We ALL have the
right to CHOOSE our beliefs. NO ONE can choose our beliefs for us.
Christians- if you
truly are a Christ follower- know that
this is NOT our world. Jesus did NOT tell us that we will be able to make THIS
world ours. Jesus did NOT tell us that will we be able to get the whole world's
population to accept Him. In fact we are told FEW will find the way to Him.
Mat 7:13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is
the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be
which go in thereat:
Mat 7:14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the
way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
As Christians - as
true Christ followers- we KNOW that our Savior would have us LOVE ALL
others. NO THIS DOES NOT MEAN WE ACCEPT
THE SIN OF OTHERS. Those are totally two different things- accepting sin and love. If a person believes we must accept their
sins to love them, then they do NOT know what love is!
Most parents
comprehend this reality, not that it means they accept it on a broader level.
Very few parents can say they've always accepted every single thing their child
has done and never thought them wrong in any way. Most children will behave in
ways we call 'acting out'. They act out
to get attention, they act out to see how far they can go with things, they act
out doing things that parents will considered UNACCEPTABLE and then they are
reprimanded for that acting out to guide them to the acceptable way to
behave. What parent in their right mind
would allow their child to write on the walls with permanent marker throughout
their house anywhere they choose to do so? Wouldn't the parent find it
UNACCEPTABLE and therefore the parent is not accepting that act of their child,
the child was in the wrong. When that
parent did not accept that wrong act of their child did they STOP loving their
child? NO!
You can LOVE a
person without accepting their actions.
Now, if that child
yelled at their parent and said they didn't love them anymore because they
didn't accept their writing on the walls, furniture, and everything else in the
house, would it be true? NO! Could the child believe it to be true? YES.
The child can choose to believe whatever they want, but it won't make it true.
The truth is we all
have our own beliefs and sometimes two or more people believe the same thing,
sometimes whole groups believe the same thing. Everyone believes their own
particular beliefs are the truth and therefore if another believes differently
they aren't believing in the truth.
Jesus did NOT tell
anyone to try and FORCE the truth on others.
Jesus wants us to be willing to voice the truth as we are Spirit led to
do so and let others believe it or not believe it. As Christians we are to voice the truth, our
beliefs, and leave it to the Holy Spirit to convict the hearts of others.
What truth are we to
voice- the GOSPEL. What is the gospel- the GOOD NEWS of SALVATION IN JESUS
CHRIST. The GOOD NEWS.
We will NOT as
Christians - as TRUE Christ followers- be on the side of the majority. We will
NOT be on the popular path.
HOWEVER- as we live
in this world of rapid decay into sin so pronounced it will be as it was in the
days of Noah- Gen_6:5 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. - we
must NEVER stop loving others as God would have us love them, NEVER. We must be
willing to lay down our lives for the worst of sinners, not abuse them. If we
are caught up in any profession that would have us SIN, or ACCEPT SIN, then
obviously God would have us in another profession because the WORLD is owned by
Satan and the majority of the WORLD will accept sin. And if God doesn't want us
in another profession He may want us in another location where we are NOT
called to ACCEPT sin. It's a frightening
thing to find your life turned upside down, to be called to forsake all for Christ
in a very literal way.
If I have to agree
to accept SIN before I can love the one sinning (by their standard) then I will
keep loving the one sinning, while NOT accepting sin. If that means I can't
make it perfectly clear I believe a sin is being committed even as I love the sinner,
if I am compelled to silence and serving and that is being taken as a silent
assent to accepting the sin the sinner is committing then I will have to be
thought of as one who doesn't not love. God will KNOW the truth. God will know
my love is real- it's HIS love. And if the sinner who accuses me of NOT loving
them because I oppose their sin wants to believe that, I cannot stop them. I
cannot compel them to accept my very real love of them while not accepting the
sin.
If I post a sign
saying I'm against THIEVERY based on my BIBLICAL belief that stealing is wrong,
a thief might take exception to that sign and say I hate them and that hate is
itself a crime. They might say I have to accept their thieving ways to accept them. I could NOT do that! I may still serve them
as my SAVIOR would have me do if they NEED my help, but in that serving is NOT
acceptance, and will never be acceptance to their thieving ways. If that thief says I must write upon a sign
for them that thieving is good and right, and serve them in this way- I
CANNOT. They are not in any real life
threatening need- they don't need food, clothes, or shelter from me, they don't
need my aid in any way for them to keep their life- something I would NOT
withhold from them. They are desirous of my services to promote their thieving,
and that is wrong. If the LAW of the
land becomes such that I HAVE to serve them in their sin, then I need to change
professions because I’m sure not going to be able to change a world run by
Satan and Satan's many, many, many followers.
The world is
SATAN'S.
I am GOD'S.
I have to be willing
to LOSE ALL, and that's a LITERAL ALL, not figurative. I have to be willing to
LOSE ALL if that's what I am called to do in my walk with God. I cannot cling
to a single worldly thing, not even my own life, if I am called by God to relinquish
it in service to HIM - in LOVING HIM and LOVING OTHERS- in that order and no
other.
Many people have
decided that evil is good and good is evil, and as the majority accept this and
are completely and utterly convinced of its truth, they will see those who
understand that evil is evil and good is good as being hateful people, haters.
And the chief of HATERS will be the GOD of the haters. A better GOD will be one who accepts evil is
good and good is evil, and it is that GOD, that FALSE God they will cling to
and hold up as a standard high, and they will call that false God the God of
LOVE, they will make that false God the God of the majority, they will make
those FALSE Christians appear as TRUE Christians, while the others will be a
minority of truth haters.
Satan has done His
work very well making it all but impossible for any one to believe the real
truth. There will be a few that find the real truth, and I PRAY that I am among
those few, and I pray any who are reading this are among the few as well. I pray
all those I know and love are among the few, I pray that ALL will find the WAY,
the TRUTH, the LIFE in JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD, OUR SAVIOR NOW AND FOREVER! AMEN!
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