Comments by Joan Boney:
Some of you might say, "You can't do that."
I would say to you: You don't know the Bible like you think you do.
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I Corinthians 5
1 It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.
2 And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.
2 And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.
puffed up: Saying of yourself: "How dare they. I would never do that." Instead of mourning that another Christian would do such sins as fornication, covetousness, idolatry, railing, or being a drunkard, or an extortioner.
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3 For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,
4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, 5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
(Putting them away from the church group might be the only way they can be saved in the day of the Lord:
Hebrews 10:26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, 27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
28 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
29 Of 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?
28 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
29 Of 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?
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I Corinthians 5
6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
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9 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
10 Yet 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.
11 But 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.
12 For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within? (within the church)
13 But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
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I have had this happen 4 times: Once I had to "put away" our Bible teacher at Word of Faith church which I had been attending. I heard about his "girlfriend". None of us at church knew anything about him having a girlfriend. He was a divorced man with one child. When he was evasive with me, I asked him point blank, "Are you having sexual intercourse with this woman?"
Without any sign of shame, he said: "Of course!"
I replied: "You know the Bible as well as I do. I can't have anything more to do with you. I can't attend your Bible classes. I can't partake of the word of God, eating, any more with you."
His response: "That's right." (still no sign of repentance or shame)
I never saw him again. I did speak once or twice with him by phone and he told me years later that fornication was no longer a problem. I felt that meant God had destroyed his ability to have sexual intercourse ... I Cor. 5:5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
This gives me hope for the salvation of the 4 persons I have had to put away from the church.
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One of those 4 persons was, I believe, committing idolatry toward me as a minister, although she had died before I realized what was happening.
She would come to see me and I just wanted to run away from her. (This went on for about 30 years. I felt so guilty that I didn't want to be around her.) It was like she just wanted to sit at my feet and stare at me! Horrible!
On one visit, I took her to the airport early and just drove away. I saw her through my rear view mirror as she was standing in the street just looking at me as I drove away. I was saying: "I'm free! I'm free! I'm free!"
I think this was the last time I ever saw her.
Months after this she called me to tell me she had a very great physical illness. And she died shortly after that.
She apparently couldn't live alone so she choose to go live with a very evil sister in Texas. I spoke to her by phone one night. And all of a sudden she said, "I have to go." The following day I called her and her sister answered the phone. I've never before heard such evil. When I asked to speak to this woman, her sister told me she wasn't there. As I continued to speak to this woman, she said, "Alright, she died last night." (I was very shocked!) The sister continued to say this to me: "Don't try to come to her funeral. It is a private thing. No visitors allowed. And don't contact me again." and she hung up.
I was surprised she had chosen to live with such an evil person in her last days.
I did not recognize her problem as idolatry toward me until this past year when another long time church member was revealed to me by God as having a problem with idolatry toward me. Then I remembered Linda and saw what they were doing was same thing.
I believe Linda's flesh was destroyed by God because of idolatry toward me, a minister of God. But I do have hope that her spirit will be saved in the day of the Lord, because I did execute this concerning her even though I didn't know it to be idolatry she was doing.
I Cor. 5:4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, 5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
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In the 1980's and 1990's, Jimmy Swaggart was caught with prostitutes, as he admitted in a tear filled plea on TV saying, "I have sinned."
The Assembly of God church leadership said: We should pray for brother Swaggart.
I happened to be visiting that Sunday morning at a small Assembly of God church when their pastor said those words to the congregation.
I was shocked and said in a low voice: "He should be put out of the church."
(Apparently the woman sitting in front of me heard what I said and she turned and strongly glared at me.)
A few years later Jimmy Swaggart was caught with another prostitute. This time he said: "God told me it's nobody's business what I do."
The Assembly of God defrocked Jimmy Swaggert that second time.
Swaggart continued "performing" to big crowds on his TV meetings. He had cut back on preaching in the 1980's and increased performing music at his meetings because his ad agency (Michael Ellison Advertising Agency) told him this was the way to get bigger audiences, which was his desire. (Swaggart was a country western type singer and piano player.)
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The churches today are often antichrist, having discarded specific scriptures and fallen away from much of the New Testament Bible to approve sin rather than speak against sin, to have big congregations.
2 Thessalonians 2
3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day (of the Lord) shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
In 1982, I was reading this scripture and God explained to me: "The falling away are not people leaving the church group ... The falling away are the church groups falling away from scripture."
This is antichrist in the churches. It is all over today! Churches casting aside certain scripture to approve woman remarrying after divorce. To approve homosexuals and lesbians against the scripture in Romans 1:26-28 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
End time churches before Jesus returns and God brings the 14 plagues of the Great Tribulation (Rev. 8, 9, 16) and destroys the heaven and earth by fire. (2 Peter 3:10-14)
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