living sacrifice

Like that sister Cao, I have been involved in theological debates. I think many people besides us have been caught in this whirlpool.

Human sin is really terrible, even if you have the best intentions—Sister Zhao is for people to come to the church to be saved and to make the church grow; All are cursed by God, not only is it not good for the doer, it is also not good for the receiver.

Many people who think they are knowledgeable will fall into this quagmire. Some of them should feel that they are being reprimanded by God, but they will use the excuse of "I am fighting for the truth" as an excuse to resist those who exhort them.Seeing this, if you find that you are such a person, please don't rush to get angry, please read on patiently.

Those who are in the pit of theological debate are self-righteous.But I gradually realized that I began to be proud, and I began to think that everyone else was wrong, and only I was right.Such arguments not only did not make me more loving, but made me more proud. I knew something was wrong with me.

During this process, someone asked me a question: "Aren't you arguing about this to save them?"

Her words woke me up, and I thought it was the Lord reminding me through her mouth.thank God.At that time, I didn't fully realize my mistakes, and I didn't think I was proud, I thought I was quite humble, but because I found that I had the symptoms of "I am the only one right", so I stopped arguing, And I closed several accounts that I couldn't control. After that, I gradually calmed down on this issue.

However, several friends who stood on the same front at that time were still there, and they often said to me with some people and things: "This person used to be a Christian, but now he has left the true way because of the arguments of unbelievers. I think this man can be saved."

I basically answered them: "I don't think debates can save people's souls. Faith is not established by debates." The Lord has said that there will be people who forsake the true way, and I think I have no ability to serve such people.

But those friends still enthusiastically invited me to some theological debate groups. Because I met false teachers there, I quit one of them, and later refused to accept the invitations of those people.

To this day, some of them are still debating there, arguing with unbelievers and scoffers, and debating some theological differences with brothers and sisters.I can't see life in this thing, so I withdraw.Later I found out that one of the group leaders was a person who had just believed in the Lord for two or three years, which further strengthened my determination to evacuate.

Regarding the theological debate, I just saw a very good sentence: In addition to right and wrong, there is one more important thing, and that is life.

Brother Shi Bocheng also shared one thing: If what is said is correct, but without the correct spirit, there will be no correct results.

Do the right thing with the right spirit.This is by far my most important insight into theological debate.We do theological debate not to prove that we are right, but to save people, and to save people is to love people, not hate them.It is the brothers who are more likely to sin in this matter.

Our sins are terrible, only the Lord Jesus Christ has overcome the power of sin, we must use the power of the Lord to restore the lost souls, and we must love them!If we just fight against it with diabolical arguments, if we just use sin to deal with sin without the life of the Lord in it, all of this is useless.

The devil attacked me crazily. Apart from these, I also encountered many strange people and things.

The first person who left a deep impression on me was the person Mu Yun preached the gospel to. At that time, Mu Yun just believed in the Lord and wanted to find a "meal ticket", so he voted on the dating website Shanghai, and then a person came and said he wanted to understand God. the way.Of course I welcomed it, so I preached the gospel to him, but what I didn’t expect was that in the end, he would become someone who opposed God because of the pets at home.

I told him that in God's creation, man is the most precious thing of God, but he disagreed, he believed that animals and man should be equal.I said that the world was given to man by God, including these animals, so man should love animals, but this does not mean that man and animals are on an equal footing.He can't accept it.

Later, because of this reason, he actually joined Satanism and went to a meeting with a woman who claimed to be the Second Coming Christ.

This person made me very sad. He repeatedly spread Satanism to me. I had no choice but to delete his WeChat account with the help of brothers from the new church.

The second person is someone I met online, who is also someone who can hear voices from the spirit world.

She asked me for help, and her symptoms seemed to be similar to those of Sister Cao, so I told her not to listen to the voice speaking to her, and not to believe that voice, she could no longer leave a gap for the evil spirits.She should be well grounded in the truth.

She was confused at first, thinking that it might be the voice of God.But she told me several prophecies in succession but they didn't come true, even my name and my grandfather's name were wrong, indicating that this was either her own imagination or the harm of evil spirits to her.

I said, "Don't listen to that voice again. At least you have to check what kind of spirit it is according to the standards of the Bible. The Holy Spirit is not afraid of your checking, and the evil spirits don't want you to check."

In fact, I can say that nine times out of ten it is not the Holy Spirit, because people with the indwelling Holy Spirit have clear thinking, controllable emotions, willingness to be holy in behavior, and controlled will.But Sister Cao's situation is different from this sister's. They are very passive and completely manipulated by that voice.

After that sister spoke to me for the first time, she initially accepted my exhortation to her, but within a few days, she suddenly told me: "That spirit forbids me to speak to you."

"Don't you believe it? It's an evil spirit!"

