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Hello friends,
I have noticed for some time now that many believers will quote the scriptures and use it as a tool to deliberately set stumbling blocks in others' paths, and I have seen that it is an awful wickedness to do so. I kindly thank you for your acknowledgement of this; it is given to us to build each other up, not to tear each other down. Where there is sin, it is given to the wise to counter it, for sin is a stumbling block. As brothers and sisters go in righteous love, it is also given to them to admonish and correct one another in truth. If I quote scripture against you, and not for correction, then am I against you and not for you--such is not a building block of righteousness, but a certain stumbling block of wickedness; it is one that encourages and pursues a spiritual death of the recipient which neither renews nor refreshes them.
It is good that we should learn for goodness sake, but let us not be deceived by our own facilities. It is good that we should not create the same defilement which might have been in us; for the same that we reveal in another we have seen before we saw it in them. Therefor, even as it has been revealed to us, that we are able to bless or curse, then we ought to bless always and never curse; with everyone that we bless, so we bless our God and our Lord, and with everyone that we curse with our tongue, the same curse that we give unto another we give unto our God and our Lord.
Let us go with peace and the love of God in us. Amen.
I have noticed for some time now that many believers will quote the scriptures and use it as a tool to deliberately set stumbling blocks in others' paths, and I have seen that it is an awful wickedness to do so. I kindly thank you for your acknowledgement of this; it is given to us to build each other up, not to tear each other down. Where there is sin, it is given to the wise to counter it, for sin is a stumbling block. As brothers and sisters go in righteous love, it is also given to them to admonish and correct one another in truth. If I quote scripture against you, and not for correction, then am I against you and not for you--such is not a building block of righteousness, but a certain stumbling block of wickedness; it is one that encourages and pursues a spiritual death of the recipient which neither renews nor refreshes them.
It is good that we should learn for goodness sake, but let us not be deceived by our own facilities. It is good that we should not create the same defilement which might have been in us; for the same that we reveal in another we have seen before we saw it in them. Therefor, even as it has been revealed to us, that we are able to bless or curse, then we ought to bless always and never curse; with everyone that we bless, so we bless our God and our Lord, and with everyone that we curse with our tongue, the same curse that we give unto another we give unto our God and our Lord.
Let us go with peace and the love of God in us. Amen.