Posted on 06/20/2012 8:36:39 AM PDT by jesus4life
Love the LORD with all your heart. Love your neighbor as yourself. Love your enemies.
What you bind on earth will be bound in heaven. What you loosen on earth with be loosen in heaven.
GOD is amazing!! GOD shows us the power we once had through HIM, when we are obedient, steadfast, fasting, praying, and believing.
We are all HIS.
As HE makes it rain and shine on both the righteous and the wicked.
Please pray the LORD's PRAYER and please read:
ROMANS 14:1-12
1 Give a welcome to anyone whose faith is not strong, but do not get into arguments about doubtful points.
2 One person may have faith enough to eat any kind of food; another, less strong, will eat only vegetables.
3 Those who feel free to eat freely are not to condemn those who are unwilling to eat freely; nor must the person who does not eat freely pass judgement on the one who does -- because God has welcomed him.
4 And who are you, to sit in judgement over somebody else's servant? Whether he deserves to be upheld or to fall is for his own master to decide; and he shall be upheld, for the Lord has power to uphold him.
5 One person thinks that some days are holier than others, and another thinks them all equal. Let each of them be fully convinced in his own mind.
6 The one who makes special observance of a particular day observes it in honour of the Lord. So the one who eats freely, eats in honour of the Lord, making his thanksgiving to God; and the one who does not, abstains from eating in honour of the Lord and makes his thanksgiving to God.
7 For none of us lives for himself and none of us dies for himself;
8 while we are alive, we are living for the Lord, and when we die, we die for the Lord: and so, alive or dead, we belong to the Lord.
9 It was for this purpose that Christ both died and came to life again: so that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.
10 Why, then, does one of you make himself judge over his brother, and why does another among you despise his brother? All of us will have to stand in front of the judgement-seat of God:
11 as scripture says: By my own life says the Lord, every knee shall bow before me, every tongue shall give glory to God.
12 It is to God, then, that each of us will have to give an account of himself.
GOD BLESS US ALL,
Jesus4life
I’m sorry, but Christians can not improve themselves if they can not judge right from wrong. They can not judge right from wrong if they can’t talk about it and expect it of themselves and other Christians. That is the religion of humanism you are talking about when you pretend a Christian is to go through life without judgement. Satan likes that religion.
Christians have no right to condemn. That is for God. But they have an absolute responsibility to judge right from wrong as best they can understand based on what the Bible teaches.
AMEN!! I leave with what you believe. AMEN!!
Sarah,
Before I respond to you here privately ( which is what CHRIST says to do when we have an issue), I want you to read what you wrote:
I’m sorry, but Christians can not improve themselves if they can not judge right from wrong. They can not judge right from wrong if they can’t talk about it and expect it of themselves and other Christians. That is the religion of humanism you are talking about when you pretend a Christian is to go through life without judgement. Satan likes that religion.
Christians have no right to condemn. That is for God. But they have an absolute responsibility to judge right from wrong as best they can understand based on what the Bible teaches.
My response:
Judge. Where did I say that a Christian can not judge right from wrong?? I said that we can not judge one another.
Talk about it: Where did I say that CHRISTIANS can not talk about right and wrong?? I said that CHRISTIANS should be careful of what they say to not influence others to sin. The Bible says this that we should do nothing to make our brother stumble. Do you realize that when you speak of sins that we do ( and not all people do the same sin), then, you can influence and make people curious to other sins. This is why JESUS said to speak only in HIS goodness.
Now if you have the same sin as someone, then, there is no influence. There is only edification if one is stronger than another.
GOD has me realize all too well that people love testimonies, loving to know peoples’ stories of sin to holiness, etc... but do we realize that all the sins JESUS forgave that HE never revealed what those specific sins/actions were that HE forgave.
Humanism?? Do you really think that humanists don’t judge?? Just go to a meeting. I have been.
Please read carefully what is written in a post, and more than once so that you don’t say and reply in a confrontational matter; especially when there is no confrontation. This makes division and discord; which is not what GOD wants between believers.
You are only right on one thing, which is that CHRISTIAN have a right to judge according to what they understand based on the BIBLE teachings. I ask you, like in school we read a full book to understand it and take notes. Have you done this for the BIBLE??
GOD BLESS US ALL,
Jesus4life
Perhaps it was the part where you said “Judge nothing”
AppyPappy,
Perhaps, but if we look at the words after that, “ but edify”, then it will all make sense.
What a person sees shows where they are at the moment. And where a person wants to be and what a person wants to see. GOD brings the increase.
We are all in different stages. The highest stage being love.
Love to all in the Holy Precious name of JESUS CHRIST who lives and reigns among us forever and ever!! AMEN!!
GOD BLESS US ALL,
Jesus4life
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