Dear Brothers and Sisters,
How are you? For some of you, it is the first e-mail which you receive from me.
I believe that I am called to share the issues being misunderstood or even not mentioned in the Christians’ environment.
Do you have a wonderful live in Christ? Are you still wandering? From this week, I am sending out e-mails to discuss the un-talked topics.
Some of them are very important for our Christian life.
This is the message of this week, I want to invite you to spend 10 to a quarter to read and think of it.
It will give you a brief understanding of why I have to send out the emails.
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my(God) people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. (Hosea 4:6)
Can you see what I see? Can you see my pricked heart? The picture in the day of Hosea becomes our picture. God’s people are lack of knowledge.
For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 4They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. ( 2 Timothy 4:3-4)
Some of you might have more abundant bible knowledge than mine; some of you might be enjoying a close and wonderful relationship with God.
May God continuous to bless you! But please allow me to speak to those who are in need.
If you are not one of those who turn your ears away, please bear with my unattractive speech skill; please bear with me if I am being too truthful.
Imagine that I am your doctor and you, as my dear friend become my patient. After investing and consulting, I find out that you have an advanced cancer, what would I do?
Would I be afraid to hurt you,
would I be afraid to ruin your happy life so far;
would I be afraid to being not protective enough to you and then I HIDE the truth from you?
Would I think that: God has been healing someone, let me pray and trust in God.
See what He would do for her/him, I have seen someone who did not even seek for clinical help were healed miraculously.
The best way is to pray for him/her. I should not tell you anything, because it will hurt your feeling.
If any others know what I think, they would say: “ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND?! “
She/he would have to die!
Then look at what we are doing today? If any Christian you know, she/he is practicing serious sins and she/he might be unaware of that. Fortunately, You realise that problem.
You would be asked by someone else:
“Just trust in God and pray for him.”
“I don’t think it is good for you to talk to her, it is not good for your relationship with her.”
Some would even say ”If you love her, don’t hurt her feeling, don’t tell her the truth.”
This one is the worst “I have seen God use that kind of sins to bring good, so you might trust in God and say nothing. Just pray and trust in God.”
The worst of the worst is: “I cannot see the bible mentions it as a sin.”
What is the difference between us and the madness doctor then?
I wonder ,if apostle Paul, the early Church-fathers(English problem, I mis-typed God-fathers, I apologize.), Martin Luther , John Wesley, the puritans , and etc;
all the men and women who tried to live for a holiness life in Christ hear that,they would say ”ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND?”
Do you realise that if you are the doctor, in the name of “love”, you hide the patients' condition, and later on the patient die.
How the law will judge you?
And what would you think as a just God would do, if He lets you see others who practicing serious sins, and in the name of “love”, you choose not to tell her/him?
Are you waiting for God’s punishment on her/him? Or God is a God who never punish in your mind?
because the Lord disciplines those he loves, and he punishes everyone he accepts as a son.
(Hebrews 12:6)
We all know God is always patient and abundant in love, but He would not tolerate sins forever. It is not necessarily true that whenever we do wrong, He would punish us immediately. Sometimes He would not even punishes us and gives us chances and time to repent. But to keep this letter short, clear and condense, I would share how serious God’s punishment could be in the soon future.
This is my prayer:
Oh! God, please give me chance to do so, I don’t even know how to start to talk to those people.
I don’t even want to try. It’s been so hard for me. Please help me.
I wouldn’t will to try if I can give myself any excuses, because I am lazy and selfish.
Please help me, forgive me if I still can’t. I am a hypocrite. Grant me faith and repentance.
Or if you want, do what you did to Jonah. But please be merciful to be. I am weak. Amen
My siblings, I might be a hypocrite, but I have to speak out the truth. Please repent with me.
I appreciate that if you find my message against the meaning from the whole bible. Please tell me. This is what I believe:
Not many of you should presume to be teachers, my brothers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly. (James 3:1)
Let us walk in the grace of God together.
Your little brother in Christ,
Philip (Phelim)
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