"I don't know, I'm at a loss."

"You have to test him according to the standards of the Bible. Next time he comes to talk to you, you can ask him if he recognizes Jesus Christ incarnate."

I don't know if she checked it or not, she is too far away from me, and I can't go there.

But I remember she told me that day: "The spirit told me that you will come to us soon. Sister, if you come, please do me a favor and give my personal information to a brother named Yang, please .”

I said to her very sincerely: "If there is this opportunity, I will help you with the letter. But to be honest, I am a proofreader myself, and I have no chance to travel on business, and I will not travel to your place. I think Unlikely."

"Wait, God said, you will definitely come."

"You think that is God, but what if it's not? I've told you again and again, and I'll say it again this time. If I haven't come to your place recently, you have to admit that the one who talked to you is not God. Because God's words never fail to come true. of."

She disappeared for a while, and I still haven't found the church.

After a while, she came back and sent me a message on WeChat: "Sister, have you come to our place?"

"I didn't come. I tell you the truth, the one talking to you is not God."

"Hey, I can't figure it out. He also told me some time ago that Trump will continue to be president."

"The U.S. election is just around the corner, and we can wait. Tell me, if Trump loses the election, do you agree that the spirit is not the Spirit of God? The Holy Spirit is the witness of the Lord Jesus. Why should he Tell you so many strange things?"

"I think Trump will be re-elected."

She also said one thing that I don't want to say here because it's so ridiculous.In short, that spirit told her some strange prophecies all day long, which disturbed her, and I was also influenced by her.

I can see that she is interested in that brother, but the profile picture of the brother's circle of friends shows him holding a child on his shoulders.

I told her, "This brother is probably married and has children. Generally, men have pictures of their family members on their profile pictures in their Moments."

But the man insisted that the "Holy Spirit" told her that this was not the brother's own child, but his nephew or nephew.

I advised her: "You should listen carefully to Pastor Tang Chongrong's sermon."

She said, "I listened to some of his sermons, but I didn't have much interest. By the way, the Holy Spirit told me to listen to Grace 365. Do you know Kou Shaun?"

Of course I know that he was one of the people who initiated the 40-day fast and prayer at the beginning, but I don’t know why, but when I looked for the record later, he disappeared.

I said to her, "Let me tell you the truth, I think nine out of ten things that the spirit tells you to listen to are problematic."

However, from beginning to end, she never heard a word from me.

Later, brothers in the church advised me not to contact these people any more. I followed his advice and deleted this person too.

But what I want to say is that in the Christian forum of "Jonah's House", there are actually all kinds of people mixed in, some are spiritual, some are prostitutes, some are fake, and some are even in Paganism.

A brother posted a message on the forum and said: "Several people in our church have such a situation, and then the spirit told them to listen to Grace 365."

There are many good sermons.Since the brother has also testified like this, I am afraid that the problem of grace 365 is quite serious, and I will not listen to it anyway.

That person went to a psychiatrist, and the doctor said she was schizophrenic, which she wasn't.No one can solve problems like this except the Lord Jesus, but I have never had the opportunity to practice them. I think exorcism and confession and repentance, especially confession and repentance, should be effective.It is a pity that this person did not let me see her confession and repentance.Although she said so many prophecies have not come true.

I met another extremely charismatic person on the Internet. When we were debating, she suddenly told me, "The Lord just told me. I don't know if I heard you right. You have to discern, but the Lord just said, He originally wanted to give you the gift of tongues, but he couldn't give it to you because you were too proud."

At that time, several brothers in the forum reprimanded her.

I told her, "I don't think the Lord will seduce a man with a gift."

She said, "If everyone thinks like you, then Paul and Peter don't have gifts? Then Christianity is over."

I didn't want to argue with her, I felt that there was something in it that was hard for me to understand, and I couldn't express it at the time.

Now that I think about it, it’s very simple. God’s intention is for all of us to be saved. He knows that when these obvious gifts are given to a person, it will be a great test for that person’s spirituality, so He will never give gifts to a person. A person whose life has not been dealt with and who has not gone to the cross.

The gift is not the most important thing, the most important thing is to have the life of God in it.Gifts are for service, but the fruit of the Holy Spirit is one's own life.

Nowadays, many people are pursuing the gift of the Holy Spirit, but they have lost the Lord who gave the Holy Spirit. In this way, they will not only lose the essence of truth, but also easily become victims of evil spirits.

Before the Lord Jesus left, he reminded us repeatedly: Beware of false prophets and false Christs. He said that in the last days, all kinds of lawless things will be rampant, so that some people’s love will gradually grow cold.

In fact, these chaos are not only caused by human sins, but also because the spirit of the dark kingdom that is against God disrupts the church. The appearance of these phenomena proves one thing—the day when the Lord Jesus returns is not far away, and the kingdom of heaven near.