CURE FOR PLAGUE

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llness within. Often sited, a plague ship at sea with leaky hull. Thanks be to God for His abundant supply in life raft for travelers to escape the scuttling of a rebellious armada.

Acts 20:29-31; II Thessalonians 1:6-12; Hebrews 12:15; I John 2:26; Revelation 2:14-15, 20; 3:4, etc.

POWERWASH

I Corinthians 6:9-11  Do you not know that the unrighteous and the wrongdoers will not inherit or have any share in the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived (misled): neither the impure and immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who participate in homosexuality, nor cheats (swindlers and thieves), nor greedy graspers, nor drunkards, nor foulmouthed revilers and slanderers, nor extortioners and robbers will inherit or have any share in the kingdom of God. And such some of you were [once]. But you were washed clean, and you were consecrated (set apart, sanctified), and you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

Galatians 5:19-23  Now the doings (practices) of the flesh are clear (obvious): they are immorality, impurity, indecency, Idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger (ill temper), selfishness, divisions (dissensions), party spirit (factions, sects with peculiar opinions, heresies), Envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you beforehand, just as I did previously, that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the [Holy] Spirit [the work which His presence within accomplishes] is love, joy (gladness), peace, patience (an even temper, forbearance), kindness, goodness (benevolence), faithfulness, Gentleness (meekness, humility), self-control (self-restraint, continence). Against such things there is no law.

Galatians 6:7-8  Do not be deceived and deluded and misled; God will not allow Himself to be sneered at (scorned, disdained, or mocked by mere pretensions or professions, or by His precepts being set aside.) [He inevitably deludes himself who attempts to delude God.] For whatever a man sows, that and that only is what he will reap. For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap decay and ruin and destruction, but he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

II Timothy 3:1-8 But Understand this, that in the last days will come (set in) perilous times of great stress and trouble. For people will be lovers of self and [utterly] self-centered, lovers of money and aroused by an inordinate [greedy] desire for wealth, proud and arrogant and contemptuous boasters. They will be abusive (blasphemous, scoffing), disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy and profane. [They will be] without natural affection (callous and inhuman), relentless; slanderers (false accusers, troublemakers), intemperate and loose in morals and conduct, uncontrolled and fierce, haters of good. [They will be] treacherous [betrayers], rash, [and] inflated with self-conceit. [They will be] lovers of sensual pleasures and vain amusements more than and rather than lovers of God. For [although] they hold a form of piety (true religion), they deny and reject and are strangers to the power of it [their conduct belies their profession]. Avoid such people [turn away from them]. For among them are those who worm their way into homes and captivate silly and weak women, loaded down with [the burden of their] sins [and easily] swayed and led away by various evil desires and seductive impulses. [These weak women will listen to anybody who will teach them]; they are forever inquiring and getting information, but are never able to arrive at a full recognition and knowledge of the Truth. Now just as Jannes and Jambres were hostile to and resisted Moses, so these men also are hostile to and oppose the Truth. They have depraved and distorted minds, and are reprobate and counterfeit and to be rejected as far as the faith is concerned. [Exodus 7:11]

Romans 11:16-23  Now if the first handful of dough offered as the firstfruits [Abraham and the patriarchs] is consecrated (holy), so is the whole mass [the nation of Israel]; and if the root [Abraham] is consecrated (holy), so are to be the branches. [Numbers 15:19-21] But if some of the branches were broken off, while you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among them to share the richness [of the root and sap] of the olive tree, then do not boast over the branches and pride yourself at their expense. If you do boast and feel superior, remember it is not you that support the root, but the root [that supports] you. You will say then, Branches were broken (pruned) off so that I might be grafted in! That is true. But they were broken (pruned) off because of their unbelief (their lack of real faith), and you are established through faith [because you do believe]. So do not become proud and conceited, but rather stand in awe and be reverently afraid. For if God did not spare the natural branches [because of unbelief], neither will He spare you [if you stumble along foolishly, as did they]. Then note and appreciate the gracious kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God's gracious kindness to you--provided you continue in His grace and abide in His kindness; otherwise you too will be cut off (pruned away). And even those others [the fallen branches, Jews], if they do not persist in [clinging to] their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God has the power to graft them in again.

