Birth Pangs and Wake Up Calls

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5 Signs That Someone CANNOT Be Saved (LAST WARNING!)

Signs of a Hardened Heart

Signs of a hardened heart: Taken from Grace for Purpose Video

1. Indifference to God's Word: Ignore the Scriptures to follow your own ideas or the ideas of men.

Proverbs 28:14

"14 How blessed is the person who fears always,

But one who hardens his heart will fall into disaster."

2. Resistance to the Holy Spirit Conviction

Acts 7:51

51 “You men who are stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears are always resisting the Holy Spirit; you are doing just as your fathers did."

3. Refusing to Forgive: Bitterness becomes a prison

Matthew 6:15

"15 But if you do not forgive other people, then your Father will not forgive your offenses."

4. Lack of Compassion: Do not assist others, only look out for themselves.

Matthew 9:36

"36 Seeing the crowds, He felt compassion for them, because they were distressed and downcast, like sheep without a shepherd."

5. Pride and Self Sufficiency: Resisting humility in our own need for God in every aspect of our lives.

Proverbs 16:5

"5 Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord;

Be assured, he will not go unpunished."

Hebrews 3:15

"15 while it is said,

“Today if you hear His voice,

Do not harden your hearts, as when they provoked Me.”

Embrace God's Word, Yield to His conviction, forgive others and show compassion. and humble ourselves before the Savior.

A proud heart is deadly and rotten, God told us to resist the devil and he will flee. Those who do not repent will grow harder with every act of resistant.

Acts 3:19

"19 Therefore repent and return, so that your sins may be wiped away, in order that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord;"

The cure for the hard heart is repentance, sorrow over sin and a desire to be changed by Christ.

Preacher Must be Able to be Corrected and Taught by their Congregation

Outrageous professors are teaching college students now that Israel is at fault for the war between Israel and Hamas.

Colleges are being harmed by major donors who are promising to withhold funds from those colleges for their indoctrination against Israel.

I did a happy dance when I heard this, however, the influence and damage on the mindless self-absorbed students has been done. Once someone has been brain-washed about something it is very hard to convince them of the truth.

We can see how the world is moving in the direction of angst against Israel. It is the classic bully trick.

The Bully Trick: attack someone who was not hurting them and when they fight back accuse them of being the one at fault.

In my years of study of narcissism, this was the most used and effective tactic of the narcissist. Blaming the victims for defending themselves as though the narcissist is innocent, is a well-used maneuver of the devil.

The devil never changes his method of operation, he uses lies and manipulation on every front to destroy those who are not doing evil.

We are not only seeing this in institutions, the media, and communities but also in families. We know that the devil is at the root of it all because his strategies are always the same.

First, the devil was able to convince Eve that God was doing something wrong by withholding information from her. Then he appealed to her pride by saying she could be like God if she just ignored His command and did what she wanted to do. He was able to build a wall between Eve and God through his deception and fraudulent lies.

If you wish to be discerning unable to be fooled by the distortions of the devil you must know the Bible. I do not mean a cursory reading of it but studying and questioning the Holy Spirit to be able to see clearly.

Lazy believers will be fooled because they choose to believe what fits their desires without depth of character. They see things superficially and lean into the deceptions of the world that add scripture to their false teaching making unsuspecting neophytes think they are knowledgeable all the while operating on a more worldly plain than a Biblical one.

Anyone who wants to know the truth can have it, they don't have to be a scholar, they only have to read and pray and God will not withhold from anyone who wants to know.

James 1:5-6

"5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. 6 But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind."

I knew of a woman who attended church for 60 years of her life. She had more bad doctrine than she did truth in her thought patterns, she was able to give terrible advice to others that led them away from God rather than into a deeper walk.

We hear much psychological thinking in the church today that actually negates God's Word but those who adhere to it believe it's Biblical and worse than that they refuse to be corrected with Scripture.

Mark 7:13 "13 Thus you nullify the word of God by the tradition you have handed down. And you do so in many such matters.”

The best way to not be fooled by false doctrine and manipulative people is to read the Bible while asking the Holy Spirit to bring understanding. It is not wise to go to "educated preachers" in our day because they have been indoctrinated by liberal Bible colleges that often demean the truths of the Bible. They are often arrogant and resistant to correction.

2 Timothy 2:24 "24 And a servant of the Lord must not be quarrelsome, but must be kind to everyone, able to teach, and forbearing. "

In this passage, the "able to teach" was wrongly translated and should read, "teachable himself." A preacher who is not himself teachable is not qualified to teach others.

Amir Tsarfati: The Final Jihad

Two Walking Together

If you are faced with the accusation that you think you are better than someone else because you do not hang out with them, there is a simple answer that will defuse that charge by simply answering this way;

"It isn't a matter of me being better than someone else it is a matter of my personal choice in friends. I choose friends based on our compatibility with my chosen path."

Amos 3:3 says that it is not possible for two to walk together who are not agreed.

We as believers love people and wish, like Jesus Christ, that they would all become saved, but they can only become our companions if they love Him. We live in the world we interact with the world but we do not consort with the world.

1 Corinthians 2:14-15 "…13 And this is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom, but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words. 14 The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 The spiritual man judges all things, but he himself is not subject to anyone’s judgment.…"

Those who do not love Christ will not understand our ways, in fact often our ways make the worldly unbeliever hate us. Even when we remain silent they will hate how we live because it convicts them of their own sin.

John 16:7-9 "…7 But I tell you the truth, it is for your benefit that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you. 8 And when He comes, He will convict the world in regard to sin and righteousness and judgment: 9 in regard to sin, because they do not believe in Me;…"

Unbelievers will hate us because we are not friends with them and they will hate us if we are friends with them because we do not think the way they think. Either way they will hate us, the best thing to do is to "come out from among them and be separate."

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.”

18 And: “I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”…"

Seems pretty clear to me! Just saying!

7 Signs of a Toxic Relationship

7 Signs of a Toxic Relationship from Chris Reece. I have added the comments next to the trait.

1. Chronically Angry: Any little thing will set them off

2. Passive Aggressive: covertly mean actions

3. Controlling: always wanting their own way

4. Self-Centered: Everything is about them.

5. Unforgiving: love to hold your past sins against you

6. Manipulative: claiming things that are not true about you

7. Defensiveness: Excuses or blame shifting when confronted.

I have added an 8 sign and that is gaslighting, pretending something happened a certain way when it didn't and changing the narrative.

All the narcissists I have known do all these things. I it is impossible to resolve anything, they do not bend or try to understand another person's needs. They rage or play the victim when they have been rude or mean and then blame you, they say you caused trouble by calling them out on their behavior.

These people never apologize genuinely, even their apologies are superficial to manipulate. Those who act like this with these traits cannot be trusted.

Proverbs 26:6-12

6. "One who sends a message by the hand of a fool

Chops off his own feet and drinks violence.

7 Like useless legs to one who cannot walk,

So is a proverb in the mouths of fools.

8 Like one who binds a stone in a sling,

So is one who gives honor to a fool.

9 Like a thorn that sticks in the hand of a heavy drinker,

So is a proverb in the mouths of fools.

10 Like an archer who wounds everyone,

So is one who hires a fool or hires those who pass by.

11 Like a dog that returns to its vomit,

So is a fool who repeats his foolishness.

12 Do you see a person wise in his own eyes?

There is more hope for a fool than for him."