It Only Matters What God Thinks

Have you ever been in a group of people who defended someone because they were corrected?

I have experienced this, even in Christian gatherings. One person will say something unbiblical or rude, everyone else agrees with them and another person will say, "that is not biblical" or "that was rude" and the entire rest of the room defends the unbiblical rude person in an angry manner.

Then the shunning begins, when the group thinkers fear being corrected or exposed they use isolation and subtle ignoring to punish the one who wants more than anything else to obey God and help others grow and desire to grow themselves.

Godly people who love the Lord humbly take a correction. They go to prayer to see if the correction matched the word of God and make changes in their thoughts to obey God if the correction was Biblical.

The rebellious heart rejects correction, raging in anger they attempt to intimidate the person who cared enough to admonish them. If we love someone the best thing we can do is tell the truth, but the world sees this as a personal attack, the very reason most people are offended by a rebuke.

We are not counted as causing trouble because someone else became angry at our correction. It is the angry person who is causing division and trouble.

Because of the lie propagated by psychology that; "hurting people hurt people", many people now, in the culture and in the church coddle and massage the one who sins while beating up the truth-teller who desires to obey God.

Telling the truth is the new hate speech in the culture as a whole. Most people are followers wanting to be accepted by society. Because cultural acceptance is more important than God is, most will defend the ideas of the world they hear every day rather than evaluate them according to the Bible.

Sadly most people who say they believe in the Bible does not read or know it. Even those who have attended Bible colleges repeat the psychological nonsense they were taught in those universities.

Even if the teachers in those institutions claim they do not use psychology they really do because all their instructions, and the way they think is based on their education influenced by all the government school education they have received during the first 12 years of their schooling. The way the teachers relate to the children and their instruction on how to treat people is based on psychology, not the Bible. In fact, when someone brings up the Bible using it to find the truth, they are mocked and dismissed by the world and by Christians in the church.

"More is caught than taught" is an old saying that shows how the teachers handle the children has more influence than her words. Teachers are trained to resist making a child feel bad by correcting them. Teachers use psychology rather than the Bible. They do not train the children in the ways of the Lord but rather in the ways of the world.

Our culture as a whole is psychologically dominated, it drives how everyone operates. And, often it is against God's Word. Even more disturbing is that the Christian church is fully entrenched in this worldly thinking. It is no wonder our country is sliding down the slippery slope of total depravity. We are headed toward destruction thinking we are alright because we do what we want all the time.

Romans 12:2

"Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect."

1 John 2:15-17

"Do not love the world or the things 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 and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever."

James 4:4

"You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God."

Satan knows how to make error look attractive while its effect is destruction.

2 Timothy 4:2-5

"Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry."

Colossians 2:8

"See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ."

Knowing God's Word and being led by the Holy Spirit is our encouragement to the believer. We do not have to wonder if we did or said the right thing, we will be confident. The world will not be able to intimidate us into silence when it comes to the truth. Of course, once we find out someone is a rager and resistant we can remove ourselves to avoid them, but it will not keep us from telling the truth to another person later.

Be full of joy no matter how ugly others act, they cannot remove our joy unless we care more about how others think of us than we do about what God thinks.

What is Love!!!

If we love our friends we will instruct them as well as correct when we see them deviating from God's Word.

Proverbs 27:6

"Faithful are the wounds of a friend,

But deceitful are the kisses of an enemy."

Romans 15:14

"And concerning you, my brethren, I myself also am convinced that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able also to admonish one another."

Colossians 3:16

"Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God."

Psalm 141:5

"Let the righteous smite me in kindness and reprove me;

It is oil upon the head;

Do not let my head refuse it,

For still my prayer is against their wicked deeds."

Luke 17:3

"Be on your guard! If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him."

1 Thessalonians 5:14

"We urge you, brethren, admonish the unruly, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with everyone."

2 Timothy 3:16

"All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness;"

The most important part of being a friend is to love them by helping them see the things that need change. Its not love to allow someone to feel good about you while they are dishonoring God.

In a World of Betrayal, BE FAITHFUL | Dr. David Jeremiah | Matthew 24:10

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End Times, 2 Timothy 3

We know the end times are here when we see the incredible disrespect and angst of our children's generation. It is shameful but they have no shame over it. They never apologize for rudeness and even concoct a story in their minds that they have a good reason to treat their elders with contempt.

I never thought I would say that I do not enjoy children anymore. I used to, but they have become so rude and demanding they are no longer enjoyable to be around. Sadly, they learned it from their parents who have coddled them and who have demonstrated disrespect toward their own parents.

There is a saying from times past that goes like this; "More is caught than taught."

Parents do not exhibit hospitality, kindness or empathetic concern about others, so the children learn by their example to be the same way.

Matthew 10:42 "42 And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is My disciple, truly I tell you, he will never lose his reward.”

I have never met a godly born-again believer who was unthinking and rude. They all understand the importance of hospitality and kindness. However I have met many pretenders who have no desire to be hospitable, kind, and loving, they are much too self-absorbed to care about serving another human being.

1 Corinthians 13:4–8a Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.

May the Lord double down on us in this matter of hospitality,, never allowing us to do as the culture does, but to do as the Lord has commanded in His Word.

If We Love Christ the World Hates Us

If the world cannot find something against you they will poke at every little thing you do and say to be able to blame you for something. If they can make you seem like the bad one they relieve themselves of their own heart conviction.

Why would the world hate us for how we live and what we say? After all, they don't have to do what we do. They hate us because they are influenced by devils who cause the world to believe they have something against us. The goal of the devil is to intimidate us into silence, accusing us the same way the devil does every day.

Revelation 12:10 "Then I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God and the authority of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothers and sisters has been thrown down, the one who accuses them before our God day and night."

John 15:19-21 "…19 If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. 20 Remember the word that I spoke to you: ‘No servant is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you as well; if they kept My word, they will keep yours as well. 21 But they will treat you like this because of My name, since they do not know the One who sent Me.…"

We are living in the end days when families will turn on their own, the ones who have been born-again. Members of our own families will use manipulation, accusation, distortions, gossip and everything else to destroy our character to anyone who will listen. Sometimes it's very subtle, the dismissiveness, subtle ignoring, and other tactics that cause those around them to think something is wrong with us.

Do not become discouraged when you feel alone or personally attacked, this is part of the existence of someone who wants Christ more than anyone or anything 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 more than anyone or anything we will live as He wants us to live. When we do this we can expect to lose family and friends. It is a blessing to know that we are not alone, Christ and the apostles were rejected and even killed.

Luke 10:27

"And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”

1 John 4:7

"Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God."

When we love Christ with our whole heart we can't help but love others the way He has loved us. There is no guile, anger or contempt in the heart of a born-again believer.

Galatians 5:22-23

"22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law."

No fruit, No Spirit, No Salvation!

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