God Hates Pride Proverbs 11:2 “When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.” Proverbs 16:5 “The LORD detests all the proud of heart. Be sure of this: They will not go unpunished.” Proverbs 16:18 “Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.”
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Faith in Christ is love
This is a serious in-depth blog.
There are two parts to this blog.
Jesus said, " I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents " (Luke 15:10). Why do they rejoice? Not because they're surprised, but because a great victory has been won! Apr 13, 2015
When a person repents what happens if they go back to their sin? The flesh is weak and when we don't obey the spirit what we are being advised per Christian then that is a problem. We just can't accept that you can't serve two masters and we peek into the world of sin flesh and the devil because it's everywhere and it's enticing us to think about these things that are against the spirit. That is the truth and unless we can accept the complete truth we can't overcome it because when we lower our defenses thinking we are loving we are now disobeying and not abiding in Christ all of a sudden. It's that easy. You know you've come forward if God has saved you and revealed the truth to you even when you took an interest in reading scripture yourself and being like those bereans to find out what is truth and they were searching the scriptures day and night to see if the things written are true. The things that were revealed to them. The things that were taught to them.
The book of Acts
10 And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews.
11 These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
12 Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few.
So if they were open-minded/more noble and eager to be in the correct frame of mind they weren't narrow-minded and they weren't leaning on their own understanding. We cannot overcome if we can't obey and abide in Christ who is teaching us. No wonder he said a man who looks back is not fit for the kingdom of God.
62 And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God .
They have made the house of God into a den of thieves and this is what I'm repeatedly told and shown. What are the implications of such and what does it mean for the individual brethren life? That you can't go forward because that is not the way. The help there is not sufficient or insufficient and God of course never lies to you no matter how hard it is for you to accept it.
Now below I thought it was time to preach on love and I met a sister that believed in a sense you can be in two camps and that is love but as a brother in Christ preached a while back woe to them who go down to Egypt. There is a way that seems right unto a man in the end it is the way of death. Also put on the whole armor of God so you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. Your defenses but when you lower your guard all of a sudden you're making excuses and “A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.” We are told to renew our minds. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. As written.
[8] If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. [9] If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. [10] If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
Apostle Paul said that he did the things he did not want to do.“For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.” Romans 7:19 KJV
Before you can be firm in the faith each brethren in whatever weakness they have has to learn how to overcome. They have made the house of God into a den of thieves which doesn't help the individual brethren overcome. Money is the root of all evils. Salvation is a free gift and the master is the Biblical Hebrew Jesus Christ of Nazareth not the devil. The devil is the adversary and Christ is our savior.
1 Peter 5:8
“Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:”
King James Version (KJV )
Ephesians 3:16 to 18 KJV
16 That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;
17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
18 May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height.
The Bible says that our love for God is related to our obedience of Him: “For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not burdensome” (1 John 5:3; cf. John 14:15). We serve God out of love for Him. And God’s love for us enables us to obey Him freely, without the burden of guilt or the fear of punishment.
Many of us have felt love at one time or another or thought we were in love. When we cared about somebody else we experienced what you would as love. But remember the Messiah was rejected, despised and a man well acquainted with grief and sorrow. When Apostle Paul went through all the brutality he did but remember he persecuted the Church of God once he didn't feel loved maybe by the enemy but he knew there was a love that surpasses all understanding with Christ. When we have to contend for the faith and pick up our cross and we get assaulted and attacked by the enemy because he attacks God's children that doesn't feel like love. When we are rejected because we are not on par with what is accepted in society and even rejected that doesn't feel like love yet I know being in Christ that God has a love for me that is incredible. And there are other brothers and sisters in Christ that feel that same love and the brethren should love each other and not disappoint the master.
Growing up I had so many friends it was not funny that my parents at one point were very worried in my youth but were they my friends? The answer is no. What a friend we have in Jesus and how that is so true. No other man ever shown the love he did and has died for the sins of the world yet a great majority of the world rejects him and even follows a counterfeit version of him. How do you suppose that makes him feel? Growing up I followed the world of sin flesh and the devil and I loved music and playing various instruments. What I wanted was a professional life in music and I was on my way and eager but when I became a true believer I realized as God put it on my heart this is inappropriate for somebody who's in Christ. You can't serve two masters and making yourself a friend of the world you make yourself an enemy of God.
