Today,
reply is on the wall that is created against ones own family members and
close associates through a person becoming a disciple of Jesus
Christ. Correctly understood, there is a difference between what
mankind desires and what GOD has ordained. The holy boldness
believers will receive to stand before the Judgment Seat of Christ is
also provided so that new believers may serve while still among those
who are mockers, skeptics, and scorners. Many Christians experience
conflict and friction with family members as they begin to display
mature faith. Our efforts as children, parents, siblings, and
spouses will not always result in the salvation of our loved ones.
In a sense, disciples of Jesus are challenged to realize, You will
never lose godly love, relationships,
respect, and reverence shared with you by those who belong to Christ.
Yet, like diverse sins are bricks of a structure that denies sinners
access to GOD, multiple sacred operations can separate believers from
those who disbelieve, and who continue in the world. Included are
commitment, discernment, duty, sacred knowledge, divine law,
judgment, praise, prayer, principles, promises, sacraments,
sacrifice, suffering, and unselfish service. Despite their faith,
hope, love, trust and yearnings for family and others, believers will
not be allowed to alter or manipulate the sacred process of divine
judgment that demands completeness, impartiality, righteousness, and
wisdom. Nor will believers be allowed to cancel or annul the
second death. Faith without works is dead; and believers are not
to become fearful, inactive or made silent by those who test and try their
spirit name-calling with such labels as “fanatic”, “traitor to
your own family,” “weirdo”, or “zealot”. A fighter in the
“Yahoo! Answers” public forum on Religion and Spirituality who
uses the ID “Anonymous” (no profile is shared) posted the
following:
Christians
when you got saved did you lose family members?
I’m
nervous about believing in Jesus because I’m nervous about losing
relatives or persecution coming.
THE
GOLDEN ARROW: Then answered Peter and said unto him, Behold, we have
forsaken all, and followed thee; what shall we have therefore? And
Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have
followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the
throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging
the twelve tribes of Israel. And every one that hath forsaken
houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or
children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold,
and shall inherit everlasting life. But many that are first shall be
last; and the last shall be first. (Matthew 19: 27-30, King James
Version, KJV)
THE
DOUBLE DAGGER: A Wall To Sanctify? (01/16/2019); A Possible “Home
Remedy?” (11/08/2018); Holy Boldness and Humility (10/04/2018);
Sacred Ministry or Parenting? (05/10/2018); Honoring Our Own Parents
(04/09/2018); Christianity Is A Relationship (04/05/2018); Starting A
New Life? (11/21/2017); Undergoing A Sacred Transformation
(10/24/2017); Correct Awe and Respect (02/04/2016)
“Anonymous”,
for many, becoming set apart to serve GOD as a disciple of Jesus
Christ is like having a brick wall placed in the middle of all your
worldly relationships. Some of the most difficult teachings that
developing Christian believers must acknowledge are those that speak
to believers (1) embracing Jesus Christ as the primary focus for
their love, (2) making the required full commitment to unselfish
service as priests, kings, prophets, and spokespersons for divinity,
and (3) humbly submitting to the multiple limitations and permanent
changes in their own character and makeup that will be imposed by the
Holy Spirit. Just as born again believers must grow-up again to
mature and become ripe for harvest from the earth at the coming of
Jesus Christ, those becoming believers must be transformed to
apprehend the operations of GOD to transform their consciousness,
discernment, knowledge, lifestyle, and wisdom. Thus, believers are
to become Christlike, and set apart for divine service. All who
belong to the Lord, must come to accept many unexpected streams of
truth. For example, developing believers will not receive
independent authority, discretion, and power to save themselves,
their family members, or their friends and others who are close.
Even so, as vessels of divine spirit, they are to lead others to
Christ, serve as examples, and establish the presence of divinity.
They are to forgive, intercede, and pray for others. They are to
comfort, edify, and exhort. Mature believers are to realize that
heaven will not be a place of continual celebration and family
reunions; heaven will be a workplace, and is only to serve as a
temporary location for the fulfillment of eternal purpose, and the
completion of divine works that include judgment. (Mankind is to
spend eternal life earth on the earth made new; and heaven will not
be an everlasting home for those from the earth.) Consider again the
following that uses language from the Bible:
1.
Ecclesiastes 8: 8, King James Version (KJV): 8 There is no
man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither
hath he power in the day of death: and there is no
discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those
that are given to it.
2.
Luke 14: 33, KJV: 33 So likewise, whosoever he be of you that
forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.
3.
Luke 14: 25-27, KJV: 25 And there went great multitudes with him:
and he turned, and said unto them, 26 If any man come to me, and
hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and
brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my
disciple. 27 And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after
me, cannot be my disciple.
4.
1st John 5: 16-17, KJV: 16 If any man see his brother
sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give
him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death:
I do not say that he shall pray for it. 17 All unrighteousness is
sin: and there is a sin not unto death.
There
is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually
apprehended. (For example, 5. Jude 17-25, KJV: 17 But, beloved,
remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our
Lord Jesus Christ; 18 How that they told you there should be mockers
in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. 19
These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the
Spirit. 20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy
faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, 21 Keep yourselves in the love of
God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal
life. 22 And of some have compassion, making a difference: 23 And
others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the
garment spotted by the flesh. 24 Now unto him that is able to keep
you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of
his glory with exceeding joy, 25 To the only wise God our Saviour,
be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.)
Even so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you
according to your faith.
Washington,
DC
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