God Hates Discord Among the Bretheren

Discord: lack of harmony between persons, things or ideas. Active quarrling, conflict.


Discord takes place when we are activley quarrling with other people about something. And it is pevelant in the churches today. The thing is, if God hates anything that  is sinful in the church, that is one of the greatest.

I have told the situation before of our pastor that had preached on abortion which he does from time to time. A few people had started coming to the church and heard his message on the subject for maybe the first time. They did not agree with it, and did not like it at all even though he preached it from a biblical standpoint. And so they decided he needed to be outsed. So they were able to get a few more people on board and came up with a petiton to do that. This had happened a few years ago and I don't remember all the details but the preacher let it be known to the congredation that if they wanted him to step down, he and his his wife would do so. They did not want to, but if this was God's will, they would. There would be a vote taken from the congregation and everyone that wanted to partisipate was to come on a certain day to vote whether they wanted them to stay or not.

The vote taken and the preacher was to reamin as such in the church.

He was and still is many years later and loved by so many people there. He has a love for God and people that defines he, his wife and most importantly their ministry to God. A few people back then did not like something he believed and preached so they decided he should go. And they began sowing discord among other people in the church. When they didn't get their way, they left.

 This is what it means to sow discord among the brethern. And it is sad because it goes on all the time among Christians in churches. I could give you other situations that I personally know of in my experiences within churches that should never have happened.  This was just one example, but let me instead tell you what the bible has to say about it.

James 4:11 Speak no evil of one another brethern. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, but if he judgeth the law, he is not a doer of the law, but a judge. 

Proverbs 6:14 Forwardness in his heart, he devises michief conrinually and soweth discord.

Proverbs 6:19 A false witness speakth lies and he sowth discord amonth the brethern.

And that was what this small group of people were doing to distupt God's work there. The pastor and his family had ministeed there for several years and thankfully had the backing of many more people that loved them. Under his leadership, the smaller congregation had grown to a much larger one at that point to where at the time had a Saturday service and 2 more on Sunday to accomadate all those that wanted to attend. And through God's continuing blessing it continues to grow.

But the devil still works. And he still uses people in all churches. Especially those that are sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ. Because as from the beginning of time, he lies and wants to destroy God's work. Thankfully, Jesus has already won the battle, and there will come a time, when satan will be thrown into the lake of fire and he will do no more damage to anyone.and especially to the cause of Christ.

Until that time, we should not let ourselves be a part of any strife, or discord that goes on in anything. Not in our homes, not in our jobs, and not in our churches. God will judge us if we do and what defense will we have then. We will stand before him, defenseless becasue there will be not one word we can say. And is that really what we want? Absolutly not. Absolutly not!

If you are sowing discord in any part of your life, confess it to God and he will forgive you and you will not be judged for it because he wants you to be free and not held in any bondage of sin. And on that day in the future, when you stand before him, you will have no need for defense because Jesus has already paid the price for you and I.

Thanks for coming again, Friends. Today ends this series and we will be starting something new for the month of Decembe which will begin on the first of December. I will be here just briefly tomorrow, and will just have a short blog. And then will be back on Saturday to start the new month. I hope you will visit! Til then, God Bless!

God Hates A False Witness That Breathes Out Lies

The ninth commandment that Moses brought down from Mt Sini is: Thou shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. Exodus 20:16. And when someone does Proverbs 25:18 has this to say about them: A man that bears false witness against his neighbor is like a war club or a sword or a sharp arrow. 

There are many other verses that condemn the bearing of false witnessing. When someone says to someone else that something is true that isn't, they are guilty of this. Jesus himself faced it in Mark 14:56 and Mathew 26:60 as were others both in the new and old testaments. 

Husbands and wives lie to manipulate getting their way. Politicians sure do it to get elected. Some politicians go so far to say, "I did not have sex with that woman."  Employees call in and lie about being sick just because they do not want to work on particular days.

Sadly it is an everyday occurrence in the lives of yes, even in the lives of us Christians. 

