Enid, amen! Keep them in your prayers please.
My sister reads the NIV (of a socialist translation etc.) But if you ask her she would say yes and that she loves Jesus with all her being. My father when he hadn't fallen away, even told my sister in love that she has blinders on. But he won't hear that from me if I would tell him that, so I don't. But I had told my sister that a few weeks ago in e-mail - that's the only place she'll talk with me is e-mail she won't even call me anymore since last thanksgiving holiday (so called).
My father can not hear about warning others now that he had fallen away more than 10 years ago when he divorced his 2nd wife (my mother had died 10 years prior). My father is seeing those who rightly warn as unrighteous - like how John the Bapt. warned but he got his head cut off. My dad, yesterday used that story to make John the Bapt. look unrighteous and hence due to that he got his head cut off. He's equating 'suffering' to be due to reproving others like King Herod. He believes John the Bapt. had no right to speak to Herod in that manner - he says that was NOT of the righteousness of the Lord. My father, I love him very much, is not understanding The Word of God. My dad has past sexual issues so he sees John the Bapt. as wrong for reproving Herod for his sexual manners.
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UPDATE:
My father called me again this morning. He said he wanted to apologize for the past - for us seeing him getting into arguments and debates over God's Word - and he had a junk-yard dog in him at times of the past. He was saying that that seed (of arguments etc.) was planted in his children (in me). I told him, "Daddy I agree with the arguments and debates - it is wrong - but I do not have that seed". He then said, "well, have a good day" and hung up.
My father is trying to naturally figure out how and why I am wrong for warning my sister, he's never heard from me what I had told Bonnie (my sister) nor did he tell me what Bonnie was accusing me of. My sister has only caused my father to present to me a fleshly-sacrifice to somehow ~change me~. But I am not of that fighting-seed, he can not see the evidence of God's Holy Spirit in me because he chooses always to hear my sisters accusations against me. One apology my father said was when he was trying to tell his brother (my uncle Ricky) of that dangers of his belief - he was a Jehovah Witness who does not even believe Jesus is the Son of God - their into works based salvation etc. My father was right to warn his brother, but the fighting argument was not right which I agreed with him but I also told my father that him correcting him was not wrong.
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Thank you again Enid for this word:
1 Tim 4v1-2 about giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons and having their conscience seared with a hot iron.
It's so very hard to come to terms with this word when it comes to my family - especially Bonnie. I had a Godly Fire still in my bones to warn her.
I had a dream about 7 months ago where I was walking outdoors and here came to the Moon and hit the earth about 2 football fields infront of them and the first thing that came to my heart and mind was "Where IS BONNIE". I went running to find her and I found her in a hospital and I took her out - due to what just happening - and when we got outdoors she was then able to walk.
That dream has been on my heart ever since. I know God is the only one to save Bonnie and He works through us at times, once we are whole enough and humble etc., to snatch others out of the fire. And if The Lord does use us we know it's all Him alway - it wasn't us - Jesus Is Lord.
Enid, these verses more shout to me when it comes to my sister (see below) And your so right Enid in 1 Tim 4 God may need to cause me to know that this is exactly where my sister will remain as He wills and you mentioning this to me might be God's first olive branch to me through you. But until it fully comes and it might, this for now is still what I constantly hear in my ears (when it comes to my sister):
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It is Written:
Jude 20-25
Jude 20
20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
22 And of some have compassion, making a difference:
23----------> And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh. And have mercy on some, who are doubting; 23 save others, snatching them out of the fire; and on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment polluted by the flesh.
