses of others toward them. This is dangerous and the opposite of what Christ said about us if we obey Him.
Mark 13:12-13 "…12 Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against their parents and have them put to death. 13 You will be hated by everyone on account of My name, but the one who perseveres to the end will be saved. "
Luke 12:16 "…16 You will be betrayed even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and some of you will be put to death. 17 And you will be hated by everyone because of My name."
Luke 6:26 "26 Woe to you when all men speak well of you, for their fathers treated the false prophets in the same way. "
You see, psychology often if not most of the time defies the word of God. Psychology can at times assess the actions and words of people, but they don't have the authentic solution, which is Christ Jesus.
1 Corinthians 2:14-15 "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.…"
Wednesday, January 10, 2018
Allow the Holy Spirit to do Your Fighting for You
A tactic you will encounter in these times of apostasy, is to be accused of being or doing something the accuser is doing but you are not. The world and the churches are full of hypocrisy, hating when the Bible is used for the clarifying of terms and actions.
Just recently I was accused of being angry, while I was speaking in calm tones. This person was turning red faced and agitated while all I said was a couple of sentences, not even enough information to actually get out an entire thought. The person accused me of being angry when I had not feelings or voice tones of anger at all.
I watched his face as his head moved in radical ways back and forth, his head was down, his face was angry, but he accused me of being angry. It is common for those who are angry to project their own anger onto the person for which they have contempt. In other words he was describing himself. Whenever a narcissist accuses you of lying when you have not, then you know the narcissist has lied to you or is about to lie to you. Whatever they accuse their target of doing, they are doing.
The devil is accusing the brethren right now before the thrown continually hoping to discredit us. Note that he is using the same tactic on this earth every day and more so as the end times progress.
Revelation 12:10 "10 And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying: “Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ. For the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, he who accuses them day and night before our God."
I was tempted to defend myself, but the Lord stopped me, I repeated what I said in a calm voice and exited the conversation. I cannot count the number of times a narcissist accused me of the very thing the narcissist was doing but I was not.
If the accuser can get others in the room to think you have done something wrong they have recruited their flying monkeys. In this case my husband was with me, it has been the tactic of my extended family to cozy up to my husband while mocking and demeaning me. Sometimes in the past when we were younger it caused my husband to think I had done something wrong.
This time, my husband's eyes were clearly open to what was going on and he saw how irrational the interaction was, and said so. What a blessing that was, that he was not sucked into the lies of the narcissist and realized this was a common occurrence when I was growing up, to be constantly demeaned, dismissed, left out of things, for no good reason except to dominate and control.
Yes, when I was a child I would be in tears not understanding what I did wrong but feeling like a piece of garbage. As I grew older as a teen ager, I began to fight back, that didn't work either, it merely fed the beast, giving them more reason to continue even worse rejection.
I tell this story to encourage others who may have encountered the same thing on a regular basis in their life. If we know what is happening to us we are more likely to shed the accusations as irrational and continue on without it affecting us.
Before an operation the doctor tells us what he has to do to make things healthy again, it may be cutting into us but it does not frighten us because we know what is going to happen and why.
When we know that every encounter we have with wicked people has a purpose, that purpose is to strengthen us while teaching us to refrain from acting in kind to their tactics, then we will grow in holiness, allowing God to be our defender. When we feel a need to respond back to defend ourselves, then we are walking in pride.
The devil wants us to fall, that's why he sends these mean spirited people to buffet us, hoping we will discredit ourselves and leave the room seeing a bad witness for Christ.
The best thing to do is to avoid these people, if we have to encounter them we should exit the conversation when we realize it is being used as manipulation to cause trouble.
Praise the Lord we can walk in righteousness no matter what any one else is doing, even when they are direct attacks on us.
We must be led all the time by the Holy Spirit, we can leave all responses to Him. Hallelujah!
Just recently I was accused of being angry, while I was speaking in calm tones. This person was turning red faced and agitated while all I said was a couple of sentences, not even enough information to actually get out an entire thought. The person accused me of being angry when I had not feelings or voice tones of anger at all.
I watched his face as his head moved in radical ways back and forth, his head was down, his face was angry, but he accused me of being angry. It is common for those who are angry to project their own anger onto the person for which they have contempt. In other words he was describing himself. Whenever a narcissist accuses you of lying when you have not, then you know the narcissist has lied to you or is about to lie to you. Whatever they accuse their target of doing, they are doing.
The devil is accusing the brethren right now before the thrown continually hoping to discredit us. Note that he is using the same tactic on this earth every day and more so as the end times progress.
Revelation 12:10 "10 And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying: “Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ. For the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, he who accuses them day and night before our God."
I was tempted to defend myself, but the Lord stopped me, I repeated what I said in a calm voice and exited the conversation. I cannot count the number of times a narcissist accused me of the very thing the narcissist was doing but I was not.
If the accuser can get others in the room to think you have done something wrong they have recruited their flying monkeys. In this case my husband was with me, it has been the tactic of my extended family to cozy up to my husband while mocking and demeaning me. Sometimes in the past when we were younger it caused my husband to think I had done something wrong.
This time, my husband's eyes were clearly open to what was going on and he saw how irrational the interaction was, and said so. What a blessing that was, that he was not sucked into the lies of the narcissist and realized this was a common occurrence when I was growing up, to be constantly demeaned, dismissed, left out of things, for no good reason except to dominate and control.
Yes, when I was a child I would be in tears not understanding what I did wrong but feeling like a piece of garbage. As I grew older as a teen ager, I began to fight back, that didn't work either, it merely fed the beast, giving them more reason to continue even worse rejection.
I tell this story to encourage others who may have encountered the same thing on a regular basis in their life. If we know what is happening to us we are more likely to shed the accusations as irrational and continue on without it affecting us.
Before an operation the doctor tells us what he has to do to make things healthy again, it may be cutting into us but it does not frighten us because we know what is going to happen and why.
When we know that every encounter we have with wicked people has a purpose, that purpose is to strengthen us while teaching us to refrain from acting in kind to their tactics, then we will grow in holiness, allowing God to be our defender. When we feel a need to respond back to defend ourselves, then we are walking in pride.
The devil wants us to fall, that's why he sends these mean spirited people to buffet us, hoping we will discredit ourselves and leave the room seeing a bad witness for Christ.
The best thing to do is to avoid these people, if we have to encounter them we should exit the conversation when we realize it is being used as manipulation to cause trouble.
Praise the Lord we can walk in righteousness no matter what any one else is doing, even when they are direct attacks on us.
We must be led all the time by the Holy Spirit, we can leave all responses to Him. Hallelujah!
God Hears Those Who Belong to Him
When God hears and sends angels in response to your prayers!
Daniel 10:12
"12 Then he said to me, “Do not be afraid, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart on understanding this and on humbling yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I have come in response to your words."
Daniel 10:12
"12 Then he said to me, “Do not be afraid, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart on understanding this and on humbling yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I have come in response to your words."
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