Cheryl Schatz

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You said:

Thank you for the welcome and I so appreciate the great companionship here.

You are so welcome! I hope that you stay around for a long time and interact with the great people who visit my blog.

When we receive this Wisdom in which we’ve asked for, we will never seek to “rule” but serve.

I couldn’t agree more. Hmmm… makes me wonder if we took the comp way of thinking and ask who God designed for servanthood? For the greatest leaders are the servants. Of course the answer is that although we are all created as sinners, God will remove our heart of stone if we allow Him to and give us a soft heart of flesh so that we are willing to serve rather than demand the right to rule. Jesus had a way of turning everything upside down. What was considered weakness in the world is to be the strength of the Christian and what is the strength in the world is to be considered a thing to be avoided and shunned.

That’s how people become deceived. They are receiving their bread from earth and not from Heaven.

Amen!

I do have a question. Many “pastors” etc. are deceived in their false authority. Many may not be deceived. I would really love to know how these “leaders” of the flock cannot understand Lord Jesus Christ’s Simple Words. Don’t they realize the consequences for their false teachings? Or have they received a delusion from God to believe a lie? Thank you

I can’t say that I know anyone’s heart, but I wonder if some are deceived because they put their trust in the big names and the fact that it is said over and over and over again that the men were designed to be the leaders and rulers. When one is groomed for a position of rulership, it is a hard lie to give up. I think that it may take a significant emotional event to get these men to rethink this doctrine. They are not the enemy but surely they have been deceived in this area by the enemy. If this is the case, and I believe that it is, then we need to pray for these men that God will open their eyes. We are not fighting against flesh and blood but against evil rulers and authorities in the unseen world.