Do you salute your brethren only

AND IF YE SALUTE YOUR BRETHREN ONLY, WHAT DO YE MORE THAN OTHERS? Do not even the publicans so? It's easy to love those that love us and believe and do like us isn't it? But the real love of God reaches those that don't believe and do like us.
If you look for fault you will find it. If you are looking for fault, hold the mirror up in front of your self and you will see where the fault is. Jesus looks beyond our faults and sees our needs. If he didn't we none would have a chance. If you are a fault finder or a ball bat preacher, you need to get your heart right with God. Cause God don't operate like that. There is a right way and a wrong way to up hold the word of God. Let's just use me for example!
After I backslide and wondered far away from God, I started smoking. Smoking and pants seems to be the main focus that people want to beat you to death with. Thats all they run on, thinking they are so holy and beating everyone else up. Some honestly think they are doing right. Actually they are the ones that have strayed away from God. Because God don't use no one to destroy someone and then think they have preached the truth.
For example when I way smoking, preachers preached, two ways:
1...The preacher got up and preached against smoking. They would say keep praying and seeking God, let no one stop you no matter what, you can over come. Because as you seek Him, his spirit and word will burn all the sin out of you. Just keep coming and those things that you can't over come, Jesus will over come them for you. OH how he loves and wants to help you. Let no one discourage you from seeking God's face.
I would after hearing this preacher, keep crying and reaching out to God.
keep praying if it takes ten years, just keep hanging in there. God will set you free.
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2...The next preacher got up!
He started swinging the bat I call it. And started saying smoking is a sin and who ever does it, cannot be a christian and the preacher that is not getting up and beating the people over the head and telling them, they are going to hell if they don't stop it, is a deciever. And run all night on it making you feel like you arn't fit to pray. And your little group shouting over it.
I would get up and leave and think that God hated me and what is the use evening coming.
Both preachers preached the truth, one with love and wisdom, to win lost souls.
The second one no wisdom, ran the people off and caused the lost and the little weak christians, to not seek God.
If God is not pleased with something we do, he will deal with us gently, with patients and kindness. Not kill us. If you have a problem with this, then you are the problem, not the people that have habits.
People seem to think you are up holding wrong if you don't swing the bat. God didn't call us to swing the bat. He called us to heal and set the people free. If they have so much God, then let them set the people free, instead of running them off. Thinking they done God a favor.
To win souls you have to have wisdom with truth. Truth can come out of your mouth the wrong way and with the wrong spirit.
What do we have that we did not receive from God. How did we get it? We was also borned in sin. People wake up and stop trying to be God.
Love and truth wins me.
Hate and truth drives me away.
the sheep that we drive away, we are going to stand in judgement for.
I like to never stop smoking, and I would never have quiet for the self righteous. I quiet because God took the desire from me. After people would say you better quiet those old things and doubted and judged me. Not believing that God heard a prayer that I prayed. But guess what
HE HEARD MY EVERY CRY...not a tear drop fell to the ground with out him knowing it. After he took the tobacco away from me, it made me closer to Him. But you can rest assure I didn't do it for people. God loves us so much, we can't help but keep coming to him, you see if our hearts has been broken and we can't trust no one for fear of being hurt again. Our father knows how to win our trust.
Oh if people could have the wisdom and love of God. Some do but not many.
DO YOU WANT TO BE ONE OF THOSE NOT MANY? I am a tender plant that has been placed in the field with a lot of hard plants. And they are not going to change me. I have to pray and be very careful, because they want to sow that in my tender heart.
If I had of listen to these ball bat preachers and just friends in general, I would have given up a long time ago. But I was determined to seek God no matter what, not matter what they said or thought. I didn't care and I still don't. Only you know your heart and your relationship with God, don't let no one stop you. If no one can except you, keep on keeping on anyway. All we need is God. He is on our side and don't let no one stop you. I want to be like the ones that won me to Christ, with love and compassion. Not compromising, and lying to me, but the truth with love and mercy. Not truth with hate, self righteous and no wisdom, that will cause people to rebell and run from God.
Remember your self and what it took to win you. And don't forget and start thinking you are God and have the right too kill.
What do you still want? What are you looking for? Love and understanding or some one that will cut you down with no mercy? One day you may be the one crying and getting no mercy, from no one.Get your Bible and embrace it, don't let it go, let no man stop you or discourage you. Go in the wilderness and pray till you can, once again feel God's love, when they leave you with the feeling of hate and discouragment. Keep that love, don't let them dump their trash on or in you. Pray after you leave their presence, remember we are to always feel..
love and mercy, gentleness, kindness, remember this is the fruit of the spirit.
His tender spirit if we keep it, will drive all the sin out of us. We don't have to do it, he will do it for us. Just keep on keeping on.
If I had of listen to people, I would have already been out of the picture. I got my eyes and ears tuned in to Jesus, and you had better keep them tuned up.
If you don't pray and work your garden and keep all this crab grass chopped down you to will become a dead, ball bat preacher. It's takes, praying, reading, a made up mind, to not let no one stop you or plant a seed of, hate, discord, or what ever in your heart. How to look over your garden and check it for crab grass is, if you are not feeling the fruits of the spirit something is wrong and crab grass has sliped in while you were asleep. You got a little lazy on your praying and the devil planted something that wasn't write, like maybe a hard judging spirit. Pray and let the holy ghost woe, chop it down. Then you will began to feel the love and tenderness flow from your heart again. The bigger it gets and the longer you neglect to work your garden, the harder it is to woe it down. Get it while it is small. Once it takes root, it is hard to get it out of your garden or heart. We can't afford to get lazy. Read in proverbs, when you go by the field of the slowful. Children it gets in a mess. And there is a lot of people out there that is not taking care of their gardens and they want to dump all their crab grass on us. They become so hard they don't even realize it sometimes. God has to show them, cause see he is that same loving God toward them. The ones that has drove you crasy and dumped their trash on you. And tryed to make you like them. Are you glad that you were smarter than that and havn't ended up in a mess like them. You are still going with a smile and winning people, while they are setting in from of a tv dead and twice plucked up by the roots. No life, just dead judging word. No one is right in their eyes but them. But don't you stop reaching out to them. If you do, you will end up like them. Thats why we end up in a mess, we get close to God and think we are better than everyone else and lose our love and compassion. Remember love goes all around you, to the ones that is right and the ones that is wrong. We love them all the same. Whether they be saints, sinners, pretenders, enemies, your nightmares, we must pray and love them all and reach out to them. And children when you do, you want to be close to God and have more of God, "this is the secret" LOVE......
For God is love no other way, no other door God is truly love, he will correct us in love. We don't get by with sin, he just gently removes it for us, when we keep coming to him. He is a holy God and sin cannot approach him, that is why we must be covered by HIS BLOOD..not our self righteousness.