Oh, yeah, I know why people react to my words as they do. They don't like them. That is obvious.
But there is a deeper reason which you are not seeing. There are doctrines prevalent today which obscure the call for holiness that is the office of the Holy Spirit, and even doctrines which discount any office from the Holy Spirit which might work to point out the fallacy of these doctrines. I was captive in these doctrines for years. I had belief, faith, hope, and I even thought that I had love. But what I had was deception, self deception. I had willing made grace to be a license to sin. This had happened because I studied scripture without the benefit of the Holy Spirit's annointing and teaching. I hence came up with an extremely distorted view of grace, salvation, and eternal life. And from this view, I was excluded from the resurrection life of Christ Jesus, and was instead enslaved to sin.
I was unable to receive any word which spoke against the way I believed.
Now that God has delivered me from this darkness, I see the way that I had ignored, closed my eyes to, so much of scripture.
It is a true saying, worthy of acceptance by all, that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners, and I may not be chief, but I am definitely one. It is also worthy of acceptance that the heart is deceitful beyond belief, and no one can know it. But God can shine His light into the darkest heart, and bring peace and love.
That is all that I am calling others to. The light of God. Jesus is the light of God.
In Christ,
But there is a deeper reason which you are not seeing. There are doctrines prevalent today which obscure the call for holiness that is the office of the Holy Spirit, and even doctrines which discount any office from the Holy Spirit which might work to point out the fallacy of these doctrines. I was captive in these doctrines for years. I had belief, faith, hope, and I even thought that I had love. But what I had was deception, self deception. I had willing made grace to be a license to sin. This had happened because I studied scripture without the benefit of the Holy Spirit's annointing and teaching. I hence came up with an extremely distorted view of grace, salvation, and eternal life. And from this view, I was excluded from the resurrection life of Christ Jesus, and was instead enslaved to sin.
I was unable to receive any word which spoke against the way I believed.
Now that God has delivered me from this darkness, I see the way that I had ignored, closed my eyes to, so much of scripture.
It is a true saying, worthy of acceptance by all, that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners, and I may not be chief, but I am definitely one. It is also worthy of acceptance that the heart is deceitful beyond belief, and no one can know it. But God can shine His light into the darkest heart, and bring peace and love.
That is all that I am calling others to. The light of God. Jesus is the light of God.
In Christ,