My spirit desires life and victory, while my flesh desires death and victory.
As a Christian leader, seeing myself as victorious in Christ according to the living word, means I have victory in both life and death. So, like Jesus prior to going to the cross in Luke 22:42, professing, "I want your will to be done, not mine,” in the flesh, I feel like Elijah in 1 Kings 19:4 when he says “I have had enough, Lord. Take my life, for I am no better than my ancestors who have already died.”
Confusing? Not really, when we desire to read and know the living word for ourselves; how shameful and embarrassing it is that not only the world is making a mockery of Jesus and His inerrant and infallible truth needed, but those who claim the Christian title, for the most part, have also joined in playing games with God when they should know better.
2 Timothy 2:15 Work hard so you can present yourself to God and receive his approval. Be a good worker, one who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly explains the word of truth.
Revelation 3:16 But since you are like lukewarm water, neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth!
THIS IS MUCH BIGGER THAN 'Houston we got a problem!'
The devil has the world convinced and hungry for mysticism and spirituality , including the Christian, with an inexhaustible supply that fits the irrefutable hypothesis that there are only two exits in life, Heaven or Hell - everything apart from Jesus is hell bound in other words.
1 Timothy 4:7 Do not waste time arguing over godless ideas and old wives’ tales. Instead, train yourself to be godly.
Matthew 16:26 And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul? Is anything worth more than your soul?
Matthew 12:30 “Anyone who isn’t with me opposes me, and anyone who isn’t working with me is actually working against me."
You can correct TWNation Christians and leaders, but you cannot correct the FWNation Christian or the leaders. The devil has engrained the pride of the denominational position so deeply that the latter has learned all there is to learn apparently, with no further knowledge required.
2 Timothy 3:16 All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It corrects us when we are wrong and teaches us to do what is right.
A young man, an atheist, replied recently to a comment I had made in an attempt to redirect a Christian, with no success, who was doing what Christians do best; concerned more about the speck in a fellow Christians eye, while unconcerned about the log in their own.
Matthew 7:5 "Hypocrite! First get rid of the log in your own eye; then you will see well enough to deal with the speck in your friend’s eye."
This young man's comment was simply, "lol pretty bad when you christians and jews can't even agree on your own hocus pocus god in the sky foolishness," to which I had to agree, with a brief explanation, unable to deny the devils intention and God's warning being fulfilled in Galatians 5:15, turning the Christian faith into the most hated on planet earth.
Galatians 5:15 "But if you are always biting and devouring one another, watch out! Beware of destroying one another."
Because of the example the Christian sets, not of Jesus, but of turmoil, the young man noted above, one of millions, if not billions, are missing the truth they need.
Matthew 23:13 “What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you shut the door of the Kingdom of Heaven in people’s faces. You won’t go in yourselves, and you don’t let others enter either."
The pompous priests, teachers of religious law and Pharisees, the hypocrites and inventors of religiosity and works, not faith, infatuated with the demonic Romain Empire and its power, out of which evolved the Roman Catholic Church and its Vatican, was by plan, disrupted by the mercy and grace of the living God to inject the Protestant Reformation and His ordained champion, Martin Luther, confirming and making certain that the cornerstone of His church remained grounded in His Son, Jesus Christ, and His inerrant, infallible, and inspired living word - 66 books (Protestant Holy Bible), and not 73 (Roman Catholic Popes bible).
Both Protestant and Catholic Christians simply refuse to deny their denominational doctrines, in exchange for JESUS CHRIST LIVING GOD Holy Bible (66 books) doctrine - resulting in the devils ease to steal, kill, and destroy all good from inside out using his application of 'Divide & Conquer.'
Proverbs 16:18 Pride goes before destruction, and haughtiness before a fall.
Proverbs 13:16 Wise people think before they act; fools don’t—and even brag about their foolishness.
Proverbs 16:3 Commit your actions to the Lord, and your plans will succeed.
Proverbs 16:9 We can make our plans, but the Lord determines our steps.
Proverbs 4:23 Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life.
Proverbs 3:6 Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take.
Proverbs 3:7 Don’t be impressed with your own wisdom. Instead, fear the Lord and turn away from evil.
Proverbs 1:7 Fear of the Lord is the foundation of true knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding.
Feeling empty, no other way to describe it, is not my most favorite time in life; but the world hated Jesus long before me right! It has become more difficult to share the truth needed without a sense of being ostracized or quickly brushed off with a topic change. For the record, unless a conversation goes in the direction of faith, I won't go there, unless I feel the need to ... and even then, it's very subtle and respectively sensitive to others. Everyone is different, but that's my DNA.
Since the PlanDemic, however, after the first two years, it takes no time to say what needs to be said, especially with zero tolerance for the medical or political losers.PS:
Inerrant and infallible truth - much like the attitude of gratitude - together they have pretty much disappeared into the night - not the light.