Thanks for stopping by, and thanks for the comment.

Properly speaking we could admit that we can touch an unclean thing without a reciprocating effect by showing how we live in an unclean world. But, even at that we are required to return many times to the fount for cleansing, and that it is not necessary to wash the while body, but only the feet, as Jesus related to Peter. Could you provide me with your Bible reference to back-up your view. I think there may be some validity in what you say, but could you expand on it for me?

Thanks,

Steve Blackwell

However, in maters of life and death it is within TORAH to REACH OUT AND HELP A PERSON, TOUCH HIM. This also facilitates the function of outreaching, evangilsation, and reconciliation toward a brother or unclean person. The example was giving of the Messiah Yahusha when he touched the unclean. He was exercising the law of mercy. The law of touch is a fence to keep us a way from unclean people – who are proberly unclean in the ruach too.

Thank you,

Steve Balckwell

This sounds to me like a watered down version of the knee jerk “judge not lest you be judged” response of carnal churchianity. He may not have intended it to sound that way and I don’t mean to be confrontative, but I never noticed Steve Blackburn “condemning” anyone in his excellent post above on “touch not the unclean thing”. His words were gentlle, yet accurate and Scriptural. We, as believers are required to be “salt” and “light” not sugar and sweet. The Holy Spirit convicts, Satan “condemns.”

John 7:24 says Christians should “judge with righteous judgment” which means not self-righteously but with the Word of God as the plumb line. I am more persuaded than ever that God has abandoned most of professing Christianity and the true believers consist of a scattered little remnant outside of what is referred to as “church” which Prodigal Knot says the “leaders” are not doing their job. The Bible says a group of elders should SERVE, not a nicolaitan LEADER. That is one of the biggest problems in organized churchianity today. The Bible only mentions “pastor” one time it is in the context of “teacher.”

It matters not that religious people gather in the name of Christ, sing “Amazing Grace” and preach many sound biblical doctrines. If God’s power and life are not there, God is not there! Those places exist to bind up bundles of tares for the fire (Matthew 13:40). It is no place for a true born-again believer — especially now in the end of the age.

It is the hour when God’s little remnant must seek Him with all their hearts to be led to where they can be delivered and the “watchmen on the wall” like Steve are to warn as many as will hear. Matthew 7:13 states plainly that only a FEW will be saved. This should send chills up spines! This verse alone was responsible for putting the “fear of God” in me when I was part of churchianity and saw the painful discrepancy of the Words of Jesus and the actions of the religious people around me.

It is night. The world is asleep, or “drunk”, given over to strong delusion for refusing the love of the truth (2 Thess 2:10). Find a patriotic “christian’ with a “God Bless America” bumper sticker and tell them that America was NOT founded on Christianity but on Luciferian freemasonry and see what kind of “christian” [DEMONIC] reaction you get! Passive, indifferent, TV-brainwashed stooges who proclaim to be ‘Christians’ who “believe” in Jesus (mental assent only) with the faith of demons (James 2:20) in this hour are in BIG TROUBLE and don’t even know it. They never read their bibles and their “American” idol is their TV set yet they still insist they are ‘christians’. They fail to realize that the Hebrew meaning of the word “believe” in John 3:16 translates to: FOLLOW, CLING TO and OBEY, not a mere mental assent to the fact that Jesus Christ hung on a cross so they can continue in sin and apathy. Consider the warning in Matt. 24:48-51 against carelessness and the time of Christ’s coming. Indifferent ‘Christians’ may prove not to be Christians at all. Half of the sleeping virgins had no oil. They were unaware of their lack until it was too late and the door to the kingdom was shut in their faces and Jesus told them “I never knew you.”. We will see an accelerated process in the days ahead of separation involving apparent believers (the mental assent, 5 minute ‘decision card’ only types) being overcome by sleep (strong delusion) and wine (spiritual drunkeness or deception).

