May 6, 2007
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A question about hearing in the Spirit and 2 Kings 7 by Pastor Don
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We had an interesting question during Friday’s Bible study. One of the women in our group was having a medical test where she had to lay still and be quiet, not moving. Someone (I think it was her sister) came with her and told her that she heard her praying out loud. The technicians would not have permitted talking for that would have messed up the results, and she was praying silently, but wanted to know how the person heard her voice.
Pastor Don brought us to Acts 2. He said it was a difficult thing for people to accept the supernatural. We want to believe what we are ready to believe and willing to believe, and God wants to do the supernatural, beyond what we can conceive in our fleshly natures. We want to control everything, from how God responds, to when He responds. God wants us to realize that He is God and that He does supernatural things.
Jesus, before he left the apostles, told them to wait and He would send the Comforter to them. The apostles at that time did not have any idea about the Holy Spirit and how the Holy Spirit would manifest.
Acts 2:1 When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
They had to qualify by being in one accord, or in other words on the same page. Worshipping in Spirit and Truth.
Acts 2:2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.
They had no idea what was happening here, having never had the experience with the Holy Spirit. They HEARD A SOUND, and it sounded like a rushing wind.
Acts 2:3 Then there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them.
This was their best description for what they had not experienced before. Pastor Don said that it might have been something like the heat waves that come off of a hot asphalt road.
Acts 2:4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
ALL were filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke with other tongues. When this happened, they had never experienced this before. They didn’t know what it was at the time. Isaiah and Jeremiah also spoke about tongues, stammering tongues and languages they never knew. This is a dispensation of the New Covenant and we receive this from God without prejudice. They were endowed with power from on high. Although they spoke in tongues, they were in control for they could stop it at any time they chose.
Our society and Biblical training have limited the power of the Holy Spirit. When the Holy Spirit gives utterance it is not demonic possession. The Holy Spirit is the Paraclete who comes alongside of us.
God will not manifest according to our scripts, tongues are used by God to help us know that He is sovereign and we are not. Tongues seem like foolishness to men, so we know God is sovereign. If we are not prepared to receive what God has commanded, if we are not a yielded vessel we cannot step into the pulpit or in a prophetic ministry.
Acts 2:5 And there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under heaven.
Jews from around the world.
Acts 2:6 And when this sound occurred, the multitude came together, and were confused, because everyone heard them speak in his own language.
Pastor Don pointed out that they HEARD A SOUND, and they were confused because the sound of tongues was heard in each person’s language.
Acts 2:7-8 Then they were all amazed and marveled, saying to one another, “Look, are not all these who speak Galileans? And how is it that we hear each in our own language in which we were born?”
Pastor Don pointed out that Galileans were like the southerners of Israel, and considered rather backwards and not able to speak in multitudinous languages.
So how is it that they heard what they heard, or how is it that we hear? There is a supernatural ability of God to change what we hear and see in the natural by His spirit. God alters the physical and opens up windows in the spiritual.
How is it that we hear (v8)? God must come into the natural to cause this. It is a miracle of disruption of the natural by the supernatural.
Another Example,
Acts 10:1-3 There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment, a devout man and one who feared God with all his household, who gave alms generously to the people, and prayed to God always. About the ninth hour of the day he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God coming in and saying to him, “Cornelius.”
Pastor Don pointed out that the 9th hour was broad daylight. And he (a Gentile) saw a VISION, and the angel was SAYING, so he heard as well. This was not his normal experience, but his hearing was attuned to God.
Acts 10:4-5 And when he observed him (the angel), he (Cornelius) was afraid, and said, “What is it, lord?” So he said to him, “Your prayers and your alms have come up for a memorial before God. Now send men to Joppa, and send for Simon whose surname is Peter.
He heard the instructions from God and obeyed them! The Lord has mercy and even reaches out to Gentiles.
Acts 10: 7 And when the angel who spoke to him had departed, Cornelius called two of his household servants and a devout soldier from among those who waited on him continually.
Cornelius acted immediately on the angel’s instructions from God. With the Prophetic you can HEAR it, but for it to occur you also have to ACT on it. The measure of the prophetic is not what the message says, the measure of the prophetic is what YOU DO with it.
