Will i inherit the Kingdom of God?
Youve all heard that drunks and gays aint going to heavan right? So folks like to start gossip and hate blogs on topics such as these and it unifies those of like belifs... but in the end it pushes away folks who unWanted, need to be witnessed too.
They get thier fuel from this verse mainly.
"Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God." (1 Corinthians 6:9-10, NNAS)
Ok lets break this down quick. what are each of these?
What are these terms?
Fornicator
One who has sex before marriage...how many yall done that?
Idolator
One who puts anything before the Lord. cars, money, guitars, anything..food,furnature..
Adulterer
One who cheats on their spouse, to have sex after marriage with some one else
Effeminate
A man who acts in voice, actions or appearance in any way related to a woman.
Homosexual
Gay folks
Thieves
Stealers..(no not folks from Pittsburg)
Coveteous
Folks who envy and keep up with the jones, folks who burn with WANT of what others have
Drunks
Alcoholics (could be drug realted or anythign that alters the conscience)
Revilers
Those who verbally abuse others..gossip.
Swindlers
Folks who cheat others..
So we have sex related stuff mentioed 3 times..materialism mention 4 times...identaty issues and addiction and tongue control mentioned once each...
So it seems cut n dry. Right here in black n white. I see on TV where pastors and entire congregations run with these and accuse and point. Reject the unWanted. "They aint like us". Forsaken is how the accused feel and it tarnishes the image of Christ for them. How many in that congregation are addicted to lottery? or cigarettes? or purchasing? how many cheat? or lust after the pastors house or buddys wife? watches TV and feels insignifigant casue they aint got a mansion. How many slander those verbally just loud enough to hear so they dont feel welcome and dont come back to church? How many are upset with how friends kids are raised and talk trash.
Hey "throw the first stone if ur sinless"
Are u sinless? Are you without sin so much........ that you can just walk around and tell everybody what to do? and how to live? No..but Christ gives us the template of life..We learn from the Bible how to treat different situations and how we should react.(Proverbs is awsome for this, as is Book of James) Its a guide on living right. I dont tell folks how i think they should live, but i do advise on what scripture says about what they are doing..i dont condem or say ur going to hell for this. Jeuse didnt tell the woman at the well she was a whore and was trash and disease ridden....no..... He spoke to her normal.
If we teach Folks HOW to have a relationship with Christ, then the rest will fall into place. Instead of pointing and yelling and tearing down, teach them to pray and how to Read thier Bible. Then the Holy Ghost will do the rest.
Did folks yelling at you make you change? Did folks making you feel unWanted make you change? NO. So why are we doing it to others?
Being a Christian dont make me Christ ....but yet secular folks expect me to be Him. They like to misquote scripture to fit their agenda and belive what unbelivers have to say without ever learning for themselves.
Guess what though...
But all are told they can be forgivin..
What! you say..... forgive the unWanted? But they aint like me...But ur not Christ are you. You maybe a follower of Christ but Youll never be Him. So why enforce these prejduces on folks?
Why make them conform to a "Look" or a social status that doesnt exsist in the Bible? Why force denominational control on people when there is none in the Bible? There is no dress code in there..It doesnt say "They were converted and bought kakis and polo shirts to follow the Christ" does it? They probaly had long hair and beards and wore Jedi robes, as was the style then.( i say probaly.. casue they didnt have utube then) They carried swords. They wandered around and had no home didnt bath everyday..drifters it seemed, proclaiming the Gospel.
Yet i meet people who will ignore you so you wont come back. That tell you to park your bike around the side of the church.....that sneer...... That make you feel so unWelcome, you may reject Christ as "this is a representation of him? I dont want any part of it.."
Now read down one more line. One more space down.... Thatll destroy all this dividing, social bigotry..line 11 (ooooohh)
Such were some of you;( uh ohh) but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God."(1 Corinthians 6:11)
uh oh..this means u can be forgiven? and i should be helping and or teaching them unWanted folks and attempting to educate them too? u mean i have to come outta my safety bubble for Christ to do His work? I have to leave my church pew and use the Bible as a practical tool and not just sit here and justify my bigotry?
