12/24/23 SETTING AND FOLLOWING THE STANDARD

12/24/23 SETTING AND FOLLOWING THE STANDARD

Resisting (REJECTING) God's rule is sin. If a person does not turn from this sin, it ultimately becomes unforgivable (as does all sin).

God deals with, and rules over His people directly and indirectly.
His direct interaction is from the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit and the Holy Bible;
His indirect interaction is through Christian proxies (Bible believing, Christ following, Spirit indwelt believers) and
Divinely appointed authorities (husband, father, mother, pastor/teacher, legitimate government).
Whoever resists Divine authority is resisting God.

This is a major reason people abandon their loving, Christian families and Bible centered churches; they don't want to come under authority.

My ministry includes reconciliation for the sinner and equipping the saints, by cleansing, purifying, perfecting, instructing them for life and godliness.

Most people want reconciliation but very few want compete transformation and conformity to the will and likeness of Christ.

It is true that we cannot make others do what they should do, but God's word and His ministers are given for the perfecting of the saints in victorious living. There is no victory in disregarding, disrespecting and disobeying God's rule.

People do not want to be told to turn from drugs (drinking, smoking), corruptions (pornography, gambling, perversion, uncleanness), self worshiping (pride, earthly pursuits, worldly fame, prejudice, deceit, jealousy, envy, gossip, anger, hatred, all carnality).

A major problem with a parent resisting, rebelling and rejecting the rule of God is the fact that they pass their sinful attitude and actions to their children.

I have watched through the years as disgruntled adults have picked up their idolatrous beliefs and behavior (like the prodigal) and ran off to a pigsty, dragging their children from light to darkness, holiness to worldliness and eventually into a life of sin. They take their children to a place that does not address the sins of the parents and they follow the parent rather than following the way of righteousness.
Fathers want to hold on to their carnal desires, self serving and self preservationist views, and mothers want to hold on to their resistance to the leadership and authority of the husband, and the church. They go off to their own private trough, where they can raise and train their children in a life of self orientation, self satisfaction and self aggrandizement.

It is wrong for the husband to abuse or worship his wife.

It is wrong for the wife to see herself above the rule of her husband, or under the foot of an ogre. She needs to see herself as a woman, a wife a mother and part of a faithful body of believers.
People need the authority of God in their lives, for their present and for their posterity.