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J Vernon McGee, I love listening to him. Twice in the last couple weeks his recordings., out of the church out of that worship where it’s more about churchianity, and not being in Christ… he was touching on some of the things you were talking about in the beginning of your piece. It is beyond even what you were explaining and I’m pretty sure you know that, it is a massive problem, and there are so many reasons, including the pastors who has made the church into a business… and the culture.. people are so into their own lives, when you have these conversations with people it’s because like you said, there’s really not an argument about the doctrine, most people don’t know what it is they have to do or what it is that they are doing that is either separating them from God, or they might not have ever been really in the word, loving Jesus Christ like it says, in the first commandment. I was fortunate enough to have seen something of God so that I knew he was real. I knew that Jesus was God and knowing that first commandment., which seems impossible, you know, how can you really love God more than anything else in the world especially when you know what being in love is with a woman, like that head over heels, madly, in love with somebody… almost seems like an impossibility. But I was so convicted about everything in Scripture. I just trusted that if I just kept added and asking God, please help me love you and convincing myself I am going to love this God with all my mind, body and soul., it took a few years, and it happens… of course it’s not the love that you have a wife, but it Hass to do with the commandment, and the fear of not loving God, and that knowledge that any other love like the love, that people think they have for a person, that that love won’t really be real…. There is so much in the word…. And I’m almost thinking we are losing most of the world, the people are not going to be in line… and I can’t help thinking that it’s because they don’t believe in hell… it all comes down to that to me… that fear… I know it’s real… and to think that I could be doing something or saying something or behaving in anyway where I could end up in that horrific place… it’s a combination of that fear, and my striving to love God, and also verbalizing it. I say it countless times every day. I love you I love you Jesus I love you so much with a big smile and it’s true, and he showed himself to me.. the most ridiculous impossible things happen because of that, and then the other loves of people, that’s where I get a very easy relationship with whomever… especially people who disagreed with me who don’t like me who don’t like God who hate God the wicked…. Something happens to us when we truly love God in this way… that combination of the love of God, and the fear of doing anything outside of what he would want us to do… it almost brings a perfection to the daily life of interacting with others… how to install that fear in people… how to make them believe in that word to point them to the truth that most people will end up in that horrific place… that almost everyone that goes to church on Sunday is never going to be in heaven that is the reality. It’s a scary thought. Those arguments that people have… even if they settled them.. there’s most likely a plethora of things separating them, there is no true love of God with all your mind, body and soul, and certainly not a fear that is in their bones all day long…. And knowing that God’s only plan is to bring as many people to him before they die…. That’s really it when it comes down to the core. All kinds of questions, and, some great disappointment, when we think of our loved ones, even people in my past, a girl I loved dearly for many years, most of my life… to think that I’ve even told her some of these things and there’s no way she’s believing it the life she’s living and the life other people are living, so outside of any kind of biblical principles. There is a complete disbelief just like I was most of my life. What do you do? What do you do when you know that reality? It makes me wonder if I’m going to have those feelings when I get taken up after I die. Like, if you loved somebody dearly your whole life and you’re not with them, they were just somebody you loved, and you never fell out of love really.. can you wish so badly that they would have what you have to be able to know that they would be in heaven when they die, do you know they probably will not. It’s almost something impossible to wrap one’s head around. Like I’m gonna be in heaven. And what about her? She’s going to pop out of her body and get taken down and be wide awake in some horrific pitch blackness alive… what a horror… I imagine we don’t have those thoughts anymore, when we are in heaven? I would think if we remembered that stuff or have those images of the other people that didn’t make it? It’s something that I thought of actually this year….. the strangest dichotomy.. the wonderful feeling knowing where you’re going afterwards… but what about the others the ones you were close to… I imagine God has something up there… we don’t have the same brain or anything so… very strange thing that one aspect is to me… it’s