Monday, July 26, 2021

BLESSINGS FROM JUDGING EVIL

My Dear Precious Child,
    Paul also chided the people in the church at Corinth about their suing each other and then also taking their spiritual brothers to human court.  He was perturbed that no one in the congregation seemed to be wise enough to settle the differences.  He could not understand why they could trust people outside of the church to settle differences between themselves as spiritual brothers instead of trusting people in the church to have spiritual wisdom to mediate between spiritual brothers and sisters.  He said he was not shaming them, he was merely amazed that there were no brothers with the wisdom to mediate the problems between them.  He was amazed that brothers must drag other brothers before unbelievers in court to settle differences.  He asked if one person in the congregation could not put up with injustice done toward himself or herself and forgive the injustice.  He asked them if they realized that the unholy men who were representing them in court could then, and still cannot, not inherit My kingdom of heaven, not fornicators, idolaters, adulterers, sodomites, thieves, misers, drunkards, slanderers or robbers, so how could they trust unholy men to wisely mediate between spiritual brothers who are supposed to have My wisdom and insight into matters?   He reminded the people in Corinth that some of them had previously been unholy but had become holy when they were baptized into My kingdom of God, having been justified in the name of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of God. (I Corinthians 5:4-11)
    As is said in your world, Paul let the believers in Corinth have it with both barrels, continuing with on a teaching about sexual immorality and the sanctity of the human body which had become the body of Christ with the presence of the Holy Spirit living inside of their human bodies   But, first, Paul told them in his letter that he was free to do anything, but not everything would be beneficial for him to do because he could become enslaved to temptations of the devil.   He wrote that food is necessary for the stomach and the stomach for food, but the body is not made for immorality.  The body of people was made for the Holy Spirit, the Lord, to live inside; and the Lord, the Holy Spirit is for the body, to instruct and guide the person.  He assured them that I would raise up their body by My power.  (I Corinthians 6:12-14)  
   Paul continued to remind the Corinthian Christians that their bodies were members of Christ.  He wrote to them asking if they would prefer for Me to make them the body of a prostitute, adding that I strictly forbid it.  He reminded them that a man who is joined with a prostitute is one body with her instead of with Me because a person who is joined to Me becomes one Spirit with Me.  Therefore, he advised the people in the church at Corinth to run from lewd conduct.  He said that every other sin committed by people commits it outside of the body, but the fornicator and adulterer sins against his or her own body.  
    Again Paul assured the Corinthians that their bodies were a temple of the Holy Spirit because they had received into their bodies the Holy Spirit who is from Me.  He wrote that they were not their own; that they were bought with a price, the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.  Therefore, he wrote that they should glorify Me in their bodies by keeping themselves pure, neither joining themselves to fornicators nor to adulterers.  (I Corinthians 6:15-20)
    Paul's letter to the Corinthians was full of heavenly advice in an effort to outline for the Corinthians the road to righteousness that brings unending blessings into their lives on earth.  His advice is pertinent to your life on earth, also, with the same advice being beneficial for your day.
    Your Father of Godly and Beneficial Advice         

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