Heaven is for everyone..all have and need to hear the Truth. Not just who U feel deserves it....Thank You
They get thier fuel from this verse mainly.
"Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God." (1 Corinthians 6:9-10, NNAS)
Ok lets break this down quick. what are each of these?
What are these terms?
Fornicator
One who has sex before marriage...how many yall done that?
Idolator
One who puts anything before the Lord. cars, money, guitars, anything..food,furnature..
Adulterer
One who cheats on their spouse, to have sex after marriage with some one else
Effeminate
A man who acts in voice, actions or appearance in any way related to a woman.
Homosexual
Gay folks
Thieves
Stealers..(no not folks from Pittsburg)
Coveteous
Folks who envy and keep up with the jones, folks who burn with WANT of what others have
Drunks
Alcoholics (could be drug realted or anythign that alters the conscience)
Revilers
Those who verbally abuse others..gossip.
Swindlers
Folks who cheat others..
So we have sex related stuff mentioed 3 times..materialism mention 4 times...identaty issues and addiction and tongue control mentioned once each...
So it seems cut n dry. Right here in black n white. I see on TV where pastors and entire congregations run with these and accuse and point. Reject the unWanted. "They aint like us". Forsaken is how the accused feel and it tarnishes the image of Christ for them. How many in that congregation are addicted to lottery? or cigarettes? or purchasing? how many cheat? or lust after the pastors house or buddys wife? watches TV and feels insignifigant casue they aint got a mansion. How many slander those verbally just loud enough to hear so they dont feel welcome and dont come back to church? How many are upset with how friends kids are raised and talk trash.
Hey "throw the first stone if ur sinless"
Are u sinless? Are you without sin so much........ that you can just walk around and tell everybody what to do? and how to live? No..but Christ gives us the template of life..We learn from the Bible how to treat different situations and how we should react.(Proverbs is awsome for this, as is Book of James) Its a guide on living right. I dont tell folks how i think they should live, but i do advise on what scripture says about what they are doing..i dont condem or say ur going to hell for this. Jeuse didnt tell the woman at the well she was a whore and was trash and disease ridden....no..... He spoke to her normal.
If we teach Folks HOW to have a relationship with Christ, then the rest will fall into place. Instead of pointing and yelling and tearing down, teach them to pray and how to Read thier Bible. Then the Holy Ghost will do the rest.
Did folks yelling at you make you change? Did folks making you feel unWanted make you change? NO. So why are we doing it to others?
Being a Christian dont make me Christ ....but yet secular folks expect me to be Him. They like to misquote scripture to fit their agenda and belive what unbelivers have to say without ever learning for themselves.
Guess what though...
But all are told they can be forgivin..
What! you say..... forgive the unWanted? But they aint like me...But ur not Christ are you. You maybe a follower of Christ but Youll never be Him. So why enforce these prejduces on folks?
Why make them conform to a "Look" or a social status that doesnt exsist in the Bible? Why force denominational control on people when there is none in the Bible? There is no dress code in there..It doesnt say "They were converted and bought kakis and polo shirts to follow the Christ" does it? They probaly had long hair and beards and wore Jedi robes, as was the style then.( i say probaly.. casue they didnt have utube then) They carried swords. They wandered around and had no home didnt bath everyday..drifters it seemed, proclaiming the Gospel.
Yet i meet people who will ignore you so you wont come back. That tell you to park your bike around the side of the church.....that sneer...... That make you feel so unWelcome, you may reject Christ as "this is a representation of him? I dont want any part of it.."
Now read down one more line. One more space down.... Thatll destroy all this dividing, social bigotry..line 11 (ooooohh)
Such were some of you;( uh ohh) but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God."(1 Corinthians 6:11)
uh oh..this means u can be forgiven? and i should be helping and or teaching them unWanted folks and attempting to educate them too? u mean i have to come outta my safety bubble for Christ to do His work? I have to leave my church pew and use the Bible as a practical tool and not just sit here and justify my bigotry?