probably just her I would love her to not be taken down and have that realization…. I mean if we remember these people and we’re in heaven and we know they are not…. Wouldn’t have put a damper on things up there.? Hahahaha I imagine those thoughts have to be gone… we are a different being… but I popped out of my body in 1998, and I was basically the same person. I saw that place of judgment, after being taken down for a moment…. I imagine something changes when you actually go to the place that is eternal heaven… there’s no way we could be thinking about something like someone in hell who we once loved… did you just seem like they couldn’t go together. Anyway, I probably got off the main point… but when you were talking about those problems in the church in Christianity with God and the people in these conversations, it really reflects probably a lot of other problems besides people thinking they have something right and someone else doesn’t… that’s why I just try to focus on the sin, and as we grow in the word, it gets easier to see what sin is and see it in others…. That righteous judgment is needed, and there’s another set up for arguments because people don’t like to be judged… but that dichotomy of not judging others, but absolutely judging them in the way, the Bible says to judge each other to sharpen each other to judge, when one has taken the the log out of ones eye in order to remove a splinter in a friends…. I actually love this part of a godly relationship and I’m happy to say I have some friends that are actually receptive to it. They are not believers, but I have a way to articulate and make them understand that I am not judging them, like we think of judging in the world, condemning and criticizing, and the things that are ungodly….. it is a judgment, because I love them. I have information that is vital, and if they are in sin, I am pointing that sin out….. it’s a delicate matter, and not an easy thing to do without sometimes becoming that judgmental person that God does not want us to be… but what a beautiful thing it is to have this in our life.. I think God and love him so much every day for literally coming down and bashing me this way and that way until I succumbed… I was one of those people that had to be beaten.. and corrected severely… and that’s how come I know God loves me dearly… the worst things that have happened to me or because of God’s love he wants me so badly not to be in that place and also wants me to do his work… never did I cry out once oh why is this happening to me? It was always., ugh, OK OK… you win…. I give up….. I was extremely fortunate… anyway love reading some of your stuff because it sounds like you truly have that thing I do… and it’s impossible to lose. They say God will never let us out of his hands., he will never get rid of me. I will never go away that’s an impossibility…. I’m probably one of the very few who does not struggle with anything refraining from things giving things up is the ultimate joy. I love it I rejoice in denying myself as much as possible for God…. Of the complete opposite ethos of what most people go through. It’s really the realization that there is a hell… there is a place we get taken up to it is a total reality to me. It’s not something I really need to have faith in or have to believe…. I never have a doubt not one second of any day. It’s like an algorithm of my life. May God protect you, so you live as long as possible and can bring as many people to him because that’s the plan
IMO we can avoid a lot of hostility and misunderstanding among different denominations if we all adhere to Sola Scriptura , the true authority for Christian belief. After all, Jesus said in John 14:15, “If you love me you will obey my commandments.” What other authority is there? Therefore we need to learn the real Scriptural meanings of loving our neighbours, judging other and other statements we find confusing.
Being sinful beings, not all Christians think the same, so we become intolerant of others instead of learning how to discuss our differences peacefully or not al all. We don’t always have to be right but we need to die to the self instead.
There are 30 Bible verses that deal with judging others righteously, and I am sure we all need to study a commentary to understand many bible difficulties. 🙏
Brother Mike 💯🎯👍🏼 LOVE LOVE Seeing you grow in Christ and find that deep abiding love & desire to share yourself & Magnify the LORD GOD! Amen Amen to have the love abound & a deep intimacy with Christ that is beautiful thing. For the divisions are painful I’m working on the very same need to love the brethren who reject me over ideas, those I hear in error find it difficult to love. Then I came upon scripture to prayer for those in error and we are commanded to love them. I am at enmity with GOD if I reject His ways to forgive , love and be salt. Seasoning my conversations with Grace to be at peace with the Brethren. God resists the proud but gives Grace to the humble. James 4:6. 🙏🏼🕊🙌🏼🔥♥️♥️♥️
Amen and Amen. Wise words that echo my thoughts recently. Not one of us has our theology 100% correct. As long as we proclaim Christ and Him crucified, then who are we to judge each other on the secondary issues? Thank you, brother.
