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1 | What is the Lord teaching in this verse? | Matt 7:6 | Kblevins | 2611 | ||
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2 | What is the Lord teaching in this verse? | Matt 7:6 | Chucky1146 | 2613 | ||
It is useless to keep preaching to a person who just doesn't want to hear the Gospel. Someone who actually believes he is doing right when he is doing wrong. You can only witness so long to a person like that , then you wipe off the dust from your sandels,and go on to someone else. | ||||||
3 | What is the Lord teaching in this verse? | Matt 7:6 | Scribe | 41479 | ||
I see the dogs as demonic powers. You see the pharisees that would take the holy things of God that were spoken by Christ and the apostles and rend them with gainsaying and stubborn rejection of the truth were acting like wild dogs and hungry pigs in the way they ignored the precious truths that had the power to give them eternal life, ignored it like it was idiocy not worth their mental time, and they then try to kill the messenger. The same teaching is given when Jesus sends us out to win the lost, He tells us that if a house will not recieve you then you are to let your peace return to you and go on. The point is that if I am going to share precious truths of God and the Word of God with a person that is hostile to the things of God and takes on that murderous personality when you begin to discuss the scripture, it is best to just move on to a more worthy audience. There are those that have no interest in God at all and hate you for trying. You are supposed to be lead along by the Holy Spirit and He will lead you to those that are more open. Theses dogs and swine do not know they are demonized and the dog and the swine is the demon behind the person's hostil attitude. There is no attempt to call someone of another denomination or doctrinal belief a dog or swine that would really make you the dog and swine if you were doing that. That being said. Condsider the subject of the gifts of the Holy Spirit that operated in the church in the book of Acts. Paul spoke at length of these in 1 Cor 12-14 If I were to be studying what is there in these passages and I noticed that tongues is available to all believers that are filled with the Holy Spirit and I am sharing the scriptures about this with a christian believer and he becomes hostile and angry and resorts to quoting half verses about Love is the greatest gift and we don't need to speak in tongues today , and then descends into blasphemous statements of saying tongues is of the devil, etc. and if this person has no desire to see what scripture you have about tongues but plugs his ears and and begins to chant "I hate tongues, I hate tongues, I hate tongues" (just kidding but you get my point) this brother is not a dog or a swine, but the principle hear still applies. You should not even discuss it with him because you do not want the Holy things of God such as the Holy Spirit Gifts that are so wonderful and precious that He chose to impart to the church to be maligned and rent by the ignorant and prejudiced words even of a fellow christian brother. So you just move on and live a holy life of service to Christ being a witness empowered by the Holy Ghost and operating in the Gifts as the Spirit Wills. If in time your relationship grows with the brother they may see your good works and glorify God and ask more about what scriptures you were talking about and be more open to the subject as dealt with in the Bible. But until they get to that attitude you cannot and should not be discussing these Holy things with them for their own good becuase you Love them and do not want to provoke them to speak antagonistically about the Holy Spirit Gifts. |
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