MODERN DAY IDOLS?

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PatientSpirit

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loveme1 said:
Our Heavenly Father deserve all to worship in Spirit and Truth forever and ever.

I pray i stay faithful to he that is Faithful and True always and Forever.

It is not my words that condemn those who do not make peace with their Creator through Faith in Yahshua the Messiah.

I believe all that is written and this does not equate to hate on my behalf but Love for He that Speaks it and then it shall be.

If i then become an enemy to those who do not believe then so be it, i will love them and call for mercy for them.

Now then you ask how one Loves their God...

Below you will find the answer that the Messiah summarized with Love.

There is no taking away from the idea that one can Love their God and not their Neighbour.

It is a witness for us that the Love of God is within us when we share the Love with others.

We shine His Light from within us on those who are without, it may be they are dazzled and seek the Light.

Now then we must not share anything but the Truth and the whole Truth.

To be reconciled with Heavenly Father one is to accept Yahshua the Messiah into their heart and adhere to all he spoke on behalf of His Father.

i'm not going partake in anything that even if it seems loving goes against or takes out of context what is written.



















Exodus 20
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And love covers all of that.

Is it lawful for God to do as He pleases with HIS own?
 
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Enow

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Laodicea said:
An idol is something man made that takes the place of God. God gave Israel the Sabbath while those that worship the sun did it on the first day which they called the day of the sun. So it took the place of true worship and many times in the Bible Israel fell into apostasy and worshiped idols. This is just 1 example I am sure there would be many more.
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Being how Sunday was the day of our risen Saviour, it doesn't matter what a few pagans would be doing on that day. That pagan practise does not speak for every pagan and neither does it mean that every Sunday is a pagan day when it was the Lord's first day in creation. The Lord's first day came first before any "pagan" ever developed a practise on it to worship the sun.

So any guilt by association for the first day of the week, is exalting the pagan's day over the Lord's first day of creation in the week. Therefore any guilt by association with what a few pagans do on that day is not honouring the Lord when His first day of creation in the week TRUMPS any pagan's right or claim to that day.

Indeed, if we let that kind of thinking run amok in christianity, then pagans can develop a practise on every day of the week to make christians not regard any day as unto the Lord out of guilt by association. Who knows? Maybe there are pagan practises for every day of the week, but this one sticks out because at some time after the NT early churches down thru church history, these christians keeps that guilt by association alive for wanting to keep the sabbath day as a commandment for believers to keep.

The Lord's first day of creation ... of new life... resonates even more with our Lord's resurrection. Believers are free to regard the day unto the Lord as they so please... just as they are free notto regard the day unto the Lord, because they are the Lord's. That belonging to the Lord is the significance for being a believer in Jesus Christ on any day of the week.

Since idolatry also involves the pride of life, then believers exalting themselves as sabbath day keepers are what? Making an idol out of themselves over other believers that do not keep the sabbath day.

Until they realize that they are not really sabbath day keepers in respect to the OT, they are bragging of what they will do next Saturday which is considered as evil boasting.

James 4:13 Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: 14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. 15 For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. 16 But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.

Believers cannot keep the sabbath day by the flesh, and still say they are standing fast in the liberty for which Christ has set us free. No believer will be idolized nor exalted nor praised as sabbath day keepers in Heaven, because of this truth below.

1 Corinthians 1:17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, (** nor command them to keep the sabbath day ** ) but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect. 18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
1 Corinthians 1:29 That no flesh should glory in his presence. 30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: 31 That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
 
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God spoke to me Yesterday.

Purity -- satan desires to fill our hearts with everything of this world. God wants our hearts pure, then our actions will show.

Deep!
 
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