That's just it brother. How are we to know who has it right? We can't. That's why we trust in the Lord. Do they love Jesus? Absolutely! Perhaps, we just disagree on how to show that love, how to worship Him. But, there can be no doubt of that love and if they are Christ's then we are kin, regardless of differences. I cannot say whether they'd agree but, my heart will no longer be hardened towards them. God bless you.
Brother Mike, your thoughts are well stated and so true. May we all have the experience of having the scales of blindness removed from our eyes and see every man as Jesus sees them - their potential for growth into "goodly trees" useful for the building up of the temple of Christ and the Kingdom. Every soul is precious. Your post has helped me tie together the following verses:
Mar 8:23 And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought.
Mar 8:24 And he looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking.
Mar 8:25 After that he put his hands again upon his eyes, and made him look up: and he was restored, and saw every man clearly.
Lev 23:40 And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.
1Ki 10:11 And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees, and precious stones.
1Ki 10:12 And the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of the LORD, and for the king's house, harps also and psalteries for singers: there came no such almug trees, nor were seen unto this day.
Act 3:19 Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;
Act 3:20 And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you:
We are drawing near the return of the Lord. God has provided a way for all who wish to return home. We are called to witness for Jesus. Let us remember the feasts commemorating times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord and rejoice by cooperating with Him for the finishing of His work to prepare a people for the King's coming!
There is so much truth here! I remember a time when i was judged by another denomination, yet as I continued to treat them with love, despite the thoughts they held regarding mine, we soon became more understanding of each other. Fiver years later i was told by many in that Denomination, i was as much a part of their fellowship as they had become of mine. Amen to the Love of Christ, in our lives!
Thank you for sharing that Marion. How wonderful. We judge and take offense so easily. If only we'd bear the cross and let the Lord have his way with it. Amen to the wonderful fruit that he bore in your life. God bless.
Absolutely! Learning to love like Christ, help us to see them beyond the physical, rather who they are in Christ. For we, ourselves will have need to experience unconditional love.
I'm learning that the Christian life is one of death. If we want to live by His indwelling life, which is love and service to others, then we must die daily. We die so, that He may live in and through us. Part of that process of the way of the cross is the Lord shining a very bright light on things within our hearts which must be dealt with. This has been a big one for me but, I am grateful to the Lord for revealing it. So wonderful to see Christ in other brothers and sisters, even those whom we disagree with. God bless.
You joined the remnant, hallelujah. May more join.
Here is a partial list of those that will not make the kingdom; unbelievers, athiests, anamists, moslems, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, confusious, Shintoists, bad believers like Satan and the fallen angels that do believe in Jesus, homosexuals, child molesters, haters of Jews or Israel, people who pray to Jesus but not to The Father in Jesus name as Jesus instructed, Mormons, satanists, communists, sabbath non keepers, etc etc, can add another 50+ items. It's only a remnant and 2-3 % is an average remnant which will produce a great multitude of about 300 million out of 8 billion lost.
This is positive if one joins the right group. Cheers.
Thank you for your heart felt post on this topic. I also found myself in a sea of different opinions about certain doctrines. I also heard people say well these Christians don't believe in election, or these believe in free will- so they can't be saved. But I agree with you. After going on mission trips with people from various Christian denominations I realized we were all there to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ and help those struggling with physical and spiritual needs. I do believe we are called to be in a local church with fellow believers. I go to a church were they preach the Bible, pray for one another and try to help each other grow in the Lord. Yes, I even disagree strongly with some stances the Pastor takes on certain issues, but I trust the Lord to help me love, and learn. The enemy wants to divide us, but Jesus said we are the light of the world and salt of the earth. Let us stand on His Word and be that light and salt until He returns for us.
