Fellowship

[countmeworthy]

Originally Posted by Joanna Tysoe

My family have chosen to attend a local church gathering here. I go with them. We now just stay for the Lord's table and singing and leave before the 'ministry' starts. None of us can stand it. But the christians there are loving and we enjoy their fellowship.

4/Do I fellowship with LC'S?

Yes. We have been regularly going to a sisters home for a sing song round her piano. The kids love this. The family is ex brethren and love the bible, which we sometimes read. Her mother is elderly and loves to hear the children sing, so we have been meeting each others needs. This hjas stopped for the time being as she is away, and we sorely miss her.
5/ Aside from the bible, what do I read?

Of course, 'A Future and a Hope' and 'Solid' by John Myer. I also enjoy the Creation magazines and anti evolutionary books put out by a group called Creation Ministries International. Our children have been raised on these and can give an answer to most athieistic and evolutionary questions.

Often as a family we gather around the piano to sing old hymns. I don't think I could get through this difficult time where the church is in disarray and the world is getting steadily darker, without songs of praise.
We don't have a TV,

Blessings and Divine FAVOR from God our Father and our LORD JESUS CHRIST to you Joanna.

Thanks for sharing. The LC saints are sweet. But something happens to them when the messages are shared.
I think they're afraid to step outside the box as they have been used to being enclosed in it for such a long time.

I heard a really good message by a man of God who is an awesome teacher. His name is John Bevere w/Messenger International.
He brought something to light for me and many of us who heard him preach/teach recently. Perhaps it was merely a good reminder for all of us:

When Pharaoh finally decided to release the Children of Israel (led by Moses of course) he packed them up with quite a few riches..Gold, Silver, Food, Animals, Clothes for their journey.
The Israelites had been slaves and only Moses who was raised by Pharaoh's daughter experienced the wealth & 'good life' of Egypt.

But once in the wilderness, the children of Israel wanted to go back to Egypt!!! Go Figure! Why in the world would they want to go back to Egypt where they were SLAVES? Yet Moses who was not raised as a slave did NOT want to return to Egypt.
Why? Moses KNEW God. He had a relationship with GOD. The Israelites only knew the ACTS of God. They had experienced the miracles. Being set free from bondage..with WEALTH, they didn't get it. They took the gold God blessed them with and made a idol to worship! Now. Does THAT make any sense?

That happens to a lot of us. In the LC, many of us were blessed with the Riches of the Word, the Fellowship etc... yet, many still live in the past. Some of us long for the past. I myself do miss the way we would gather in each others' homes to sing and share our dinners with each other and intimate fellowship..reading the Word together.

But things/life is different now. God is moving in us, taking us to HIGHER GROUND to those who want to move Higher into the Heavenly realm. A Most Glorious Realm.

The Holy Spirit is constantly guiding us, giving us Wisdom, Revelation, strengthening our Inner man as He points us to our Beloved Lord and KING-JESUS.

The world is certainly getting darker! But that can only mean God's GLORY will soon cover the earth through His saints as we prepare to usher in the the 2nd coming of the KING of kings and LORD of lords!

May we come to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
And to know the love of Christ, [the ANOINTED One] which passeth knowledge, that we might be filled with all the fulness of God.
(Ephesians 3:18-19)

Let not your heart be troubled! Continue to give Him Praise, Honor, Glory with a heart filled with gratitude and Thanksgiving. His angels are encamped about us. We have the POWER of the Blood of Jesus and the POWER of the NAME of JESUS protecting us and blessing us in these dark days!

[TLFisher]

I am sure many of us have heard of Alexander the Coppersmith. Here is a verse from 1 Timothy 1:20

"Of whom are Hymenaueus and Alexander, whom I have delivered to Satan that they may be disciplined no to blaspheme."

What exactly is it to blaspheme?

My finding in the dictionary is to speak or address with irreverence to God.

Terry

[manna-man]

That is true Terry.
However the ultimate blaspheme is to refuse (say NO) Gods Grace/Son. Anyone willing to go there will find NO forgiveness.

[OBW]

Originally Posted by manna-man

That is true Terry.
However the ultimate blaspheme is to refuse (say NO) Gods Grace/Son. Anyone willing to go there will find NO forgiveness.

Not sure about that one. It might be that the unpardonable sin is to to fail to ask for pardon. But simply refusing God's grace is not blasphemy. To suggest that those who refuse to ask for forgiveness will "find NO forgiveness" is like saying that those who go to bed in a house in England will awaken in a house in England. Those who do not ask for forgiveness do not expect to receive forgiveness, just as those who go to bed in a house in England do not expect to awaken in a house in Denmark.

Paul did not give over heathen to Satan. Heathen would already be Satan's. No, like the sinful brother in 1 Corinthians, those who have partaken of God's grace but now turn away through open sin or willfully speaking against God can be turned over to Satan. It is pointless to take those actions against someone who is not part of the household of faith.

[TLFisher]

Originally Posted by Terry

What exactly is it to blaspheme?

My finding in the dictionary is to speak or address with irreverence to God.

In death or at the end of the age, would needing to give account of one's self to anyone else other than God be considered blasphemy?

Terry