Why do people who never communicate with us, don't live near us, or rarely interact with us seem to act as if they hate us?
They hate the version of you they created in their own minds that was not true, but satisfied how they wished to see you.
Jealousy develops because of the competition to be superior. Those who desire to be superior work to ruin our relationships with others.
Those who gossip hate that we are content and joyful in our lives. They concoct stories in their heads that they want to believe and pass them on to others to divide and destroy any possibility of others appreciating and loving us.
These people are dedicated to misunderstanding everything we say and do, without ever speaking to us. They choose to take out of context what we say, while interpreting all our actions as wrong or foolish.
This phenomenon is growing in the end-times culture in which competitiveness and self-exaltation dwell deeply in the hearts of those who desire worship from others.
Satan hated that God loved Adam and Eve so much that He created them and then gave them a paradise in which to live out their lives.
Because of his pride and jealousy, he sought to turn the couple against God, making them question His commands. Satan enticed the couple to not only question God but ignore all the love He showed them.
After they disobeyed God, they no longer felt love and joy walking with Him in the garden; they ran from Him, hid from Him, and blamed others for their own rebellion against Him.
The sad thing is that Adam and Eve didn't realize what an amazing existence God gave them and believed the lies of the devil.
Often, the person who is being maligned by the devil is a kind person who has done nothing wrong to those he deceives. The only way the haters can justify their anger toward their target is to make up more lies to believe.
They must also gossip their lies to others so that they have a sense of allies who will fall in with them; it removes their guilt and diminishes any chance of repentance for making up things that are not true.
The gossipers rarely admit what they have done and never return to all the people they lied to for setting the record straight.
Some of these gossips think all they have to do is be friendlier to their target to make themselves feel better after ruining relationships. They expect the one they harmed to feel close again, even though they left a flood of lies to a number of people who will never find out the gossip was lies.
We cannot forgive unrepentant people but we can show them the love and respect they never gave us. Forgiveness requires both confession of sin and then the relationship can be truly reconciled.
This is rarely done in our culture. Reconciliation is not sought; confession does not happen, so relationships remain broken. We act as we should when in company with gossips, but we avoid them if we can.
It is impossible to trust someone who doesn't think they did anything wrong in their lies. They want to be absolved of their sin without confession or admitting anything was wrong.
It is impossible to trust someone who still believes their lies and who is not sorry they destroyed our relationships.
Christ never remained with those who lied against Him. He rebuked them and moved on when they were not repentant.
2 Timothy 3:1-5
Difficult Times Will Come
3 But realize this, that in the last days difficult 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."
Pray for those who have harmed you, pray for their salvation and pray that you do not become like them through our responses. Silence is a good tool when dealing with wicked people; use it often.
Wednesday, September 30, 2026
It Matters What We Celebrate
The devil loves it when God's people diminish their witness to the world by celebrating things the world loves and God hates.
Scripture Out of Context
Satan enticed Eve in the garden, just as he is doing now with everyone. He causes people to misinterpret God's Word, even lying and claiming things are in Scripture when they are not; they add to God's Word to sow doubt in the minds of those who want to obey God.
Satan causes people to distrust what God said by making them believe it is alright to interpret God's word any way they choose to win an argument or to justify sin.
He works to cause doubt about God's Word, so they will defy the word of God and claim it is the right thing to do. We must resist the devil when he causes trouble and tries to make us think we are wrong in obeying Him.
I am encountering many more Christians than ever before who are using Scripture out of context to justify what they want to believe. They are defensive about their desired false doctrine and refuse to ask God.
Instead of asking God what is true, dishonest Christians defend vehemently wrong doctrine and, worse, vilify those who defend God's Word.
Scripture taken out of context that does not pertain to the question at hand is lying and it is coming from the devil, working on minds to cause them to practice and enjoy what God hates.
Revelation 22:12-15 "12 “Behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to reward each one as his work [h]deserves. 13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.”
