Posted on 09/04/2016 12:50:30 PM PDT by Lera
When we get to the point that we select passages from Scripture that we like, while ignoring or downplaying those that we do not like, or to which society is resisting, we not only compromise Scripture but we sully God's plan for His people. Certainly, the time has come when people have not, and will not put up with sound doctrine, because it doesn't jive with societal tendencies (Read: Sin.)
From Andy Stanley, to the ongoing lies and coverups coming from our own American Government, the art of lying and deceiving is reaching a frenzied pace. The Believer is daily faced with an onslaught of half-truths, slight of hands, diversion and exaggeration of the events playing out in front of our very eyes.
Our adversary is on overdrive, manipulating the weak-minded and those not grounded in the Word of our Lord. And how does he do it? He subtly changes meaning and intent, as he did in the Garden when he asked "Did God really say?
God's Word was given to by the Holy Spirit's divine inspiration which breathed the words into men to record for those who did not witness the resurrection in person. It is God's love letter to us. Once we decide to pick and choose those passages that are most palatable, that leads us down a path to certain destruction.
The World's wisdom is a prescription for failure, but the perceived "Foolishness of God" is a path to eternal life for those who believe.
Look Who’s Getting That Bank Settlement Cash Tens of millions of dollars disguised as ‘consumer relief’ are going to liberal political groups. http://www.wsj.com/articles/look-whos-getting-that-bank-settlement-cash-1472421204
Pinging the End Times Ping List and the John Haller Ping List
2016 09 04 John Haller’s Prophecy Update - “The Foolishness of God”
“THE GARMENT OF PRAISE”
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3465809/posts
it’s easy to jump all over everybody else’s sin (there’s so jolly much of it)
it’s not quite so easy to inspire everybody else to better righteousness... part of the reason being that one has to make a sincere effort to embrace it oneself, in order to succeed in that.
whats more, when you try to inspire people to better righteousness, even if sincerely, you sound like you’re advising people to do stupid things. whaddya mean don’t punch that cad right back in the nose? didn’t your pop teach you to do that or get whupped at home by him too?
The church of Laodicea is in full flower. The times of the gentiles is drawing to a close. Time for all of us who are looking for our Blessed Hope to look up.
Amen
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