The rebellious person will choose not to see whats right in front of them until its too late to fix it. Christ is coming for His church, when that happens and the believers are all gone, the rebellious heart will see themselves enduring the tribulation. There will be no escaping the wrath of God.
Praise the Lord the church is not appointed to wrath, we will be snatched away before God pours out His anger on the world.
1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 "…16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be the first to rise. 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.…"
For those who have not trusted Christ yet, its not too late, but now is the time to make the decision to confess your sinfulness to God, ask Him to change you into a new creation and be saved from His wrath.
Romans 1:18 “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.”
Proverbs 11:4 “Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.”
Psalm 2:12 “Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, for his wrath is quickly kindled. Blessed are all who take refuge in him.”
Ephesians 5:6 “Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.”
Revelation 14:10-11 “He also will drink the wine of God’s wrath, poured full strength into the cup of his anger, and he will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever, and they have no rest, day or night, these worshipers of the beast and its image, and whoever receives the mark of its name.”
John 3:36 “Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”
Friday, June 7, 2019
The Fool Loves Strife
When a born again believer loves the Lord God with all their heart, sole and mind, they will take attacks from the devil far less seriously.
When Christ is our guide, the One Who loves you more than anyone else could and is available all day and all night every day nothing could disrupt that security and faithfulness.
The day we realize that we should not allow others to dictate our truth or disrupt our walk with Christ we can be free to let go of those who will attempt to derail us.
Often family members will work to deride our decisions, our beliefs and our resolve to follow Christ by gaslighting us into believing we are all wrong about everything.
When you have been raised in a family structure that attempts to cause you to sin through constant demeaning you begin to question your own walk, after all, "could they be right that we have not changed when we became born again?", are our thoughts.
When Christ has changed you into a new creation you know you are different and others who love the Lord will notice it and even express it to you. The narcissist, even one who claims to be Christian will attempt to make you believe you are the same person you were before you were born again. They hate the new you even more than they did the old you.
When a person who says they are Christian holds onto the past refusing to see the present, it is likely they were never born again. Born again believers are excited about the new you, even praising God with you that you can now be truly brothers and sisters in Christ.
When we have been changed by Christ those who remain "religious" and "prideful" will want to derail us from our new path. They hate that we have great joy and a new direction. They hate that they are no longer in control of us. Even when Christ is in control of our heart the narcissist "Christian" will refuse to see it, even hating that they have lost control over us to Christ.
When the devil uses the narcissist to poke at us all the time in order to feel superior, we must make the choice to minimize and even exclude from our lives those who claim to be Christian but love their elevated view of themselves. These people want to be the authority in your life instead of Christ. They want to be the god over us who dictates their own personal standard.
When Christ is our Lord, our Guide and our Teacher, it is going to upset the narcissist. When the narcissist has lost control over us to Christ they will begin monstrous tactics to shipwreck our faith.
More attempts to shipwreck my faith have come from those who claim to be Christian. I notice one things about these people, their discomfort with the hearing of the name of "Christ" and correction when their doctrine is not in line with Scripture.
Every born again believer ought to be able to calmly and with enthusiasm discuss the Word of God without anger. Disagreement around God's principles are upsetting to the "Christian" narcissist. When we see this we may be seeing a professing Christian who does not possess the Holy Spirit. In other words they have a cultural Christianity but not a born again experience.
Those who are born again are not hostile when Christ is mentioned. They listen with interest and evaluate according to God's Word.
The best course of action with the narcissist is to remain your lovable and kind self no matter what they say or do and leave their reactions and antics to God.
Proverbs 26:4-5 "Do not answer a fool according to his folly,
Or you will also be like him.
5 Answer a fool as his folly deserves,
That he not be wise in his own eyes."
Or you will also be like him.
5 Answer a fool as his folly deserves,
That he not be wise in his own eyes."
These two verses in Proverbs seem to contradict one another, however they do not. God says not to answer a fool ACCORDING to his folly, but we are to answer him according to God's wisdom or to ignore him. A fool loves to argue, its candy to them. When we refuse to engage with a fool who wants to argue we are answering him according to his folly by saying nothing or by staying to the facts and not engaging with the raging and accusations that come with domination to control.
Proverbs 20:3
"3 Keeping away from strife is an honor for a man,
But any fool will quarrel."
