i guess we can all dispense with God telling us we are perfectly loved.
and that the more we know it, the more it casts out all fear.
Are you suggesting my Mom did not perfectly love me? is it not written that God chastises (PUNISHES) those that He loves? We should NOT dispense with God telling us we are perfectly LOVED. Why would you even suggest something like that? i know God loves me perfectly, and that LOVE includes punishing me when i do wrong, as any GOOD PARENT would do if they Truly LOVED their own child.
i LOVED my Mom and she loved me, but i did fear her when i did wrong.
i LOVE God and God loves me, but i do fear God when i do wrong.
Woe to this generation who will learn what "You reap what you sow" during the hour of temptation, when billions upon billions of so called Christians will fall from the faith, because during that time they will reap from all the sinful sowing they have done in their flesh. Because God can't lie, and He said Everyone will reap what they sow, and He has no respect of persons. During that hour of temptation Many, and i say billions of so called followers of Jesus Christ, who professed to be Saved, will fall from the faith. Many of them will fall, because they failed to understand that God is a just God, a Loving God, and WILL punish those who disobey Him. Now there will be a very few who when the hour of temptation comes and they will reap corruption in their flesh, will realize, (and not blame God for it) that they are finally reaping what they have sown, and will accept the punishment from God, and NOT fall away from the Faith, These are they who do repent of their sins, and realize that they deserve His punishments for their disobedience. These are they that God will accept into His Kingdom as His Children. But those who turn away from God during the time they will reap what they themselves have sown, when they reap exactly as God said they would reap, Those will not be accepted by Him, because they freely choose to walk away from them when His punishments come upon them, EXACTLY as His Word says they will. But those who do not know the Truth, even though they think they do, did not believe His Word, which teaches YOU will reap what you sow. somehow those who do not know the Truth, they they are above the Word of God itself, they think they are excluded because Jesus is even now going to the cross to pay for their sins, they do error and know not the Truth.
Oh how easy is it for this generation to think "Oh DiscipleDave is the one that does not know the Truth" What i teach is NOT from DiscipleDave, nor did it come from my own thoughts and understanding. What i teach is what God told me to teach. But the world rejected the Truth from the prophets of old. The world rejected the Truth that Jesus and His Apostles taught 2000 years ago, and is it any surprise, that the World still rejects the Truth from those sons and daughters in the last days, which the Spirit of God has poured out upon them? i am nothing, a nobody, i am merely a messenger, i merely repeat those things He told me. If then you do not believe, it is not DiscipleDave that you do not believe, but you do not believe God who told DiscipleDave these things. Do the things i teach sound like things that come from devils? LOVE ONE ANOTHER, Stop obeying satan and living in sins. Fear God. All these things the Word of God teaches ALSO. This generation does not believe what i teach because the Truth is not in them. If Jesus was Truly in them, they would recognize the Words of God when they hear it. This generation will not hear me, because they Truth is not in them. Tell me, anything that i have said, that contradicts even one verse in Scriptures, you can't because i teach what the Scriptures teach, such things like "Awake to Righteousness and sin not, for some have not this knowledge, i speak this to your shame" And the Words of Jesus "Go and sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon thee" This generation teaches and LOVES Easy Christianity, they know not the Truth, nor are they like the Berean's of Jesus day. If they were, they would hear my words and go to the Word of God and see if what i was saying fits with the Word of God or not. If i teach something that is contrary to Scriptures then don't believe i word i say, i am a false teacher reserved for Hell fire for all eternity. But if what i teach does not contradict any Scriptures, but does contradict what you believe to be the Truth, it would be in your best interest (eternity at stake) to search out the Truth on this matter, and NOT search to men for the answer, but search to God, in prayer, and in His Word. Those who seek will find. But how many in this generation will seek the answer? They will dismiss what i teach, because they do not agree with it, and will NOT search out the answer, this is because they are NOT like the Bereans.
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