DISCIPLINE -V- JUDGMENT
Brethren, even if a man is caught in any trespass, you who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness. Galatians 6:1
Daily Devotional:
Brethren, even if a man is caught in any trespass, you who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness. Galatians 6:1
Let us not judge one another anymore, but rather determine this - not to put an obstacle or a stumbling block in a brother's way. Romans 14:13
I grew up with a good, moral background, and I even went to church, but I wasn't a Christian. In those days I really enjoyed beer, especially on a hot day after mowing the lawn. When I received Christ as a young man, I joined a church that preached total abstinence from alcoholic beverages. I wasn't a drunk, so I decided to scratch that rule and keep my beer.
Thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 15:57
Here's a wonderful example of what can happen to a Christian when the strongholds of the mind are overthrown by God's truth.
Jeannie is a beautiful and talented woman in her mid-twenties. As an active Christian for 13 years, she sings in a professional singing group, writes music, leads worship at her church, and oversees a discipleship group.
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body that you should obey its lusts, and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. Romans 6:12,13
Consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Romans 6:11
"Be careful to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you then you will have success". Joshua 1:7,8
We walk by faith, not by sight (2 Corinthians 5:7)
When my son, Karl, was about eight years old, I introduced him to the game of golf. I gave him a little starter set of clubs and took him out to the course with me. Karl would tee up his ball and whale away at it with his mightiest swing. Usually he sprayed the ball all over the place. But since he could only hit it 60 or 70 yards at best, his direction could be off by 20 degrees and his ball would still be in the fairway.
When the unclean spirit goes out of a man, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, and not finding any, it says, "I will return to my house from which I came." Then it goes and takes along seven other spirits more evil than itself (Luke 11:24,26)
Our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places (Ephesians 6:12)
Thine, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty (1 Chronicles 29:11).
During a conference, I noticed a lady who wouldn't sing with the rest of the group and seemed quite agitated. She slipped me a note after a morning session: "Please don't leave town without helping me. I have been diagnosed as having multiple personalities and a dissociative disorder."