What did James know that can help us?
Brief paragraph on post being completed...a teaser, if you will...
From James Chapter 1, verses 2-4, a natural division by subject (NIV)
“2-My
brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
Brethren,
ah my, it is being done away with, as you read this, enormous evil
forces are at work to kill the sense of family, to kill the sense of
belonging, to kill the sense of being, “Brethren.” “Oh c’mon
Dana, that’s ridiculous, there are no “evil forces” doing such,
you’re just paranoid.” OK, I get that response, and could quip
back, “Well so was the Grinch, and look what happened.” But that
would be quip, and although much deeper than folks care to go about
Dr. Seuss, is still enough of an opening to thought that I’d say,
consider it’s possible, here’s why. If you wanted to kill the
Holy Spirit, oh I know, we don’t discuss the Holy Spirit as being
real, but just for the sake of argument, let’s say that He is; and
let’s say that your task is to kill Him, how are you going to do
that, seeing as how He is in every believer who is “Born from
above.” (Very literally what Christ said to Nicodemus that
night...”You must be born from above,” poorly translated, I would
think even Dr. Mounce might agree, as “You must be born again.”
But that translation, awkward and lacking, still gets the point
across.) There are at present so many believers that trying to kill
the Holy Spirit would be a tough assignment, would you gather them
all together? That would mean a very strange nation size occurrence?
That’s not at all likely is it? Would you take them on one at a
time, well that could take a while, couldn’t it? Or would you
devise a virus- oh-oh; now we’re talking terms that 2018 readers
can relate to- a virus to kill the Holy Spirit? Hmm, that’s an
idea, could you do it?
What dear Christian do you think it would
look like?
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