Pastor Don said that if he came and gave someone a vice grip. And they looked at it and said, “Oh, what a great tool.” but they left it at church, or they took it home and put it in their tool box and did not use it, the vice grip would not do much for them. The fact that the vice grip is lying about unused is no measure of Pastor Don, it is the failure of the person to take to heart what was given to them and invest something in it and use it.
If you have a prophetic word spoken over you, hold it in your heart and feed and water it. The more fantastic the Word is, the more you need to feed and water it. Even if it is a general world like “You are blessed by God.” Remember that blessed means happy, whole, properly placed, highly favored, etc. Feed that Word and hold it in your heart. Even if you don’t see manifestations of the prophetic word immediately.
Pastor Don pointed out in answer to the question about how the person could hear the inner prayer of the one having the medical test is that God supernaturally permitted it, that the woman heard the prayer in the Spirit, because it was not something that was said in the physical.
A question came up about someone being on a roof and falling in the spirit, the verse was Acts 10:10 regarding Peter and the vision Then he became very hungry and wanted to eat; but while they made ready, he fell into a trance.
Pastor Don pointed out that the word “fell” was literally fell, like in keeled over, hit the floor, was in the Spirit.
Then we went to Acts 20:7 Pastor Don pointed out that if you think he does long sermons and Bible studies, listen to this Now on the first day of the week (Sunday) when the disciples came together to break bread (Communion) Paul, ready to depart the next day spoke to them and continued his message until midnight.
Acts 20:8-10 There were many lamps in the upper room where they were gathered together. And in a window sat a certain young man named Eutychus who was sinking into a deep sleep. He was overcome by sleep; and as Paul continued speaking, he fell down from the third story and was taken up dead. But Paul went down, fell on him, and embracing him said, “Do not trouble yourselves, for his life is in him.”
Pastor Don pointed out that just like Elijah and Elisha Paul laid on top of Eutychus, but added something new, he “embraced” him.
Acts 20 11-12 Now when he had come up, had broken bread and eaten, and talked a long while, even till daybreak he departed. And they brought the youn man in alive, and they were not a little comforted.
Talk about understatement, “not a little comforted.” I bet they were overjoyed. Notice Paul kept talking until daybreak.
Then Pastor Don got to the part of the Bible study that he intended to teach, 2 Kings 7, which he states is his favorite Bible chapter. He said that so often we know the prophetic for good, but if the prophetic is not acted on it can turn out to be not good for the hearer. We can sometimes avert danger by our attitudes. It is one thing to hear the prophetic word, another thing to receive it. We are not to judge the prophet, the prophet can be a prophet, a child, a donkey, an unsaved love one, whatever, but rather we are to judge the FRUIT OF THE WORD. Are you willing to listen? Are you ready to receive it? Open your heart to receive. If you negatively respond to the prophetic word it blocks the blessings of God, for God will not force Himself into our lives if we do not want to receive what He has to offer.
Pastor Don also pointed out that we do not have to accept a casual put down, or make it part of our life. It seems to be a natural habit to gossip, but we will be held accountable for every idle word. It also seems that people feel that it is very intellectual to disbelieve God.
2 Chronicles 20:20 …Believe in the LORD your God, and you shall be established; believe His prophets and you shall prosper.
2 Kings 7:1-2 Then Elisha said, “Hear the word of the LORD. Thus says the LORD: ‘Tomorrow about this time a seah of fine flour shall be sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, at the gate of Samaria.’ ” So an officer on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God and said, “Look, if the LORD would make windows in heaven, could this thing be?” And he said, “In fact, you shall see it with your eyes, but you shall not eat of it.”
This servant was a close confidant of the king, had the king’s ear. He knows that there is a famine. The town was under seige, and there was little food. Yet through Elisha the LORD was speaking prosperity, yet this man was questioning if the Word of God was true, his answer was in effect, “Yeah, sure, when elephants fly.” BUT God’s word is true, and this man did not act on it. The confidant of the king judged that the prophet was wrong and judged that God was wrong. He opened himself up to doubt and unbelief. So Elisha told this doubter that you will see it with your eyes (so you know that God will do it) but because of his unbelief and doubt he will not eat of it.
Had the man then and there repented of his doubt and unbelief, changed his thinking, asked forgiveness, the outcome might have been different for him.
Pastor Don pointed out that Heaven comes and visits the church on the earth. The church itself is not heaven, it is composed of humans with fallibilities. But when Heaven comes and visits the church the church becomes a heavenly place. It is a beautiful thing.
