BLESSINGS OF GODLY PARENTAL ADVICE

My Dear Precious Child,
   In Paul's human guidance for the Corinthians he approached the matter of marriage, whether a man should marry or not.  Because Paul was preoccupied, as were all of the apostles, with what they called the second coming of Christ, they wanted people to be strictly obedient to the admonitions of Jesus Christ in his teachings when he walked the earth.  Paul was especially concerned about whether people should marry or not since he thought that Jesus was coming to set up an earthly kingdom in Jerusalem.  All of the apostles were blinded to the fact that My kingdom was evident in Jesus Christ as a spiritual kingdom of the Holy Spirit and that I desired that it become evident in His followers, not as an earthly kingdom like Israel.  The apostles neglected to encourage their followers to let Christ grow inside of them by the power of the Holy Spirit so that they would be able to defeat the devil in every generational curse that he had instituted in their lives.  Instead, some of the apostles had become single minded in making sure that their followers were virtuous enough to present to Jesus when he set up an earthly kingdom as a reflection of their discipleship authority.  Many years have passed and the earthly kingdom for which they were so anxiously awaiting has still not happened because My spiritual kingdom of God has already come inside of My children in the person of the Holy Spirit, who is My very own Spirit, therefore He is Jesus Christ and He is Me.  I am waiting for the born again, baptized in the Holy Spirit children of Mine to become molded into the image of Jesus Christ and judge the devil's demonic angels in their world who have cursed their world since Adam.  (Matthew 13:36-43)  That is My judgment of the evil that's in the world, through the disciples of Jesus Christ who assume the same position that He had in the earth, one of judging the demons for Me by the power of My Holy Spirit.
     However, since Paul was still erroneously awaiting the coming again of Jesus Christ in human form, he was disappointed that people were going on doing their usual practices of marrying and having children.  He told the men that if they had a virgin in their lives that they  
should do right by her to marry her but he will not be sinful if he does.  The person who does not marry his virgin, he is doing right also since they were convinced of the soon coming of Jesus.  However, Paul's opinion was that they not marry.  (I Corinthians 7:36-40)  He wrote that he was sure that he had the mind of the Holy Spirit on that advice.   
    When Paul wrote in his letter to the Corinthians about eating meat sacrificed to idols he wrote that they all knew not to do it, but that mere knowledge inflates the ego but wisdom from Me will change a person's attitude and actions.  He wrote that they know that there is only one God, not many idols.  Even though there are many so-called gods in the heavens, those being spiritual beings or angels, there are no real idols.  But if a person eats meats sacrificed to idols, it's not going to kill him if he is not condemned.  He wrote that there were many of them who had previously, being pagan, eaten meat sacrificed to idols and had occasionally done it again, and so their consciences were weak and condemned.  He made it clear that food of any kind does not bring a person close to Me.  He wrote that neither does eating food sacrificed to idols make a person closer to Me nor does not eating food sacrificed to idols bring a person closer to Me.   However, he wrote that they needed to be careful because if a person sees a Christian exercising their freedom and eating food sacrificed to idols, he might be influenced to also eat food sacrificed to idols and have a guilty conscience later and dies, that being a brother for whom Christ died.   Because of your being free of condemnation, your eating meat sacrificed to idols did not allow the devil to condemn you, but your brother did not have the knowledge of his being free from guilt and condemnation so your freedom caused him to sin against his conscience and experience death, so you sinned against Christ by influencing the brother to eat food sacrificed to idols which he considered sinning.  If his conscience convicts him, you have caused him to sin.  Paul wrote that, as for himself, if his actions toward food caused a person to sin, then he would never eat meat again so that he would never be an occasion for someone's sinning and being condemned. (I Corinthians 8:1-6)
    Paul's advice about marriage and eating food sacrificed to idols were written to help alleviate the concerns about the many occasions that people have the opportunity to sin and in sinning experience separation from Me.  (Isaiah 59)  Paul, who considered himself the father of his former pagan converts to Christianity endeavored to school the Corinthian converts in their positions of being free from condemnation but advising them to not allow their freedom to be an occasion for them to influence someone else to sin and be condemned.  It is the devil's condemnation and guilt that kills a person.  The person's freedom is not the problem.  It's his influence upon other people that is the problem.  If his freedom causes someone else to sin, then he has also sinned. (I Corinthians 8:7-13)
   Follow Paul's advice which he wrote to the people in the Christian church.  The ones he attributes to the Holy Spirit will mirror the teachings of Jesus Christ.
    Your Father of Wise Counsel (Psalm 1)