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Have you ever considered that some persecutions you face are because you’re NOT following the will of God?

Of course, don't we all constantly check ourselves?

I am always taking my Spiritual "vitals:"

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. - Galatians 5:22-23

If the fruits are there, they are His. If the fruits are not there then I have wandered outside of His Light and I confess my sins.

This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us [our] sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. - I John 1:5-10

Maranatha, Jesus!!!

“Have you ever considered that some persecutions you face are because you’re NOT following the will of God?

Of course, don’t we all constantly check ourselves?

I am always taking my Spiritual “vitals:”

But you persist in remaining outside The Church. You persist in rejecting what God’s One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church teaches. This is pride, AG. If you are indeed as so singularly spiritual as you claim to be, then there is nothing other than pride which keeps you from embracing the Truth of The Faith as preserved in The Church since Pentecost.

The early centuries of The Church saw the rise of multiple, soul destroying heresies. The world today is seeing among people professing to be Christians but rejecting The Church, a resurgence of those heresies and some we have never seen before. Because we are marginally civilized and on account of our surrounding Anglo Saxon culture, we try to be polite and convince ourselves that one form of “Christianity” is as good as another because, as was posted earlier, “we are all united in Christ”. A-G, that’s simply untrue; its heresy. The Fathers understood the consequences of heresy and who heretics were. They called them “Enemies of God” and preached that those who are alive in Christ cannot hold communion with those who are spiritually dead.