Wednesday, January 1, 2025
Name Callers do this when they have Lost the Argument and they know it.
Have you ever been called names or whispered about by others who dislike you because you speak the things of the Lord?
If you have not been maligned or disparaged (treated with contempt as though you are of little worth), by at least your family you have probably been silent about your walk with Christ.
Have you ever been called names by those who reject the truths of the Bible even in Christian company? I have been called "cracker", "rebellious" and even labeled, "the Gwendolator." That one made me laugh, in fact, all of them made me laugh because I know when the only argument to someone's case is to attack me personally, I have essentially won the discourse.
I have been asked to be friends with men on Facebook who liked the things I say but as soon as I confronted an unbiblical idea of theirs they began to accuse me of speaking things of the Lord as a woman, something they believe is forbidden. I was never given any scripture that validated their claims, it was merely their own idea of the hierarchy system of the apostate church.
The next question I had for them that they never answered was; "why did you ask to be my friend if you didn't think I should instruct men? And, why did you like what I wrote until I challenged your personal belief?
All discussion is shut down when someone leaves the subject matter to attack the character of the person with whom they were dialoging.
I have been called rebellious by people who don't want to hear any correction or clarification of the scripture because they wanted to be seen as right and it was overwhelming to them to be told they might be in error.
The tactics of the devil are numerous and subtle. He often attempts to make his targets feel bad for speaking the truth. Our culture blames the one who speaks the truth because someone blew up in anger at hearing it.
If we speak a kind and truthful statement to those who don't want to hear they often will become angry, rage in the company of others and the others think we did something wrong because of the anger of the rager.
God clearly told us that as believers we should have progressed to teachers in our walk with Christ. Those "Christians" who are offended by our teaching believe the teaching should be left to "educated" and "prominent" people whom they elevate as special. This is man's idea not God's.
All born again believers should be able to bring truth and even to be corrected no matter how new they are in the faith and no matter how mature others are in the faith.
1 Timothy 3:2: "Elders must be able to teach" This verse has been wrongly translated, it should read, from the original language; "Elders must be teachable themselves." Anyone who thinks they are above others are in serious error unable to take correction and full of pride.
The problem in our Christian culture today is that everyone with few exceptions believes in the one-man-paid-educated by man-pastor system. They are convinced that no one else should teach if they do not meet these criteria.
Hebrews 5:12-14
"12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the actual words of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food.
13 For everyone who partakes only of milk is unacquainted with the word of righteousness, for he is an infant.
14 But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to distinguish between good and evil."
1 Corinthians 3:1-2
"Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual, but as worldly—as infants in Christ. / I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for solid food. In fact, you are still not ready,"
1 Peter 2:2
"Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,"
We face a dearth of wisdom within the Christian church because too many people are following their false teachers and false doctrines instead of Christ.
2 Timothy 3:7
"who are always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth."
2 Timothy 4:3
"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,"
Every born-again believer has the Teacher, the Holy Spirit, within them, the need no other teacher. We speak truth to one another, correcting, rebuking and admonishing one another so that we all are edified and grow in holiness.
John 16:13 "
"But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come."
If you are born again never allow anyone to intimidate you into silence because of their misunderstandings based on their desired outcomes.
There is freedom in Christ to speak boldly as led by the Holy Spirit and no person can take that away from us, it is the Gift from God commensurate with His calling for us on this earth.
We are living in times of deep rebellion against God, and yes, in the church gatherings. Mankind has decided their own way to follow Christ leaving Him out of the decisions and doing things their own way while claiming it is for God.
You will notice that family will want nothing to do with our writings and leading of the Holy Spirit. Sadly, they cannot tolerate reasonable and rational discussions based on the word of God. They run when they cannot dominate us into silence.
Something interesting about roaches, they come out in the dark and scatter into hiding when the light comes on.
1 Corinthians 2:14 "
But a natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned."
John 3:20-21
"20 For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light, so that his deeds will not be exposed. 21 But the one who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds will be revealed [a]as having been performed in God.”
And, lastly the most disturbing condition of all is that many will think they are saved but will not be accepted into heaven.
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.’"
Those who refuse to be corrected, and use intimidation and manipulation to shut down teachers of the word are not those who have been changed by Christ. The "religion" of the rebellious heart is based on some Scripture while they ignore and reject what they don't like in God's Word.
Do not be discouraged by those who reject the truth while claiming to be Christian, just move on to others who might listen and to those who have already listened and are walking in Truth.
The more time we spend agonizing on those who are rebellious the less we are grateful for those who love Christ and walk with us as our brothers and sisters. The test will be whether or not they love to speak of the things of the Lord, enjoy correction, and embrace the entire word of God without cherry-picking verses out of context.
Hallelujah!!!!
Remove people from your life who hinder your walk with God.
2 Corinthians 6:16-18
… 16 What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.”
17“Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”
1 Corinthians 15:33 "Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good morals.”
Our calling from God is to speak to the lost about Christ so that they may become born again. This does not mean that we become close friends with those who do not love Him.
Revelation 18:4
"Then I heard another voice from heaven say: “Come out of her, My people, so that you will not share in her sins or contract any of her plagues."
The introduction of worldly holidays and psychological thinking into the church gatherings has permeated the thinking of every Christian. We see often now Christians proclaiming principles that are not true defending them as if they come from the Bible but are not at all in God's Word.
Sadly, when challenged to rethink what they have been taught many become angry refusing to seek God while hanging on tightly to ideas that are comfortable for them but are devilish.
1 John 2:15-17
"Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. / For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father but from the world. / The world is passing away, along with its desires; but whoever does the will of God remains forever."
We know the love of the world dominates most people who say they are Christians because of the hostility that emerges when they are corrected with Scripture.
2 Timothy 4:2-4 "…2 Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and encourage with every form of patient instruction. 3 For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires. 4 So they will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.…"
Many if not most things "Christians" defend today have no basis in Scripture but are wildly defended as if they were truth.
1 Timothy 4:1-2
"Now the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will abandon the faith to follow deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons, / influenced by the hypocrisy of liars, whose consciences are seared with a hot iron."
Titus 1:10-11
"For many are rebellious and full of empty talk and deception, especially those of the circumcision, / who must be silenced. For the sake of dishonorable gain, they undermine entire households and teach things they should not."
Church attendees will pit one family member against another because they don't like to hear from God's Word.
Romans 16:17-18
"Now I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who create divisions and obstacles that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Turn away from them. / For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive."
These are the days we are living in, many believers are without spiritual and emotional support, and we depend entirely on Christ to maintain our peace and joy because of Him.
Because we are depending entirely on Christ we will not be devastated at the anger and rejection toward us. Christ is greater than the devil who is causing all this mess and will lose in the end.
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