><>...Alan all of the arguing on Ask God has become a battle of the
flesh, which you and others have been so cunningly drawn into without even realizing it.
Gal 5:12-26
12 I would they were even cut off which trouble you.
13 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
26 Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
Alan I was attempting to appeal to your sense of righteousness and conscience. I have in the past, on many occasions, attempted to appeal to the conscience of emile and get him to see his evil ways. It soon became apparent to me that I was wasting precious time.
In an effort to get Ask God back to a more peaceful place again I thought I would try to speak with you and Nancy, since you two have now become the focus of his wrath, and both of you, and some others, continue to fuel his fury by responding at all to any and everything he says. Even to the extent of iniating posts to him when when he has said nothing for some days.
If this is how you want it to be then so be it, but don't delude yourself into thinking that this manner of communication is not of the flesh.
Even Michael refused to argue with satan himself by saying;
Jude 1:9
9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
Have a blessed New Year
Shalom...><>
Ps 133:1-3
1 Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
2 It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments;
3 As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore. |