Years ago in a church, we went to, the elders had

caught the pastor in some lies. He was forced to leave because of those lies because the whole thing had been very damaging to the congregation that had trusted him. 

The lies that come from someone that is a false witness are no less a sin than any other sin. From theft to murder. Or even telling a so-called "little white lie." There is no difference. They come from hearts that are bent on doing evil. What seems the smallest of lies is no different than adultery or any other sin. Because Romans 6:23 says that the wages of sin are death. Even though murdering someone is obviously worse than just thinking about it, either will put a person on the road to hell as well as lying, for those that have not accepted Christ as their personal Savior. 

And so the next time we think of lying or bear false witness in any sense of the word, we should remember that this is one of the things that God hates. And really, I have to mention how much God thinks about it as being something he hates. Because not only does he hate when someone bears false witness, but the second thing he has listed in Proverbs 6:16-19 is a Lying Tongue. It is that important to him. And so for that reason, we need to take a pause and just not do it. And if we do, we can be grateful that we can ask him for forgiveness for which he will freely give us!

Thanks for coming by today. Blessings to you and your families as always!

What God Hates: Feet that Make Haste To Run To Evil

Have you ever known a drug addict? One who needs money for his next fix? Drugs make people do things that perhaps they would not otherwise do if they were sober. The addict needs the next fix, so he devises a plan to rob someone to get money or something he can sell in order to get the drug. And then because his addiction is crying out for that fix, he goes swiftly into action to do the deed.

That is what it means that God hates someone that makes hast to run to evil. To hurry to get what I want. To do an evil deed.

Solomen wrote about some men that would lie in wait for someone to come by so that they could attack and rob them. To get what they want they resorted eagerly to sheer violence to get it. Proverbs 10:1-19. Just as we see today in anything and everything from robbing convenience stores to home invasions to terrorism.

But how about you and I? Are there not times that we ourselves have not devised some evil plot to get something we want and perhaps felt impatient to get it, so we do it quickly? Take for instance, gossip. Someone might share a prayer request in confidence. And the next thing you know, that prayer request may have hit the ears of more than one other person because we just can't wait to tell someone. Is that not the same thing? Sure it is.

Every day there are things that get so out of hand in our society that they get spued out over social platforms like Facebook because we can't wait to tell something that someone did whether it was true or not because people just assume that it is true without first checking it out. Or maybe they are true, but is it really our place to be spreading things we have heard?

That type of gossip can do great damage to someone who is being gossiped about and it may not even be true. We must consider what our actions will do before we do something that God would not want us to do. Proverbs 4:26-27 says: Ponder the path of your feet, and let all your ways be established. Do not turn right or left but remove your foot from evil.

If we follow that scripture in everything we do, our feet are not going to get us out of God's will. Even something that we might think is a small evil can turn into a big one if we are quick on our feet. Just as one lie will cover up another one in our haste to cover the first one and could just keep building up, it is not pleasing to God. It is in our best interest to stop and not go swiftly to do what is wrong. And instead, we should go swiftly to God's word or to prayer. That is the better solution to what we need or want.

Thanks for your visit today folks. I hope your week has started out being blessed. May blessings pour out on you today!

What God Hates: A Heart That Devises Wicked Schems

Have you ever known someone that wants to ruin someone else? Perhaps their reputation, maybe for their own gain. Politicians do it all the time. I am a fan of the Dr. Phil Show and so many days we see people on there that are plotting against someone else whether in their family or outside of it, for some reason and are seeking his counsel

. Maybe someone tries to bring someone else down simply because they hate them.

That what it means when someone devises wicked schemes. And that is the next thing in God's list of things that he hates.

Of course like every other sin, it goes back long before politicians or the Dr. Phil Show. It goes back, as usual to the Garden of Eden with the devil/snake and his schemes to get Adam and Eve to eat from the tree in the garden that God had specifically told them they were not to eat the fruit from. Genesis 2. Satans scheming was no less than premeditated. Trying to get them to do something for his own advantage. His sneaky plans worked and the rest is history.