Amen sister. Thank you for sharing that. It's so true. Jesus mentions coming to divide but, not His own people. Paul takes this up in his first letter to the Corinthians because they were starting to divide, to form what might as well be denominations. There is one body, one baptism, one Christ. God bless you.
Thank you for sharing your heart, brother. When I think about divisions within the body of Christ, what comes to mind is the scripture where Jesus addresses people who did miraculous works in his name, and yet he says “I never knew you”. And don’t we ALWAYS cast ourselves in the role of the others, the ones who truly did know him, of course. Funny how everybody does that! Nobody ever says “yeah, I could be one of those who didn’t know him”. Maybe we need to put aside the idea that anyone we disagree with “never knew him”.
Wow that is so true. Great thought. Thank you. I'm learning that in fact many that I do disagree with do know Him. It's quite arresting but, yet a much needed revelation. God bless you.
I undertand your words but for me, i find it hard to speak to a Democrat because of their beliefs. If we talk bout UNO maybe but they may not personally approve of Antifa, BLM, destruction in Blue Cities and States, Abortion, Trans/Gay, Porn in Libraries and Schools, i could go on.So if you arent talking about these people then i apologize. Thank you for your articles, blessings
I’m speaking specifically about Christians, those who are following the Lord Jesus Christ but are in different denominations or share different beliefs, theologies, creeds, doctrines, etc.
Mike, you have a unique ability to discuss things I am going through too. Thanks for sharing your thoughts from your perspective. I always look forward to reading your posts, thank you!
Thank you, Kathie. I really appreciate that. I just write whatever I feel the Lord puts on my heart and this one kept coming back to me so, I wanted to get it out. I hope it is helpful to you. God bless.
Convicting. Humbling. Thank you.
Thank you! God bless.
J Vernon McGee, I love listening to him. Twice in the last couple weeks his recordings., out of the church out of that worship where it’s more about churchianity, and not being in Christ… he was touching on some of the things you were talking about in the beginning of your piece. It is beyond even what you were explaining and I’m pretty sure you know that, it is a massive problem, and there are so many reasons, including the pastors who has made the church into a business… and the culture.. people are so into their own lives, when you have these conversations with people it’s because like you said, there’s really not an argument about the doctrine, most people don’t know what it is they have to do or what it is that they are doing that is either separating them from God, or they might not have ever been really in the word, loving Jesus Christ like it says, in the first commandment. I was fortunate enough to have seen something of God so that I knew he was real. I knew that Jesus was God and knowing that first commandment., which seems impossible, you know, how can you really love God more than anything else in the world especially when you know what being in love is with a woman, like that head over heels, madly, in love with somebody… almost seems like an impossibility. But I was so convicted about everything in Scripture. I just trusted that if I just kept added and asking God, please help me love you and convincing myself I am going to love this God with all my mind, body and soul., it took a few years, and it happens… of course it’s not the love that you have a wife, but it Hass to do with the commandment, and the fear of not loving God, and that knowledge that any other love like the love, that people think they have for a person, that that love won’t really be real…. There is so much in the word…. And I’m almost thinking we are losing most of the world, the people are not going to be in line… and I can’t help thinking that it’s because they don’t believe in hell… it all comes down to that to me… that fear… I know it’s real… and to think that I could be doing something or saying something or behaving in anyway where I could end up in that horrific place… it’s a combination of that fear, and my striving to love God, and also verbalizing it. I say it countless times every day. I love you I love you Jesus I love you so much with a big smile and it’s true, and he showed himself to me.. the most ridiculous impossible things happen because of that, and then the other loves of people, that’s where I get a very easy relationship with whomever… especially people who disagreed with me who don’t like me who don’t like God who hate God the wicked…. Something happens to us when we truly love God in this way… that combination of the love of God, and the fear of doing anything outside of what he would want us to do… it almost brings a perfection to the daily life of interacting with others… how to install that fear in people… how to make them believe in that word to point them to the truth that most people will end up in that horrific place… that almost everyone that goes to church on Sunday is never going to be in heaven that is the reality. It’s a scary thought. Those arguments that people have… even if they settled them.. there’s most likely a plethora of things separating them, there is no true love of God with all your mind, body