Our paragraph topic is: (Fraternal correction) Part 4.
The battle is with sin and the weapon is love. We love our brothers and sisters. We would have them saved. We would have them share in the riches of heaven. We would have them experience the love of Christ and the protection of God the Father. But the ways of sin are deceiving. The ways of sin will blind. The ways of sin will overpower and contaminate the mind and the soul. And the soul will lose the light of life when it turns away from light into darkness.
Christ tells his disciples if the face to face talk fails, and the meeting with two or more fails, then appeal to the church. For we are at war with sin. We need reinforcements to overcome the black grip of sin. Sin will enter the soul. Sin will take hold. And sin will overpower the mind and the soul until one is unable to recognize the deep dark hole that sin has taken us to. Light become darkness. Good becomes evil and our sister or brother may be lost to the ways of sin. Christ tells his disciples: "And if he refuse to hear them, appeal to the Church."
Seek the counsel of the church. Seek the wisdom of the elders. Seek the prayers and supplications of the body of Christ that thy brother or sister may be saved from sin. For if there is any hope, if there is any good left in them, if there is any spark of life left within, then every effort must be made to save them. Who would want to see thy brother condemned? Who would want to see thy brother or sister cast into the fire of eternal damnation? They know not what they do. They have no understanding of the consequences of their actions. They are blinded by the appeal of sin. They are asleep in the world of sin and do not know that they are asleep.
Try to awaken them and they resist. Try to appeal to them and they deny. Try to show them and they refuse to see. For they see the world in a different light than we do. They see the world through rose colored glasses and everything is fine to them. Yet to take off the glasses is unwanted in their eyes. The battle is with sin and the weapon is love. For God's love fulfills all. God's love completes all. God's love is all that our life and our light needs for fulfillment. And without his love we are nothing. Without his love we are void. Without his love we wither and die and become darkness.
So take the light of love with thee and shine it into the darkness that they may see the truth. Love thy brother. Love thy sister. Not with a physical love but with a spiritual love that comes from the heart, should we love one another. For we are spirits. We are aliens. We are the light that Christ gave us when he became our sacrifice. Through him we have been given life anew. And with this new life one can find the peace and love and charity that comes from God.
With the realization of the truth of who we are comes the separation of the mind and the spirit. And with this separation comes the open door that brings forth the light of the Holy Spirit. For he will provide. He will protect. He will counsel. He will show forth the love that God our Father has for each and every man, woman, and child. Come! Follow the path that leads to understanding. Follow the path that will enlighten. Follow the path that will open the door to the light of life that is within you. Christ awaits you. The Holy Spirit seeks to know you. And the Father seeks to love you as his child.
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.
The battle is with sin and the weapon is love. We love our brothers and sisters. We would have them saved. We would have them share in the riches of heaven. We would have them experience the love of Christ and the protection of God the Father. But the ways of sin are deceiving. The ways of sin will blind. The ways of sin will overpower and contaminate the mind and the soul. And the soul will lose the light of life when it turns away from light into darkness.
Christ tells his disciples if the face to face talk fails, and the meeting with two or more fails, then appeal to the church. For we are at war with sin. We need reinforcements to overcome the black grip of sin. Sin will enter the soul. Sin will take hold. And sin will overpower the mind and the soul until one is unable to recognize the deep dark hole that sin has taken us to. Light become darkness. Good becomes evil and our sister or brother may be lost to the ways of sin. Christ tells his disciples: "And if he refuse to hear them, appeal to the Church."
Seek the counsel of the church. Seek the wisdom of the elders. Seek the prayers and supplications of the body of Christ that thy brother or sister may be saved from sin. For if there is any hope, if there is any good left in them, if there is any spark of life left within, then every effort must be made to save them. Who would want to see thy brother condemned? Who would want to see thy brother or sister cast into the fire of eternal damnation? They know not what they do. They have no understanding of the consequences of their actions. They are blinded by the appeal of sin. They are asleep in the world of sin and do not know that they are asleep.
Try to awaken them and they resist. Try to appeal to them and they deny. Try to show them and they refuse to see. For they see the world in a different light than we do. They see the world through rose colored glasses and everything is fine to them. Yet to take off the glasses is unwanted in their eyes. The battle is with sin and the weapon is love. For God's love fulfills all. God's love completes all. God's love is all that our life and our light needs for fulfillment. And without his love we are nothing. Without his love we are void. Without his love we wither and die and become darkness.
So take the light of love with thee and shine it into the darkness that they may see the truth. Love thy brother. Love thy sister. Not with a physical love but with a spiritual love that comes from the heart, should we love one another. For we are spirits. We are aliens. We are the light that Christ gave us when he became our sacrifice. Through him we have been given life anew. And with this new life one can find the peace and love and charity that comes from God.
With the realization of the truth of who we are comes the separation of the mind and the spirit. And with this separation comes the open door that brings forth the light of the Holy Spirit. For he will provide. He will protect. He will counsel. He will show forth the love that God our Father has for each and every man, woman, and child. Come! Follow the path that leads to understanding. Follow the path that will enlighten. Follow the path that will open the door to the light of life that is within you. Christ awaits you. The Holy Spirit seeks to know you. And the Father seeks to love you as his child.
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.
