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Friday, December 20, 2013

St Matthew, Chapter 18, verse:16, Fraternal Correction: Second: Take thy witnesses.

Our paragraph topic is:  (Fraternal correction) Part 3.  

And if thy brother listens then you have won him back.  For it is the battle with sin that we wage.  It is the temptations that sin brings that causes us to stray.  It is the sway of those who have accepted sin in their lives that causes us to run with the crowd.  But Christ says to his disciples, win thy brother back.  Speak to him face to face.  Love him face to face.  Offer to him the love and protection that the father gives that he may know the truth.  For sin will blind.  Sin will corrupt.  Sin will turn the soul away from the father and bring judgment.

And if he does not listen to thee, bring others to confirm.  Bring others to persuade.  Bring others with thee that they may be witnesses to thy brother's/sister's sin.  Bring others that they may assist in the fight against sin.  The goal is to win back.  The fight is with the sin that has taken our brothers and sisters.  The battle is not to defame,  not to belittle, not to cast out the baby and the bath water.  For we love our brothers and our sisters just as we love ourselves.  And Christ and the Father loves them more.  This is why he spoke to his disciples instructing them to take one or two others with them to speak with thy brother that they may help in the fight against sin.  He told them:  "But if he do not listen to thee, take with thee one or two more so that on the word of two or three witnesses every word may be confirmed.    

Sin corrupts the mind and the body.  Sin takes hold like an octopus and will not let go.  And yet it is the love of Christ that we seek to pass to our beloved brothers and sisters that they may know the truth of who they are in Christ.  If they only knew what they do.  If they only knew what they for sake.  If they only knew what they will receive.  It is this knowledge that we seek to give, seek to convey to those that have turned away.  For without it we are easily persuaded by sin.  Without the truth of who we are in Christ we do not see the light of life that is within us.  Without it we do not know the truth of who we are in Christ and we then are easily persuaded by the tricks of sin and the traps of evil.

Evil seeks to turn us away from the light of life.  Evil seeks to kill the light of life that is within us and turn us into darkness.  For darkness can live within us just as the light of life is who we are.  God created us in his image and likeness and gave us the light of life that we may know who we are.  The Holy Spirit will come and reside with those who seek him.  The Holy Spirit  will come and protect those who want to know him.  The Holy Spirit will come and provide for those who love him.  For Christ has told us that he will not leave us as orphans but will send the Advocate to be with us. 

Fight the good fight.  Seek the truth of who you are in Christ and you will know the light of life.  For you are an alien in this world.  You are a resident of heaven and are only here to carry the message that Christ lives and Christ loves and Christ provides.  Be the light that shines upon the hill that everyone can see.  Turn away from the temptations of sin and turn to the light of life that is within you.  Seek to know the truth that is within your heart.  God loves you.  Christ sacrificed for you.  The Holy Spirit will come to you and then you will know the truth of who you are in Christ.  Come!  Follow the path before you.  Life has been given to me and I seek to show you the path that has been given me to follow.  Great is the way of the Lord

Read the sign of the times! Read the Highlighted New Testament Bible and lift the scales from your eyes that you may see, that you may know, that you may find the truth of who you are in Christ. Read it as though you would read a good book, from cover to cover, and see for yourself. Do not study it in parts reading one passage and then skipping to another, but read it for understanding. Read it for knowledge. Read it for faith. Read it that your eyes may be opened, that your ears may hear, that your heart may be filled with the light of Christ. The Holy Spirit awaits you. Christ seeks to know you. Open the door and let him in.