2 Kings 7:3 Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate; and they said to one another, “Why are we sitting here until we die?
Pastor Don said, “If anyone has put themselves on hold, get a life and get off of hold.” Here the lepers knew that they were dying, so why stay the same, why not make a change. (Heather’s note, Pastor Don wrote a new song and the introduction lyrics are a constant repetition of the following words, “Keep doin’ what you’re doin’; keep gettin’ what you’re gettin’). If you don’t know what to do to get off of hold, seek the council of God don’t just sit there waiting.
2 Kings 7:4-5 “If we say, ‘We will enter the city,’ the famine is in the city, and we shall die there. And if we sit here, we die also. Now therefore, come, let us surrender to the army of the Syrians. If they keep us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall only die.” And they rose at twilight to go to the camp of the Syrians; and when they had come to the outskirts of the Syrian camp, to their surprise no one was there.
So often we can get worried and expect the worst, and when we get to the situation, we find that our worry was fruitless, that really there was nothing to worry about. The Syrians were not there.
2 Kings 7:6 For the LORD had caused the army of the Syrians to hear the noise of chariots and the noise of horses–the noise of a great army; so they said to one another, “Look, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians to attack us!”
Another case of HEAR, God caused the Syrians to hear something in a supernatural way, and they acted upon what they heard, and retreated.
2 Kings 7:7-9 Therefore they arose and fled at twilight, and left the camp intact–their tents, their horses, and their donkeys–and they fled for their lives. And when these lepers came to the outskirts of the camp, they went into one tent and ate and drank, and carried from it silver and gold and clothing, and went and hid them; then they came back and entered another tent, and carried some from there also, and went and hid it. Then they said to one another, “We are not doing right. This day is a day of good news, and we remain silent. If we wait until morning light, some punishment will come upon us. Now therefore, come, let us go and tell the king’s household.”
Pastor Don pointed out that their act of moving caused the lepers to have abundantly what they needed. They started out keeping it all for themselves, but even though they were outcasts of the city, weren’t treated right by those in the city, the lepers knew that they had to share what God gave them, they knew that they were not doing right by just keeping it to themselves, that they were not being a blessing.
2 Kings 7:10 So they went and called to the gatekeepers of the city, and told them, saying, “We went to the Syrian camp, and surprisingly no one was there, not a human sound–only horses and donkeys tied, and the tents intact.”
Pastor Don spent some time talking about how our church really depends on the gatekeepers. That often that is the first Jesus a person sees – the parking attendants and the people in the foyer. If these people are kind, loving and greet people with a smile, people (newcomers and regulars) will come in happy and ready to receive. If they are snarled at or disrespectfully treated they will come in with an attitude that may block God’s blessings. Gatekeepers have an important task to do.
2 Kings 7:11-12 And the gatekeepers called out, and they told it to the king’s household inside. So the king arose in the night and said to his servants, “Let me now tell you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we are hungry; therefore they have gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, ‘When they come out of the city, we shall catch them alive, and get into the city.’ ”
The blessing Elisha prophesied was there, but the king assumed that the Syrians were using the carnality of the Israelite’s hunger to draw them out and trap them. He was trying to interpret the situation from the fleshly point of view, the circumstances. Don’t do that, you will miss out on the supernatural design of God.
2 Kings 7:13 And one of his servants answered and said, “Please, let several men take five of the remaining horses which are left in the city. Look, they may either become like all the multitude of Israel that are left in it; or indeed, I say, they may become like all the multitude of Israel left from those who are consumed; so let us send them and see.”
Praise God for godly servants who give good advice – suggesting that a few men go out and explore. Pastor Don said, why were they to take the “remaining” horses. Because of the famine the people had been eating horse flesh.
2 Kings 7:14-16 Therefore they took two chariots with horses; and the king sent them in the direction of the Syrian army, saying, “Go and see.” And they went after them to the Jordan; and indeed all the road was full of garments and weapons which the Syrians had thrown away in their haste. So the messengers returned and told the king. Then the people went out and plundered the tents of the Syrians. So a seah of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the LORD.
Here is the fruit of the prophesy of Elisha, it came true, a seah of flour was sold for a shekel, two seahs of barley for a shekel!
