Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
James 1:26 ... If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.
There is a woman in our little church group who drops bombs with her tongue. Everything will seem fine then all of a sudden she lets something drop which is devastating.
When we are of God, we have the Holy Spirit and there is a "check" when we start to speak something which should not be spoken. And we back off and don't speak what we wanted to speak. Thus the evil is kept in check and we refuse to hurt other people unnecessarily.
A woman who read the blog really seemed to be fighting against evil. She told how her pastor made sexual overtures and she rebuked him. For awhile this woman even seemed like a prophet for she saw evil and brought correction. But then she revealed she had been committing fornication. She spoke to pastor against fornication. She even spoke to the man which she was having sex with and told him it was a sin. Finally this man didn't want to have sex with her any more. She asked him why not. He said because you keep saying it is a sin and it makes me feel bad. (He seemed closer to salvation than she was.) Then she sent an email. I refused to read her email and told her I would not read her email because of her pursuit of fornication.
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Romans 1:28 ... And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind
The person described in above scripture knew what was right in the sight of God but did not prefer going in the way of God and this sets the person up to be turned over to a reprobate mind.
In the OT, the following reference is given to "reprobate"
Jere 6:30 ... Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them.
Reprobate means:
- a blinded mind
- no longer capable of judging correctly
- rejected by God
- void of good judgment
- unapproved by God
Romans 1:28 ... And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind,
Sadly these are people who "do not like to retain God in their knowledge" ... They know what the scriptures say about various sins but they choose to ignore God and they choose not to go in the way of God and they choose to do the sin.