One example of that in the bible is one I spoke of in yesterdays blog. King David had an affair with Bathsheba and when she got pregnant with his child, he had her husband killed in battle. After the child was born, God caused him to become sick and die to Davids great despair. His sin had come back to bite him in the keister ((for lack of a better word) for sure because he really wanted the child to live. Their story is in 2 Samuel.

He continues to try to do the same to us. It starts with him planting something in our minds hoping that we will carry out an evil deed.

But nothing gets by God. He knows all, sees all and hears all. And even when it looks to us like someone is getting away with something, in the end, it will come back to bite him in the keister, just like it did Adam and Eve, King David and to everyone throughout history. Even as Christians we are not exempt. Thank God, he gives us forgiveness when we ask him, but sometimes we must pay the consequences when we sin. That is just the way it is. But God is a merciful God and he loves us. He has given us a way of escape from plotting evil against other people. Manipulating things so that they will go our way. All we have to do is ask and he willing and faithful to forgive us our sin when we confess it to him. John 1:9. And for that, if we love God and have accepted Jesus, we can say, Praise God!


Thanks for stopping by Friends! Have a wonderful and blessed Monday and new week ahead!

What God Hates: Hands That Shed Innoncent Blood/Do Babies Go To Heave? (Part 3)

It is one of the saddest times in a mother's life when she has had a miscarriage of a precious child in her womb. What becomes of this baby or one that is aborted when it passes from life to death before  (or after) birth.

Is the fetus really a baby, or it just tissue like those that those take the pro-choice side of the issue?

Let's take a look at what God says about it and see what we can find out. Because once we do, then we can also find out if indeed it is possible for them to go to heaven when they die before birth.

Abortion today as we know it, was not practiced in biblical times. And so the bible is not clear on that issue specifically. However, the unborn baby is known by God. He or she is known by him from the very time he is conceived. Psalm 139:13-15 makes it very clear. You formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was being made intricately in secret, from the depths of the earth. 

Why would God create a baby in the womb of a woman and when it died in whatever manner, not just not allow it into heaven? It seems to me that, just those verses alone are proof enough. He forms the child so wonderful that his creation would be lost?

But is the scripture really clear about it going to heaven?

King David found out the hard way. Most of us know the story of his affair with Bathsheba (2 Samuel 12). She had gotten pregnant with his child and when he found out about it, he had her husband killed in battle so that he would not find out. Of course, God was not pleased by this. First, an affair that created a child, and then a murder. Bathsheba gave birth to the baby who then became critically ill.by the hand of God.

King David wanted his son to live, and so he fasted hoping God would not take him. But God did. And David's response is found in 2 Samuel 12:23. Now he is dead. Why should I fast? I will go to him, but he cannot return to me. It is clear by this account that, D avid would one day go to heaven to be with his son who was already there.

But how can that be?

 Because God is a just God. He does punish sin. We know this. Romans 6:23 says that the wages of sin is death. But babies or very young children are not old enough to willfully sin even though he bears a sin nature that he inherited from Adam. Psalm 51:5. However, a just God is not going to hold that against someone so innocent. God is gracious in his own nature. Psalm 145:17 And it was Christ's blood that covers all sin. I John 2:2.

While the Bible does not actually give voice to babies or even very young children that die either in the womb or by some kind of sickness after birth, we can conclude from the story of David and the other passages that they are immediately in God's presence at that time. That gives great peace to those parents that have lost those precious gifts from God, whom he created in the womb, will be there when we ourselves will see and be with them again if we have accepted Jesus as our Savior and have repented of our sin.

For those that believe in the pro-choice way to go, I believe that they have missed the boat in their thinking. God will judge them if they have that thinking and/or have aborted or even promoted it to others. Better that they give up the ridiculous idea that the fetus is no more than tissue in a mother's womb and repent before a merciful God before it is too late.




Thanks for coming by today Friends. If you have ever lost a baby or child to death God wants you to know that he loves you and wants to comfort you through your painful time. The heartache can be devastating when someone so precious is gone. But God promises peace to those that ask for it. And for those contemplating abortion, please give your baby a chance to live. They are other options available to you. God has allowed this baby to be created for a reason, please don't take it away from him or her. Children are truly meant to be gifts from God to us!


