Your TIme is running out - Self-examination 101 - God Will Not Be Mocked
In Mark 12:30-31 (The two most important commands from God are to?)
Love Him and love your enemies, not just those you care about. In other words love ALL people by demonstrating compassion, mercy, forgiveness, gentleness, kindness to them found in Galatians 5:22-26. In other words it is your responsibility not to get in the way of God's will as Romans 8:28 works itself out the way it is written.
1) So as we look inwardly, have you been able to love those who don't agree with you...who may be different from you... based on the Godly loving characteriics shared above (compassion, mercy, forgiveness, gentleness, kindness)?
2) Or is your rhetoric filled with hatred, idolatry, wrath, murders (murdering someone's character)? All of these are wrapped in the six abominations to God found in Proverbs 6:16-19. Those who call someone an abomination are actually conducting themselves in a manner that truly makes the one name calling an abomination to God as they act in a manner found in Galatians 5:19-21. You are literally murdering someone's character over and over to the point your actions are the stumbling block that pulls them into the same conduct you are exhibiting right now. You have literally won one for the enemy.
If you can not demonstrate God's love towards those who don't agree with you... those who are different from you... then you are not really one of God's children at this moment as you act in disobedience to God. You can claim you are a Christian all day, but if your heart is filled with what's in line 2, then it is written in Galatians 5:21 "...that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God."
If you are not an heir to the Kingdom of God... then that means you are not a child of God right now and what is leading you now is not God... and as long as you choose to operate this way... you will get what is leading you.. If You can't Love fellow man who you see right in front of you, despite your differences, you can not really love God who you can not see. You may claim to love God... but the god you love is not of the Kingdom of Heaven. This one was cast out for trying to be God... and a third of those who followed him were cast out of heaven as well (Revelation 12:7-12)
1 John 4:20 (KJV)
20 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
So after reading this will you continue on in a manner that brings discord, spewing words of abomination, devising wicked schemes in the name of God? Will you continue to be that vessel through which stumbling blocks of the world comes through? Jesus says in Matthew 18:7 "7 Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!"
Will you continue to support anyone who profess to know the ways of God, using hateful rhetoric that is really fear mongering as they use the name of Christ as a platform to devise wicked schemes? In Matthew 7:15-20 Jesus warns us of those who say they know the way, but are liars
15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
The word of God says in 2 Timothy 1:7 God does not give us a spirit of fear, but a sound mind to test those things which are pleasing to Him. In order to know what is pleasing to God, we must have His spirit which gives us a sound mind to know what He means. But those who play to your fear and you fall for it hook, line and sinker and begin to replicate the same rhetoric... your mind is not sound because your rhetoric does not show love. Yes, you go to church every week... but what does Jesus say to those who are attempting to do unloving things to others in the name of maintaining the standards of Christ?
Matthew 7-21-23
21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Vincent J. McCaskill - Lead Pastor
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