14 Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they will have the right to the tree of life, and may enter the city by the gates. 15 Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral persons, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices lying."
Those Christians who are honest and seek Christ about things people think are questionable will have an answer from God. They will not immediately come back with an unreasonable and silly response using Scripture out of context.
Matthew 15:8-9 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.’”
It is dishonest to take Scripture out of context without praying or studying to show oneself approved. Those who want to know the truth will ask God.
II Timothy 2:15 "Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth."
Satan causes people to distrust what God said by making them believe it is alright to interpret God's word any way they choose to win an argument or to justify sin.
He works to cause doubt about God's Word, so they will defy the word of God and claim it is the right thing to do. We must resist the devil when he causes trouble and tries to make us think we are wrong in obeying Him.
I am encountering many more Christians than ever before who are using Scripture out of context to justify what they want to believe. They are defensive about their desired false doctrine and refuse to ask God.
Instead of asking God what is true, dishonest Christians defend vehemently wrong doctrine and, worse, vilify those who defend God's Word.
Scripture taken out of context that does not pertain to the question at hand is lying and it is coming from the devil, working on minds to cause them to practice and enjoy what God hates.
Revelation 22:12-15 "12 “Behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to reward each one as his work [h]deserves. 13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.”
14 Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they will have the right to the tree of life, and may enter the city by the gates. 15 Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral persons, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices lying."
Those Christians who are honest and seek Christ about things people think are questionable will have an answer from God. They will not immediately come back with an unreasonable and silly response using Scripture out of context.
Matthew 15:8-9 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.’”
It is dishonest to take Scripture out of context without praying or studying to show oneself approved. Those who want to know the truth will ask God.
II Timothy 2:15 "Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth."
Scripture Out of Context is Deceptive
Isaiah 29:13 "
Then the Lord said, “Because this people approaches Me with their words And honors Me with their lips, But their heart is far away from Me, And their reverence for Me consists of the commandment of men that is taught;"
Monday, September 28, 2026
Freeing Yourself from the Institutional Church Gatherings
For the past few hundred years, Christians have been indoctrinated to believe that "church" was the place and the planned proceedings with a paid man trained in a seminary. NONE of this is true according to the Bible.
The church is the people, and they meet when and where they choose, while their interaction is led by the Holy Spirit.
This is the reason the church system has gone bad, it was never God's will in the first place.
1 Corinthians 14:26 ""What then shall we say, brothers? When you come together, everyone has a psalm or a teaching, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. All of these must be done to build up the church."
God commanded us to come together to edify one another in the Word so that when we leave we will be enthused to live for Christ and carry out His calling for each of us.
This instruction in 1 Corinthians was given to both men and women.
Hebrews 10:25: "Let us not neglect meeting together, as some have made a habit, but let us encourage one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching."
The problem is not that we don't meet together; the problem is the way the culture has demanded that we meet. Some people are leaving the institutional churches to remain at home with those who agree with God's Word.
The institutional churches are teaching many things against the Bible, using Scripture out of context to justify what they want to believe.
The people in those institutional gatherings have become lumps in pews, all facing forward, never questioning the truth of their paid hirelings. They place their trust in education by men rather than wisdom from the Holy Spirit. It is lazy and simple just to believe what others say; studying the word takes time and work.
Our culture has become pleasure-oriented; to make themselves feel safe, and to impress others as though this attendance is evidence we are good people. The culture tacks God onto the beginning of the week and ignores Him the rest of the week.
Following the rules has become more important than love and obeying Christ.
Matthew 15:8-9 " 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.’”
Matthew 23:1-17 1 Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples,
2 “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat,
3 so do and observe whatever they tell you, but not the works they do. For they preach, but do not practice.
4 They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on people's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger.
5 They do all their deeds to be seen by others. For they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long,
6 and they love the place of honor at feasts and the best seats in the synagogues
7 and greetings in the marketplaces and being called rabbi by others.
