Yes, they are just that foolish! Pentecostals and Charismatics say they believe we can use anything for the Lord while violating the Scriptures in the process. They believe as long as God's name is attached to it that makes it holy. I have dealt with these people all my 45 years as a born again believer. They are always the same, they claim something is from God that violates His word and become angry when we expose it for what it is, that is evil.
The only communication between the realm of the angels that these people will hear from is the devils. Devils will lie to them and flatter them until they are so sucked in they forget all about God and begin the worship of angels.
Colossians 2:18-19 "18 Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you with speculation about what he has seen. Such a man is puffed up without basis by his unspiritual mind, 19 and he loses connection to the head, from whom the whole body, supported and knit together by its joints and ligaments, grows as God causes it to grow.…"
God expressly forbids the use of necromancy, communication with the dead and attempts to communicate with the spirit realm.
Leviticus 19:31
“Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God.
1 John 4:6-8
"We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error. Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love."
Acts 19:19
And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. And they counted the value of them and found it came to fifty thousand pieces of silver.
The Ouija board is demonic and a practice of sorcery. It is an abomination.
Revelation 21:8
"But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
No born again believer would continue this practice, Christ in them would convict them and they would confess and stop.
If you see this going on in your church rebuke it and if they will not stop, leave!
https://pulpitandpen.org/2017/12/20/charismatics-using-christian-ouija-board-to-communicate-with-angels/?fbclid=IwAR1zetShIfYFOyxPdf43HmNDV4TWifTnsG_rQfLi7XmWd0ARazeqpKQBPR0
Saturday, December 14, 2019
"Heaping Hot Coals of Kindness"
If the purpose of a gift is to "heap hot coals of kindness" on a person to make them feel guilty about something, or to manipulate them into doing something for you, then these acts of kindness are nothing more than a attempt to manage others, and do not count with God.
If our acts of kindness out of pure heart happens to convict someone that's up to God, but we are never to be kind just to produce guilt in someone. We are kind because we should be kind. To be kind to manipulate the feelings of someone else is nothing more than a egotistically driven act to be able to elevate self.
James 4:8
"Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded."
Psalm 73:1
"A Psalm of Asaph. Truly God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart."
A pure heart is one that is authentic, doing things to bless others not for personal gain.
Hebrews 10:22
"22 let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water."
Sincerity is in the heart of every born again believer, nothing is done to elevate self but rather to elevate Christ.
Psalm 24:4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to falsehood, who does not swear deceitfully. 5 He shall receive blessing from the LORD, and vindication from the God of his salvation.…"
Do you want to be blessed of the Lord? Seek Him in all you do, do all to the glory of God and for the well being of others and He will bless.
If our acts of kindness out of pure heart happens to convict someone that's up to God, but we are never to be kind just to produce guilt in someone. We are kind because we should be kind. To be kind to manipulate the feelings of someone else is nothing more than a egotistically driven act to be able to elevate self.
James 4:8
"Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded."
Psalm 73:1
"A Psalm of Asaph. Truly God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart."
A pure heart is one that is authentic, doing things to bless others not for personal gain.
Hebrews 10:22
"22 let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water."
Sincerity is in the heart of every born again believer, nothing is done to elevate self but rather to elevate Christ.
Psalm 24:4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to falsehood, who does not swear deceitfully. 5 He shall receive blessing from the LORD, and vindication from the God of his salvation.…"
Do you want to be blessed of the Lord? Seek Him in all you do, do all to the glory of God and for the well being of others and He will bless.
Narcissists Must Repent!
"Narcissists get rewarded for their bad behavior because people are afraid to call them out. They don't care who they hurt as long as they win the argument."
DoctorRamani
Those who love their self elevation don't care about how they harm others, they only care that they win over others.
Kind hearted people will give into the narcissist just to get away from them. Since kind reasonable people are not about winning they give in to the narcissist to stop the argument, but sadly this is enabling them.
What is the solution; let them have their win knowing its not a win for them at all, its just further and deeper sin that dominates them. They have no control over their perverted need to win, they are in bondage. Sadly too they have few friends because they care more about someone respecting and fearing them than they do about being loved.
This was the same mentality of the devil. He had the love of God and every wonderful things anyone would want. He was beautiful, had power and the leader of all the angels and yet he wanted power over God and others.
Revelation 12:7-12
Satan Thrown Out of Heaven
7 And war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought with the dragon; and the dragon and his angels fought,
8 but they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them in heaven any longer.
9 So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him."
Notice too that the devil was not satisfied to be the smartest, the most beautiful and the most powerful over all the angels, he had to have the top position.
This is what we see in narcissists! They are never satisfied with what God gave them they must be over everyone else.
