Unforgiving
Every particular marriage that ends in disunion because one partner had an affair and the other man felt they had a right to disunion under the verse in Matthew, where Jesus talks about adultery as a grounds of disunion is a corollary of unforgiveness.
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Much of our serious diseases that kill us come from unforgiveness and much of our empty dry lives and Christians come from unforgiveness. We have to forgive others as Jesus clearly teaches on the branch in His parable of the man that was let off a great debt by his expert and went on to not forgive a lesser debt. Jesus warns quite clearly that if we are this man who does not forgive, we might find ourselves in prison where the tormentors never stop hurting us and that is hell.
If you have citizen you need to forgive you need to fast and pray and make sure you forgive them.
Slanderers
Gossip is telling a friend about a man whether the truth is real or not and this most often hurts the person's reputation. Slander is like gossip, but is a man telling a group of citizen and doing much more unabridged damage. This might be done in a paper, in a magazine from a pulpit, or on talk back radio. Christians are forever slandering citizen and churches and organisations and doing them personal damage, and monetary damage that could be found in a court case.
When a man files for disunion and writes a whole lot of bad things about their old spouse on the legal papers, this, in front of the legal citizen complicated is a form of slander.
If you have been guilty of gossip and slander you should make a point of confessing your sin to the man you hurt and seeking their forgiveness and also repenting before the Lord.
Without self-control
When a man eats junk food all the time and does not eat wholesome meals when they are capable of doing it, this is a man without self control. I am guilty of this sin. When a man gets angry in a line and is short with a man that serves them ultimately this is a lack of self control. When you get angry at a man that rings you at home trying to sell you something this is a lack of self control. When you get upset at a young lady at McDonald's when she asks, "Do you want fries with that?" that is a lack of self control. When you cheat on your taxes that is a lack of self control. In fact when you do any sin you lack self control.
What are you doing wrong? You need to be sorry for it and repent and stop doing it.
Brutal
Most citizen are not brutal in that they are not violent people. But we can be brutally honest which means we can tell man the truth in a non loving way which we know will cause them to cry and be hurt. We can be brutal in our behaviour when we treat a man within our rights but unfairly and without love and grace. A man can do a crime against us and we can have them charged and taken to court, when Jesus says turn the other cheek. We are brutal sort of citizen and we need to repent of this behaviour and only ever tell the truth in love or else shut our mouths.
Despisers of good
It is good to break up a fight when two citizen are trying to kill each other, but most of us despise the good thing and love to watch the fight. It is a good thing not to disunion and to reconcile, but Christians all over the world chose to do something that God says he hates in Malachi. It is good to preach the word and to share a hard rebuke with other person, but few citizen email articles like this to their friends. It is a good thing to spend the whole day of the Sabbath with God only praying and worshipping Him like He wanted us to, but few of us do it.
We should be in the Word an hour a day and praying an hour a day, but we despise this sort of teaching. We should turn from all our sin but we despise a man saying we should be holy. We should not judge citizen no matter how bad they are, but give them grace and love and yet we select to judge and despise the Words of Jesus. We should tithe more then our money and cumin and spices, we should also tithe in love and compassion and mercy to the weak, and yet we don't even tithe the money like the Pharisees did and we also neglect the poor, making us twice as bad as the Pharisees.
Are you listed above? You need to turn around and live like Jesus.
Traitors
Everyone thinks Peter denied Jesus three times and that we would never do that. Well if you can't see you have denied Jesus three times you are already a traitor. What you do to the least of My brethren should pull you up. If you are not being a true sheep in the sheep and goats parable you are being a traitor to Jesus every time you walk past a poor man with spare convert in your pocket. You and I need to repent in this area and give and give.
Headstrong
If what I am saying is making you angry and you don't like looking that you are a sinner, you are headstrong. If you have not been convicted once in the four articles you are perfect, and you need to reprint them all in a book and go and preach on them. For those who do not like me and are only reading to see how much of a fool I am, you are headstrong. Those who will not repent and turn around and live a dissimilar way are those that heard the Word and it fell on rocky ground.
Haughty
This is a proud person. This is a man who reads all of this and says that is alright for him, but I am not like that. A proud man is man like me who thinks I can preach good then my pastor and run a church good also. I struggle with this stick my chest out attitude, and reasoning I am best and I am working on it. The last thing a proud man will admit is that they are proud, and that is why I am half way there to beating it.
