"And a servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient, in humility correcting those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the truth, and that they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him to do his will." 2 Timothy 2:24-25 NKJV (bold added)
Now, I am not saying that GWB is in the snare of the devil. But I get the idea that you think so. But I don't see you acting in the way that the apostle Paul admonishes you to act. Until I see that kind of humility in your actions you have no credibility with me.
"And a servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient, in humility correcting those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the truth, and that they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him to do his will." 2 Timothy 2:24-25 NKJV (bold added)I quoted this till I was blue in the face on the other theads. It won't do any good. It will no doubt be shortly explained to you how this doesn't apply when a hyper-Calvinist is out to get someone. But thanks for trying.
He refused for an entire thread to confess Christ. And this is not the first thread he has done that on.
It's much easier to dismiss someone because he doesn't conform to how one would expect a saint to behave than to objectively look at all the evidence. So, you will understand that it bothers me not one bit to not be credible in your eyes.
The Mouth of the Righteous is as a Fountain of Life
"That kind of relationship with God and his Son makes your mouth a fountain and not a factory. There is a great difference between the freedom of a fountain and the frenzy of a factory. God means to make our mouths pure and life-giving not by commanding us to marshall more human resources and digging up raw materials and organizing labor and management like a factory--like: "Get your psychological corporate act together!" Instead God means to make our mouths pure and life-giving by becoming our resources and our raw material and our labor and management himself.
"Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks," Jesus said (Matt. 12:34). And the way God means to change the mouth is by becoming that abundance. He means to be a fountain of life for us and in us so that out of that abundance our mouths can be a fountain of life for others.
That's the answer to our second question: The mouth of the righteous is a fountain and not a factory because righteousness means living on the abundance of God--moment by moment drinking at the fountain of living water which is nothing less than God himself, manifest in Jesus Christ and welling up in our hearts by the Holy Spirit (John 4:14; 7:38-39).
So the heart of this sermon is a call to trust God as your abundance and treasure. To live in God, to feed on God, and drink from God, and fellowship with God, learn all your wisdom from God and fear to forsake God (Ezra 8:22). He invites you this morning very earnestly and sincerely: "Let him who is thirsty come, let him who desires take the water of life without price" (Rev. 22:17). The fountain of life is free. And it reproduces fountains not factories.