Amen! Kevin_Patsy.txtthread
You\'re pretty quick on the draw! Thank you.
And, in addition to that:
\"...his sheep follow him because they know his voice. But they will never follow a stranger; in fact, they will run away from him because they do not recognize a stranger\'s voice...I know my sheep and my sheep know me...\" (John 10:4, 5, 14)
It took me many years to begin to develop the courage to let false teachers teach their lies and remain calm, if not quiet. It wasn\'t until 9-11 and my concern about Islam\'s growing influence in the world that God spoke to me through the Matthew 15:14 scripture I shared before.
I don\'t remember where it is in the gospels, but remember what Jesus said to his disciples when they asked if they should call fire down on those who had rejected the message at a certain place? Jesus restrained them. (Anybody remember where that is?).
In regard to the wheat and the tares, Jesus teaches that he intends to \"let both grow together until the harvest. AT THAT TIME I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned...\" (Matthew 13:30).
\"Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.\" (2 Peter 2:3)
A good reminder for us all is Jesus\'s own words: \"Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. REJOICE AND BE GLAD, because great is your reward in heaven...\" (Matthew 5:11, 12)
\"...Christ suffered for you, LEAVING YOU AN EXAMPLE...When they hurled their insults at him, HE DID NOT RETALIATE; when he suffered HE MADE NO THREATS. Instead, he entrusted himself to him who judges justly.\" (1 Peter 2:21-23) God give us the courage to live this!
At the same time, Peter gives us the warning that \"if you suffer, it should not be as a murderer or thief or any other kind of criminal, OR EVEN AS A MEDDLER.\" (1 Peter 4:15)
God give us the discernment to know when we\'re meddling in the conceit of knowledge; the \"unhealthy interest in controversies and arguments that result in envy, quarreling, malicious talk, evil suspicions and constant friction between men of corrupt mind...\" (1 Tim. 6:4)
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