Forgiveness is not What You Think

Why is no one proclaiming that confession sets us free from bitterness? Why is it always about forgiveness? God commanded that both occur.

Confession and forgiveness are two sides of the same coin. There cannot be one without the other.

The modern church attempts to separate them thinking that it is love to ignore the sin in a relationship.

Relationships cannot be reconciled legitimately with spiritual and emotional growth unless someone is sorry enough to confess that there is a need for forgiveness.

Luke 17:3-5 "…3 Watch yourselves. If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him. 4 Even if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times returns to say, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.” 5 The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!"

In an age when people think it is kind to never require accountability we miss the lessons from discipline. It is not kind to allow someone to continue without consequences.

Love is shown when we allow the one we love to have consequences for bad behavior. When they will not listen it is wrong to pretend that their offense has been cleansed.

Isaiah 26:10-11 "10 Though grace is shown to the wicked man, he does not learn righteousness. In the land of righteousness he acts unjustly and fails to see the majesty of the LORD. 11 O LORD, Your hand is upraised, but they do not see it. They will see Your zeal for Your people, and be put to shame. The fire set for Your enemies will consume them!…"

The lie that we must forgive those who are not sorry comes from psychology and helps no one. Just "saying" "I forgive them" does nothing at all. Relieving offenders of guilt before they have a chance to repent removes an opportunity to learn important lessons about relationships as well as God's justice.

God never forgives an unrepentant heart. We know this because more people are going to go to hell that are going to heaven.

Forgiving before confession is nothing more than messaging feelings. It is nothing real or concrete, just fluff that flies in the wind without substance. Nothing has been resolved and no one grows, it is a matter of sweeping the dirt under the rug hoping because we can't see it, it no longer exists.

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Its the Holy Spirit They Fear

Since the Holy Spirit is restraining evil in the world we must conclude that it is the Holy Spirit in us that is doing it. When we are removed in the rapture all hell will literally be loosed to do unspeakable things upon the earth.

Since the Holy Spirit in us is the restrainer we can surmise that unbelievers around us can sense that Holy Spirit whether or not we speak.

I am convinced this is the reason so many people are angry at us before they even know us. Unbelievers are often uncomfortable in our presence but don't know why, they think there must be something wrong with us. It is also the reason gossip and lies are told about us that are not accurate description of our lives.

The devil is busy whispering half truths into the minds of people. He is also busy causing "feelings" that are unsettling within people to make them believe there is something wrong with us.

The Pharisees accused Jesus of doing His miracles by the power of the devil, when all He did all the time was good for everyone who encountered Him.

Do we really think that the devil will do any less against us that he did against Christ? NO, Christ assured us that we will be hated because of Christ Who lives in us.

Matthew 10:21-22 "…21 Brother 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 on account of My name, but the one who perseveres to the end will be saved. "

Satan loves to use family to persecute believers. He knows that our desire to have a deeper relationship with family, looms large above every other relationship in our small world.

This is why God said that we must move on from family who do not love Him and would attempt to destroy our relationship with him in order to feel better about themselves.

Luke 14:26-27 "26 “If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters— yes, even his own life— he cannot be My disciple. 27 And whoever does not carry his cross and follow Me cannot be My disciple.…"

Our relationship with Christ ought to be so intense that we are willing to lose family to follow Him.

Many believers are enduring meanness from family members because of their love for Christ. Some of these family members pretend to be Christians but lack any fervor that demonstrates a love for Christ. These people are even embarrassed and irritated when we speak about Christ and His principles.

Some of the meanest people I have encountered have been Christians who love to pretend they are superior to others. I do not know if they are born again or not, but I do know that when we love the Lord we love the brethren.

1 John 3:14 "14 We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. The one who does not love remains in death."

John 13:34-35 "…34 A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so also you must love one another. 35 By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.”"

When there is someone who continually demeans and mocks a brother or sister in Christ merely to elevate self, we can suspect that they do not love Christ as they claim. If we love Christ we are excited to meet another brother or sister who also loves Him.

We must be willing to speak about Christ even if we will lose others over it. Christ must always come first above family and anyone else.

Matthew 22:36-38 "…36 “Teacher, which commandment is the greatest in the Law?” 37 Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment.…"

If we love Christ the way He commanded, then we will love the brethren properly as well as the principles of God.

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If They are Mean to Get you They Will be Mean to Keep You

God is in Charge of Results not You

Do not be discouraged when you don't see things happening. Do not measure success by results. God is in charge of the results, we are merely the messengers and the response of others is not our responsibility, it is all on those hearing the truth.

Man Cannot Do It!

When God makes two people one they CAN NOT be separated by man.

Our translations lead us to believe that they shouldn't but they could. That's not truth.

When God makes us one spiritually we cannot undo that spiritual glue that He binds us with. We can go to secular courts and dissolve a document according to the state but it doesn't dissolve the glue of oneness God did in us. That's why Christ calls it adultery when divorced people remarry.

Matthew 5:32 . . . but I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for the reason of unchastity, makes her commit adultery; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

The unchastity in Matthew has to do with the engagement, not the marriage itself.

Matthew 19:18 "18 “Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery."

Thinking With the Mind of Christ

Those who don't like a particular truth will always focus on us rather than God Who is the one who said these things.

I was once told that I write scripture too much and needed to think for myself.

My response was that I had no desire to think with my own mind, I prefer to think with the mind of Christ, since He commanded it.

1 Corinthians 2:15-16 "…15 The spiritual man judges all things, but he himself is not subject to anyone’s judgment. 16 “For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ."

Those who do not think about God very often, usually when they are in trouble and in need of help, cannot obey God's principles, they have no desire for them.