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Originally posted by SubAce
Originally posted by imagineering
OP, I've said it before and Ill say it again. No matter what, as soon as anyone sees or recognizes that you are a Jehovah's Witness you r thread will be derailed by off topic complaints, pokes and prodding's, apostates and people who have alternate agenda's and who have ZERO regard for what the truth is.
A post by a Jehovah's Witness can expect:
Personal Insults.
Hypocritical finger pointing.
Total derailment.
The spurning on of extremist, who are like Pharisee's in their view.
Keep your focus on your ministry the way it was admonished. Door to door.
The spirit of the "world" permeates this site.
Thank you for the comment.
I realize this. But have you ever thought. This is what happens when people in the door-to-door ministry receive the kingdom truth as well.
Remember the war that Satan is waging right now is with God's chosen ones. When anyone is exposed to the truth Satan and his demons are on top of things to try and squish the seed of truth that is planted. Here we can see it in action more directly as he uses people to spread lies and hate about us. Since you are able to see it it may frustrate you.
But when you preach to someone at work or on the streets or at their door the same thing happens. Satan will find someone to try and drown the seed of truth before it can set root and start to grow. We just can't see it at that time.
It doesn't matter where the seed is sown, once someone has read the truth it is in their heart, and Satan is scared of that because he does not know where it may grow. And we have no control over it as well. Jehovah will make it grow if he so desires. And who are we to try and force someone to understand the truth?
Just as the quote I mentioned above to the poser that keeps coming to my threads to derail them with his continual visceral attacks and slander against us:
(2 Peter 2:18) . . .they utter swelling expressions of no profit, and by the desires of the flesh and by loose habits they entice those who are just escaping from people who conduct themselves in error.
His expressions are of no profit, and they are because of the desires the flesh as God's word reveals. And he uses these lies to try and "entice those who are just escaping from people who conduct themselves in error."
Satan uses these weak-minded minions to try and smolder the seed of truth from those who are in the world and are just learning who God is.
I do not have a lot of time, and do not post often on this site. Perhaps I should do so less.
But these posers who come and try to derail the thread with ad homim attacks and slander prove all the more the truth we have as Jesus stated:
(Matthew 5:11, 12) . . .“Happy are YOU when people reproach YOU and persecute YOU and lyingly say every sort of wicked thing against YOU for my sake. 12 Rejoice and leap for joy, since YOUR reward is great in the heavens; for in that way they persecuted the prophets prior to YOU.
I take the attacks as proof of both God's approval, and of Satan's hatred for another seed of truth perhaps having been implanted in the heart of someone somewhere somehow.
He cannot prevent the truth from spreading. People with humble and meek hearts will hear the truth and they will know it. Jesus said these things:
(John 10:4) When he has got all his own out, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice.
And again in another place (if you remember):
(Matthew 16:17) . . .In response Jesus said to him: “Happy you are, Simon son of Jo′nah, because flesh and blood did not reveal [it] to you, but my Father who is in the heavens did.edit on 23-4-2013 by SubAce because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by DarknStormy
reply to post by SubAce
Well the names weren't exactly the same as they are in the modern bibles. Joshua could be translated to Yeshua for example. You pretty much have to translate back to hebrew or something.
Originally posted by SubAce
Originally posted by Auricom
reply to post by SubAce
It doesn't matter. None of it matters. Satan can take over the world tomorrow and it wouldn't matter. I'm still one with Jesus Christ, he is still lord and shall forever be. My soul does not belong to me, you or anyone else. It belongs to God. So what you do to my body is one thing, for my soul will always find it's way home.
I'm not a very religious person to begin with, but one thing I know for sure: My heart and my being belongs to God, Jesus Christ.
He has been in control of the world since man fell. Look around you, you can tell he is ruling the world. Just look at all of the badness.
As for the rest, thank you for your kind thoughts.