Dating and Marriage: Let God Choose

I have met people who dated unbelievers which is wrong.

The unbeliever decided to become a Christian to marry their Christian love. After the marriage, the unsaved spouse went right back into their old life because they only "converted" to be accepted by the family of the Christian fiance.

It is highly suspect when someone becomes a Christian merely to marry someone.

I did this when I was young, I became Catholic to marry a Catholic. Neither of us was saved but the story is similar. I became Catholic to fit in with my husband and his family. A few years later I became born again and left the Catholic church. This happens to people who become Christian to marry a Christian, they are not dedicated because they are doing it for impressing someone rather than the conviction of sin by Christ.

Many young women become astonished when their spouse who became a Christian to marry them watch their marriage fall apart. The husband does not lead, he loves worldly things and does not speak about the Lord. Even worse he even acts angry when his Christian wife wants him to read the Bible with her.

Remember that an unsaved spouse will lead your children away from Christ no matter what they say or how many times they attend church. Our churches are full of the children of people who were superficial in their walk at home with family.

When the saved spouse wishes to train their children in the Lord by the standards of the Bible, God's word, the unsaved spouse will fight it. That spouse will negate the teachings of the other parent in front of the children, perhaps if only by remaining silent when they should have supported the parent who wanted Christ in the lives of their children.

Unsaved people and pretenders, those that profess Christianity but are not saved, will influence the children against Christ.

For a believer to marry an unsaved person or a pretender, is to disobey God. Those who love the Lord will seek God in prayer while testing any potential spouse to see if they are truly saved. God will warn anyone who wants to know.

If the physical attraction is the only reason to like someone then you will miss all the blatant clues that someone is not walking with God.

Young people, if you think you might like someone seek God first. Test the spirit in the person as to whether or not they love the Word or just like you. It's flattering for someone to like us, but it is also disarming, causing us to refrain from evaluating them or testing them to see if they are genuinely in the faith.

Proverbs 29:5

"A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet."

Proverbs 26:24-28

"Whoever hates disguises himself with his lips and harbors deceit in his heart; when he speaks graciously, believe him not, for there are seven abominations in his heart; though his hatred is covered with deception, his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly. Whoever digs a pit will fall into it, and a stone will come back on him who starts it rolling. A lying tongue hates its victims, and a flattering mouth works ruin."

Lastly, be willing to wait on God to bring someone to you, stay in prayer, and be willing to wait, wait, and wait. I am here to tell you it is better to wait for a spouse than to be stuck in a terrible marriage with a person who does not love God. Because friends, if they don't love God they will not love you God's way.

Why Does the World Ignore the Lord's Supper

So much if not most of what we have in our culture comes from paganism because the world as a whole does not acknowledge God. Even people who say they are Christians who are not pagans use the terms and festivals of the pagans without bothering to find out where the rituals and sayings come from. Because they enjoy the hoopla of the rituals they justify them by pretending to at Christ's name to them. This is the same thing that happened in the days of Amos. God hated that they claimed the festivals were about Him but really they were about the enjoyment of the people for the fun they enjoyed at that time, God had nothing to do with it. He didn't command it and was no part of it.

Amos 5:21-23

21 “I hate, I reject your festivals,

Nor do I [a]delight in your solemn assemblies.

22 “Even though you offer up to Me burnt offerings and your grain offerings,

I will not accept them;

And I will not even look at the peace offerings of your fatlings.

23 “Take away from Me the noise of your songs;

I will not even listen to the sound of your harps."

Matthew 15:7-9 "…7You hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you: 8‘These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. 9They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’ ”…"

Why else do you think the pagans, the unsaved and the rebellious people love these holidays so much because they are not of God but make them feel good.

Notice something else? The unsaved world does not celebrate the Lord's supper, the one Christ commanded. Why? Because there has been no worldly pleasures associated with the celebration of Christ's death, burial, and resurrection. The world only wants their fun and their pleasure they have no use for Christ.

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The Believers Mission!

I get that Christians are being frustrated about all the irrational mess that is occurring every day now, I really do. However, we were told in 2 Timothy 3 that "perilous times would come", that means in the original language "ragingly insane" times in which nothing would make good sense. And, in my humble opinion it means that everything would be orchestrated by devils, in other words, it would be a culture dominated by demons propagating lies opposite of God's principles and commands.

People will say and do things, even so-called "Christians" that are directly opposite of what God commanded in His word, calling this disobedience good as though God would be pleased with the rationalizations for rebellion. I have encountered many Christians who fight and argue to defend their sin. They make excuses based on circumstance or their own sinful desires. Feelings take priority over God's truth with most people in the church today.

Often we will be chastised for bringing scripture to the discussion among "Christians" as though we did something wrong in doing so. Most "Christians," today think the Bible is a book of suggestions that can be ignored and that anyone who actually says we should obey His commands is a legalist and a wacko, someone strange to be avoided.

Let me be clear, it is not legalism to want to obey God. Legalism is making rules and standards that God never commanded. It is not legalism to preach obedience to God's rules and standards.

What are the tactics of demons? Everything opposite of what God would want, absolutely on purpose. We cannot expect anything to be resolved or improve, it will only become worse as the world marches headlong into the tribulation very soon. Should we attempt to stop prophecy?

Our marching orders are to bring the gospel to the unsaved and encourage the believers that their home-going is soon. We need to keep on keeping on with great expectancy that God is going to exact justice very soon.

Fighting with the world over their insanity is an exercise in futility. It's like trying to make a cat understand that yarn is not to be played with, the cat can do nothing else, it is hard-wired to bat at yarn. Anyone who has cats understands there is no teaching a cat not to take swipes at yarn or that they should not catch mice. Unbelievers cannot understand God's ways, they must become born again to understand.

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. 15The spiritual man judges all things, but he himself is not subject to anyone’s judgment."

Arguing with an unbeliever about public policy is insanity, it brings only arguments and fighting. They do not understand God's ways.

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. 15The spiritual man judges all things, but he himself is not subject to anyone’s judgment.…"

Rather than trying to argue the principles of God with the unsaved, we ought to be sharing the gospel with them. Only if they become born again because the Holy Spirit is working on them will they be able to know the principles of God.

1 Thessalonians 4:17-18 "…17 After that, we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore encourage one another with these words."

There will be a cleansing of the earth and a judgment and we will get to see it. We have no need for revenge or forcing others to do as we think is right, we only have to trust in Christ, He is the One Who will make things right.

When we come back with Him after the marriage supper of the Lamb to destroy evil, He will do all the fighting with the Word of His mouth, we will be with Him.

2 Thessalonians: Read it to find the entire story.

I have no interest in attempting to stop what God has ordained. It is prophesied, however, I do want to warn others of what is coming if they do not believe in Christ. Perhaps someone will repent and become born again, avoiding the wrath of God that is coming on the entire earth.

I have never seen as many warnings on the internet as I am seeing now, it is God-directed to be the last step in warning before the church is removed, and literally, all hell is loosed upon the earth.

Warnings, the gospel to unbelievers, and encouraging the believers, is our mission until Christ takes us out of here.

DID YOU KNOW ALL THIS IS HAPPENING?