Post by Les Brewer on May 6, 2024 14:23:19 GMT
OBSERVATION
First of all, I want to say I examine myself all the time. Why? I want to live a scriptural spiritual lifestyle that is pleasing to God. However, it befuddles me when I observe the lifestyles of others I have known over the years. When I weigh their lives against scripture they are weighed in the balance and found wanting.
I am not the judge of their souls, but I am allowed to examine their fruit according to the word of God. Jesus is the Judge and he said you shall know people by their fruits. Not only the fruit of the Spirit; but by their actions and deeds. If one is inundated with the things of this world and have overridden the conviction of the Holy Spirit concerning them: and with someone tries to correct them and they get mad and self-righteous. They’re far from God.
When people begin to justify their sins instead of repenting from them; they’re blind and cannot see. They have a pseudo relationship with God.
(14) Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
(15) And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
(16) And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
(17) Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
(18) And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
2 Corinthians 6:14-18 KJV
If we are justified by faith; we should have no participation with unrighteousness. Honestly what does the world and unbelievers have in common with Christ and Christians? Faith demands biblical morality. We are supposed to be a separated people; not a people integrated with the pleasures of sin.
We can choose between two secret places to abide in or have our confidence in.
(1) He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
(2) I will say of the LORD, "He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in Whom I will trust."
Psalms 91:1-2 AFV
And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. Genesis 6:5 KJV
Partial submission is not submission: when one ministers; let them minister the whole counsel of God when making a point. Jesus preached “the gospel” to set “the standard” and that standard in to abide and trust in him. The flesh is supposed to be crucified and then our life is a life of resurrection. Otherwise our efforts are the works of the flesh which always have a selfish motive. Our lives should be a reflection of Christ. Selah
Bishop D. Ray Ritchie
First of all, I want to say I examine myself all the time. Why? I want to live a scriptural spiritual lifestyle that is pleasing to God. However, it befuddles me when I observe the lifestyles of others I have known over the years. When I weigh their lives against scripture they are weighed in the balance and found wanting.
I am not the judge of their souls, but I am allowed to examine their fruit according to the word of God. Jesus is the Judge and he said you shall know people by their fruits. Not only the fruit of the Spirit; but by their actions and deeds. If one is inundated with the things of this world and have overridden the conviction of the Holy Spirit concerning them: and with someone tries to correct them and they get mad and self-righteous. They’re far from God.
When people begin to justify their sins instead of repenting from them; they’re blind and cannot see. They have a pseudo relationship with God.
(14) Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
(15) And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
(16) And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
(17) Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
(18) And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
2 Corinthians 6:14-18 KJV
If we are justified by faith; we should have no participation with unrighteousness. Honestly what does the world and unbelievers have in common with Christ and Christians? Faith demands biblical morality. We are supposed to be a separated people; not a people integrated with the pleasures of sin.
We can choose between two secret places to abide in or have our confidence in.
(1) He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
(2) I will say of the LORD, "He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in Whom I will trust."
Psalms 91:1-2 AFV
And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. Genesis 6:5 KJV
Partial submission is not submission: when one ministers; let them minister the whole counsel of God when making a point. Jesus preached “the gospel” to set “the standard” and that standard in to abide and trust in him. The flesh is supposed to be crucified and then our life is a life of resurrection. Otherwise our efforts are the works of the flesh which always have a selfish motive. Our lives should be a reflection of Christ. Selah
Bishop D. Ray Ritchie