8 But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all brothers.
9 And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.
10 Neither be called instructors, for you have one instructor, the Christ.
11 The greatest among you shall be your servant.
12 Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
13 “But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.
15 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.
16 “Woe to you, blind guides, who say, ‘If anyone swears by the temple, it is nothing, but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.’
17 You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that has made the gold sacred?
Matthew 23:23-28
23 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.
24 You blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel!
25 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.
26 You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the plate, that the outside also may be clean.
27 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people's bones and all uncleanness.
28 So you also outwardly appear righteous to others, but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness."
29 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous,
30 saying, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’ 31 Thus you witness against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets.
32 Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.
33 You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?
34 Therefore I send you prophets and wise men and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town,
35 so that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.
36 Truly, I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation."
Many have placed their trust in mere attendance as a sign they are alright with God. They have placed their trust in knowing things in the Bible, as well as those who preach sermons, but they have not placed their trust in Christ.
May many in the modern church gatherings repent and become born again. Then they will leave these traditional institutions that have led so many astray.
The church is the people, and they meet when and where they choose, while their interaction is led by the Holy Spirit.
This is the reason the church system has gone bad, it was never God's will in the first place.
1 Corinthians 14:26 ""What then shall we say, brothers? When you come together, everyone has a psalm or a teaching, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. All of these must be done to build up the church."
God commanded us to come together to edify one another in the Word so that when we leave we will be enthused to live for Christ and carry out His calling for each of us.
This instruction in 1 Corinthians was given to both men and women.
Hebrews 10:25: "Let us not neglect meeting together, as some have made a habit, but let us encourage one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching."
The problem is not that we don't meet together; the problem is the way the culture has demanded that we meet. Some people are leaving the institutional churches to remain at home with those who agree with God's Word.
The institutional churches are teaching many things against the Bible, using Scripture out of context to justify what they want to believe.
The people in those institutional gatherings have become lumps in pews, all facing forward, never questioning the truth of their paid hirelings. They place their trust in education by men rather than wisdom from the Holy Spirit. It is lazy and simple just to believe what others say; studying the word takes time and work.
Our culture has become pleasure-oriented; to make themselves feel safe, and to impress others as though this attendance is evidence we are good people. The culture tacks God onto the beginning of the week and ignores Him the rest of the week.
Following the rules has become more important than love and obeying Christ.
Matthew 15:8-9 " 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.’”
Matthew 23:1-17 1 Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples,
2 “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat,
3 so do and observe whatever they tell you, but not the works they do. For they preach, but do not practice.
4 They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on people's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger.
5 They do all their deeds to be seen by others. For they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long,
6 and they love the place of honor at feasts and the best seats in the synagogues
7 and greetings in the marketplaces and being called rabbi by others.
8 But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all brothers.
9 And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.
10 Neither be called instructors, for you have one instructor, the Christ.
11 The greatest among you shall be your servant.
12 Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
13 “But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.
15 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.
16 “Woe to you, blind guides, who say, ‘If anyone swears by the temple, it is nothing, but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.’
17 You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that has made the gold sacred?
Matthew 23:23-28
23 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.
24 You blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel!
25 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.
26 You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the plate, that the outside also may be clean.
27 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people's bones and all uncleanness.
28 So you also outwardly appear righteous to others, but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness."
29 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous,
30 saying, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’ 31 Thus you witness against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets.
32 Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.
33 You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?
34 Therefore I send you prophets and wise men and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town,
35 so that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.
36 Truly, I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation."
Many have placed their trust in mere attendance as a sign they are alright with God. They have placed their trust in knowing things in the Bible, as well as those who preach sermons, but they have not placed their trust in Christ.
May many in the modern church gatherings repent and become born again. Then they will leave these traditional institutions that have led so many astray.
Manmade Holidays God Never Commanded
The apostles never celebrated any of the holidays that our culture thinks is so important today, nor did the prophets!
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