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Don't take this personal, but those that are being used by God, who are filled with the Spirit and walk in humility and in the Spirit, who are always going about preaching and teaching and doing the work of the Lord, who are not settled on their lees, but are fervent in their spirit and revealing Christ to a godless world of sinners, who intercede and pray continuously, who are not living in negative reactions through the flesh and who are continually being renewed and transformed in the spirit of their mind, laying their life down for the brethren instead of accusing and slandering them through a critical spirit, these are the ones who are being challenged by the devil and are being accused day and night because the power of God that is working in them mightily. They are the ones who are hated and having evil spoken against them and are being scrutinized for every word they say and work they are performing by grace through faith. These are the ones whose fruit are being considered to be evil though it be wrought in God. These are the ones that are being persecuted and reviled because of the testimony of Jesus Christ and the cross they take up on a daily basis.
We have an air and atmosphere of a self-righteous conceited disposition that seems to be projecting and infiltrating many segments of God's church, who live with an independent spirit that often rejects the body of Christ in the local assembly and down plays the pastor-teacher that God has raised up by casting suspicion and skepticism upon the word that is preached and the life that is lived by faith. The example we have in scripture, under the new testament church is in (3Jn 1)...
3Jn 1:9-11 I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not. 10 Wherefore , if I come , I will remember his deeds which he doeth , prating against us with malicious words: and not content therewith , neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbiddeth them that would , and casteth them out of the church. 11 Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.
Personality rapport breads familiar spirits through soul power relationships more than any other activity of the flesh and mind of the carnal insolent believer. Diotrephes had a problem with soul power and thought that he knew and understood more than the apostles and those that were sent by the apostles and prated against them with malicious words. He spoke evil of them to those that were in the church that received the words of the apostles and received those that were sent to preach and teach and because of his position he forbid and castigated out of the church those that would receive them. Ever met anyone who's like that and thinks like that? They despise the doctrine and the teacher that gathers believers in the local assembly and church and they do it through spirits of familiarity and by the infection of evil through soul power relationships. We have them right here on this site.
We have an air and atmosphere of a self-righteous conceited disposition that seems to be projecting and infiltrating many segments of God's church, who live with an independent spirit that often rejects the body of Christ in the local assembly and down plays the pastor-teacher that God has raised up by casting suspicion and skepticism upon the word that is preached and the life that is lived by faith. The example we have in scripture, under the new testament church is in (3Jn 1)...
3Jn 1:9-11 I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not. 10 Wherefore , if I come , I will remember his deeds which he doeth , prating against us with malicious words: and not content therewith , neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbiddeth them that would , and casteth them out of the church. 11 Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.
Personality rapport breads familiar spirits through soul power relationships more than any other activity of the flesh and mind of the carnal insolent believer. Diotrephes had a problem with soul power and thought that he knew and understood more than the apostles and those that were sent by the apostles and prated against them with malicious words. He spoke evil of them to those that were in the church that received the words of the apostles and received those that were sent to preach and teach and because of his position he forbid and castigated out of the church those that would receive them. Ever met anyone who's like that and thinks like that? They despise the doctrine and the teacher that gathers believers in the local assembly and church and they do it through spirits of familiarity and by the infection of evil through soul power relationships. We have them right here on this site.