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Ephesians 1:13-14
"13 In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation—having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of the promise, 14 who is a first installment of our inheritance, in regard to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of His glory."
"Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh".
Mark 10:8-9
"And the two shall become one flesh'; so then they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, no man can separate".
Ephesians 2:10 "10 For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life."
This is not merely for believers, God created man to be husband and wife until death. all human beings who marry.
The reason some people are going to hell is because they have not trusted what Christ did for them on the cross, and have lived their sinful life in rebellion against Him.
Refusal to obey Christ in trustin in His sacrifice for our sin has the penalty of hell. Therefore those who reject Christ and His principles are on their way to hell.
Those who have been born again do not live a lifestyle of sin and repent when they fail in the flesh, allowing the Holy Spirit in them to cleanse them from their sin.
Those who defend sin such as divorce and remarriage are likely not born again. They are pretenders who have not trusted in Christ or they would stand for His principles.
1 John 3:9
"9 No one who has been born of God practices sin, because His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin continually, because he has been born of God."
The Holy Spirit convicts people of sin, saved and unsaved people are convicted of sin. The saved people have an advocate with the Father but the unsaved have no advocate and no help because they do not have the Holy Spirit.
1 John 2:1 "My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate before the Father— Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. 2He Himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world."
Christ will only change us into a new creation and advocate for us if we are born again by the Holy Spirit. Someone who has the Holy Spirit will not fight to defend sin and will never demean and persecute believer who expose sin. Those who fight and argue to defend sin are those who have never been changed into a new creation by Christ. They remain condemned until they repent and understand their sinful nature is keeping them from salvation.
"Ezekiel 3:21
Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul."
Those who defend sin think they are righteous but they have no salvation with Christ because they fight against His principles.
1 John 1:8-10
"If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us"
Those who defend sin are deceiving themselves, they do not have salvation but they do have a "form of religion" but they do not have the Holy Spirit. In the next passage, we see how the end times church will defend sin, lie against the principles of God, and even mock and demean the righteous people who speak the truth. Sadly the following passage is one describing the end times church system.
2 Timothy 3:1-5 "But realize this, that in the last days difficult (ragingly insane) times will come.
2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, slanderers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,
4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
5 holding to a form of godliness although they have denied its power; avoid such people as these."
Those who claim to be Christians but deny the principles and promises of God within the church may be pretenders. And, it is my discernment that tells me most who say they are "Bible believers" today do not believe the whole Bible therefore they use the Bible to justify their own sin while practicing rebellion against God.
These people are only "saying' what they want others to believe but remain in rebellion against God.
Ezekiel 33:31
"31 And they come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear what you say but they will not do it; for with lustful talk in their mouths they act; their heart is set on their gain."
Matthew 15:7–9
7 You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said:
8 "‘This people honors me with their lips,
but their heart is far from me;
9 in vain do they worship me,
teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’”
The beliefs of our day are steeped in psychology, a work of Darwing who hated God, to convince the people to follow man-made traditions and doctrines while mixing what they think they know with the Bible and in the process negating the Bible.
The closer we get to the end times the more we see people leaning into and practicing faith in feelings rather than God's commands and principles. They even practice hatred toward those who warn them about their apostasy. They are not satisfied to fight against a person, they must turn others against that person too.
There are few people who understand the principles God gave us for gathering with other believers and who are leaving the apostate churches to remain faithful to God. These people will be accused of "neglecting the gathering", as they have misinterpreted what that gathering looks like. They are permeated with the ideas of the times adhering to their human traditions, unable to wrap their minds around God's ways.
Those who are able to understand the ways of God have been rejected, maligned and isolated from this crowd of tradition-minded and folklore followers. These followers of tradition think they can break down the authentic believer by causing them to feel all alone. I am here to tell you it is preferable to be all alone with Christ than with those who continually batter and reject us for our dedication to the Word of God.
It is one thing to be rejected by unbelievers, we expect that, but quite another to be repudiated by those who claim to be Christians.
God said this to us about this matter of false believers.
Christians:
2 Corinthians 6:17
"17 Therefore, come out from their midst and be separate,” says the Lord. “And do not touch what is unclean; And I will welcome you."
God is referring to coming out from among unbelievers to be separate and we must remember that those who fight against God's Word are likely unbelievers pretending to be believers. They call themselves 'Christians" while negating most of God's word and worse adding to scripture to make their own desired belief system.
Matthew 7:21-23
I Never Knew You
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.
22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’
23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’"
How do we recognize these imposter?
2 Timothy 4:3 "For the time will come when they will not tolerate sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance with their own desires,"
If you find yourself without godly companions surrounded at times by those who have gossiped and rejected you, count it all joy that you have not been accepted by the pretending world of religion posing as Christians, they would only work at bringing you low and undermining your faith.
1 Corinthians 15:33
"33 Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good morals.”
If our only companions are those who have a superficial rebellious form of Christianity then we will loosen our grip on Christ to be accepted by them. It is human nature to make the problem go away by remaining silent or even deliberately changing our views to fit the culture.
Galatians 6:7
"Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."
The more time we spend with false believers the more we will become just like them. They will make sure they punish us until we give into their ways or remain silent about the truth.
Never be discouraged by your life of solitude, God will take you to those who will listen and remove those who want to see our downfall.
Matthew 5:11-12
“Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake. Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you."
Matthew 10:21-22 "21Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rise against their parents and have them put to death. 22 You will be hated by everyone because of My name, but the one who perseveres to the end will be saved."
In verse 23 God tells the apostles to flee when they are not accepted. They are never told to remain and try, try, try again. They speak the truth and move on, just as we need to do in our own lives when others have made it clear they do not want what we have to offer them, that is the truth.
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