><>...Barry, no need to apologize. For some reason you felt...><>
a need to be defensive, and if I caused that then I apologize to you.
Barry those with blatantly heretical beliefs are no threat to the true christian church, for we know by their obvious errors where they are coming from, however, those who say they are christians but are not and talk a good talk are the ones which Jesus warned us of.
They attempt to hide their unbelief and distain for our Lord by packageing their heretical atrocities and their hate ever so neatly in the word of God.Their goal is to divide the brethren, to pit brother against brother, friend against friend. This happens very insidiously when one or more of the brethren has discerned the intentions of the "outsider" and confronts him/her. They are fairly easy to identify Barry. They continually accuse and attempt to bring shame to a brother in the presence of other brothers, this is a trademark of their ungodly character....Rev. 12:10
A brother, a true follower of our Lord Jesus if he has ought against another brother would go to him in private and discuss what is wrong, and then if he actually is wrong and he sees his wrong he will repent and get back on track...if he is lead by the Spirit of God.!.....If in the case he is NOT wrong but merely a misunderstanding, the one who thought him wrong would repent and let it be.
Barry you have no way of knowing this but I did infact go privately to what I thought was a brother way back in Sept. and spoke very kindly with that individual,this person never acknowledged my private communication except to come back on SI in public and accuse me of lieing...... I even defended this individual in public
against those who would have this individual for dinner...
The reason I defended this individual was because I thought he was a brother, and even though he was wrong in his approach..."So ungodly"
and his beliefs..."So racists"...the only Christ-like thing to do was get the Wolves off his back...And so I did.....Until to my dismay, I realized he too was a wolf.
My position of late has been to go on with the word of God, and to let God attend to the ungodly....really satan influenced. There is much work to do for the Kingdom of God and the distractions, and deceitfullness of satan are purposeful, I will not let him distract me any more from the work of God...I cast him out in the name of Jesus...
Barry even in the case of a disruptive brother we are to withdraw from them..2 Thess.3:6.....
I have no malice toward anyone, God knows there is no room in my heart for any bad will, Jesus and His love for mankind takes up all the room there is within my heart.
I have not judged anyone, I have only judged their fruits, we are commanded to do that OR how else would we know who to withdraw from.?....God our Father is the only judge, and to Him belongs the Glory.!
Barry you don't know me very well except what you see of me here in this forum but I am probably the biggest push-over you could ever meet, Except when it comes to the word of God....I stand firm on every word.....I live the Bible, every move I make better be God inspired or I don't move...Jesus is my Precious Savior and to Him I owe my everything....And it has been that way for more than 40 yrs....
I'm not new at this life so it comes fairly easy.....Oh that is not to say that I haven't made mistakes or never been wrong..God knows I have, and still do....and when a brother might come to me and want to discuss something I might have said or done, I am more than willing to listen and repent if necessary...sometimes even if it is not necessary.....But I always repent with a sincere heart and ask God to keep me on the straight and narrow.....It hurts me more than anyone when I might say or do something that God would not approve of....I love God and all that is of God, and I am harder on myself than anyone is to me.....
Barry again there is no need to apologize, I know your heart, to some extent, and maybe it was something that I said that caused you to be defensive, again I say I am sorry for that....
In any case my brother there is much work to do for the Kingdom of God...
In all sincereity,
Love in our Lord Jesus
Shalom...><> |
