Jehovah's Witnesses Straight Talk - Forum/Blog

1John.3:18 My little children, let's not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

So little love, so much tongue! The world of the flesh has many words, but so little loving actions. Imagine if you will for an moment a world that is searching for a word to label something so it becomes a great or very hated thing? Words are powerful they are used to deny the truth by opposite actions of politician, they are used to get us to buy things, to make an impression so we no longer use our power of reasoning, where we deny the very fruits Christ said would be upon God's trees.

Proverbs 4:5 Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don't forget, neither swerve from the words of my mouth.

Proverbs 17:27 He who spares his words has knowledge. He who is even tempered is a man of understanding.

Many words are used by fleshly Christian to justify why they can't and won't love others, and/or why they do show love to some and deny others? Do we honestly think heaven is this complicated moved by all kinds of reasoning why God and angels do something or don't do something?

Matt. 5:47 If you only greet your friends, what more do you do than others? Don't even the tax collectors do the same?
5:48 Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

No its not, and here is why, if we sin, we are lawless, and we are against God's love, and his commandments; so either we are a sinner or we are not? However, those justifying their sins must uses words, because they don't have remission of sin. Consequently, they must used verses from the bible, their experiences, education, and debates, whatever else they have gained over the years on this earth to justify when they do bad or good!

Isaiah 43:9 Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the peoples be assembled. Who among them can declare this, and show us former things? Let them bring their witnesses, that they may be justified; or let them hear, and say, "That is true."

Titus 3:7 that, being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

Unlike the angels of God that never explain why they do something, or don't. On the other hand, Satan the Devil got into a word game with Micheal to justify himself, the father of sin, but not Micheal, why? Because sin cannot be justify by words that is one more lie the flesh uses to defend itself to prove it is right. But the flesh is not
right, so when it read the bible the first thing it does is start justifying why it is or isn't doing something God told us to do?

Jude 1:9 But Michael, the archangel, when contending with the devil and arguing about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him an abusive condemnation, but said, "May the Lord rebuke you!"

Romans 3:20 Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

Here John states a fact, if we are in the vine of Christ, we are in God's love, very simple. If we are in God's love why don't we have love for each other for those on the same vine? Such a simple truth, it is because we are in our flesh, and we are sinning, and we are not moved by God's love for our brothers and we know it in our hearts. So why brag and lie against the truth?

1John.3:20 because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.

James. 3:14 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don't boast and don't lie against the truth.

Words don't changes actions they deny them, they hardly ever uphold them. Its sad, isn't it? People will traverse seas for a religion to follow its rules, to go to a meeting or an convention, but they are not move whatsoever for a brother of Christ in need! Why, because simply, they don't get the praise of the group, their works are done before men that can reward them, lavish them with praise for their service to God.

Matt.6:1 "Be careful that you don't do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

Their service is sight service, it not to the Christ indwelling them, but to sight, a fatal flaw of our flesh, we all have it. To confused the Christ indwelling someone with Holy Spirit with the works of the flesh is the most commonly practiced in our world. Seeking mankind approval for not having the Holy Spirit, but having words about the Holy Spirit found in our bibles is the ear marking of false religion; using words written in religious material so we can “act” like we are filled with Holy Spirit while in the sight of others we want to be around and desire their approval.

John 7:18 He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.

John 8:54 Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is our God.

Such is not the love of the body of Christ, its not God's love, or is it how God practices love towards us. It is, what it is, so the apostle John needs not go into detail, if we are in God's love then we love, if we have Christ in us, we have to be moved by the same Spirit of love for our brothers, if not? Well, then we are not in Christ, we are not at all doing the works of the Holy Spirit within the body of Christ. No amount of words is going to change our fruit, our deeds, we must ask our heavenly Father for the gifts of Holy Spirit which he is willing to give us freely. Let us understand, most of what we've been taught from religion is from the flesh, which it mixes with yeast of the flesh used to justifies why it has not the fruit of Spirit. The flesh thinks if it denies by words, by verses from the bible it is proves itself righteous, giving it standing with God. but it does not that is a lie, many are living in. John makes it perfectly clear where true righteousness is, where it comes from, and where the body of Christ gets its righteousness from.

John.15:1 "I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.
15:2 Every branch in me that doesn't bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
15:3 You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
15:4 Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can't bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.
15:5 I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

Certainly, not from self, or words, not from knowledge, or education, or religions, but from God's own righteousness given freely in Christ Jesus to his body members making them sinless, by Christ works, and not themselves. Moreover, not to the praise of men, nor to look good in our flesh, but to God's glory in his unfathomable love.

1 John 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's.

Romans 8:9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn't have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

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