"3 Keeping away from strife is an honor for a man,
But any fool will quarrel."
Proverbs 1:7
"The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline."
"The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline."
The final word is that fools love to fight, they love to dominate and they love causing turmoil, especially in the lives of born again believers. There is no better way for the devil to ruin the faith of the believer than to send a pretender along to put a fly in the ointment.
Ecclessiastes 10:1-2 "1 As dead flies bring a stench to the perfumer’s oil, so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor. 2 A wise man’s heart inclines to the right, but the heart of a fool to the left."
Thursday, June 6, 2019
Wednesday, June 5, 2019
The Selfish End Times Generation
We are experiencing the selfish generation that does not regard nor do they respect the life of their aging parents.
2 Timothy 3:1-5
“Difficult Times Will Come”
3 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. 2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, [a]haters of good,4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 holding to a form of [b]godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.
2 Timothy 3 explains this phenomena as it unfolds and to what extend it grows.
“Difficult Times Will Come”
3 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. 2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, [a]haters of good,4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 holding to a form of [b]godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.
"Pastor" not a Title nor a Position but a Gift
The one man leadership concept in which the "Pastor" is a title or position is not Biblical and sought after by those who love to control others. In a Biblical model of the church gathering there is a plurality of elders, not just one man preaches they all do. No one man dictates church matters the elders lead by their example and by teaching, they are not rulers over but leaders of .
The church gatherings have been perverted because the unbiblical nature of the leadership and the wrong teachings that are in seminaries. The worst way for a man of God to learn is through a seminary where they are taught what to believe rather than Who to seek, that is Christ.
John 16:12-14 "
…12 I still have much to tell you, but you cannot yet bear to hear it. 13 However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come. 14 He will glorify Me by taking from what is Mine and disclosing it to you.…"
Those who are led by Christ to be a leader in the eldership will be led by Christ and not any man. The Holy Spirit takes center stage always and in everything.
When we obey the Bible we avert many problems. Most churches today violate more scripture than they obey and the people who attend them are not reading their Bibles so they just follow the man in the pulpit instead of Christ. By the way, I see no pulpit mentioned in the Bible. This is a class system ritual that came from the Catholic church. The one man leadership model comes straight out of the Catholic church system from Luther and Calvin when they left the Catholic church they took with them many of their ritual church systems.
Acts 14:23
"And when they had appointed elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed."
Titus 1:6-9
"If anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife, and his children are believers and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination. For an overseer, as God's steward, must be above reproach. He must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent or greedy for gain, but hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined. He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it."
Titus 1:5
"This is why I left you in Crete, so that you might put what remained into order, and appoint elders in every town as I directed you—"
1 Timothy 5:17
"Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching."
1 Peter 5:1-4
"So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed: shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you; not for shameful gain, but eagerly; not domineering over those in your charge, but being examples to the flock. And when the chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory."
The church gatherings have been perverted because the unbiblical nature of the leadership and the wrong teachings that are in seminaries. The worst way for a man of God to learn is through a seminary where they are taught what to believe rather than Who to seek, that is Christ.
John 16:12-14 "
…12 I still have much to tell you, but you cannot yet bear to hear it. 13 However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come. 14 He will glorify Me by taking from what is Mine and disclosing it to you.…"
Those who are led by Christ to be a leader in the eldership will be led by Christ and not any man. The Holy Spirit takes center stage always and in everything.
When we obey the Bible we avert many problems. Most churches today violate more scripture than they obey and the people who attend them are not reading their Bibles so they just follow the man in the pulpit instead of Christ. By the way, I see no pulpit mentioned in the Bible. This is a class system ritual that came from the Catholic church. The one man leadership model comes straight out of the Catholic church system from Luther and Calvin when they left the Catholic church they took with them many of their ritual church systems.
Acts 14:23
"And when they had appointed elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed."
Titus 1:6-9
"If anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife, and his children are believers and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination. For an overseer, as God's steward, must be above reproach. He must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent or greedy for gain, but hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined. He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it."
Titus 1:5
"This is why I left you in Crete, so that you might put what remained into order, and appoint elders in every town as I directed you—"
1 Timothy 5:17
"Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching."
1 Peter 5:1-4
"So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed: shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you; not for shameful gain, but eagerly; not domineering over those in your charge, but being examples to the flock. And when the chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory."
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