When Barney told Andy

Unsolved Mysteries & Natural Wonder Facts

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When Barney told Andy he should just let Opie "decide for himself" how he wanted to live… Andy had these words of wisdom.

"No, I'm afraid it don't work that way. You can't let a young’n decide for himself. He'll grab at the first flashy thing with shiny ribbons on it. Then, when he finds out there's a hook in it, it's too late. Wrong ideas come packaged with so much glitter that it's hard to convince ‘em that other things might be better in the long run. All a parent can do is say 'wait' and 'trust me' and try to keep temptation away."

Somehow... we have lost this basic truth. Too many people are more worried about being their child’s friend, than in being a parent.

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The Yoke Test

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What is Performance Christianity?

You're not failing God... you're following a lie (3 truths)

The Church Gathering the way God Taught

When the church gathering is in a home, there are no taxes to be paid, no upkeep or expensive repairs or maintenance, no programs people are expected to attend or donate to, and no salaries that detract from giving to the needy and elderly in the gathering.

 
When the gathering is in the home, everyone there is edified, and everyone participates.

 
When churches are in homes, the people are connected and concerned for one another. Everyone participates, and the leader is the Holy Spirit.

 
All money gathered goes directly to those who need it and for evangelism. Each family takes care of their own finances and gives freely from their own coffers for important needs, not play or entertainment.

 
There is always money available for visiting ministers who must travel.

When the church meets in the home, the government is not in control through any strings that might keep them monitoring what goes on in that place. The government has no part in the finances and proceedings.

When the people meet in homes biblically, they do not look to one man who acts as an authority over anyone else. The leaders are several, and they lead by example and teaching.

God's way is always best. When man thinks they can help God out by doing things their own way, they ALWAYS mess things up, pervert truth, and make rules God never made.

 
Galatians 5:1 "For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery."

2 Corinthians 3:17 "Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom."

John 8:36 "So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed."

I see a return to Biblical home gatherings to some extent as people see the perversion of "religion" overtaking most church gatherings today. There is much ritual, but they don't recognize it as ritual.

 
I hear lots of people complaining that they feel no connection to the church they had been attending, and opted to stay at home with their families or others who felt the way they did.

 
It is the remnant believer who is finding it hard to find a gathering that is Biblical and speaks of Jesus Christ frequently.

 
The best thing for any believer to do is to ask for wisdom from the Holy Spirit, question all things, and pray for discernment to know what to do next. The Holy Spirit will speak boldly to anyone who loves Christ and wants to know.

God's Chosen Ones Never Go to Church

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Love of Christ Produces Good Fruit

We are living in an irrational world!!! People will be angry with us, not because we did anything to them, but because we are different from them or because we have something they want.

 
They will be angry at us because they saw someone else angry with us, even without knowing the reason.

They will not ask you about what you did because you didn't do anything they could name; you are just different from them.

 
If their friend is angry with you, they will be angry with you too, even if they don't know the reason.

This seems irrational and unbelievable, but remember the devil did the same thing with God in heaven. He was jealous, which made him angry at God because God had what the devil wanted. He wanted to overthrow God, take what he had, and ruin Him.

It sounds fantastical that the devil would not recognize that the very God who created Him would be powerful enough to destroy him with the breath of His mouth.

Often, people will concoct a reason to dislike others merely because they have something the angry person wants. They not only want what the other person has they don't want the other person to have it.

 
Envy is wanting what someone else has, and jealousy is not wanting them to have it, both are monstrous sins against God. Satan was deeply invested in these character flaws and influences people to indulge in them too.

 
The devil will convince the jealous, angry person that they have a good reason, but the reason is irrational and petty every time.

 
Those who love Jesus Christ might briefly struggle with feelings of envy or jealousy, but they do not live a lifestyle of it. The Holy Spirit reminds them of their heart condition, and they repent to be cleansed.

 
A true child of God changed by Christ into a new creation lives a lifestyle of Love, the first fruit of the Spirit of Christ. All the other fruit flows from that Love.

 
1 Corinthians 13:4-8
"4 Love is patient, love is kind, it is not jealous; love does not brag, it is not arrogant.
5 It does not act disgracefully, it does not seek its own benefit; it is not provoked, does not keep an account of a wrong suffered,
6 it does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 it keeps every confidence, it believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails; ............."