Monday, September 26, 2016

HOW EX-MEMBER DISSIDENTS FILL THEIR MINDS... HOW ABOUT YOU?

HOW EX-MEMBER DISSIDENTS FILL THEIR MINDS... HOW ABOUT YOU?
By Herbert W. Armstrong

ONE EMBITTERED expelled former member, whose principal purpose in life now seems to be to "expose the evils" of the Worldwide Church of God, has said, so I am told, that ex-member malcontents fill their minds continually with nothing but conjuring up in their minds what they seem to enjoy thinking is WRONG with the Church of the living GOD.
Their whole thought -- their conversation -- dwells on nothing, it seems but what they like to suppose is wrong and evil about God's ont true Church.
They twist and distort facts into that which is not true. They enjoy conjuring up in their embittered and often perverted imaginations monstrous, impossible, filthy lies about the Church or its leaders, and enjoy spreading false rumors.
Significant? Those of us in the Church fill our minds on, more than anything else, the WORK of God's Church, the wonderful TRUTHS of God's precious Word. But, it seems, those who once had their minds on these POSITIVE things of GOD -- of His WORK, and of His CHURCH -- still keep their minds ON GOD'S Church, but now in a negative, embittered, resentful, hating and satanic trend.
It fills their minds not only, but their hearts.
This is a warning to YOU! Don't let your mind and heart be filled with such vengeful bitterness!
Are they now, as Jude says, "filthy dreamers [who] defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities ...[who]speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves. WOE unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core. These are spots in your feasts of charity [love] ... feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever ... These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words ... mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit" (Jude 8-19).
"But," this passage continues, "ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life" (verses 20-21).
This is definitely a prophecy respecting God's true Church in these very last days.
As a man thinks in his heart, so is he (Proverbs 23:7).
So, THINK NO EVIL! "If ye then be risen with Christ ... Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God" (Colossians 3:1-3).
We, brethren, ARE the BODY OF CHRIST, the CHURCH of the living GOD, now in the short time remaining, letting Christ prepare us as His Bride to whom He soon will come. We must be found without spot or wrinkle or any such thing. Never mind the PAST. If confessed to GOD, and repented of and turned from, the precious blood of Christ has COVERED all our sins. Let HIM prepare us for His soon COMING!
PRAY for our former members, who have gone out or been put out according to Romans 16:17-18 and II Thessalonians 3:3,6,14-15. Pray that God will reveal to them that God is blessing His Church with PEACE, and that in spite of Satan's masterstroke of persecution, the Church is GROWING, is BACK ON THE TRACK, that we are now closely knit together and with God and with Christ. When our ways are pleasing to Christ He BLESSES US AND HIS WORK!
Those who have gone out are NOT so blessed. Pray that they may see it, and REPENT, that they may be received back with REJOICING!
Some eight or 10 little splinter groups have gone out from us. NOT ONE HAS PROSPERED! Some have even been fighting one another! They have caused many to drop out, not only from God's true Church, but from their little groups, and departed entirely from CHRIST! That is the FRUIT they have borne! Some have been lost FOREVER!
Also pray diligently and fervently for ONE ANOTHER. Pray for me, as I pray for all of you DAILY -- that we may allow God to preserve us faithful, enduring unto the END -- now NEAR!
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After Mr.Armstrong's death, more and more splinter groups were created. They are now looking on God's apostle and God's true Church in a negative light while building themselves in a positive light. They have disagreed with some of what Christ has taught through His apostle, and are now in their own splinter group teaching their disagreement to others.
Every one of these splinter groups are in disagreement with God the Father,His son Jesus Christ and how He ran the Church through the apostle!
They are not HOLDING FAST to what has been given to them as Jesus Christ commands us(Rev. 3:11). They begin in their haughtiness, to think they have authority over doctrine, that they have a say over Church doctrine, that Christ is working through them just as He did through Mr.Armstrong, God's apostle.
Aaron and Miriam thought so too. Read Numbers 12.
GOD EXCOMMUNICATED MIRIAM FROM THE CONGREGATION!
Thankfully she and Aaron repented.
That is what God is looking for brethren.
The Church has a command from Christ to MARK THOSE and AVOID THOSE who come to us preaching another gospel, another Jesus, another spirit. We have seen recently that some are actively trying to destroy belief and faith, by speaking evil of Mr.Armstrong and of the doctrines of Christ that Mr.Armstrong taught. They claim to be ministers of Christ. Maybe they once were, but once they attempted to rise up and go against God, His Word, and His government, and try to lift up their throne above God, to think they have the authority to change and revise and destroy doctrine, THEY ARE NOT CHRIST'S, but have proven themselves to be MINISTERS OF SATAN THE DEVIL!
And of course they accuse anyone of holding fast to God's truth of evil. They mash the true Church and it's beliefs with the Catholic Church, and they in their mind attempt to condemn God's people to the lake of fire, that which they are heading into. That is the embittered state of these splinters. They have turned their focus against God and His Church, in building themselves up, yet they claim to be God's true Church? That is the mind melt that Satan is doing to our former members.
As Mr. Armstrong said, "PRAY for our former members, who have gone out or been put out according to Romans 16:17-18 and II Thessalonians 3:3,6,14-15. Pray that God will reveal to them that God is blessing His Church with PEACE, and that in spite of Satan's masterstroke of persecution, the Church is GROWING, is BACK ON THE TRACK, that we are now closely knit together and with God and with Christ. When our ways are pleasing to Christ He BLESSES US AND HIS WORK!
"Those who have gone out are NOT so blessed. Pray that they may see it, and REPENT, that they may be received back with REJOICING! "
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