and soul, and certainly not a fear that is in their bones all day long…. And knowing that God’s only plan is to bring as many people to him before they die…. That’s really it when it comes down to the core. All kinds of questions, and, some great disappointment, when we think of our loved ones, even people in my past, a girl I loved dearly for many years, most of my life… to think that I’ve even told her some of these things and there’s no way she’s believing it the life she’s living and the life other people are living, so outside of any kind of biblical principles. There is a complete disbelief just like I was most of my life. What do you do? What do you do when you know that reality? It makes me wonder if I’m going to have those feelings when I get taken up after I die. Like, if you loved somebody dearly your whole life and you’re not with them, they were just somebody you loved, and you never fell out of love really.. can you wish so badly that they would have what you have to be able to know that they would be in heaven when they die, do you know they probably will not. It’s almost something impossible to wrap one’s head around. Like I’m gonna be in heaven. And what about her? She’s going to pop out of her body and get taken down and be wide awake in some horrific pitch blackness alive… what a horror… I imagine we don’t have those thoughts anymore, when we are in heaven? I would think if we remembered that stuff or have those images of the other people that didn’t make it? It’s something that I thought of actually this year….. the strangest dichotomy.. the wonderful feeling knowing where you’re going afterwards… but what about the others the ones you were close to… I imagine God has something up there… we don’t have the same brain or anything so… very strange thing that one aspect is to me… it’s probably just her I would love her to not be taken down and have that realization…. I mean if we remember these people and we’re in heaven and we know they are not…. Wouldn’t have put a damper on things up there.? Hahahaha I imagine those thoughts have to be gone… we are a different being… but I popped out of my body in 1998, and I was basically the same person. I saw that place of judgment, after being taken down for a moment…. I imagine something changes when you actually go to the place that is eternal heaven… there’s no way we could be thinking about something like someone in hell who we once loved… did you just seem like they couldn’t go together. Anyway, I probably got off the main point… but when you were talking about those problems in the church in Christianity with God and the people in these conversations, it really reflects probably a lot of other problems besides people thinking they have something right and someone else doesn’t… that’s why I just try to focus on the sin, and as we grow in the word, it gets easier to see what sin is and see it in others…. That righteous judgment is needed, and there’s another set up for arguments because people don’t like to be judged… but that dichotomy of not judging others, but absolutely judging them in the way, the Bible says to judge each other to sharpen each other to judge, when one has taken the the log out of ones eye in order to remove a splinter in a friends…. I actually love this part of a godly relationship and I’m happy to say I have some friends that are actually receptive to it. They are not believers, but I have a way to articulate and make them understand that I am not judging them, like we think of judging in the world, condemning and criticizing, and the things that are ungodly….. it is a judgment, because I love them. I have information that is vital, and if they are in sin, I am pointing that sin out….. it’s a delicate matter, and not an easy thing to do without sometimes becoming that judgmental person that God does not want us to be… but what a beautiful thing it is to have this in our life.. I think God and love him so much every day for literally coming down and bashing me this way and that way until I succumbed… I was one of those people that had to be beaten.. and corrected severely… and that’s how come I know God loves me dearly… the worst things that have happened to me or because of God’s love he wants me so badly not to be in that place and also wants me to do his work… never did I cry out once oh why is this happening to me? It was always., ugh, OK OK… you win…. I give up….. I was extremely fortunate… anyway love reading some of your stuff because it sounds like you truly have that thing I do… and it’s impossible to lose. They say God will never let us out of his hands., he will never get rid of me. I will never go away that’s an impossibility…. I’m probably one of the very few who does not struggle with anything refraining from things giving things up is the ultimate joy. I love it I rejoice in denying myself as much as possible for God…. Of the complete opposite ethos of what most people go through. It’s really the realization that there is a hell… there is a place we get taken up to it is a total reality to me. It’s not something I really need to have faith in or have to believe…. I never have a doubt not one second of any day. It’s like an algorithm of my life. May God protect you, so you live as long as possible and can bring as many people to him because that’s the plan
Thank you for your comment brother. I appreciate it. God bless you.
