Tag: Heart

Sin sent the Shooter

Posted on by pastortoney

The world coblog postntinues to have tragic things take place.  I often hear why would your loving God allow things like this to happen.  I would like to take a minute to talk about that in two different ways.  First, God allows things to happen, He doesn’t cause them.  Second, you and I are both free to make good choices just as we can make bad choices.  Let’s tackle the first why would God allow tragic events to take place.  This is going to be hard for all of us to stomach, but the Bible says that there is good to come out of everything Romans 8:28.  You see God is sovereign and everything that takes place He knows about and will use to benefit those who love Him or draw people to his Son.  I know that you are probably struggling with this right now.  We have so called churches such as Westboro baptist saying that God sent the shooters to that nightclub in Orlando to kill those people. That is the furthest thing from the truth.  You see why would a loving God want people to die in their sin and die and go to hell.  Yes I said that.  I can’t condemn people nor can I say what was in their heart toward Jesus. No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God’s seed abides in him, and he cannot keep on sinning because he has been born of God. 1 John 3:9  God sent His only Son that no one would perish and go to hell.  If God wanted something done He could do it much like Sodom.  You see so to say that God would send shooters to kill people in the craziest thing that I have heard.  Maybe those of you saying that should sue your brain for non support.  So let’s talk about the free will that you and I posses.  You see it is due to the first that you have free will.  Because God is sovereign that you are not some mindless robot.  You get to decide good or bad. Yes each choice carries with it consequences and rewards.  What I want you to realize is that if you were a mindless robot God would have never sent Jesus to show His love for you and I.  Don’t get caught up with the small picture.  People are prone to evil.  We are born with that tendency.  It is easier to do that then the right thing.  It doesn’t help when we are filled with other people feelings or attitudes.  To briefly talk about the shooter and who sent him.  This man was filled with hate from a religion that is all about hatred.  He was taught and entrenched with false doctrines and false beliefs.  He was sincere in his thoughts no doubt that he was doing god a favor and the public too.  After all one of his cults main leaders said that you are doing them a favor by killing them.  Now we have a so called baptist church spreading the same hate doctrine.  I am not saying that God is ok with this lifestyle, what I am saying is that God would have wasted His time in sending Jesus if He was just going to send shooters to kill people who are lost in their sins.  Sin sent the shooter.

Judge Me Not or Help Me Yes

Posted on by pastortoney

Here is a phrase that I am sure everyone has heard and probably even said once or twice. Judge not unless you want to be judged. Sound familiar? It is something that we say when we are doing something we shouldn’t be doing or you confront someone else. You might also hear people in glass houses shouldn’t throw rocks. Sometimes we get so caught up in these phrases that we are afraid to even say anything to someone who is headed down the wrong road. After all don’t we all have problems of our own? Why should we worry ourselves with someone else’s problems? Besides they are just going to pop off with one of the above comments. Well let’s take a moment and explain the first phrase. Judge not is talking about casting an eternal judgment on someone. We don’t have the ability to understand our own hearts much less someone else’s heart. We are called by Jesus to be fruit inspectors. If you were a corn farmer and you began to have cotton grow in your fields wouldn’t you want to know why? We should never try to tell someone what is in their heart when they do something. Our job is to look at the fruit and help them produce the right fruit for the right fields. I know that people will take offense sometimes when you call them out on something. Don’t you? It is all in how you say things. If you don’t have a relationship with the person it will never be received well. I heard someone once say Rules before a Relationship always breeds Rebellion. That is true in every sense of the word. So what about you? Are you just trying to Judge Me or do you want to Help Me?