2 Kings 7:17 Now the king had appointed the officer on whose hand he leaned to have charge of the gate. But the people trampled him in the gate, and he died, just as the man of God had said, who spoke when the king came down to him.
So the confidant of the King, who had spoken doubt and belief also had the prophesy spoken over him come true – that he would see with his eyes, but He would not eat of it, for he was trampled in the gate and died.
2 Kings 7:18-20 So it happened just as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, “Two seahs of barley for a shekel, and a seah of fine flour for a shekel, shall be sold tomorrow about this time in the gate of Samaria.” Then that officer had answered the man of God, and said, “Now look, if the LORD would make windows in heaven, could such a thing be?” And he had said, “In fact, you shall see it with your eyes, but you shall not eat of it.” And so it happened to him, for the people trampled him in the gate, and he died.
Pastor Don then pointed out that every one of us is a leper in our background, there is pain, difficulty, trouble, sin. Not one of us is perfect. Are we not like the lepers, sitting around and waiting until we die? We need to get up and do. In the tents of our enemies are great rewards to take advantage of and people to lead to the Lord, to life eternal. God can get us out of our mess, and get us busy for the Lord. Believe because we serve and awesome God and King.
Hope you have a blessed Sunday.
Heather
Comments (26)
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Hope you are haviing a Wonderful Weekend and a Blessed Sunday!………In Christ’s Love…….Monic
Thank you, Heather, for always stopping by and taking an interest
Blessings on you and yours!
he is amazing! check him out for real! love!
I like the idea here of the lepers taking the news back to the city. So often God uses the things and people that are outcasts to do his work. ryc than you for your prayers.
Tim
thank you not than you. oops.
All is well… I got pulled over for the first time and got a speeding ticket… so my life long goal of never being pulled over was smashed. And the day after I paid my ticket I found out if I would have payed double it wouldn’t have gone on my record and my insurance wouldn’t have gone up… grrr…
I give you 5 stars everytime I come over here… ha!
The DVD’s will be in at the end of next week.. that’s what my videographer told me… he promised!!
Hugs!
Thanks for your comment rejoicing with me~ Have a good one!
Hugs Heather. God bless you for being so faithful.
c.
Wow,
xanga allows non-xangans comment already?
Do you know if it shows in the comment box?
Just curious!
Dear Heather,
Thank you for all your postings and teachings…..I save them all and appreciate them very much;
With Mom sick, I just haven’t had much time to comment, but I try to read thru all them, but even if I don’t or do get to, I still save all until I can print them out for my binders.
In Christ’s Love,
Sharon
Sorry Heather, I blocked my comments to non-members. I’ll watch your site. If non-members are friendly, I may reconsider.
Blessings!
Heather, you are such a dear one, indeed. From the first comment you left on my sight, I have known it.
“Hope deferred does make a heart sick, but WHEN the expectation comes, there is joy.” Your brokeness has made you beautiful, as your heart has been opened to the things of God. But you must remember, God does not wish for you to remain so. His desires for you reach far above anything you can imagine.
I pray that God blesses you, in a new way. I pray that you hear from Him today, a tale of your own beauty for ashes story. I pray that He offers you a glimpse of who you are, in Him.
I see love. Light of heaven breaking through. I see grace, I see God’s facing, shining pure and perfect love, when I see you.
You glow, girl.
Heather,
YES, God is Good… all the time. I did another lesson on this same truth a few weeks back. You can read it here -> xanga.com/Eek_71/580108213/the-pleasures-of-god-8.html
As always, thanks for the encouragment!
In Christ,
Eric
Good post. Alot of people do not know that Mary mother of Jesus was in the upper room also. So that means yes even Mary was a tongue talking Pentecostal. he-he. No but she really did speak in tongues. Have a blessed day, Chris
true, i think today’s society prides itself in being scientific, even when many top scientists are humbly asking more questions than ever; being a science and philosophy major makes it doubly hard for me to listen to the Spirit, even as a christian leader. i love the 2 Kgs 7 story.
God is so not good, how do you explain all the sufferings in this world?
If you want to blame on sin, there are loads of other sincere christians who suffer as well,
do you think that everyone in the world trade center that day were all satanists?
I am sure a lot of them that morning prayed to God for protection as well as repented for their sins.
One cannot just pick a nice event and say, see! God is good, what about all the other times when God WASN’T there?
