Sadly, some people lie to give you hope. Which SOUNDS compassionate, doesn't it? But just suppose.....
Suppose you went to a famous doctor because you had been feeling rather ill for several months.
1. Obviously you hope it's coincidence... you're not sick.
2. Obviously you hope if it "is something", it's easy to fix.
3. Obviously you trust this famous doctor you're paying a lot.
Suppose this famous doctor knows you want to be told you're not really sick, a tiny fix will make you well. But the doctor knows without a question: You have cancer. It is curable if you go through some VERY uncomfortable and even painful treatments. But you'll die if you don't.
Yet..........
1. Suppose the doctor hates to discourage you.
2. So the doctor says, "take x and y vitamins once a week..."
3. And send you home FULL of HOPE! Thinking you're ok.
SO YOU NEVER GET THE PAINFUL TREATMENT
THAT WILL ENABLE YOU TO LIVE.
That's EXACTLY what happens when we hear in
COMPASSIONATE churches that what we are doing is
not a sin. Including, sad for me too: Gluttony.
This blog is about dieting.
There are plenty of other sins.....
There are plenty of other sins.....
This is what God says about
so-called compassionate churches and preachers
who don't want to dash your hopes .... so they lie.
Often they even come to BELIEVE the lie... especially if
someone in their family is doing that sin.
Sometimes we're FALSELY told we are NOT sinning, &
thus we do not REPENT and get forgiven by Jesus.....
requirements to enter permanent healing with God....
All through Jeremiah 27,
where "compassionate" men are teaching that God will bring BLESSINGS
and VICTORY to God's people just because they ARE God's people:
"Therefore do not listen to the words of the prophets who speak to you,
saying, 'You shall not serve the king of Babylon,' for they prophesy a
lie to you;
for I have not sent them," says the LORD,
"yet they prophesy a lie in My name..." -- Jeremiah 27: 14-15a
(God
was sending Babylon to punish His people and draw them BACK to Him
because THEY refused to draw near to God of their own willingness.......
another lesson for us today.)
PRAYER
LORD GOD, Help me to see through the lies.... that ANY kind of self-centered-ness -- including my focus on food --
is a SIN and OFFENDS You in Your Holy-ness.
Help me to not yearn to hear the
encouraging words that
"it's just a little sin compared to murder"
and believe that ok,
I'm
all right with You. For You have clearly said: Any self-centered choice, any PRIDE in self-choice....
is sin to You. Please forgive me and help me,
I pray if the name of our Holy LORD Jesus, my God.
God's Supporting Word
Jesus speaking of 'CHURCH' leaders.... the synagogue leaders... in John 8:44:
"You are of [your] father the devil, and the desires of your father you
want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in
the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he
speaks from his own [resources], for he is a liar and the father of it."
SAYING THAT WHAT GOD CALLS A SIN IS NOT a sin is.... lying.
Satan-ic.
Evil.
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