Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
We speak the Word because it is what we have been given by God in that moment.
God brings His Word to our mind and we speak it, but the purpose of God... will the person to whom we speak repent and be sorry for what he has done, or will he puff up and be damned?
Will he rejoice in the word or despise us for speaking?
It is all according to that which God purposes.
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Recently I told Pam Padgett to send a paperback book to a man in a foreign country. She contacted him to get his address. All Pam did was ask him for his mailing address.
He replied in a very phony, flowery way.
Pad did not want to send this man a book after his response.
I explained to Pam that we'd better send it for I believe it was God who told me to send it.
I agree that this man is false when he speaks. But the word of God is sent not only to save a person but also to condemn people at the judgment seat of Christ.
Those who rejoice in the Word will be saved. Those who despise the word will be condemned.
Regardless, the Word is delivered as a testimony for them or against them depending on that which they do with the Word.
They may try to deceive us and make us think they appreciate that word we send while they inwardly despise what we have said to them. But God sees what the person does with the word we deliver.
I have no doubt at the judgment seat of Christ God will say to the person being examined: "Didn't my servant deliver the Word to you? And you despised that Word and cast it aside."
The WORD judges each of us.
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Hebrews 11:7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
Noah believed God and build that ark, by which Noah condemned the world for they did not believe God would bring destruction upon them in their evil ways.
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Jesus said:
Matthew 7:13-14
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:
Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
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:
Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
It is that which people do after hearing the Word of God that determines this.
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Isaiah 55 ...
Seek ye the LORD while HE may be found, call ye upon HIM while HE is near:
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts:
and let him return unto the LORD, and HE will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for HE will abundantly pardon.
(God says)
For MY thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways MY ways, saith the LORD.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are MY ways higher than your ways, and MY thoughts than your thoughts.
For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
So shall my word be that goeth forth out of MY mouth: it shall not return unto ME void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
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By the Word one is saved ... By that same Word another is condemned.
It all has to do with what you do with the Word that is delivered to you.
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II Corinthians 5:9-11 Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of Him.
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men;
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men;
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