I Cor. 6:9-10 ... Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 10Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. 11And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
Certainly at one time most of us did some of these things ... fornication, idolatry, adultery, sexual abuses, ... some were thieves. Some covetous ... some drunkards ... some revilers ... some extortioners ... But after God revealed Himself to us, we changed. We stopped our previous sins.
Jesus told the woman taken in adultery: "Go and sin no more." Jn. 8 ... You can't keep doing those types of sins as you did before.
Make no mistake: If you choose to continue in those sins after God has revealed Himself to you, then you are in great danger of cutting yourself off from the real people of God and you are in danger of not inheriting the kingdom of God.
Rev. 22 ... Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. 15For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
You may think it impossible to give up that sin but nothing is impossible with God. When you are weak, God makes Himself strong. God makes a way of escape that you may be able to bear it when you turn to him in the temptation. (I Cor. 10:13)
The important thing would be to call out to God for help and make no provision for the flesh to fulfill the lust thereof. Rom. 13:14 ... 14But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
We put on Jesus Christ when we take appropriate parts of the Word of God which is Jesus and keep that Word before us day and night, doing what the Word says.
Think on the things God has revealed to you for these words are anchors for your soul.
John talked about a sin unto death. I've often wondered what that would be. Recently I have come to believe a sin unto death is continuing to sin in a specific area after you have the knowledge of the truth about that sin. There is a cut off point for such things, a line where you must stop, going no farther... a valley of decision.
John says ... If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it. 17All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.
And in Hebrews 10, we read ... For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, 27But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. 28He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: 29Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace? 30For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people. 31It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
If all this seems hard to you and impossible, you are looking at it the wrong way. You are trying to figure it out with your mind rather than turning to God with the problem and trusting in HIM.
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Recently a woman asked me if I feel "fulfilled" ... I replied as follows ...
I am a servant of God. I want to please God. I want to do things the way God wants them done because I am HIS servant. I wouldn't want to disappoint God.
And I love the scriptures ...
And
I love the words spoken by the Holy Spirit which are the word of God.
John says: I Jn. 2 ... And hereby we do know that we
know him, if we keep his commandments. 4He that saith, I know him, and keepeth
not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 5But whoso
keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we
that we are in him. 6He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to
walk, even as he walked.
Doing
the word of God is not a burden ... it frees us ...
Serving
fornication is a terrible bondage ... You have to hunt a man and do everything
to entice him into your bed ... and are trapped by him.
Doing
the word of God frees us from our flesh.
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Fulfillment? ... I never think of fulfillment.
There
was a time I thought strongly of achievement. I earned degrees, even a
doctorate, to be able to advance in my field. Later I owned a business
and was on brink of making a great deal of money.
I was born again in 1975 and after that the only thing I cared about was the Bible.
I still wanted to marry but the Bible was the main thing. I had no idea at that time I was to be a minister.
Then
I was taken into heaven twice and was merged into the Body of Jesus ...
God and Holy Spirit witnessed ... (I saw no images ... it was done in
the Spirit)
Then I was really on fire for things of God.
I still wanted to marry. This was not the will of God for me.
Mainly I am a servant of God and not a servant of myself.
I
learned not to think of tomorrow. I learned not to make plans. I gave
up all things that would cause me to achieve in this present life.
Phil. 2 ...Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 6Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: 7But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant
Phil. 2 ...Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 6Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: 7But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant
I
did this because I saw how much evil I was growing into by playing
bridge and striving to get ahead of others. Finally it exploded. I
just walked out never to return. For 6 months I just sat alone at my
house. It was difficult but I could see nothing else to do. God had
mercy on me and gave me the Internet to do. I still sit here alone ...
but I do enjoy writing what I hear from God.
Most people cannot be helped ... few find the way of life...
Mt.
7 ...Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is
the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in
thereat: 14Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which
leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
The cost seems too great to them.
But
to me going in the word of God is the only safe way to go on this
earth. So even when it appears it will destroy me to obey a word from
God, I know it is the only safe way.
Few know this ... most go in the way of destruction ... perhaps to fulfill themselves on this earth.
Instead
I make my self of no reputation on this earth. I learned to take no
thought of tomorrow. I have learned to be content with having food and
raiment and I don't want much raiment for I don't go anywhere. The only
people I want to talk with are the other servants of God. There are
few of them.
But
all else is really futile ... You talk about fulfilled ... one of the
worse things is to be with people who say they are of God but violate
the Word of God. There is no way this can lead to fulfillment. It only
leads to frustration.
