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James Three:
13 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you?
let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts,
glory not, and lie not against the truth.
15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
Think for a sec, (don't want to impose unpleasantness), of the most horrific act you have ever heard of a person inflicting on others. The Spiritual Reality is that Every Evil Work begins in the simplest, fruit of the flesh.
This reveals a Spiritual Truth that must open the squinty eyes of Christianity.
Evil follows the same Sow and Reap principles.
To what degree is this a direct threat to one's
entrance into the Kingdom of Heaven?
Mark Four:
26 And He said, “The kingdom of God is as if
a man should scatter seed on the ground,
27 and should sleep by night and rise by day,
and the seed should sprout and grow,
he himself does not know how.
28 For the earth yields crops by itself: first the blade,
then the head, after that the full grain in the head.
29 But when the grain ripens, immediately he puts
in the sickle, because the harvest has come.”
The Heart Also "grows crops" in ways we do not know,
until the blade, then the head, and finally the full grain.
Tare or wheat? You will not know until the angel reapers
come, if you have not accepted the Chastisement of the Spirit.
I have witnessed countless believers who struggle with
their commitment to Christ, but in all sincerity exclaim,
"but God knows my heart right?" And so it goes.
Lack of diligence in a believer is not just a threat to themselves,
the become a source of defilement for an entire Assembly.
Should we wonder why Paul was so steadfast in directing
steps and procedures for their removal.
Hebrews Twelve:
14 Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord:
15 looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness
springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled;
16 lest there be any fornicator or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright.
So in my situation, I must be concerned as a sower of strife, and seek out the harm I have done.
So come forth with your testimonies, who have a defiled who wasn't already by a lack of diligence.
Certainly not my call, I do not know what any of you do as work in the Kingdom, but what I do know now
is that for the past twenty to thirty years, an eye opening number of believers have spent a highly inordinate amount of time in idle Christian chat, and passing that off a true fellowship, with faux polite comments that are actually being passed off as humility.
Without cause, I cannot and would not state names.
The point that must be "looked into carefully", is the
possibility that the symptoms are of a most insidious
spiritual defilement, which is described with one word.
Lukewarm
So for example, 26 years ago, I was out trying to convince every believer I met in discussion that Y2K had nothing to do with us, and that Corporate America was just passing the cost of fixing a network issue onto average taxpayer citizenry . Meanwhile, I looked on while churches held Y2K symposiums, and CTV networks hawked food dehydrators.
The fearful are expressing unbelief in the most elemental Promises of God.
Anyone want to share a testimony?
13 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you?
let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts,
glory not, and lie not against the truth.
15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
Think for a sec, (don't want to impose unpleasantness), of the most horrific act you have ever heard of a person inflicting on others. The Spiritual Reality is that Every Evil Work begins in the simplest, fruit of the flesh.
This reveals a Spiritual Truth that must open the squinty eyes of Christianity.
Evil follows the same Sow and Reap principles.
To what degree is this a direct threat to one's
entrance into the Kingdom of Heaven?
Mark Four:
26 And He said, “The kingdom of God is as if
a man should scatter seed on the ground,
27 and should sleep by night and rise by day,
and the seed should sprout and grow,
he himself does not know how.
28 For the earth yields crops by itself: first the blade,
then the head, after that the full grain in the head.
29 But when the grain ripens, immediately he puts
in the sickle, because the harvest has come.”
The Heart Also "grows crops" in ways we do not know,
until the blade, then the head, and finally the full grain.
Tare or wheat? You will not know until the angel reapers
come, if you have not accepted the Chastisement of the Spirit.
I have witnessed countless believers who struggle with
their commitment to Christ, but in all sincerity exclaim,
"but God knows my heart right?" And so it goes.
Lack of diligence in a believer is not just a threat to themselves,
the become a source of defilement for an entire Assembly.
Should we wonder why Paul was so steadfast in directing
steps and procedures for their removal.
Hebrews Twelve:
14 Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord:
15 looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness
springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled;
16 lest there be any fornicator or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright.
So in my situation, I must be concerned as a sower of strife, and seek out the harm I have done.
So come forth with your testimonies, who have a defiled who wasn't already by a lack of diligence.
Certainly not my call, I do not know what any of you do as work in the Kingdom, but what I do know now
is that for the past twenty to thirty years, an eye opening number of believers have spent a highly inordinate amount of time in idle Christian chat, and passing that off a true fellowship, with faux polite comments that are actually being passed off as humility.
Without cause, I cannot and would not state names.
The point that must be "looked into carefully", is the
possibility that the symptoms are of a most insidious
spiritual defilement, which is described with one word.
Lukewarm
So for example, 26 years ago, I was out trying to convince every believer I met in discussion that Y2K had nothing to do with us, and that Corporate America was just passing the cost of fixing a network issue onto average taxpayer citizenry . Meanwhile, I looked on while churches held Y2K symposiums, and CTV networks hawked food dehydrators.
The fearful are expressing unbelief in the most elemental Promises of God.
Anyone want to share a testimony?
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