Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
Recently a member of our little church group shared a scripture with
her 40-year-old son who is not born again. It is very appropriate to
share scripture (light) this way when we see anyone, believer or
non-believer, going a way opposite to the direction we know to be in
Bible.
The son reacted to the Word by saying, "That so legalistic." (poison against the Word)
I took this to God, telling God that this young man's words troubled me.
At first I heard nothing from God.
Later that day, I was reminded of a scripture which I knew to be the antidote to the poison spoken by this young man.
Jesus said ... 13 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:14
Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto
life, and few there be that find it. Mt. 7
The
path to destruction is indeed broad and wide in choices: adultery,
fornication, homosexuals/lesbians, hating, anger, wrath, strife and such
(works of our flesh) ... revenge which flesh delights in and which
seems very reasonable to worldly people ...
Many go in the way of destruction.
The
way of God is "strait" ... restricted ... narrow ... but that way is
life and success and goodness in this life and in the next life.
The freedom practiced today is lawlessness against God. It will lead to the wrath of God which God will bring on the children of disobedience.
"Few" will go in the way of God ... the way of life ...
Few church people will go in the way of God for there is a personal cost involved in the way of truth ...
But this strait way of Bible is the way of life.
The
worldly disobedient and the church disobedient don't often stop to
consider the bad fruits produced by their way and the grief spread by
their way. They are blinded by the darkness in which they walk.
Also if we share the poison of their words with other people, we also need to share the antidote we have received from God.
We must seek the antidote from God. You see the way I did this.
I
would not have shared this story with you until I had the antidote for
the poisonous words against Bible and against God's way.
But because I went to God and got the antidote to the poisonous words, we can all rejoice in the Word God gave for the rebellion against the Word.