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16 And when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eat with publicans and sinners, they said unto his disciples, How is it that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners? (Ref. Mark 2:14-20)
“For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon!’ “The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ “Yet wisdom is vindicated by all her children.” (Luke 7:33-35)
17 Don’t you see that anything that enters the mouth goes into the stomach and passes out into the latrine? 18 But what comes out of your mouth is actually coming from your heart, and that is what makes a person unclean. 19 For out of the heart come forth wicked thoughts, murder, adultery and other kinds of sexual immorality, theft, lies, slanders, blasphemies. . . .20 These are what really make a person unclean. (Matthew 15:17-20)
Some Christians and some sinners judge other Christians by what they eat and drink as well as who they eat and drink with. They are twisted, prejudice, confrontational, ignorant and confused and some are hypocrites.
Normally, whatever food or drink a person ingests in their body is expelled out of their body without any lasting harm being done. But what sins a person allows to enter their heart and mind tends to damage their soul and cause them to be wicked and twisted and separated from God. (Isaiah 59:2)
The hypocrisy is that many Christians condemn persons who drink, smoke or ingest numbing and intoxicating substances while they themselves take pain killers, stimulants, alcohol infused cough syrup, energy boosting drinks and pills and sleeping aids and sex enhancing drugs. Yet, they can’t see the hypocrisy of their hearts and the contradictions in their judgments. Their arrogance, prejudice and narrow-mindedness has blinded them to their own self-incrimination and condemnation. (Matthew 7:1-3)
Mankind, in her religious and earthly wisdom, judges unfairly because she can only look at things from their outward appearance and she judge them according her imperfect human perspective. However, the LORD looks at the heart. (1 Samuel 16:7)
Regardless of who you are or what titles you hold or what prestige and honors you enjoy or how good you look to the world or how the world has celebrated you or condemned you or labeled you, God knows the real you. God knows your attitude, intentions and plans. God knows your heart.
You cannot tell who I am by what I eat or drink or who I eat or drink with. You can only know me when you learn to listen to my heart.
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1 Thessalonians 5:17-24 (CJB)
17 Pray regularly. 18 In everything give thanks, for this is what God wants from you who are united with the Messiah Yeshua.
19 Don’t quench the Spirit, 20 don’t despise inspired messages. 21 But do test everything — hold onto what is good, 22 but keep away from every form of evil.
23 May the God of shalom make you completely holy — may your entire spirit, soul and body be kept blameless for the coming of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah. 24 The one calling you is faithful, and he will do it.
If you have the assurance of being saved in accordance with God’s Commands, then protect your gift – The Holy Spirit. Be thankful in all things, even serious illnesses, trials and death. Thankfulness honors God and imitates Christ.
Don’t allow the spark of divinity that was deposited in you by God to be extinguished through evil communications, immoral relationships and the rejection and despising of messages delivered to you by His servants through the inspiration of the Holy Ghost. Stay out of sin and be devoted to Holiness with your entire being even as our Savior was devoted to obeying the Father in all things and keeping the Father’s Commandments.
Jealously protect the anointing and the anointing will jealously seal you for the day of redemption.
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We are living in an environment of spiritual entitlement.
Some of our religious institutions are trying to sell the doctrine of “validation and elevation / self-realization and self exaltation.”
Many have forgotten God’s doctrine of self-denial, self-sacrifice and unselfish love. Now we want God to give us what we think he promised us because we did what the preacher said we should do to make God do what we want him to do. We feel entitled to our wants, wishes and prayers regardless of our unrepentful attitudes, unwashed souls and wicked spirit.
However, we don’t need to be validated in our sins nor elevated in our wrongs. What we need is conviction of our sins, repentance from our wrongs and to be born of the water and of the Spirit – born again.
REPENT!!!
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