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Lots of food for thought, thank you.
IMO we can avoid a lot of hostility and misunderstanding among different denominations if we all adhere to Sola Scriptura , the true authority for Christian belief. After all, Jesus said in John 14:15, “If you love me you will obey my commandments.” What other authority is there? Therefore we need to learn the real Scriptural meanings of loving our neighbours, judging other and other statements we find confusing.
Being sinful beings, not all Christians think the same, so we become intolerant of others instead of learning how to discuss our differences peacefully or not al all. We don’t always have to be right but we need to die to the self instead.
There are 30 Bible verses that deal with judging others righteously, and I am sure we all need to study a commentary to understand many bible difficulties. 🙏
Brother Mike 💯🎯👍🏼 LOVE LOVE Seeing you grow in Christ and find that deep abiding love & desire to share yourself & Magnify the LORD GOD! Amen Amen to have the love abound & a deep intimacy with Christ that is beautiful thing. For the divisions are painful I’m working on the very same need to love the brethren who reject me over ideas, those I hear in error find it difficult to love. Then I came upon scripture to prayer for those in error and we are commanded to love them. I am at enmity with GOD if I reject His ways to forgive , love and be salt. Seasoning my conversations with Grace to be at peace with the Brethren. God resists the proud but gives Grace to the humble. James 4:6. 🙏🏼🕊🙌🏼🔥♥️♥️♥️
Thank you so much sister! I truly appreciate it. What a Christ we have!! I can get enough. God bless you.
Amen and Amen. Wise words that echo my thoughts recently. Not one of us has our theology 100% correct. As long as we proclaim Christ and Him crucified, then who are we to judge each other on the secondary issues? Thank you, brother.
That's just it brother. How are we to know who has it right? We can't. That's why we trust in the Lord. Do they love Jesus? Absolutely! Perhaps, we just disagree on how to show that love, how to worship Him. But, there can be no doubt of that love and if they are Christ's then we are kin, regardless of differences. I cannot say whether they'd agree but, my heart will no longer be hardened towards them. God bless you.
Brother Mike, your thoughts are well stated and so true. May we all have the experience of having the scales of blindness removed from our eyes and see every man as Jesus sees them - their potential for growth into "goodly trees" useful for the building up of the temple of Christ and the Kingdom. Every soul is precious. Your post has helped me tie together the following verses:
Mar 8:23 And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought.
Mar 8:24 And he looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking.
Mar 8:25 After that he put his hands again upon his eyes, and made him look up: and he was restored, and saw every man clearly.
Lev 23:40 And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.
1Ki 10:11 And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees, and precious stones.
1Ki 10:12 And the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of the LORD, and for the king's house, harps also and psalteries for singers: there came no such almug trees, nor were seen unto this day.
Act 3:19 Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;
Act 3:20 And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you:
We are drawing near the return of the Lord. God has provided a way for all who wish to return home. We are called to witness for Jesus. Let us remember the feasts commemorating times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord and rejoice by cooperating with Him for the finishing of His work to prepare a people for the King's coming!
Thank you sister. I appreciate that. God bless you.
There is so much truth here! I remember a time when i was judged by another denomination, yet as I continued to treat them with love, despite the thoughts they held regarding mine, we soon became more understanding of each other. Fiver years later i was told by many in that Denomination, i was as much a part of their fellowship as they had become of mine. Amen to the Love of Christ, in our lives!