Just stopping by to say hi and thank you for your comments!
Blessings!
Chris
thank you for your kind comment ,althought i may say, sometimes i wonder if anyone really benifits from the things that i write! stay true in Jesus lil sister w/ love In Jesus, Brian
You know how I said God wanted to do a new thing in my life. Sunday He put a lady next to me that needed to be prayed for and ministered to and my dd and I got to do that after the service. We prayed for the Bap. of the Holy Spirit. We both were a little nervous about it but felt God said to chill that He was doing the work all we had to do was let Him do it. Awesome. I’m sharing this with you because I know you prayed for me. Thanks.
To the toothfairyAgnostic:
I am so glad to hear that you are agnostic because that means that you are willing to entertain the fact that there is God. I don’t know if you have ever read my testimony which you can link to in my links box, if you haven’t you may be surprised that I asked similar questions to what you have asked, and then some! I too used to question God’s goodness, the suffering in the world, and whether or not He was was even around. I will try to say a few words to those points you brought up.
You asked: “God is so not good, how do you explain all the sufferings in this world?” This question I asked because I was one of those who suffered in the world big time. Since I have gotten to know God I have figured out that there are two players in the world – there is God who is always good, and then there is satan who is always bad even when he disguises himself as good. I have found it very, very interesting that lots of good things can happen and God does not get the credit. The sun comes up, people do good deeds every day, there is love in the world, people have good things come into their lives and they attribute that to luck, or their own workings. But let one thing go wrong and God gets the rap. One thing that makes God so good is that He does not force Himself on us (having been raped as a child I can so appreciate that). He is Love and He loves us so much. As our creator, He could force us to love Him. He could stop all the evil in the world if He wanted to, but in order to do that, He would have to take us over to do that - for if we are honest, we are not always “good”. I would guess that if you are like me at some point in our lives, we have lied, cheated, stolen, spoken hurtful words, and not done all things from a pure motive. God could have stopped every hurtful thing I have done, but in order for that to have happened, He would have had to take me over completely and I would have ended up a robot. God knows that in order for us to love Him, we had to be free to love – and that freedom comes with a price. To be free to choose love and goodness, also means that we can be free to choose evil, suffering and hurt as well. I grew up in a home with tons of hurt and used to think God was awful, but it took getting to know Him to see exactly where He was in the midst of all that hurt. Just because we do not perceive Him distinctly does not mean that He is not there, that He doesn’t care, and that He isn’t doing things in the background that can help us in the midst of our suffering. But it is satan who is the one that inspires the suffering and the hurt, but he does not get the rap.
You asked. “If you want to blame on sin, there are loads of other sincere christians who suffer as well,
do you think that everyone in the world trade center that day were all satanists? I am sure a lot of them that morning prayed to God for protection as well as repented for their sins.” It really is sin that allowed satan to do what He did at the World Trade Center. You are right sincere Christians do suffer, God never promised us that we would not suffer on this earth after we repent of our sins. Hurtful people do not care whom they hurt – they hurt good people and hurtful people as well. Unfortunately with sin in the world, the real consequence of sin is death – not just physical death but spirit and soul death. See we are on this earth but a twinkling of an eye when you think about eternity. The real question is, where will you spend eternity? The consequences of denying God and Jesus are not something I wish even for my worst enemy. Again, it was man acting sinfully that caused the World Trade Center deaths, God did not do that. But God was there comforting those in the midst of the tragedy, and He is here now.Years ago I would have thought the previous statement was paltry, but God gives man free-will to choose. In order for free will to be free will the choice to do evil as well as good must be permitted. If God only permitted man to choose good ti would not be free will. I used to say free will is very expensive for the victims. But really if you think about it honestly, none of us are not sinners, none of us have never done any evil thing in our lives. I pray that those people in the Word Trade Center did call out to God for if they did, they are in an eternity that has erased all the bad memories of those moments in the World Trade Center. If they did not call on God, then their time in eternity is far worse than their time in the World Trade Center at its worst. God grieves at how people misperceive Him. The mere fact that you know that what happened at the World Trade Center was evil lets me know that you also have a concept of Good. Evil is the polar opposite of Good, and God is good. Something cannnot be all good and all evil simultaneously. There are two players in this story, and only one is getting represented here. Don’t forget that satan comes to lie, kill and steal our joy. He has no regard for people, he will lure them in with sweet words and then once caught turn and destroy. God, on the other hand stands there with open arms waiting and willing to embrace.
