Today,
reply is on Christian ministry, believers persevering by knowing “the
end from the beginning,” and how disciples of Jesus must continue
in ongoing sanctification. A little one who can recite their ABCs is
able to tell you what comes after E-F-G. By knowing the full
pattern, they may accurately say, H-I-J-K, or X-Y-Z is coming without
practicing clairvoyance, or being able to read and write yet.
Similarly, those choosing to follow Jesus Christ are not granted
authority and power to read another person’s
mind, foretell future events, or control all life conditions,
consequences, and outcomes so much as they are supplied with
discernment and sacred
knowledge that allows them to
realize the godliness of spirit within events, other persons, sacred
writings, themselves, etc. A
fighter in the “Yahoo! Answers” public forum on Religion and
Spirituality who uses the ID “Anonymous” (no profile is shown)
posted the following:
What
would my life be like if I believed in Jesus in this environment?
A
good amount of my relatives are anti-Bible and dislike creationists.
Many are pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage, and liberal. One of my aunts
makes fun of the Bible and can't stand it when the name Jesus is
mentioned.
THE
GOLDEN ARROW: For what the law could not do, in that it was weak
through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful
flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the
righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after
the flesh, but after the Spirit. For they that are after the flesh
do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit
the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death;
but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the
carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to
the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the
flesh cannot please God. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the
Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man
have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. (Romans 8: 3-9,
King James Version, KJV)
THE
DOUBLE DAGGER: Ministry Is Through Relationship (03/05/2019); Will
You Lose Family? (01/20/2019); Ye That Work Iniquity (09/24/2018); Be
Not Unequally Yoked (04/16/2018); Recognizing True Christian Prophets
(02/26/2018); Standing On The ABCs? (11/09/2017); Neither
“All-knowing” Nor “Omniscient” (11/07/2017); Few Are Chosen
(07/06/2015); Knowing? (05/24/2015)
“Anonymous”,
among Christians, believers are to impart and share inseparable
spirit substance from the makeup of GOD. Included are faith,
holiness, longsuffering, patience, restraint, wisdom, and wrath
against sin. The environment you describe is the same that Jesus
explained would be in effect when instructing his apostles regarding
ministry to those who would seek to be his followers. Those who
minister are privilege to know “the end from the beginning.” As
did Moses, those who minister Christ also must endure negative
responses (e.g., challenges, defiance, disbelief, frustration,
injustice, opposition, and persecution) from family, employers,
neighbors, and others to whom they are sent. Also, among Christians,
there is a continuous process of cleansing and separation (we say,
“sanctification”) that establishes increasing distance between
sinners who turn to GOD through Jesus Christ and those who continue
as disbelievers. The sinner must experience the death, burial, and
resurrection of their own inborn spirit. Once “born again” and
having a fresh endowment of life essence (breath; spirit;
word) imparted from the makeup of GOD, the sinner is a developing
believer who must “grow up again” and become mature/ripe for
harvest by Jesus Christ at his appearing (we also say, the Advent;
the Rapture; the Second Coming). As offspring of GOD, the new
creation of Jesus Christ, and vessels of divine substance,
believers will be comforted, edified, and exhorted to meet life
challenges on the earth. In addition to commitment, discernment that
is an operation of the Spirit, doctrine, and sacred knowledge,
Christians will be set apart from those in other systems of belief
by their sacred practices and eternal purpose that include discovery,
gradual growth, prayer, praise, the endurance of suffering, and
unselfish service. Their transformation to exist as companions to
immortal, incorruptible divinity will be completed “in the
twinkling of an eye” as they leave the earth to meet Jesus in the
air. Consider again the following that uses language from the Bible:
1.
Matthew 10: 24-25, KJV: 24 The disciple is not above his
master, nor the servant above his lord. 25 It is enough for the
disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If
they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more
shall they call them of his household?
2.
Mark 6: 1-6, KJV: 1 And he went out from thence, and came into his
own country; and his disciples follow him. 2 And when the sabbath
day was come, he began to teach in the synagogue: and many hearing
him were astonished, saying, From whence hath this man
these things? and what wisdom is this which is given unto him,
that even such mighty works are wrought by his hands? 3 Is not this
the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and
of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they
were offended at him. 4 But Jesus, said unto them, A prophet is not
without honour, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in
his own house. 5 And he could there do no mighty work, save that he
laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them. 6 And
he marvelled because of their unbelief. And he went round about the
villages, teaching.
3.
2nd Timothy 3: 1-5, KJV: 1 This know also, that in the
last days perilous times shall come. 2 For men shall be lovers of
their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient
to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 Without natural affection,
trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of
those that are good, 4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of
pleasures more than lovers of God; 5 Having a form of godliness, but
denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
There
is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually
apprehended. (For example, 4. Hebrews 12: 3-8, KJV: 3 For
consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against
himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. 4 Ye have not
yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. 5 And ye have
forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children,
My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when
thou art rebuked of him: 6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth,
and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. 7 If ye endure
chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he
whom the father chasteneth not? 8 But if ye be without chastisement,
whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.) Even
so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according
to your faith.
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