The Bible says you have to love your neighbor as yourself but sometimes your neighbor can be very wicked but what you can still do is pray. We have to be extremely careful because when God has delivered us out of our bondage then it's so easy for us to enter into it again thinking that maybe we're loving our friends or our neighbor. How can you be obedient to Christ if you were to do such a thing. You made a choice to give your life to Christ and you have to live that life in Christ from now on. Especially when you become a born again believer.
Galatians 2:20-21
King James Version
20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
I try and remind myself every now and then of the commitment. No one is perfect not even when we are born again believers but we have to be as written in scripture meditating on God's word day and night. But you have to put it into action being doers of that word. What you thought of love before you had understanding of how God sees love and when you become a true born again believer you see the world in a different light. Now you see a wicked evil rebellious world that Christ saw. But you still got to love and care about people. Sometimes contending for the faith you don't appear to be loving sometimes. God said he will puke out to lukewarm believers. You know the lukewarm Church. Backsliders are not wise.
Imagine all the times Christ was mocked and all of what he suffered what kind of love do you think he felt yet look at the things he did for people including saving people's souls. When he went through those towns and cursed those cities he didn't appear to be the lovey dovey I love you Jesus. He knew despite all the great works and miracles they saw they failed to care and to repent. So many people want to be full of things and handouts but they don't care to love God and obey him. So when people awaken some to judgment and everlasting condemnation do you think God didn't love those people? Of course he did but they didn't take the time to care and to do God's will. Many people will die in their sins never to know what true love is. We need to learn to turn the other cheek. Sometimes contending for the faith it's easy to go a little overboard and you have to know how to delegate. You don't have to go out there and rebuke people all the time. To God idolatry and adultery & fornication and an evil heart is not love but rebellion is as witchcraft.
Sometimes you pass people on the streets and they say good morning or good afternoon and that's nice. Sometimes these days you don't see men holding a door for women anymore and that's rude. Or at a coffee shop giving up your spot for a woman or somebody disabled is honorable in line but people appear to be so rude and pushy. I me, myself and I, is not love. Taking God's name in vain is not love and God will not hold such a person guiltless. They will store up wrath.
I remember maybe five six months ago I stopped off at a Tim Hortons and about five beautiful looking oriental women at the front of the line looked at me and started taking God's name in vain. I corrected them and said what they were doing is inappropriate but they just kept doing it purposely. Out of the blue this happened because we wrestle not against flesh and blood. These people do not know that there are people suffering and screaming in hell right now and they can never leave and other people are going to join them one day. Not reading the Bible and knowing God's word is rebellion and not love because God made it available. But people would rather go to a bar drink alcohol and drive drunk and hurt other people then care about God and his word let alone Christ sacrifice on the cross.
Sexualizing children with drag queens and the LGBT community doing the Abominable sins they do that is rebellion and rebellion is as witchcraft and it is a deep hatred for the God that created you. You might be bisexual or gay and feel if there is a God he is accepting of that but he's not and he warns that such a person will not inherit the Kingdom but will actually inherit eternal damnation. Sin is not love to God. We are expected to love God with everything we have and if we can't stand up for the things that are of the true God of Israel then we do not know God and we do not love God.
Look at the accusations the Pharisees and Sadducees and some of the scribes had for Christ with such contempt. He loved them but he was deeply offended by them for various reasons. Think about this as he said when they make one proselyte they become twice the child of hell as themselves and they were religious leaders. They loved the chief seats in the marketplaces and the praise of men and prayed in the streets to be seen of men and did all sorts of things as Christ said that were an offense to God. You think he would have wrapped his arms around them and just said I love you I love you I love you but he was deeply concerned. But look at the love he had for Lazarus and they wanted to kill Lazarus again. An example when the apostles picked the corn and they were accused of doing such what was it on the Sabbath perhaps with unwashed hands. But he turned around and showed them the true meaning of the Sabbath. To go fetch that one lost sheep that's fallen into a pit and that is love.
In my afterthoughts and notes God is Holy and he is a spirit and we must worship Him in spirit and in truth. The Bible also says that a man must be born again. Carnal love and a transgression of God's laws even though we are not under the law is not love. Not abiding in Christ is not love. To befriend the world will make you God's enemy in a sense is rebellion. Christ said to pick up your cross and you are to love him more than your family and if you don't you don't love him. You have to crucify the flesh as there is no other way but to abide in Christ. His way is the narrow way and enter in at the straight gate for broad/wide is the way many go in there at. God's houses is to be a House of Prayer not a den of thieves.