Posted: Sun Jul 28, 2002 5:43 pm Post subject: Is There Any Salvation For Abusive Papists?
Recall the parable of the faithful and sensible steward who is put in charge of all his Master’s servants (Luke 12:42-46). That slave would be blessed if he were to give out rations at the proper time.
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Blessed is that slave whom his master finds so doing when he comes. Truly I say to you that he will put him in charge of all his possessions. But if that slave says in his heart, “My master will be a long time in coming,” and begins to beat the slaves, both men and women, and to eat and drink and get drunk; the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know, and will cut him in pieces, and assign him a place with the unbelievers. —Luke 12:43-46.
This prophecy isn’t limited to the Roman Catholic Church and a past persecution of true believers. It’s also relevant today and includes any overseer of Seventh-day Adventists who treats harshly those they are to care for.
Overseers are to nurture their flock with God’s love and chastise those who may require it in God’s way. The standard that God expects of a church exercising discipline toward anyone is to give no alleged wrongdoer an excuse to say that the church was harsh. I say that all Seventh-day Adventists who are indifferent to, approve of, or execute any kind of church sanctioned popery against sensitive souls, are cruel and satanic. Many Adventists I know should consider themselves already assigned a place with the unbelievers if they refuse to repent.
Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2002 9:49 pm Post subject: Children:
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--{Matt.18:6}--
5 And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me.
6 But whososhall offend one of these little ones which believe in me,
it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck,
and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
7 Woe unto the world because of offences!
for it must needs be that offences come;
but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!
8 Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee,
cut them off, and cast them from thee:
it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed,
rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire.
--{Mark 9:42}--
42 And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me,
it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck,
and he were cast into the sea.
43 And if thy hand offend thee,
cut it off:
it is better for thee to enter into life maimed,
than having two hands to go into hell,
into the fire that never shall be quenched:
The King James Version, (Cambridge: Cambridge) 1769.
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