It shouldn't need to be said that because
God's book quotes Satan, it doesn't mean that He agrees with his thinking or
actions on everything. A few, thinking to glorify themselves, have
criticized me for quoting certain Christians with whom I do not even agree
on other issues. These hypocrites do not apply this same rule to themselves
when they quote the national news or other lost or confused sources. For
instance, I found the book "The Bible Code" to be a source of true
information, even though that information is sometimes misinterpreted and
even though the writer does not believe in the God Who encoded His own
Word.
I offer to you information here and it is
your job to discern it. I should not be judged for what I have NOT said but
what I have said. In every case these people have disobeyed our Lord's
commands to their own judgment. {1 Tim.5:19} Against an elder receive
not an accusation, except at [the mouth of] two or three witnesses. We are to receive no accusation
unless we have two or three reputable witnesses who SAW the elder commit
sin. This is not hearsay found on the Internet or books for which Peter
would be condemned for being the first pope; Jesus would be found guilty for
being a homosexual winebibber Who faked His own death. According to these
people we would be wrong for quoting such people.
We would be guilty by
association as the Pharisees did to Jesus, saying that He sinned because He
ate with publicans and sinners or was touched by one who had been a harlot,
even though Jesus did not agree with any of the sins and was not guilty of
them Himself. The modern Pharisees still do this. If they disagree with you
on any subject, they search your site to see who they can dig up dirt on and
then apply that dirt to the righteous.
These are wicked people
in every case. Disagreeing with the Pharisees is not a sin. Our Lord
commanded us to not judge one another over differences of doctrine.
{Rom.14:1} But him that is
weak in faith receive ye, [yet] not for decision of scruples. {2} One
man hath faith to eat all things: but he that is weak eateth herbs. {3} Let
not him that eateth set at nought him that eateth not; and let not him that
eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him. {4} Who art
thou that judgest the servant of another? to his own lord he standeth or
falleth. Yea, he shall be made to stand; for the Lord hath power
to make him stand. … 10} But thou, why dost thou judge thy brother?
or thou again, why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall
all stand before the judgment-seat of God. One thing Pharisees don’t do
is apply the scriptures to themselves; they are always for someone else.
According to these
self-righteous people, if anyone ever did anything wrong in their life, we
can’t quote them or we are guilty of their sin. Nevermind that this person
may have repented long ago or was only guilty by Internet lies. In one case
a woman was attacked by her contemporaries because she was a prophetess
living among non-full gospel people, like Jesus and the disciples among the
Pharisees, and was assailed by these apostates as a witch by association.
If we can’t quote anyone who has done wrong you Pharisees had better rip the
Psalms of David out of your Bible. He was at one time an adulterer and
murderer whom God decided to give us scriptures through. You Pharisees
better rip Proverbs out, too. Solomon fell away from The Lord because of
his riches and all his heathen wives and never came back to The Lord. Tear
Moses out because he didn’t honor God when he smote the rock and so wasn’t
allowed into the Promised Land. By the way, I have served the Lord
faithfully for over three decades by His grace and done none of the
immorality of these brethren, and yet these Pharisees assail me. Of course
we have a perfect numeric pattern in these men’s writings showing that only
God wrote them. God is big enough that He can use imperfect people to write
perfect scriptures. My concern is that the scriptures are right, not that
these men were always right. And so it is with people we quote -- the
teaching, prophecy or dream should have some redeeming value even if they
prophesy in part.
These
“perverted”
people seek only to
draw aside disciples after themselves by assaulting others, making
themselves big at another's expense. This is the spirit of
“faction” and is behind denominationalism. The Greek word for faction is
“Erithia” which means seeking to separate followers through selfish
ambition. The root word is “Erithos,” meaning a hireling. They are bought
out by their lusts and jealousy to do evil. {Jas.3:13} Who is wise
and understanding among you? let him show by his good life his works in
meekness of wisdom. {14} But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction
in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth. {15} This
wisdom is not [a wisdom] that cometh down from above, but is earthly,
sensual, devilish. {16} For where jealousy and faction are, there is
confusion and every vile deed. {Tit.3:10} A factious man after a first
and second admonition refuse; {11} knowing that such a one is
perverted, and sinneth, being self-condemned. This is clear
that we are to separate from factious people, not those at whom they rail.
{Rom.16:17} Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them that are
causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the
doctrine which ye learned: and turn away from them. {18} For they
that are such serve not our Lord Christ, but their own belly; and by
their smooth and fair speech they beguile the hearts of the innocent.
If these people come to
you to make you sin by accepting an accusation without witnesses, tell them
to obey the word and go first
“alone” to
the one they accuse. {Mt.18:15}
And if thy brother sin against thee, go, show him his fault
between thee and him alone: if he hear thee, thou hast gained thy
brother. {16} But if he hear [thee] not, take with thee one or two more,
that at the mouth of two witnesses or three every word may be
established. {17} And if he refuse to hear them, tell it unto the church:
and if he refuse to hear the church also, let him be unto thee as the
Gentile and the publican. These wicked people always
skip the first two commands here and go to the third because they seek the
glory of man and not God.
These commands of The Lord are to make sure no gossiper or factious person
could destroy the peace of an assembly. Another reason is that if a
man had repented of evil or there were extenuating circumstances the accuser
would find this out and not be found a gossiper by God.
We have even been assaulted by men who use
nicknames and pseudonyms to hide their identity, like cockroaches hiding in
the dark. They know that if they in turn were searched out they would
be found to be sinners. {Ps.64:2} Hide me from the secret
counsel of evil-doers, From the tumult of the workers of iniquity; {3}
Who have whet their tongue like a sword, And have aimed their arrows,
even bitter words, {4} That they may shoot in secret places at
the perfect: Suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not. {5} They encourage
themselves in an evil purpose; They commune of laying snares privily;
They say, Who will see them? {6} They search out iniquities;
We have accomplished, [say they], a diligent search: And the inward
thought and the heart of every one is deep. {7} But God will shoot at
them; With an arrow suddenly shall they be wounded. {8} So they shall be
made to stumble, their own tongue being against them: All that see
them shall wag the head. You will notice that these
"evil doers" "diligently" "search out iniquities" in others
like the Pharisees that they are but they like to hide their identities and
their own sins in darkness. In scriptures and even in carnal law the
accused has a right to FACE his accusers and are commanded to “go,
show him his fault between thee and him alone.”
Those who seek their own will do not
understand that it is also more helpful to light a candle than to pompously
curse the darkness.
Love from your servant in Christ,
David