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The Lord is all knowing, and his eyes try every man. His ways are justice and truth and righteousness. He alone deserves all glory and honor forever and ever Amen!!
Let's be completely separated from the world. And we know, that as long as we are in this world we will be in the mix with different types of people.
Some people hate God and love sin, and are every ready to start some argument, some defense, some strife. Their motives are evil. Before they even open their mouths their words are defiled.
Some people have an appearance of righteousness, but they are not righteous, they just go through the motions; but when they hear of judgement, righteousness, dieing to self, and such things, they are offended because they love this world too much.
There are some people of the Body of Christ who genuinely want to know the truth, and strive hard to learn of the truth, who are but babes and are in need of the sincere milk of the Word, but are not ready to handle great spiritual matters.
And there other people of the Body of Christ who have been in it a long time, and are more spiritual who understand the basics, and are further along in their walk with the Lord Jesus, who are set firm in the foundation of truth.
And when these come together we get diverse outcomes. The most grave are the first two. If there were not strivers in the mix then we would clearly see who is of our Lord, and who isn't but their fruit do show who they belong to, even Satan, and they will do his bidding.
So my brothers and sister in Christ, NO EVERYONE WHO SAYS LORD KNOWS THE LORD, AND IS KNOWN OF THE LORD! NOT EVERYONE WHO SAYS SOME NICE THINGS ABOUT JESUS BELONGS TO JESUS. SO BEWARE LEST YOU BE CONSUMED BY THE RAVENOUS WOLVES IN THE MIX.
God will separate the true from the false, the wicked from the righteous, so be patient in love watching for his day. I leave you with this from the Lord:
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
6 Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.
7 Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
8 Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
9 Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.
10 Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
11 Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
12 But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.
13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.
14 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:
15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
17 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.
18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
19 Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;
20 Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
James 5
Let's be completely separated from the world. And we know, that as long as we are in this world we will be in the mix with different types of people.
Some people hate God and love sin, and are every ready to start some argument, some defense, some strife. Their motives are evil. Before they even open their mouths their words are defiled.
Some people have an appearance of righteousness, but they are not righteous, they just go through the motions; but when they hear of judgement, righteousness, dieing to self, and such things, they are offended because they love this world too much.
There are some people of the Body of Christ who genuinely want to know the truth, and strive hard to learn of the truth, who are but babes and are in need of the sincere milk of the Word, but are not ready to handle great spiritual matters.
And there other people of the Body of Christ who have been in it a long time, and are more spiritual who understand the basics, and are further along in their walk with the Lord Jesus, who are set firm in the foundation of truth.
And when these come together we get diverse outcomes. The most grave are the first two. If there were not strivers in the mix then we would clearly see who is of our Lord, and who isn't but their fruit do show who they belong to, even Satan, and they will do his bidding.
So my brothers and sister in Christ, NO EVERYONE WHO SAYS LORD KNOWS THE LORD, AND IS KNOWN OF THE LORD! NOT EVERYONE WHO SAYS SOME NICE THINGS ABOUT JESUS BELONGS TO JESUS. SO BEWARE LEST YOU BE CONSUMED BY THE RAVENOUS WOLVES IN THE MIX.
God will separate the true from the false, the wicked from the righteous, so be patient in love watching for his day. I leave you with this from the Lord:
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
6 Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.
7 Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
8 Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
9 Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.
10 Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
11 Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
12 But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.
13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.
14 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:
15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
17 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.
18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
19 Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;
20 Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
James 5