2 Peter 1:5-8 KJV - And beside this, giving all diligence,
5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
God is no respecter of person
2 Corinthians 17 and 18
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.
Okay this brother gets it. You know I heard a very smart man who has his own Ministry who I learned a lot from, thank the Lord, expose things that they hate exposed. God has repeatedly shown me John 2:16 today. It cannot be denied but at the same time we should not condemn because the heart is wicked and to be in Ministry is very complicated and easily a person can be swayed and to be like a hoarder. But there needs a rebuke every once in awhile. But you brother got it right you can't befriend the world. James 4:4 And even some of the greatest Christian commentaries who were with the discernment and wisdom realized this and even Christians 200 years ago that had some sort of writings of great understanding. Does God know? Of course. But it tests your faith. There are some great disciples that have understanding like disciple Roberts. Now even the more hardcore Street Preachers like Ruben Israel are firm in the faith. The hand can't say to the foot I have no need of you. You know iron sharpens iron as they say. And this is what has to be done. We have to get into self-examination daily. You know that scripture saying if the man be held his face in a glass. He's useless. You have to be a doer of that word.
[23] For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass : [24] For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. James 1:23
Pick up your cross and follow me as stated by the Messiah. We make excuses and we hinge to we're not under the law so all we have to do is get saved and wait to be raptured out. Now we're not putting down brethren Christians by saying this but we're just telling the truth. You know he gave the parable about the lazy servant when the master was away. Matthew 25:26 The one who wasn't lazy and invested the talent was given more responsibility. And you got to give credit to Street Preachers and people that have different talents in evangelism. The evil one hates the truth and he hates Paul's gospel. Saved by grace through faith and not by your own efforts. Ephesians 2:8-9 I think it was Henry Matthew who said that if you are unhinged to almost everything but just attached to Christ there's not much the evil one could get you on. He's an arrogant unruly tiger waiting to devour those who belong to Christ. He hates God. He wanted to ascend his throne higher than God's and perhaps in some way he thought he could kick God out and become god himself. Isaiah 14:14 As you know he is the accuser of the brethren and iniquity was found in him as well as pride. He thinks of the things that be of men. He has shown God what's inside of him. It goes to show you what a little bit of pride can do to you. It's not easy because we have to humble ourselves and be like Christ whose load is easy. But at the same time we have to pick up our cross which really is our death and follow after our master. Remember he told Peter the Apostle follow me. Remember Peter denied him. You see there's going to be weak and strong brethren. Not all of them even the preachers are always going to get things right. Some things we all agreed upon.
So how is it that we have failed to separate ourselves from the world . ( As you say in the video ); There are a lot of reasons to this. You know I heard radio program over the years of people being former pastures even in some Ministry that had large congregations and realized it was all about the numbers and making money. Out of all of this we have the Prosperity Gospel. God wants to make you rich. The real gospel is the cross and to pick it up and preach amongst the wolves. You remember the parable about the field. A man wanted to buy a field and he sold everything he had to purchase that field. He was willing to do whatever it took to be righteous before God and to obey him and to make it to eternal life. You see the Lord said it's not money that gets you in. That's what Simon the Sorcerer tried to do buy the gifts of the Holy Ghost and Peter rebuked him. Acts 8:18 I guess over time as they needed members and people from the inside loosened the requirements and instead they started to preach a lukewarm gospel. It's common sense. ((Infiltration ))This is life and people are weak sometimes. That's why God said in scripture I will puke the lukewarm congregation out of my mouth. The lukewarm Church. Revelation 3:16 The lukewarm Christian. It's not an easy task and you need discernment. You don't want to be abusive. But you want to get the message across because hell is eternal and people are ignorant that they don't even know that. The wages of sin is death . You see people on the cell phones all the time and sometimes I'd stop and ask them what is the wages of sin?. They're so dumbfounded that they don't know hell is real and it's extremely easy to go there and it's eternal. God says fear God and live in scripture. Remember the Lord (Emmanuel) Jesus was despised and rejected of the world/men and a man well acquainted with sorrow. He said himself that foxes have holes and birds have dens but the son of man had nowhere to lay his head Luke 9:58 So don't feel bad because only the truth can set you free. 5:44 p.m. August 25th 2022 all right
I want to have my cake and eat it too. You have to love the truth.
Okay and now for my extremely important after thoughts. You ever see those videos of a lot of pastors or preachers in hell. And they go intricate into this. It's most likely true and we cant handle the truth so sometimes they attack the messenger. How did we get to this as the Christian preacher asks? Well in the old testament it was hard to be saved because you had to keep the law. I'm sure God did not condemn people for every little thing because he's merciful. But when in the New testament through the Apostle Paul and through the Reformation which was intricate the law was done away with. And we know all the reasons why. Neitherless peo ple abuse grace. Once the law was done away with things became looser and looser. So they started to preach all you have to do is believe and you will be saved. They used a few scriptures from The book of Romans and they sort of did away with all the others. But many Street preachers preach that it is conditional. And a good study of the scriptures also proves it is conditional. But it's not only that. You see we wrestle not against flesh and blood. And there is so much corruption and defilement in the world. If people could see the people in hell suffering crying out in prayer and in anguish do you know how many would abandon their worldly ways. There are people that had near death experiences and scared them to hell and they made 100% turn. But God wants people to have faith. He wants them to make the decision themselves to turn to righteousness and to Salvation. To believe on his only begotten son. He didn't make the decision for Eve to obey him. He didn't make the decision for Satan to obey him or those fallen angels. He doesn't throw the sin into hell but he throws the person in there. We are accountable and will stand judgment. So somewhere along the ways and with all the intriguing trappings of the world people are divided and they love both ways and both methods. We can't serve two Masters unless we want to be rejected or scrutinized by the living son of God. We have a cross to bear.
8:44 p.m. August 25th 2022