You want us to go take soldiers against you? Just kidding! Happy New Year Frogster.
You are anointed, and you should rejoice that nobody gets a "free pass". But you do deserve a certain dignity and love that everyone no matter who they are (especially the Body) should receive.
We don't just take everyone's (ministers included) words and submit and trust them. But there is a readiness to receive from Body to the Body (especially the ministers) that has agape built into it. We don't let just anybody sow into our spirits and it IS important to draw the line on who we allow to preach to us.
A good pastor or apostle or prophet, etc., will point people to the Lord. The submission that is implied is to the dictates of the Spirit within you. It should agree with scripture. The Word says a lot about the good and the bad; from esteeming the anointing (and not coming against the expression of that) and being wary and watching and not readily receiving another Christ and another gospel.
Anyone that would have you bypass that weighing of truth is a cultist and an extremist. Nobody just receives anybody's words, no matter who they are.
When I first came to the forum I "stumbled" into a thing about apparitions (in the Catholic section) and I said that you could expect guidance and that you could judge them by what is said and by the Spirit of Truth within. I was told that I was trying to be my own Pope!
It may seem that way to you, but they were not "free" to speak without judging (receiving judgment) via the Spirit of God. It was not a free for all. There were elders being told to govern a certain way (and some of the flock were reproved for sin). In fact Paul, Jude, John, were all apostles functioning within and as established authorities. When they instructed those to rebuke, they were primarily talking to those in authority. When it lacked and judgment was needed (in the church and not appealing to civil authority), someone was supposed to be recognized to exercise judgment.
Timothy was an evangelist, but notice the encouragement (from the apostle) and when it concerned an elder, there were established procedures of order not to be bypassed.
The text implied accusations and you tacked on that you thought they were lying signs and false apostles. That was your judgment, but you said it (even openly) in a way as though you were an elder in that community and in what has been recognized by some as a spirit of condemnation.
It comes off as mudslinging and not as something you'd say among family members.
lying false teachers, and those who pervert the text, are all in the same boat.
orrrrrrr......if they are not evil unsaved wolves, but teach silly doctrine, they will be confronted, how am i wrong?
look how people twist 2 cor 8-9, that was a
one time offering, not for paul, but for the poor, with an exemption clause where the poor do not have to give, with a verse that shows that the sower may not always get cash back, no "seed return"..
yet, the tithe teachers use that to get money for themselves, they turn it into an
every sunday forever event, to get money for
themselves, forgetting that the money was not for Paul, who for the most part, worked, not to burden people, while this teaching makes people feel like they won't be blessed, if they don't give to them
, all turning into a command, while 2 cor 8:8, says not by command, and they use the tithe word, quoting Mal 3, and the curse,
to use fear, a verse that was for temple people, under the old cov.
there ya go, no, some that preach that, maybe are not unsaved but they pervert the text, in their greed, to get cash..as they act like bible scholars, so they can't plead ignorance.
soooo, question for you...
say nothing about this false greed teaching/teachers, because the "touch not" verse?
Paul touched alot of stuff, big time!
Please advise, and please, keep it to the point.