Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet of Jesus Christ carrying messages from God to the church today according to the New Testament ministry set up by Jesus after the resurrection according to Ephesians 4:11-12.
The current end time instruction for the church today is two-fold:
* Get out of debt and stay out of debt.
* Free yourselves from troublesome religious people.
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To endure that which is coming upon this earth, we cannot drag religious people who deny scriptures along with us.
Instead we must do the following:
II John
8 Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.
9 Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.
(Doing the scriptures is abiding in the doctrine of Christ.)
10 If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:
11 For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
We must not continue with religious people who will not do the scriptures. We must avoid such people.
We can not be "friends" with religious people who will not do scripture.
We cannot support them nor approve them in their disobedience.
We must not stay with them.
We can not be "friends" with religious people who will not do scripture.
We cannot support them nor approve them in their disobedience.
We must not stay with them.
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Other scriptures which we must do:
Proverbs 1
People who say they are Christians but will not obey scripture are sinners.
15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
10 A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;
11 Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.
6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
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Titus 3
11 Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.
We have to put a control on ourselves.
After we have shared with a person once or twice, and we have evidence he will not do that scripture, we must reject him, don't try to share things with him. Walk away from him. Don't continue to "visit" with him. Don't let him entice you into his problems. Don't try to help him. Just avoid him. For he has shown he will not submit to the scriptures and lay down his own life and go God's way. He will only pull you down and trouble you.
After we have shared with a person once or twice, and we have evidence he will not do that scripture, we must reject him, don't try to share things with him. Walk away from him. Don't continue to "visit" with him. Don't let him entice you into his problems. Don't try to help him. Just avoid him. For he has shown he will not submit to the scriptures and lay down his own life and go God's way. He will only pull you down and trouble you.
We must do this instruction in Titus 3.
Example: My 97-year-old cousin has been Church of Christ all her life.
She said to me, "I do well during day, but get lonely in the evening. (Her husband died 10 years ago.)
She said to me, "I do well during day, but get lonely in the evening. (Her husband died 10 years ago.)
I excitedly said the following to her for I knew she could be helped and could overcome by doing this very simple instruction.
"When you begin to feel that loneliness come upon you, pray, asking God to fill your evening. God will do this and help you."
Philippians 4:6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
I heard from this cousin a week or so later. She said, "I do well in the day but I get so lonely each evening."
She would not do godly instruction. She only troubled me. And then, following Church of Christ doctrine, she tried to get me to stop writing the blog. It was a very strong attack against me which caused me to have to be re-established by God in the ministry.
She is example of the following happening:
Matthew 7 Jesus said:
We cannot be friends with religious people who will not do the scriptures. They will be pricks in our eyes and thorns in our sides and vex us continually with their disobedience to the instructions of scripture. They follow another way, a way opposite from specific scripture. They are anti-christ.
We must depart from them. No birthday cards, no phone calls, no visitations, and especially avoid getting involved in their many problems which have been caused because they will not call on God and trust him.
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I gave following scripture to a Catholic woman.
Matthew 23:9 Jesus said:
In about 3 weeks, she sent e-mail where she thanked me for the message.
But she continued going to Catholic church and calling those men "Father."
Later I sent her a second admonition. I sent it by US Mail, which I suspected she would open where she might not open an email.
In that letter, I spoke about following idols in Catholic church and also in other churches.
After that, I did not hear from her for the next 1 1/2 years.
Then she sent me an email.
I opened it with fear and trepidation for I knew I must not be "friendly" toward her unless she told me she was doing "such & such" because of a specific scripture.
11 Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in Thy presence is fulness of joy; at Thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
She did not do that.
She simply forwarded me animal pictures and said nothing. But by this, I knew she wanted to communicate with me again and by this she was trying to open a door to resumed "friendship."
I didn't look at the animal photos, not wanting to be "enticed" to communicating with her because of a fleshly appeal.
I deleted the unopened email and did not respond to her in any way.
God had given me the following dream to warn me about people:
Dream: July 9, 2020
Vicious, dirty, cats kept getting into my house. I had a wooden cane and guided them out and I would turn around and there they were back in my house. Two women were leaving the door open. This is the way they were getting back in, though the open door.
I realized I was one of the women opening the door into my house, for I was responding to them and being "friendly", even while knowing of their disobedience to various scriptures.
I must not open doors to them.
Concerning the works of men, by the word of Thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.
5 Hold up my goings in Thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.
6 I have called upon Thee, for Thou wilt hear me, O God: incline Thine ear unto me, and hear my speech.
7 Shew Thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by Thy right hand them which put their trust in Thee from those that rise up against them.
Because of the information given me in this dream and in various scriptures, I was able to not respond to the Catholic woman's "friendly" e-mail.
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We must not go in the way we have gone in the past. We must not continue being friendly to people who say they are Christians while they show disobedience to the Word of God.
We must go forward obeying scripture and being friendly toward others who show us they, too, obey scripture. For those who obey scriptures are the real Christians.
Romans 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
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I know it is difficult to leave friends and church relatives, but we must follow the scripture otherwise we will be swept away with them, being disobedient to scripture as they are.
The Word of God must be more important to us than friends or family or our own lives.
I Timothy 6:20 O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:
I Peter 4:1-2 Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin: That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
Psalm 17:13-14 (Prayer) Deliver my soul from the wicked ... from men of the world, which have their portion in this life.
(Many who say they are Christian have their portion in the church groups of this life while their churches disobey scripture and set up doctrines other than the doctrines of the New Testament Bible.)
Psalm 17
5 Hold up my goings in Thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.
6 I have called upon Thee, for Thou wilt hear me, O God: incline Thine ear unto me, and hear my speech.
7 Shew Thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by Thy right hand them which put their trust in Thee from those that rise up against them.
Psalm 16
John 8:31-32 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Proverbs 21:30 There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.
(We must not reason the Word away. Instead we just follow that Word knowing it is everything.)
Proverbs 21:15-16 It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity. The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.
Proverbs 21:7 The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.
Proverbs 16:27; 29 An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire... A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way that is not good.
Proverbs 3:1 My son, forget not MY law; but let thine heart keep MY commandments:
Proverbs 15:9 The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the LORD: but HE (God) loveth him that followeth after righteousness.
Proverbs 9:6 Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
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When I was 81, I had an accident which required surgery and 2 1/2 months in a rehabilitation hospital.
I lived in Lubbock, Texas, at that time. There was only one other person who would have really helped me, but this woman, though saying she was a Christian, showed me that she did not really hear from God and her wisdom that she followed often lacked common sense.
Although I would have no one except her, I declined allowing her to "rule" over me and make decisions for me, if I were unable to make those decisions for myself, because her way was so lacking of wisdom from God though she said she prayed.
I had no one at that point to help me in Texas but even then I would not allow her to do so.
God then raised up Pam Padgett who lived 450 miles away from me to be my help.
For years, I had watched Pam deal with problems. She prayed and did what God showed her to do, then after the situation, she might tell us the solution God gave to her.
Pam did not cast her problems on us ... she just told us the solutions God gave her for the problems. This is the kind of person I could trust.
Pam came to Lubbock and took me to live in her house in Colorado.
I thank God daily for HIS provision.
And I speak this to you with great assurance. Even if you have to leave everyone in order to obey scripture and to live in peace while following God, God will make provision for you if you have the faith in HIM that is needed.
You cannot trust in unbelieving church people who will not obey scripture.
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