Out of Egypt

[Steel]

Originally Posted by LifeGoesOn

I threw away EVERY SINGLE piece of LSM literature I owned, even my Bibles.

And yet...

You said in your opening post...

"...We wanted LIFE!!!..."

Which is absolutely supported in the pieces of LSM literature you owned... Even the Recovery Version bible supports this.

Hallelujah!!! . . . Your own words prove you gained something profitable in your many years of meeting with the local churches... And being ministered to by the LSM ministry.

And to say you didn't would to be contrary to your own speaking... Not that I'm saying you said or suggested that... But only to make the point that although you chose to throw out any literature associated with LSM... The intrinsic essence of the ministry's speaking is actually in you... Even to this day.

And, praise the Lord, that is what matters to God.

The above made clear... I looked for your "...part 2..." as I would have liked to have a clear view of where the Lord has taken you/allowed you to go since you left meeting with those that you met with in the Recovery... But you haven't gotten around to writing your "...part 2..." as yet, so I will respond to your "...part 1...", and first say...

Again... But with even more emphasis... HALLELUJAH!!!

Inside the camp... Outside the camp... God still rules and reigns!

Or do you not believe this, LifeGoesOn?

Do you not believe that God rules and reigns over all things at all times? . . . And that this ruling and reigning of God includes both your meeting with the Recovery "...for close to 40 years..." . . . Just as God's ruling and reigning, through the Holy Spirit, "...made it so clear to my wife and I that He was leading us out of the LC."

Surely you believe that God rules and reigns at all times... No matter what your eyes and mind are telling you?

And if so... Tell me... Is God allowing the meeting fellowship that you grew up in and were a part of "...for close to 40 years..." to continue... Not according to/under/by His ruling and reigning?

Surely you do believe that, right?

Or... Tell me... Do you believe that because God's ruling and reigning, through the Holy Spirit, "...made it so clear to my wife and I that He was leading us out of the LC...",... He is no longer ruling and reigning the meeting fellowship that you grew up in and were a part of "...for close to 40 years..."?

In other words... Do you believe that God's ruling and reigning of the meeting fellowship that you grew up in and were a part of "...for close to 40 years..." has come to an end because He led you out of it? . . . Or is God still ruling and reigning over this fellowship meeting that you, because of God's ruling and reigning, were once a part of?

And I'm asking you this because... If God is still ruling and reigning over all things... And in His ruling and reigning over all things, He is allowing this fellowship meeting you were a part of, to go on... Then are you thinking to speak badly of what God has chosen to allow to go on according to His ruling and reigning? . . . Which I think, according to scripture, may just be a but of a "No, no" in God's eyes.

See how that works my brother.

You know... There's a little spoken about factoid regarding the Israelites coming out of Egypt... A little factoid that I know from personal experience the LSM litriture makes clear...

And the little factoid is this...

The Israelites may have been out of Egypt... But Egypt was still in the Israelites.

Exodus 16:3... "And the children of Israel said to them, If only we had died by the hand of Jehovah in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the fleshpots, when we ate bread to the full; for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole congregation with hunger."

Everything in God's economy towards the salvation of man is for... To use a thought from Watchman Nee... The breaking of the outer man for the release of the inner man.

Which is for...

The building of the one body of Christ.

Which is for...

The producing of the bride the Lord returns for...

Which is for... You should know the rest.

And every single called and eternally saved born again believer in Christ... Serves the above eternal desire/purpose of God.

And that includes... You... Those you no longer meet with... Those you now meet with... And many, many more saints who you have little to know knowledge of... Including myself.

In your "...My Testimony - Part I..." there is a lot of focus on what you think God has done for you... But not very much, if any at all, speaking on what you have done for the Lord.

My hope is that we will read about the second aspect I referred to above, in your testimony "...Part 2...".