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Friday, November 09, 2007

Do not by your eating destroy your brother for whom Christ died.

Romans 14:15If your brother is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy your brother for whom Christ died.
I my daily reading I have came across scripture that has encouraged me to send out this warning. I know someone that has something very similar to this verse tattooed on his arm. Yet he has forgotten what it means. If you are doing anything that would cause your brother in Christ to say. I want no part in that Christian stuff. Or say why would they react that way when they just got through teaching something about Gods grace, love and forgiveness? That guy is fake and I want no part of that. Then I’d say your eating food that is destroying your brother.
I have been accused of gossip so I just wanted you to know what the word says about that
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Proverbs 11:13A gossip betrays a confidence, but a trustworthy man keeps a secret.
Proverbs 16:28A perverse man stirs up dissension, and a gossip separates close friends.
Proverbs 18:8The words of a gossip are like choice morsels; they go down to a man's inmost parts
Proverbs 20:19A gossip betrays a confidence; so avoid a man who talks too much.
My favorite : Proverbs 26:20Without wood a fire goes out; without gossip a quarrel dies down.
Romans 1:29They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips,2 Corinthians 12:20For I am afraid that when I come I may not find you as I want you to be, and you may not find me as you want me to be. I fear that there may be quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, gossip, arrogance and disorder.
1 Timothy 5:13Besides, they get into the habit of being idle and going about from house to house. And not only do they become idlers, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things they ought not to.3 John 1:10So if I come, I will call attention to what he is doing, gossiping maliciously about us. Not satisfied with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers. He also stops those who want to do so and puts them out of the church.
None of this sounds very good does it. I refuse to take part in this. If you ask me what is the truth I will tell you. If you ask my what I thought someone was thinking when they said so-in-so, Id have to say I have no idea, because that would be gossip. If you ask me what did so-in-so say to you, or in my case email you, I would telling them what he said. But if they said to me what was his motive in hurting you with those accustations, I’d have to say I do not know, because that would be gossip.
I can say this one thing, I did expect to receive the following as stated in the WORD that I believe to be truth.
John 15:13Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
John 15:17This is my command: Love each other.
John 15:19If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.
John 17:26I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them."
Romans 5:8But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us
Romans 5:8But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us
Romans 12:9 Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good
Romans 12:10Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Honor one another above yourselves.
1 Corinthians 13:3If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Romans 13:10Love does no harm to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
1 Corinthians 13:2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing
I did not receive love, I received accusations and was told that I was doing and saying things that are not true. However even after I said that, it was still and is still beiong tossed around in a Church as if this is healthy or scriptural. This is not right, just or even Christian. This is worldly practice.
Warrning!!! If your leaders are not peacemakers, and play games in front of the Church and say things about them behind their backs, chances are you are in the wrong church if you want to continue to be a Christian.
Let us be peacemakers in all things. God moved me in this, I reached to someone that recently hurt me with slanderous emails, emailed him saying that I loved him and it was great to hear his voice. I received a 2 page letter of condemnation and accusations. What is wrong with that? Later after I would not reply to anything he sent me because I was tiered of being hurt. It seemed to drive him crazy and he responded very abusively.
Matthew Chapter 25: Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. 35For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.'
When I was sick what did I receive, no one looked after me, no one visited me. An email is NOT A VISIT.
If God said it, do that, if He did not say email then why is it used so frequently as a ministry or a form of abuse? God did not say email or text, He said visit.
Seems pretty plain to me..
Thanks Monty Rogers

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