We know the mentality of the narcissist comes right from the play book of the devil himself.
In these last days we can expect to see more of these monstrous people because we are living in the times much like the times of Noah. The Lord sent the flood to destroy the whole world because of the wickedness and only eight people were saved.
This time more than eight people will be saved but most of the population of the world will reject Christ while the born again believer becomes rare compared to the world population.
Matthew 7:13-14 "13 Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14 But small is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, and only a few find it.…"
These words give us comfort and joy because this is not our home, we are going there soon to be with our Lord. In the mean time Christ lives in us, then we will see Him. Now we walk by faith, then we will have sight. Hallelujah!!!
The reward for the narcissist will be hell, but the born again believer will go to heaven.
DoctorRamani
Those who love their self elevation don't care about how they harm others, they only care that they win over others.
Kind hearted people will give into the narcissist just to get away from them. Since kind reasonable people are not about winning they give in to the narcissist to stop the argument, but sadly this is enabling them.
What is the solution; let them have their win knowing its not a win for them at all, its just further and deeper sin that dominates them. They have no control over their perverted need to win, they are in bondage. Sadly too they have few friends because they care more about someone respecting and fearing them than they do about being loved.
This was the same mentality of the devil. He had the love of God and every wonderful things anyone would want. He was beautiful, had power and the leader of all the angels and yet he wanted power over God and others.
Revelation 12:7-12
Satan Thrown Out of Heaven
7 And war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought with the dragon; and the dragon and his angels fought,
8 but they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them in heaven any longer.
9 So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him."
Notice too that the devil was not satisfied to be the smartest, the most beautiful and the most powerful over all the angels, he had to have the top position.
This is what we see in narcissists! They are never satisfied with what God gave them they must be over everyone else.
We know the mentality of the narcissist comes right from the play book of the devil himself.
In these last days we can expect to see more of these monstrous people because we are living in the times much like the times of Noah. The Lord sent the flood to destroy the whole world because of the wickedness and only eight people were saved.
This time more than eight people will be saved but most of the population of the world will reject Christ while the born again believer becomes rare compared to the world population.
Matthew 7:13-14 "13 Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14 But small is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, and only a few find it.…"
These words give us comfort and joy because this is not our home, we are going there soon to be with our Lord. In the mean time Christ lives in us, then we will see Him. Now we walk by faith, then we will have sight. Hallelujah!!!
The reward for the narcissist will be hell, but the born again believer will go to heaven.
We Cannot Always Take it to the Church but we can Take it to Christ
Matthew 18:15-18
"15 “If your brother sins, go and show him his fault in private; if he listens to you, you have won your brother.
16 But if he does not listen to you, take one or two more with you, so that by the mouth of two or three witnesses every fact may be confirmed.
17 If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.
18 Truly I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven."
In our day our Christian relationships are diverse. Often we have friends and acquaintances who do not attend the same church gathering as we do. How is it possible to take a relationship problem to the church when you do not attend the same gathering?
God said that we should attempt to fix relationship problems by going first to the person, if they will not listen then we are to go to the church. Sadly though in our day the church is no help because it is part of the problem. The church often embraces the one who sins while beating up on the one who wishes help to resolve a problem.
With the mentality of keeping sins secret, ignoring them or many people calling those who expose sin in the body as mean spirited, we have a church that coddles and embraces the one who sins while beating up on the one who exposes the sin. This is not only common in our churches today it is normal.
When we find ourselves in a situation where a "Christian" will not listen to us and we have no "church" to take it to, then there is nothing left to do but to remove these sinners from our lives and move on to build relationships with authentic believer who love the Word of God.
This is not always easy since we are living in the "days of Noah" in which everyone does what is right in their own eyes and no one will listen to rational Biblical reasoning. In fact most people in the churches today cannot tolerate lengthy reasonable dialogue to resolve a problem. In short the church is full of pride without compassion or concern for others except those who refuse to confess their sin.
Many authentic believers today have only one place to go for comfort and relief and that is Christ Himself. There is no better place to go than to God. However the Word of God tells us to go to the church but the church is often the place that fosters and enables sin, they have little to no help for the believer who wants to obey Christ.
If you are fortunate to be in a fellowship that defends truth, adhere's to the Biblical mandates for church discipline then you are truly blessed. These gatherings are rare, many people do not have the blessing of a church like this. They walk alone, without comfort from others and against the tide of rebellion that looms large in the Christian gatherings today.
Matthew 24:37-39
37 For the coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days of Noah.
38 For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark,
39 and they did not understand until the flood came and took them all away; so will the coming of the Son of Man be."