Thank you for sharing that Marion. How wonderful. We judge and take offense so easily. If only we'd bear the cross and let the Lord have his way with it. Amen to the wonderful fruit that he bore in your life. God bless.
Amen, Brother! Very well said … Family ✝️
Thank you brother! God bless.
Absolutely! Learning to love like Christ, help us to see them beyond the physical, rather who they are in Christ. For we, ourselves will have need to experience unconditional love.
I'm learning that the Christian life is one of death. If we want to live by His indwelling life, which is love and service to others, then we must die daily. We die so, that He may live in and through us. Part of that process of the way of the cross is the Lord shining a very bright light on things within our hearts which must be dealt with. This has been a big one for me but, I am grateful to the Lord for revealing it. So wonderful to see Christ in other brothers and sisters, even those whom we disagree with. God bless.
You joined the remnant, hallelujah. May more join.
Here is a partial list of those that will not make the kingdom; unbelievers, athiests, anamists, moslems, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, confusious, Shintoists, bad believers like Satan and the fallen angels that do believe in Jesus, homosexuals, child molesters, haters of Jews or Israel, people who pray to Jesus but not to The Father in Jesus name as Jesus instructed, Mormons, satanists, communists, sabbath non keepers, etc etc, can add another 50+ items. It's only a remnant and 2-3 % is an average remnant which will produce a great multitude of about 300 million out of 8 billion lost.
This is positive if one joins the right group. Cheers.
Thank you for your heart felt post on this topic. I also found myself in a sea of different opinions about certain doctrines. I also heard people say well these Christians don't believe in election, or these believe in free will- so they can't be saved. But I agree with you. After going on mission trips with people from various Christian denominations I realized we were all there to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ and help those struggling with physical and spiritual needs. I do believe we are called to be in a local church with fellow believers. I go to a church were they preach the Bible, pray for one another and try to help each other grow in the Lord. Yes, I even disagree strongly with some stances the Pastor takes on certain issues, but I trust the Lord to help me love, and learn. The enemy wants to divide us, but Jesus said we are the light of the world and salt of the earth. Let us stand on His Word and be that light and salt until He returns for us.
Amen sister. Thank you for sharing that. It's so true. Jesus mentions coming to divide but, not His own people. Paul takes this up in his first letter to the Corinthians because they were starting to divide, to form what might as well be denominations. There is one body, one baptism, one Christ. God bless you.
excellent…
Thank you!
Thank you for sharing your heart, brother. When I think about divisions within the body of Christ, what comes to mind is the scripture where Jesus addresses people who did miraculous works in his name, and yet he says “I never knew you”. And don’t we ALWAYS cast ourselves in the role of the others, the ones who truly did know him, of course. Funny how everybody does that! Nobody ever says “yeah, I could be one of those who didn’t know him”. Maybe we need to put aside the idea that anyone we disagree with “never knew him”.
Wow that is so true. Great thought. Thank you. I'm learning that in fact many that I do disagree with do know Him. It's quite arresting but, yet a much needed revelation. God bless you.
I think we are walking on parallel journeys! Keep up the good work. 😁
Thank you sister. God bless you.
I undertand your words but for me, i find it hard to speak to a Democrat because of their beliefs. If we talk bout UNO maybe but they may not personally approve of Antifa, BLM, destruction in Blue Cities and States, Abortion, Trans/Gay, Porn in Libraries and Schools, i could go on.So if you arent talking about these people then i apologize. Thank you for your articles, blessings
I’m speaking specifically about Christians, those who are following the Lord Jesus Christ but are in different denominations or share different beliefs, theologies, creeds, doctrines, etc.
Mike, you have a unique ability to discuss things I am going through too. Thanks for sharing your thoughts from your perspective. I always look forward to reading your posts, thank you!
Thank you, Kathie. I really appreciate that. I just write whatever I feel the Lord puts on my heart and this one kept coming back to me so, I wanted to get it out. I hope it is helpful to you. God bless.