When God makes two people one they CAN NOT be separated by man.
Our translations lead us to believe that they shouldn't but they could. That's not truth.
When God makes us one spiritually we cannot undo that spiritual glue that He binds us with. We can go to secular courts and dissolve a document according to the state but it doesn't dissolve the glue of oneness God did in us. That's why Christ calls it adultery when divorced people remarry.
Matthew 5:32 . . . but I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for the reason of unchastity, makes her commit adultery; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
The unchastity in Matthew has to do with the engagement, not the marriage itself.
Matthew 19:18 "18 “Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery."
Saturday, March 16, 2019
Thinking With the Mind of Christ
Those who don't like a particular truth will always focus on us rather than God Who is the one who said these things.
I was once told that I write scripture too much and needed to think for myself.
My response was that I had no desire to think with my own mind, I prefer to think with the mind of Christ, since He commanded it.
1 Corinthians 2:15-16 "…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."
Those who do not think about God very often, usually when they are in trouble and in need of help, cannot obey God's principles, they have no desire for them.
I was once told that I write scripture too much and needed to think for myself.
My response was that I had no desire to think with my own mind, I prefer to think with the mind of Christ, since He commanded it.
1 Corinthians 2:15-16 "…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."
Those who do not think about God very often, usually when they are in trouble and in need of help, cannot obey God's principles, they have no desire for them.
Don't Worry What Others Think, It Only Matters What God Commanded
If you are being pressured to be friends with family or others whom God has told you to avoid, don't worry what others think.
God clearly told us to avoid those who will not walk the path we have chosen, that is the narrow one with Christ.
Matthew 10:14-15 " 14 And if anyone will not welcome you or heed your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that home or town. 15 Truly I tell you, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town."
1 Corinthians 15:33-34 " 33 Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good character.” 34 Sober up as you ought, and stop sinning; for some of you are ignorant of God. I say this to your shame."
Did you know that continuing with friends who hate God is a sin. God COMMANDED us to remove ourselves, its not suggestion but a command.
I prefer to think of "no contact" with someone as "loving them from afar." Since I still love them and pray for them, I cannot have a close relationship with those who hate our God.
We will bear the consequences of continual contact with ungodly people when they refuse to walk the path God has for believers. That does not mean we might not have occasional contact to bring the gospel, but they cannot be our continual companions.
God clearly told us to avoid those who will not walk the path we have chosen, that is the narrow one with Christ.
Matthew 10:14-15 " 14 And if anyone will not welcome you or heed your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that home or town. 15 Truly I tell you, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town."
1 Corinthians 15:33-34 " 33 Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good character.” 34 Sober up as you ought, and stop sinning; for some of you are ignorant of God. I say this to your shame."
Did you know that continuing with friends who hate God is a sin. God COMMANDED us to remove ourselves, its not suggestion but a command.
I prefer to think of "no contact" with someone as "loving them from afar." Since I still love them and pray for them, I cannot have a close relationship with those who hate our God.
We will bear the consequences of continual contact with ungodly people when they refuse to walk the path God has for believers. That does not mean we might not have occasional contact to bring the gospel, but they cannot be our continual companions.
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