BLESSED WITH KNOWLEDGE OF FREEDOM AND LIBERTY

My Dear Precious Child, When My children possess spiritual knowledge from the Holy Spirit related to spiritual traditions and rituals, they are free from bondage to the old covenant laws of sin and death. However, in the presence of someone who has no knowledge from the Holy Spirit related to being free from those traditions and rituals, believers must not flaunt their freedom in front of the nonspiritual people because if your freedom causes the nonspiritual people to do something against their conscience, then the victorious believers have caused the nonspiritual people to sin, thus sinning themselves. (I Corinthians chapter 8) In the apostle Paul's letter to the believers at Corinth he wrote that Godly love encourages you to only do things that build up and cause someone weak in faith to grow to his full spiritual stature. So your freedom and liberty in considering everything legal for you to do might influence someone to do something against his or her own conscience. You might have the faith to believe that when you bless food, as Christ taught you to do, that it becomes pure and unadulterated by your blessing having chased demons away, but someone else might be weak in faith, thinking that the food is demonic because it was sacrificed to demons. So that person's faith might condemn him if he sees you eating food on the altar which was sacrificed to demons and he is encourged to also eat the food. As long as his conscience condemns him, then it is sin to him and eating the food will cause the person to inherit judgment from the devil because of his beliefs, even though your freedom says that for you it's permissible to eat the food sacrificed to idols because you have been enlightened. Paul went even further by writing that if a believer thinks that he or she has come to know spiritual things but does not have love, then that person does not perceive, understand or recognize spiritual things clearly, nor has that person become intimately acquainted with real Truth. If a person truly loves Me and says that he or she has become acquainted with Me, then he or she is known by Me and I intimately know that person. However, not every believer has that intimate relationship with Me through My Spirit having revealed My love to him or her. (I Corinthians 8:1-4; Ephesians 3: 14-21) He wrote that whether or not you eat food sacrificed to idols does not make you acceptable or unacceptable to Me, but you must be careful not to influence another person to do something against his or her own conscience because doing so will allow the devil to condemn him or her with the heavy weight of guilt which can lead to death if he or she does not know about My forgiveness in wiping the slate clean of offenses. But if someone with weak faith observes you in your freedom and liberty doing something that influences him or her to also do something that is not sinful to you but is still sinful to him or her according to his or her conscience, then your enlightenment about spiritual matters has caused another person's faith to be ruined. So when you sin against a fellow believer in this way, wounding and damaging his or her weak conscience which will condemn the person, then you have sinned against Christ by your freedom and liberty. You have become a stumbling block, a hindrance to his or her weak faith by giving the person an impulse to sin. (I Corinthians 8:7-12) Paul said that he would rather never eat meat again if his eating caused another person to become hindered in his or her own spiritual advancement. Loving other people does not cause anyone to distance himself from Me. Love encourages other people to seek Me so that they will find Me. Don't do anything which will cause another person to distance himself or herself from Me because of what you have done in your freedom and liberty. ( I Corinthians 8:12) Your Father of Mercy and Forgiveness