Have a blessed day!

God Hates Hands That Sheds Innocent Blood (part two)

This Baby Was Saved From Abortion After It Had Started

Wait Til You See How

This Baby Was Saved From Abortion After It Had Already Started, Wait Til You See How | LifeNews.com

Murder is Murder, no matter how you slice it. Murder of the heart, murder of the spirit, or physical murder. God hates any and all of it. 

The Bible tells many stories about murder and how God dealt with those that committed it. But did you know that it also tells of the murder of innocent children?

Child sacrifice was practiced by the Ammonites and Canaanites to a god named Molech. They revered this god as a protecting father figure. Images of Molech were bronze with outstretched arms that were heated red hot. Living children were placed there or rolled into a fire pit below and they died there. Molech worship occurred in the Hinnom Valley, near Jerusalem.

So much for Molech being a protective father, ey? Who would want such a father protecting them? Especially as those little children that were burned to death? So what were the reasons for their deaths?

The practice of child sacrifice has gone on for thousands of years. Not only in the bible days but actually it has never stopped. Usually, it is intertwined with the worship of a pagan deity and very often a fertility god. (Which begs the question of why offering a child to a fertility god, just to have more children to murder?)  Clearly, the worshipers were trying to appease their gods to try to get something from them.

What was God's attitude today this practice?

He had a zero tolerance for it. Any Israelite or any foreigner living in Israel were to be stoned to death if they participated in any child sacrifice, and God would cut the person/persons off from his people. And if the people in the community did not put those that were sacrificing the children to death, those people and their families were cut off as well.  Leviticus 20:2-5. And if you will notice, that also in that passage if you read it, it equates the practice as being prostitution to Molech.

There are many other stories in the Bible of child sacrifice, such as 1 Kings 11:4-11, 2 Kings 21:6, 2 Chronicles 28:1-4, and Jeremiah 32:35. Gods people in Judah were committing these child killings that was so detestable to God that in that same verse in Jeremiah, it never even entered his mind that they would do such a thing.

Sadly, murder against innocent children did not stop in the bible days. In fact, it has continued on through the ages. Today, witch doctors of Uganda have been implicated in the mutilation and deaths of children in an effort to bring good fortune and wealth to those that are willing to pay for it.

(soruce) What does the Bible say about child sacrifice?

And in the USA? It is called abortion.

 According to Facts About Abortion: U.S. Abortion Statistics there were 887,000 abortions performed in 2016. Why?

 Because of people that do not want the babies that are in the womb. Innocent lives that are murdered because they are too much trouble for someone that would have to deal with their babies. Kids having sex and then getting pregnant with their own kids with no ability to care for them.

Why? Why? Why? Selfish people that want what they want, when they want it without having to think through the consequences of their actions or deal and pay with/for them after the fact. God will deal with them. He will deal with this country that allows these murders because he hates the shedding of innocent blood.

 But I do want to say that for those that have had an abortion, he will also forgive if they ask him. There is no sin too great that he will not forgive, except for one. And that is when someone blasphemes against the Holy Spirit. Mark 3:28-30.  And so for those people who have had abortions, there is that promise of forgiveness. So do take heart and ask God for it and he will graciously give you what you need.

No matter how you slice it, murder is murder. Of the heart, of the spirit or in the physical sense, God hates all of it. And we as his people need to be aware of our own attitudes and actions because we want to please him, and not make him hate us. Hell will be no party for those that get there. And thankfully, you and I don't have to but we can abide in heaven where we can live in a forever party with our Lord Jesus Christ.

(Up tomorrow: So for those that have had abortions, or babies and children that passed in any other way, what happens to their spirits at death? God Hates Hands That Sheds Innocent Blood part 3)

  Thanks for coming by Friends. Here is wishing for all of you rainbows of blessings!

