Discipleship Training Course

PHASE 2 – LIVE THE JOURNEY
Those people died who would not heed the warning of the Lord.
In the Bible we see God condemns
Jesus condemns the Pharisees and the teachers of the law in
Matthew 23
God strikes fear into men’s hearts
Matt 10:28 Don‟t be afraid of people. They can kill you, but they
cannot harm your soul. Instead, you should fear God who can
destroy both your body and your soul in hell.
The original meaning of this specific word fear in Matthew 10
literally means: to dread, be afraid and terrified.
Do you realize by hearing these scriptures that we possibly have
been putting God into our own little cotton box, and only made
Him to be soft and mild, when His character is actually strong and
in my lack of English words purely INDESCRIBABLE.
Satan often speaks God‘s words from portions of scripture, but out
of context! It is called deception and lying. Besides, your flesh will
always be at peace to follow its fallen desires. That doesn‘t mean
its Gods leading. We can‘t trust our own desires at all. There must
be more to knowing God‘s voice beyond what we feel and
experience. After all, the truth can hurt.
In essence the trap we have stepped into is devaluing Gods
character by only highlighting certain gentle elements and
avoiding the stronger elements of Gods character, and this keeps
the children of God in bondage, confused and often rejecting
Gods correction and instructions when they are strong, believing
that God would not speak in that way. We really need to be
cautious of that.
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