Did you know that in the Bible God actually runs? In the parable that Jesus told about God, called the Prodigal Son, a boy takes his inheritance, squanders it, lives a very sinful life, then comes to his senses, and decides to come home and be a servant in his father’s house because in his father’s house servants are treated better than he was living. At that time he was living in a pig sty eating slop. As he walks home considering his words to his father, His Father sees him, runs to him, embraces him – pig slop and all – and His Father puts His cloak around the son’s shoulders, embraces him, and gives him great gifts. His father restored the son to his position. But his father RAN to Him. In that parable, the boy’s father represented God. God runs to those who choose to accept Him, for He so loves us that He does not want us separate from Him. There is much rejoicing in Heaven when a prodigal returns.
You say: “One cannot just pick a nice event and say, see! God is good, what about all the other times when God WASN’T there.” That is true, we cannot pick and choose where God is. Since God is always there, there is no place that He isn’t. And to answer your point – the same thing goes in reverse, you cannot pick an evil event and say “God isn’t good” unless you are also picking the good events and saying, “God is good.”
What people on earth forget is that God is MERCIFUL. We pick terrible things to do in our lives and nothing seems to happen. Just because God restrains from judging us in the moment does not mean that we will not be answerable to Him at some time. I used to think that God should strike down sinners, that He should have killed my father, but where would God draw the line? For God anything that we do that is not of God is sinful – if we tell a white lie that is a sin, if we do not obey our parents that is a sin, if we cheat on our taxes that is a sin, if we speak a hurtful word that is a sin – if God is going to kill sinners immediately there would be no one walking on the earth, for we are all sinners. So God, in His mercy waits in His judgment, hoping that we will choose to accept His Son, Jesus into our lives. He wanted so much for us to have a relationship with Him, that He sent His Son Jesus (who is also God) into the world in the flesh. He is the only one who lived a sin-free life on this earth, and Jesus chose to die on the cross for our sins – He took our sins, past – present – and future onto Himself and made Himself a perfect sacrifice for Our sins, for your sins, for my sins. He then defeated death and the cross, rose from the dead and is now sitting with God interceding for us. When we Believe in Our Hearts that that Jesus is Lord, and we make Him the Lord of our lives, when we accept His free gift of salvation, then we are saved, and God can renew our lives, change our lives, and we have a relationship with Him that can’t be beat. Then we will spend eternity in a place far better than this earth, and there really will be no more suffering and death. I will keep praying for you that you will find God in your life, and I am always willing to answer your quetions.
Heather
Hey Sweet Sister ! Popping in to send my love !
Tracy
Sending a Heartbeat Hello!
This is very true. (of course) ; ) It’s the Word. So many can not understand the supernatural, the carnal nature just can not. : ) I’ve heard many many testimonies of folks entering into a church and recognized a language and it was someone praying in the Spirit. Once I was worshipping and was into the heighths of worship and could hear angels lifting their voices to the Lord…It was one of the most beautiful things I’ve heard.
Be blessed Heather, ~Amelia
First of all it is not a sin to be black, white or another color GOD has created us to look like, nor being male and female. Sexual perversion wheither it be out of marriage, permiscuiousness, homosexual or any thing is an abomination and going against GOD, HIS Word, and the life HE has planned for us to live by. You are right the laws of this world is setting a double standard against GOD’S truth, trying to silence and strangle the WORD. We as HIS children are supposed to live the life as GOD has commanded and speak against all evil, all sin. Homosexuality is sinful and an abomination to the LORD.
Knowing this and knowing that GOD is the judge, that HE loves us all children of GOD and children of the world does not give me the right to physically or verbally ( such as profanity, scream and name calling) abuse another. I knowing better for I was once under the law of sin and death also, but now I am not and am under the law of truth, life and light, can only love the ones still under sin, but not agree with sin. I am subject to the LORD and must speak the truth!
Preaching against homosexuality is not wrong nor abusive!
You are right Heather these laws are setting a double standard against the Law of GOD putting the world under HIS wrath. Proving that the world doesn’t have the answers and GOD has all the answers for our souls.
The law of this world is nothing compared to the Laws of the LORD.