God Hates Hands That Shed Innoncent Blood (part one)

As with any other sin, murder goes back to pretty much the beginning of humanity when Adam and Eve's son Cain murdered his brother Abel simply because God favored Ables offering to him which was of an offering of fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock over Cain's own offering of  the fruits of the soil.

This made Cain very angry with his brother. He became so much so that he invited Abel to go him to go to a field whereas he attacked and killed his own brother.

And so became the first premeditated murderer of all time. Genesis 4:4-.

But wait. That isn't most of us. We have not gone out and murdered anyone. Have we. Or let's think that again. Have we?

Jesus said this in Mathew 5:21-24. You have heard it said to those of old, "You shall not murder and whosoever murders will be liable to judgment. But I say whosoever hates his brother is liable to judgment, whoever insults his brother is liable to judgment and whosoever says 'You fool' will be liable to hell fire.' So if you are offering your gift at the altar and you remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there and go be reconciled with your brother and then return to offer your gift.

Ah yeah, but really, is that really the same as murdering my brother if I don't forgive him? Well, consider what 1 John 3: 15 has to say.

Everyone that hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. 

Ah, but I might have a reason to hate my brother. He has hurt me so badly that I just cannot forgive him.

When that happens though, bitterness starts to build up in our hearts. Maybe we don't go out and actually kill him, but it is murder of the heart towards him and if we don't forgive him, we have created the sin of murder as if we had. Therefore, we are libel to the same judgment as in 1 John 3:15.

I have had to learn forgiveness in my own life over the years. Starting out with my own mother, and even through to the eventual illness and then the eventual death of my father. During his illness, someone had taken so advantage of him to try and manipulate him, that was so despicable to me that it could have made me so bitter to them that I could have hated them, and never spoke to them again. But you know, my dad forgave them before he passed and I knew that if he could forgive them at such at time when he knew his time on this earth was almost over, how could I not forgive them. And I have since spoken to them, and even visited them in their homes.

They have never offered apologies. And though that would be nice, to me it was not necessary for me to forgive them. We have never spoken about what happened those years ago at that time. I do not know where they stand on what they did. That is between them and God to figure out. But I do know where I stand with him because I chose to forgive and not hold any bitterness in my heart.

Forgiveness is never easy. And it is a learning process. Sometimes it takes time to forgive someone for something they have done that has been so hurtful that all you want to do is retaliate. We see stories of it or even can read about it all the time on social platforms as Facebook, of people that are so bitter against someone that they blast them over and over for all to see.

And what good does that really do them? It just makes them angrier and angrier and they commit murder in their hearts that really can and does sometimes lead eventually to the real thing.

Forgiving them is really not so much about that person, but it is about ourselves. Letting the anger and bitterness go can be health to ourselves. Not only physical but mentally and spiritually as well.

Proverbs 17:22 says: A joyful heart is a good medicine but a broken spirit drys up our bones. Not that we have to do what I did and still have a relationship with them even to a small degree, or even to continue to hurt us. The bible does say to reconcile with them. But what if we can't because they won't let us? Someone that wants nothing to do with us?  Or what if it is someone that truly has done something evil against us, that is dangerous to go and to be around?

 If it is better to just stay away from that person and not have a relationship with them so that we can forgive them, so be it. The important thing isn't about them really. It is about getting to the place that we can do it and not have it continually eating up our health and our hearts. We do not need their apologies to go on with what God calls us to do. And that is what is important for us. Because after all, it is not up to us to pronounce judgment on others. That is God's job. And I for one, am thankful it is not mine.

Hello Friends. I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. And now many of us begin the Christmas Season with our plans of shopping, and decorating and all the other things we will do in the days to come. On the way home from the dinner we went to yesterday, we saw Christmas lights adorning the outsides of some homes already and how pretty they looked.

As you begin the season with all those plans you have, don't forget that quote we see or hear from time to time,  Jesus is the Reason for the Season. Because that is what it is really all about. Not the decorations and gifts. But if not for the baby in the manager that grew up to save us from our sin, there really would be no reason for celebration.

Thanks for coming by. Please stop back tomorrow for part 2 of Hands That Shed Innocent Blood.
God bless!