"Plucked Up By The Roots"

 "These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, 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:" (Jude 12 KJV)

  "Don't be misled - you cannot mock the justice of God. You will always harvest what you plant. Those who live only to satisfy their own sinful nature will harvest decay and death from that sinful nature. But those who live to please the Spirit will harvest everlasting life from the Spirit." (Galatians 6:7-8 NLT) 

 As many of us should know, it is the Holy Spirit that prompts us when we are given unsound doctrine, making us aware of what we already know. There are certain things that can be looked over, things that might not really matter much, like times and places; maybe a name that does not fit the story. But when it comes to the things that really matter, if it isn't right and if it doesn't alien with the Gospel Message, then it doesn't count, and needs to be challenged! 

 There have been several times in my walk with the Lord where I have heard someone say something that prompted the Holy Spirit, telling me that it was not so. Most of the times they were really not all that big of a deal, only just things that might have to do with human nature or reasons we might not have the right walk with God. As if those things really matter, because we all have our own issues that need to be sorted out.

 But when it comes to the message of the cross, and the power of God's salvation; especially the truth about Christ and all that He has done for us: there is no alternative to what He did and why He came! Because He lives, we are alive! No one can tell me any other story, than the one that has been written! Whether you can except it or not, that is on you; there is really no argument needed; just the truth, and nothing but the truth. 

 I have friends and relatives that are stuck in false religions, and I pray for them, that they might by saved; but no matter how hard I try, there is just no way that they will listen. They have entered onto the Ark, and don't want to be kicked off! It's as if they fear that believing anything else, except what they have been taught, they will be forever destroyed and abandoned. 

 This might not be the easy thing to say, because it hurts me to even bring it up: but there is a spirit that holds them captive, and it is not easily removed! More than anything, I would love to see them set free; but for some reason they just cannot receive the truth. But it is the Truth that sets us free! 

 Each and every one of us that claim to be Christians need to hold firmly to the Truth; and that Truth is the Word of God! This Bible that you have, (If that is you still have one!) is your guild and your map that shows you the Way, the Truth, and the Life; there is no other way, but by the Word of God...

"He came into the world he created, but the world didn't recognize him. He came to his own people, and they rejected him. But to all who believe him and accept him, he gave the right to become children of God. They are reborn - not with a physical birth resulting from human passion of plan, but a birth that comes from God. So the Word became human and made his home among us. He was full of unfailing love and faithfulness. And we have seen his glory, the glory of the Father's one and only Son." (John 1:10-14 NLT)