Heaven is for everyone..all have and need to hear the Truth. Not just who U feel deserves it....Thank You
Kind of a part 2
Here is a question I see posted a lot, for whatever reason. I think a lot of churches have this entire point wrong. But here is the initial question:
" Can a Christian, a person who has received Jesus Christ as his personal Savior, sin to such a degree that
he will lose his salvation, go to hell or Hades at death, and eventually be consigned to the lake of fire at the great white throne judgment?”
Well a lot of Pastors will tell you No. But this question is false to begin with. See we are never guaranteed Salvation (ticket to Heaven) by what the church today calls "Gettin’ Saved". Have you been to a church where they say:
"If you died today where would you go? If you want heaven the come down front, well lay hands on and pray and you’ll be saved and go to heaven when you die…for sure"
This is actually the point in your life that you become Disciple and should start the gradual Sanctification process. Now part of the 3 step prayer that is so popular to say is "Jesus I repent" OK that requires you to do
something. You have to actually repent, stop doing what you’re doing or living and follow Christ’s example, Period.
Yes we are "saved" but when we "go down front" it’s from our past (not our future), the slate is wiped clean (for how we lived), by His grace, our gift ok. He expects us to follow His Sons example... BUT somehow here in the last 40 years this whole new thing of "You can’t ever fall away" has come about.
I personally was "saved" 3 times before it took it seriously. Did it mean I never had the Holy Ghost? No. It means the Spirit would guide me but if I refused to follow it and ignored its guidance and wanted to transgress and
do stuff I KNEW I shouldn’t be doing, I suppressed it. I chose to stuff it away. God gave us free will to choose Him or the World.
We, as the scripture states, will receive the crown of life after “Enduring, standing the test, being faithful till the end, remaining steadfast under trials, holding fast till the end…to show a few Scriptures.
(Matt 24:13, 2Tim 4:8, Rev 2:10, James 1:12, Rev 3:11)
I won’t get into it in this installment but Paul tells us who Will Not see Heaven, 3 times in the New Testament. Three times we are told, yet certain Pastors will just want to preach “Gods’ love…” and NOT the truth on how
to be a true Disciple. Not the truth on what YOU have to do.
Read the Bible for yourself, study it.
" Can a Christian, a person who has received Jesus Christ as his personal Savior, sin to such a degree that
he will lose his salvation, go to hell or Hades at death, and eventually be consigned to the lake of fire at the great white throne judgment?”
Well a lot of Pastors will tell you No. But this question is false to begin with. See we are never guaranteed Salvation (ticket to Heaven) by what the church today calls "Gettin’ Saved". Have you been to a church where they say:
"If you died today where would you go? If you want heaven the come down front, well lay hands on and pray and you’ll be saved and go to heaven when you die…for sure"
This is actually the point in your life that you become Disciple and should start the gradual Sanctification process. Now part of the 3 step prayer that is so popular to say is "Jesus I repent" OK that requires you to do
something. You have to actually repent, stop doing what you’re doing or living and follow Christ’s example, Period.
Yes we are "saved" but when we "go down front" it’s from our past (not our future), the slate is wiped clean (for how we lived), by His grace, our gift ok. He expects us to follow His Sons example... BUT somehow here in the last 40 years this whole new thing of "You can’t ever fall away" has come about.
I personally was "saved" 3 times before it took it seriously. Did it mean I never had the Holy Ghost? No. It means the Spirit would guide me but if I refused to follow it and ignored its guidance and wanted to transgress and
do stuff I KNEW I shouldn’t be doing, I suppressed it. I chose to stuff it away. God gave us free will to choose Him or the World.
We, as the scripture states, will receive the crown of life after “Enduring, standing the test, being faithful till the end, remaining steadfast under trials, holding fast till the end…to show a few Scriptures.
(Matt 24:13, 2Tim 4:8, Rev 2:10, James 1:12, Rev 3:11)
I won’t get into it in this installment but Paul tells us who Will Not see Heaven, 3 times in the New Testament. Three times we are told, yet certain Pastors will just want to preach “Gods’ love…” and NOT the truth on how
to be a true Disciple. Not the truth on what YOU have to do.
Read the Bible for yourself, study it.