Who Are The Dogs

#StraitAndNarrowWay #GodlyInstincts #Thinlines

Compare the scriptures.

Matthew 7:6
Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.

Now see this passage:

Matthew 15:26
But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs.

Matthew 15:27
And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.

How does one know which to use and when? Where, how and to whom to apply either scripture?  To whom shall I give and extend myself?

You have to be guided by the Spirit of Truth, where good instincts come from, and will also show you how to explain your reasoning. You have to know how to live in the moment by judging specific circumstances.

John 16:13
Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
Not all unbelievers are dogs. Some just don't know Christ, yet. But they do have some understanding of what is good, do it and also what is authority or the Kingdom of God. Read about the Roman Centurion that Jesus said had great faith over and above all of Israel. Surely there are some that have great faith over and above all of the Church today.

Consider this.

Romans 2:14
For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:

Romans 2:15
Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)

Consider Cornelius.

Acts 10:1
There was a certain man in Cæsarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band, 

Acts 10:2
A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.

Acts 10:4
And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God.

Peter was ready to treat this man as one that is unclean and not worthy, but the Holy Spirit of Truth intervened and revealed to Peter that we are no longer to judge by the wrappings and trappings, for God and His Christ has so loved and saved all the world. Some are only waiting to hear and receive.

Acts 10:9
...Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour:

11 And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth:

12 Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.

13 And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat.

14 But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.

Acts 10:15
And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.

Cornelius is the perfect example of a man who was never a dog, just a "not yet believer". We all were that. He embodies the meaning of Romans 2:14 and 15 that I posted above, having been doing the things of a Christian already, though he had yet received Christ.

The Church must understand that it is many times we Christians and our behaviors that have kept many from believing, and following Christ, in the first place.

Romans 2:23
Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?

Romans 2:24
For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.

Romans 2:3
And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?

Romans 1:18
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;

We as Christians can not blame others and punish them because they are following our actions, and copying some of our ways that are not very Christ like. We love squawking about our dominion in Heaven and on the Earth. Well to whom much is given, much is still required.

I will say it again and again. If it was not for the reality of Jesus, and if He had not personally intervened and came to me, I would so NOT be a Christian now. I would most definitely be Atheist.

I posted the other day, that I would take an Atheist or Agnostic, one openly Gay, I will add a Buddhist, Mormon, Muslim or Jewish one, who is moral, thinks right, treats others right, has integrity and honour, and is in the mold of a Cornelius, before and over a lying and forever deceiving Christian who refuses contrition or apology. And so would God. Read and study your bibles. It has always been that way, because in spirit, if you rightly divide truth, and see the heart of God, it is the latter, those with knowledge that then turns away, are the ones that are the dogs.

2 Peter 2:20
For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.

2 Peter 2:21
For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.

2 Peter 2:22
But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire. 

Others, not only will get more good things done in this life being used by God, even without Christ like He did Cornelius. Also, like Cornelius, their hearts are more open and ready to receive Christ and actually do the work of a Christian, and walk in Love, and become Christians. Like the Apostle Paul, even when they are wrong, they are sincere. God can work with that.

I am 100% right. I have not seen a time, when the Church was so off and anything goes. Repentance is good news.

I speak to the Church because I have faith, hope, and love for and in you all, not because I do not, lest I be what I preach against. But some things have to change. The same lazy, hypocritical, dependent on heritage more than works, and resting on laurels, that some in Israel had at the time of Jesus, and that caused a fall, and many falls and times of captivity in the OT too, I see now in the Church also. You say you have faith? Show me with right actions led by the Spirit of Christ.

James 2:18
Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.

Surely,

John 9:4
I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.

"Once saved.... Always saved" is a lie. Ninety-Nine and a half just won't do.

Hebrews 2:1
Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.

Hebrews 2:3
How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him; 

Romans 9:8
That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.

Matthew 3:9
And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham (or Jesus Christ) to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.

I know the context of these passages are about Israel, but read Revelation chapters one through three. Is not Jesus saying and warning the Church of the exact same things and behaviors as He once did to Israel, and telling them He will cut them off, or "remove their candlestick", or spue them out for it?

Revelation of John 2:5
Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.

Revelation of John 3:16
So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.

Finally,

Revelation of John 3:19
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten (WHO DO THE WRONG THINGS): be zealous therefore, and repent.

I have to thoroughly explain that last verse, because of those that want to hold on to that "gotta hurt and suffer to be a success" mess of a doctrine. We know that just prior to the last scripture, and the Seventh Church, there were at least two other Churches where Jesus said they were without rebuke and had nothing to repent of. They were obedient and walked in love. #Study #RightlyDivide

Consider Church. #HardenNotYourHearts

Graced and Sent to this time and for these things,

Yulanda K. - #OutstandinglyAwesomePastor