WATER 2 ANSWER

Why should I associate myself with a church full of Christian hypocrites?

We pray that you will come to know that being joined with Christ is not the same as membership in a dead, skewed or hypocritical organization. Life in Christ immediately joins you with all chosen by God for His priesthood, even through time and space. [Romans 7:4]

Christians aren’t perfect. I’m not perfect. Isn’t Christianity just a label for another scam?

Nominalism, hypocrisy and pop slogans have poorly represented what genuine faith in Christ defines. If anyone is in Christ, he/she is a new creation… the new has come. To be baptized into Jesus Christ is to be washed, in good conscience, of fault and failure. But even all this may not meet everyman’s definition for perfection. It is our testimony that Jesus Christ has made us complete in Him, and that He has made way to set right any shortfall. The just and renewed life of His disciple should be obvious to all; no one should ever realize need to hear a Christian claim that he/she is without sin. [Galatians 6:15; Colossians 2:10; Philippians 1:6; I John 1:9]

I ask, Why? Why are our children struggling with drugs and not being close to the Lord, because they have been brought up in the church and know right from wrong. I see children that haven’t been raised by Christian values, and they are doing great. I am desperate.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it. [Proverbs 22:6] This is a true statement. There are ways to miss its application & promise.

• The promise is for training, and not in doctrines, rules, standards or "Christian values".
• Institutional church forms are not readily prepared to provide more than a token in training -- they are unequipped against training deficits & divergences received by children vis-à-vis public institutions, in the world and/or at home. Private/parochial school may fail to train up a child, as education is not the same as training.
• Knowing right from wrong, good and evil, darkness and light, does not say for which or what a person may undertake. The right decision does NOT follow from the right knowledge, as the poor choice from Genesis chapter 3 reveals. (Knowledge is not the same as training.)
• Many people have cried out for their children’s lives over a default that truly has little to do with God or the way He would have us go.
  How do you understand the way he should go?
    » Civility suggests: Stay out of trouble and be nice.
    » Morality suggests: Do the moral things.
    » Humanism suggests: Do the things that will make you happy.
    » Western living suggests: Make money and acquire a good life for yourself.
    » Jesus Christ says: Deny your self, take up your cross and follow Me.
• To be close to the Lord, Jesus Christ, repentance is favourable over any amount of training. Recall that it is God who calls, and but a few are chosen. [Matthew 22:14] Under your repentance, petition Him, that your life and the lives of those in your house may be found in (re: close to) Him.

		From 300 to 30,000 Feet: malfunction: off course with flight plan. Jetison: self-interest Salvation attitude [Romans 2:5-8] Unpack: full throttle Repentance [Revelation 2:4-5] malfunction: idled flight crew members. Jetison: clergy-laity relationships [III John 1:9] Unpack: ekklesia/ecclesia/church (those called out, coming together) [I Corinthians 12-14] malfunction: mid-week power loss. Jetison: Roman forum & all business-styled functions. [I Corinthians 3:18-20] Unpack: daily koinonia (fellowship) [Acts 2-29] malfunction: daycare cabin full. [I Corinthians 3:2-3] Jetison: programmed approach [Mark 10:35-45] Unpack: Holy Spirit dependent procedure [Zechariah 4:6; Acts 16:5-8] malfunction: lift inefficiency: wing icing. Jetison: 10+ percent giving [Leviticus 27:30-34] Unpack: Servant Life [Romans 12:1] malfunction: autopilot system not responding. Jetison: teaching as primary [I Timothy 1:3-7] Unpack: making disciples of Christ [Matthew 28:18-20; John 14:25-26] malfunction: lost contact with Flight Controller. Jetison: agendas & opinions [Galatians 5:16-17] Unpack: one mind, one accord [Romans 15:5-6; Philippians 1:27]
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