But
the bottom line is this: Do you really love God? If so, you will want
to fulfill his word and please Him ... and you will see His will daily
as you try to please Him.
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Paul
felt this way also.
Romans 8...For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. 19For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. 20For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, 21Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. 22For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. 23And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
Romans 8...For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. 19For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. 20For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, 21Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. 22For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. 23And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
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One problem you are having is you are trying to figure everything out with your mind ... that won't work.
You are also trying to see the whole picture to the end of your life on this earth ... that won't work.
What will work is to do today what God shows you to do.
And
to talk to God ... asking what HE wants you to do ... this is continual
... learning to talk to God about all your fears and doubts as they
come to your mind. ..
You don't have to figure out everything to the end of your life on earth.
All
you have to deal with is what God wants you to do today and doing that
which God has shown you to do and to keep doing daily that word which
God shows you.
This is how you get to end of your life.
Do today what God shows you .. This is the only way it will work.
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Recently a woman came to us. She was trying to correct people in church groups ... even correcting pastors and such .... No doubt they needed correcting. But the problem is she, herself, was committing fornication while doing these corrections.. This is a terrible thing.
Paul says the following concerning those who come among the church while committing fornication and other sins ...
I Cor. 5 ... I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: 10Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. 11But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. 12For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within? 13But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
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Here is a letter I wrote to that woman:
7-25-13
It is hard to image you could criticize blind church goers who probably do not have the Spirit of God while you lived in fornication having the Spirit of God.
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After I wrote this to her, I kept being reminded of Esau who sold his birthright for a morsel of meat.
Heb. 12 ... Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. 17For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
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Heb. 10 ... For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, 27But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. 28He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: 29Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace? 30For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people. 31It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
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We cannot, and will not, allow willful sin to sit among us in the body of Christ, the church.
Notice that Paul said to put such a person away from you when they call themselves a "brother" and are a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner ... with such an one no not to eat. I Cor. 5 (Many pastors today are extortioners, westing money from the congregation with false promises which seem based on scripture but where the scripture is misused, such as the 100-fold return scripture ... see writing: "Ministers who use 100-fold return to extort money")
I believe "willful sins", after one has been enlightened by God to the truth, are sins unto death as per I Jn. 5.
John says: I Jn. 5:16 ... If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it. 17All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.
Certainly God will judge these people. But in meantime, we are to put them away from us and this is what I did in this case and I have done this before in the past in the church.
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Recently a woman came to us. She was trying to correct people in church groups ... even correcting pastors and such .... No doubt they needed correcting. But the problem is she, herself, was committing fornication while doing these corrections.. This is a terrible thing.
Paul says the following concerning those who come among the church while committing fornication and other sins ...
I Cor. 5 ... I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: 10Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. 11But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. 12For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within? 13But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
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Here is a letter I wrote to that woman:
7-25-13
It is hard to image you could criticize blind church goers who probably do not have the Spirit of God while you lived in fornication having the Spirit of God.
This is so evil it is beyond my comprehension.
For the time being I don't want to receive emails from you.
You don't need to be talking at this point.
If possible, you need to get your life straight and live a godly life in Christ Jesus.
I have removed all reference to your name in our Internet writings. Fortunately I am able to go back and delete items.
These
writings
are things God has shown us. That is the way it should be. I thought
it was God showing you the evil in the churches but when you were living
in fornication and writing these things it is just not compatible.
Please
do not respond to this email. I don't need to hear your words. Just
learn to live decently and honestly and morally according to the Bible
if you can.
Joan Boney
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After I wrote this to her, I kept being reminded of Esau who sold his birthright for a morsel of meat.
Heb. 12 ... Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. 17For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
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Heb. 10 ... For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, 27But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. 28He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: 29Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace? 30For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people. 31It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
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We cannot, and will not, allow willful sin to sit among us in the body of Christ, the church.
Notice that Paul said to put such a person away from you when they call themselves a "brother" and are a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner ... with such an one no not to eat. I Cor. 5 (Many pastors today are extortioners, westing money from the congregation with false promises which seem based on scripture but where the scripture is misused, such as the 100-fold return scripture ... see writing: "Ministers who use 100-fold return to extort money")
I believe "willful sins", after one has been enlightened by God to the truth, are sins unto death as per I Jn. 5.
John says: I Jn. 5:16 ... If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it. 17All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.
Certainly God will judge these people. But in meantime, we are to put them away from us and this is what I did in this case and I have done this before in the past in the church.