As Paul said in I Thess. 5:5-11, “Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. But let us who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him. Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.”

If you are a faithful believer, Jesus is now asking you to WARN OTHERS just as Steve is doing here on this website. And you will be persecuted for your obedience “And you will be hated by all for My name’s sake, but he who endures to the end shall be saved.” Matt 10:22
“Come out of her my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.” Rev. 18:4. “Her” refers not only to the world but to the harlot organized 501(c)3 “church” that rides the government beast system of this world, or in other words, Laodicean apostate christianity.

“To execute on them the Written Word, this honor have all His saints.” Psalm 149:9

His maidservant,
Lynn D.

It is beyond me how someone could read this post and, in the face of my uncompromising words, not only compliment me for shedding needed light, but find solace in their sins. I tried to use words that would close any door of escape to those who would think that they had discovered another antidote for their sin other than faith in Jesus, which is the same as obedience to Jesus’ words, i.e. “if you love me keep my commandments.” But, the Christian world will have their sins, and they cannot be bound to the demands of Christ, and they justify all their doings, not by repentance, but by showing where Jesus loves them along with their cart load of crap (sorry if this expletive offends anyone). Should we pray that the Lord will continually forgive us for being weak? NO! We are weak, no doubt! there is not one who has the power to deliver himself from the clutches of death and Hell. We shouldn’t be constantly saying, “thank you Lord, for once again forgiving me from this same old sin, that I love so much, and preserving me for yourself.” How worldly is that prayer? He doesn’t want to constantly forgive our weakness, He wants to be our strength, to conquer sin, and destroy it, to parade Satan through the streets naked and in chains, not to witness the saints being led captive to their sins; may it never be so. These Christians want a spiritual fix, not deliverance. They want a pillow and a blanket, and a cup of hot tea, not a trumpet blast and a command to advance and take back lost ground. Grace, mercy, and forgiveness are reserved for those who overcome yet stumble, who are victorious yet bleed, for all others there awaits only wrath and judgment. So, how important is it to be found “in Him”? It is the only important thing on planet earth, everything else is a delusion and pandering to the flesh.

It is not “well put” it is in your face truth. Can you handle it, or is there yet another worldly antidote that will rescue you from Godliness. Of course we are all sinners, but God doesn’t feel sorry for us; He has not given us that option, but He has given us Truth and a Door, and a Path, and a Life, and a Narrow Way in which to walk. He is not a father like an earthly father; our Father is a consuming fire, and that fire kills before it heals; it purifies and transforms.

So, just in case I didn’t make myself clear, God doesn’t just sit around waiting for you to sin so that He can forgive you, He demands change and obedience, and if you do not conform there is a very hot lake that awaits you. God forbid that I would provide you another opportunity to sin and to ask forgiveness.

Steve Blackwell

So well put Steve. Again you bring light to so many ailing “christians”. I include myself as weak and find it difficult to seperate myself from the many worldly things that bombard us constantly. I pray constantly that my Father will forgive my weaknesses and that He will have mercy on my final day of judgement. Allow me to enter His kingdom. I know that only by His grace this will be achieved. We are all sinners and to claim different would be calling the word of God a lie. Thank you Steve for providing me another oppertunity to ask God for forgiveness.

Amen, brother!

People who are too shy to witness must know that they have to AT LEAST live irreproachable lives! And those that do witness must make sure that their lives do not cancel out their witness!!

I hate finding fault with my brothers and sisters, but it is our job to rescue them from error and help keep them on the right path. It’s very sad that many have no interest in comparing their lives to scripture. They are happy if their pastor is happy. How very sad.