The people in Noah's day were warned and yet they were oblivious to what was coming because they would not listen to Noah. Keep in mind too that Noah had many relatives who drown in the flood. When God closed the door of the ark as the waters were rising, there were all of Noah's relatives down below in the waters, except the immediate family of Noah who did listen to him. Only eight people were on that ark, eight people who loved God and were saved.
Think about that! Today there are more than eight who are born again but far fewer compared to the population of the world. This tells us why it is so difficult to find authentic believers who seem to love God with all their hearts.
The days of noah and now are clearly days described in 2 Timothy 3.
Take away for this post: Do not be discouraged that you cannot find a friend or a gathering who obeys the Word of God. We are living in rebellious irrational times of raging insanity. You are not alone even though it feels like it often.
There will be few people we can confide in and few people who care about Christ or anyone else. But the sweet blessing of living in these times is that we know what is coming.
We understand that God knows all about this and told us in His Word this was coming. Probably nearly every generation who loved God thought theirs was the one that was like this, but we are living in the end of the end in which much of prophesy is being fulfilled before our very eyes.
If we focus on Christ and His promises we can observe what is going on without sucking it into our soul or affecting our walk with Him. We need not be in despair, but in joy and gladness at the wisdom and hope He has given us.
Titus 2:13
"13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;"
Romans 8:22-23
"For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now. And not only this, but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body."
We know where wee are going and that God has this covered.
"15 “If your brother sins, go and show him his fault in private; if he listens to you, you have won your brother.
16 But if he does not listen to you, take one or two more with you, so that by the mouth of two or three witnesses every fact may be confirmed.
17 If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.
18 Truly I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven."
In our day our Christian relationships are diverse. Often we have friends and acquaintances who do not attend the same church gathering as we do. How is it possible to take a relationship problem to the church when you do not attend the same gathering?
God said that we should attempt to fix relationship problems by going first to the person, if they will not listen then we are to go to the church. Sadly though in our day the church is no help because it is part of the problem. The church often embraces the one who sins while beating up on the one who wishes help to resolve a problem.
With the mentality of keeping sins secret, ignoring them or many people calling those who expose sin in the body as mean spirited, we have a church that coddles and embraces the one who sins while beating up on the one who exposes the sin. This is not only common in our churches today it is normal.
When we find ourselves in a situation where a "Christian" will not listen to us and we have no "church" to take it to, then there is nothing left to do but to remove these sinners from our lives and move on to build relationships with authentic believer who love the Word of God.
This is not always easy since we are living in the "days of Noah" in which everyone does what is right in their own eyes and no one will listen to rational Biblical reasoning. In fact most people in the churches today cannot tolerate lengthy reasonable dialogue to resolve a problem. In short the church is full of pride without compassion or concern for others except those who refuse to confess their sin.
Many authentic believers today have only one place to go for comfort and relief and that is Christ Himself. There is no better place to go than to God. However the Word of God tells us to go to the church but the church is often the place that fosters and enables sin, they have little to no help for the believer who wants to obey Christ.
If you are fortunate to be in a fellowship that defends truth, adhere's to the Biblical mandates for church discipline then you are truly blessed. These gatherings are rare, many people do not have the blessing of a church like this. They walk alone, without comfort from others and against the tide of rebellion that looms large in the Christian gatherings today.
Matthew 24:37-39
37 For the coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days of Noah.
38 For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark,
39 and they did not understand until the flood came and took them all away; so will the coming of the Son of Man be."
The people in Noah's day were warned and yet they were oblivious to what was coming because they would not listen to Noah. Keep in mind too that Noah had many relatives who drown in the flood. When God closed the door of the ark as the waters were rising, there were all of Noah's relatives down below in the waters, except the immediate family of Noah who did listen to him. Only eight people were on that ark, eight people who loved God and were saved.
Think about that! Today there are more than eight who are born again but far fewer compared to the population of the world. This tells us why it is so difficult to find authentic believers who seem to love God with all their hearts.
The days of noah and now are clearly days described in 2 Timothy 3.
Take away for this post: Do not be discouraged that you cannot find a friend or a gathering who obeys the Word of God. We are living in rebellious irrational times of raging insanity. You are not alone even though it feels like it often.
There will be few people we can confide in and few people who care about Christ or anyone else. But the sweet blessing of living in these times is that we know what is coming.
We understand that God knows all about this and told us in His Word this was coming. Probably nearly every generation who loved God thought theirs was the one that was like this, but we are living in the end of the end in which much of prophesy is being fulfilled before our very eyes.
If we focus on Christ and His promises we can observe what is going on without sucking it into our soul or affecting our walk with Him. We need not be in despair, but in joy and gladness at the wisdom and hope He has given us.
Titus 2:13
"13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;"
Romans 8:22-23
"For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now. And not only this, but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body."
We know where wee are going and that God has this covered.
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