Lovers of delight rather than lovers of God
These are citizen that love the world more then loving God. They can best be described in two verses.
1 John 2:15-17 (New King James Version)
15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If whatever loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world-the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life-is not of the Father but is of the world. 17 And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.
1 John 2:15-17 (The Message)
15-17 Don't love the world's ways. Don't love the world's goods. Love of the world squeezes out love for the Father. Roughly all that goes on in the world-wanting your own way, wanting all for yourself, wanting to appear important-has nothing to do with the Father. It just isolates you from Him. The world and all its wanting, wanting, wanting is on the way out-but whoever does what God wants is set for eternity.
James 4:1-4 (The Message)
1-2 Where do you think all these appalling wars and quarrels come from? Do you think they just happen? Think again. They come about because you want your own way, and fight for it deep inside yourselves. You lust for what you don't have and are willing to kill to get it. You want what isn't yours and will risk violence to get your hands on it.
2-3 You wouldn't think of just request God for it, would you? And why not? Because you know you'd be request for what you have no right to. You're spoiled children, each wanting your own way.
4-6 You're cheating on God. If all you want is your own way, flirting with the world every occasion you get, you end up enemies of God and His way. And do you suppose God doesn't care? The proverb has it that "He's a fiercely jealous lover." And what He gives in love is far good than whatever else you'll find. It's base knowledge that "God goes against the willful proud; God gives grace to the willing humble."
James 4:1-4 (New King James Version)
1 Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for delight that war in your members? 2 You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have because you do not ask. 3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures. 4 Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
You need to forsake what the world sees as delight and look to God, and invest your time in His Word and in prayer to Him, rather then in books and watching the box. You need to spend your money in investing in 10% tithing to your church and worthwhile ministries, instead of the very best brands and the things money can buy. You need to get by with what you have and strive to please God rather then your friends, family and citizen you know. You have to turn your eyes upon Jesus like the song says and the things of earth will grow strangely dim in the light of His glory and grace.
This is what Jesus said when He said deny yourself, and when you get serious with Jesus and start to obey Him to the letter of His Law you will find you come to be more enthusiastic about living the life of holiness, and definite friends and citizen you know will begin to tell you to stop being so righteous and trying to work your way into heaven. Don't worry about the mockers, for Jesus said you are not worthy of Him if you are not ready to leave them behind.
Having a form of godliness but denying its power.
People that go to church and continue in any of the sins aforementioned in these four articles have a form of godliness and are denying its power. Grace is not here for you to be in sin each week, and to cry crocodile tears and continue to ask for forgiveness. Grace is here to give you the power to live a Godly way. Paul picks this up in his letter to Titus.
Titus 2:11-12 (New King James Version)
11 For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, 12 teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the gift age,
You see it is here that we deny ungodliness and all forms of sin. That means we flee from temptation and we live in perfect and pure minds and we are always doing what is biblically right (righteously) and we be like Christ on earth (Godly)
John says whatever who says they abide in Jesus must behave like Jesus.
1 John 2:6 (New King James Version)
6 He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked. We also have to see that the nine gifts of the Holy Spirit are here on earth for us to see the manifest power of God on earth. We should have citizen that have the gift of prophecy that we can advent and they can give us an write back off God for a question.
We should accept that some men have more faith, and with that gift of faith can do miracles like raise citizen form the dead after three days. I know a man in India that has raised his brother after three days of death. Praise be to God for His manifest power on earth today! We have to believe that there are men like Elijah on earth today that can pray for rain and the rain comes and who can heal any affliction.
One of the most powerfully anointed men on earth is Benny Hinn, and even with his excesses God powerfully uses him to save the lost and to bring many healings from God. citizen who say he is not from God and a false educator or prophet have never met citizen who have been healed by this man, but are naturally citizen stuck in false teachings of men that says healing does not exist anymore.
When Jesus says He will be with us to the end of the age, does He mean that His power stopped 2000 years ago? I don't think so. I have been gifted with about six of the nine gifts, some of which I have only operated in once or twice and any man saying that I don't have them should be loved and prayed for.
As for me, I take Paul's advice here and I stay away from the doubters in the power, but if we stayed away from citizen who had all the aforementioned sins we would not be able to go to church.
I pray that this series has taught you much.
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