Grace and peace to you in Christ Jesus.
Steve Foltz

Nice of you to stroll past my humble shop and sit for a spell. Your visits are always welcome. I see that you have taken issue with my lenient leanings toward my fully liberated worldly Christian brothers and sisters. I really am not a hurtful character and do pray for their true, and effectual, and final, freedom. I genuinely do have a heart for the lost and would gladly spurn these pungent words of obvious ire, for something more akin to familial chit-chat, but the day is short. Let him who is saved say so, and live so. Let him who is the elect display that, to which, he is elected; if it be to the world, display that, if it be to the Lord, display that. Don’t tell me you are the elect, show me by your chaste and holy life. If he is not yet chaste then let him bear his testimony in sackcloth and ashes. The Lord asks no more than this from His children, and we should ask no more than this from our brothers and sisters. Let me see him who has accepted his Lord’s mission on this earth, and not become a traitor by compromise, and who has remained a loyal soldier to Him he calls “Lord?” To find this man, or this woman, is to find that person of whom it is written, “he loved not his life to the death.”

Your words always cause me to rethink what I have written, as they should. “Iron sharpeneth iron,” and brother sharpeneth brother, if we do not become cemented in pride, creeds, statements of faith, or “the traditions of the elders.”These things stifle our God given freedom and makes the saint, the serf, of the Sunday morning sermon. Our true freedom rest in the revelations we receive from the Spirit, to understand the mind of God, concerning the perfection He requires, the pitiful state of our power, the willingness of His generosity, and the humility of our gratitude, in the acceptance of the status of “child of the Most High God,” from the “King of Kings and Lord of Lords.” Will we now tell our Father King that He must accept a certain level of uncleanness? Will we mar His kindness with self applied mire? or will we plead for help and accept His gracious Spirit helper, and be delivered to sup at a table prepared in the presence of our enemy, and feast on the peace of knowing we have loved our Lord, through obedience to His desires.

To allow any of the world, by any of its many contrivances, to separate us from the work of the Lord is unfaithfulness, but to deliberately sabotage His work by selfishness is high treason. Scriptures state that it is he, who endures to the end, that is saved. Only by effectively eliminating the leaven of the world from our lives is this possible, as the whole O.T. aptly demonstrates, and the N.T. demands.

Thank you brother and the Lord bless you,

Steve Blackwell

You make very good points and I agree with just about all of them. I do think you give most of today’s religious “Christians” a bit too much credit for putting religion (half-baked though it is) before TV. I dare say many do not volunteer or attend certain church activities because they might miss their shows.

Like you I have never been able to reconcile the idea that a minister would have a TV show he is addicted to, or a favorite rock star or other celebrity. Yet we see many of our so called shepherds obsessed with TV, politics, sports, working out, hunting, and fishing and then somehow expect those in their congregations to be spiritually minded!!

The number of so-called believers that sound and act just like their unsaved co-workers and neighbors is amazing! When “American Idol” is in a new season you hear it discussed everywhere by supposed believers. Can’t they get the obvious clue from the name?

I understand completely how you fell like you should somehow retreat completely from the world, but Jesus said we WERE in it! We’re just not to be emeshed in it to the extent that we look, think, sound and act like the world. We are supposed to be different enough that people can tell there is something unusual about us. I don’t think that means we are to be condemning unbelievers right and left, but making the right choices about things and standing up for what is good and honest when we have the chance.

Unfortunately, I also see unrepentant sinners behaving as nicely and as considerately and even more patiently than I do sometimes. So it’s not about being Mr. Cheerful or Mrs. Happy Face only. People will remark that you are a nice person, but it doesn’t point them to Christ. It’s about taking the hard path when a choice needs to be made; perhaps a choice that will cause your boss or co-workers some pain or inconvenience. That is when we find out how far “nice” goes!

Just don’t give up doing the good works God has called you to do! As Paul says “And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.”

As for “believers” who feel they have nothing to repent of, it’s because their leaders, the ones who tickle their ears with soothing thoughts like “we are all dirty beggars” and “we can’t help but sin” and never expose their sins for what they are, offensive as spitting in God’s own face, because their leaders have no desire to be unpopular shepherds who rule with the rod of iron they are supposed to use…..the Word of God.