Often people interpret what you say in their own frame of mind. If they are happy they will place a joyful frame of mind to what they read. They will put a positive spin on it. If they are angry people inside they will see everything as an attack or with wrong motives in other words a negative spin to it.
Selfish people will frame everything as foolish if it does not pertain to them or an attack if it corrects them even if their name is never mentioned.
We see this in the account of David with Nathan. Nathan told David the story of a man who stole another man's lamb. David was furious about the man who did this, but the story was about him. In David's case he was ashamed and repented, but in today's culture when we even so much as hint that someone did something disgraceful those hearing are not only not ashamed but angry that you might have meant them in your story.
The story of David taking another man's wife was in 2 Samuel 12. David was restored to a relationship with God by His deep sorrow over his sin against God. However, in our culture today most people become angry that you told the truth about them and will punish you for the rest of your life for not supporting their sin.
A born-again believer ought to be ashamed and confess when someone points out their sin, so why do so many defend their sin and punish the one who addresses it?
Because for two generations the church has been teaching false gospel that coddles the sinner and beats up on the truth-teller when sin is addressed.
The false gospel that God doesn't care about sin anymore is coming from the prosperity Pentecostals who love to elevate themselves as special instead of confronting their own sin.
How could anyone who is rational and reasonable believe sin was no longer important when Christ the Savior had to die to pay the penalty for it? It is irrational and unreasonable to think because Christ paid for sin with His blood it is alright to sin all we want and still be saved from hell.
Since God cared so much about sin that He gave His Son to pay for it we ought to understand that He hates sin as much as He always did and sent the Holy Spirit to help the one who has trusted in Him to be able to reject and hate sin as much as God does.
Romans 12:9 "Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good."
There it is, we are to hate evil and when we hate something we avoid it, even run from it when it confronts us.
Proverbs 6:16-19
"There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers."
Those who say sin doesn't matter anymore are lying about God, about sin and about the ability of the Holy Spirit in believers to avoid sin. These people are sowing discord among the brethren.
Psalm 119:104
"Through your precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way."
1 John 3:9
"No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God's seed abides in him; and he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God."
Hebrews 10:26-31
"For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries. Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses. How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace? For we know him who said, “Vengeance is mine; I will repay.” And again, “The Lord will judge his people.”
These are the people who claimed to be Christians but were never born again.
1 John 2:18-20 "18 Children, it is the last hour; and just as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have appeared. This is how we know it is the last hour. 19 They went out from us, but they did not belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But their departure made it clear that none of them belonged to us. 20You, however, have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth.…"
Those who speak lies against the Word of God were never born again. There are many in the church today who claim Christianity but have never been born again. We know this because of the following passages.
Matthew 7:21-23 "Matthew 7:21-23
21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter.
22 Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’
23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I NEVER KNEW YOU; leave Me, you who practice lawlessness.’"
Acts 20:30
"Even from your own number, men will rise up and distort the truth to draw away disciples after them."
We must be vigilant in remaining faithful to the Word of God. When we don't understand something don't go to others, because few can be trusted, God to Christ Who lives in you and He will give you the answer.
I have done this many times and some of those times it took a while for the answer to come. Once the answer was clear from the Holy Spirit there was no going back to the ways most Christians think. When God makes something clear it is embedded in our minds forever.
John 8:31-32
The Truth Will Set You Free
"31 So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, 32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
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