WHO ARE OUR EXCLUDERS?
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We’ve been alienated and isolated while being alleged to be under-educated or unrefined. Our ecclesial tormentors are too “busy” to help us. But always remember that we are truly powerfully and wonderfully made in the image of God (Psalm 139:4; Genesis 1:27).
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It is very likely that we were not being helped because obscenely few, or zero, decent servants of the church are doing their jobs. Instead, they are busily enjoying their
pleasures and devious works.
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Ministerial failures arise from duplicitous refusals to promote men and women who have true callings to serve God. Instead, these false shepherds marry themselves to carnal political and social distractions. You are not to blame for the scarcity of priests and other shepherds in Christendom. They are. Please read the following.
Get Away From All Sources of Toxicity: You don’t need their negativity and pomposity. You need to use your energy to promote your calling. If they accept your brotherly rebuking of them, and they repent, then just forgive them and let it be your choice whether to remain with them. But if you expend your strength in trying to extract respect from so-called helpers, you will grow in bitterness until you will feel less chosen by God for your calling. Remember that many are called but few are chosen (Matthew 22:14).
Ephesians 4:31 – “Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice.”
Hebrews 12:15 – “Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled.”
Luke 17:3-4 – “Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him. “And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.”
James 4:7 – “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”
Do Not Be Divided Against Your Spouse: And, for those Christians whose wives or husbands continue to relish those ministers who have mistreated you in spite of your family’s honor, do not be embittered against your spouse, as if a dog got between you. Remember that lesser ministers mask their mediocrity by flaring bright charms to divide your home. Your humility is your armor. These men will get God’s Will as their due for wedging between your marriage vow. Either tough it out at that place as the better Christian or be the Apostolic grownup who finds a different overseer and different church altogether. You must do so with peace and Grace.
Psalm 62:9 – “Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity”
Ezekiel 13:20 – “Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against your pillows, wherewith ye there hunt the souls to make them fly, and I will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go, even the souls that ye hunt to make them fly.”
Colossians 3:19 – “Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.”
Please be soldiers of humility and grit under God and please adopt true elders, who help us stand against evil:
1 Peter 5:5-8 – Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble. Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time: Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you. Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
Ephesians 6:11-13 – Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
Ecclesiastes 4:12 – “And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.”
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