seekeroftruth
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Luke 12:35 “Be dressed ready for service and keep your lamps burning, 36 like servants waiting for their master to return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him. 37 It will be good for those servants whose master finds them watching when he comes. Truly I tell you, he will dress himself to serve, will have them recline at the table and will come and wait on them. 38 It will be good for those servants whose master finds them ready, even if he comes in the middle of the night or toward daybreak. 39 But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into. 40 You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.”
41 Peter asked, “Lord, are you telling this parable to us, or to everyone?”
42 The Lord answered, “Who then is the faithful and wise manager, whom the master puts in charge of his servants to give them their food allowance at the proper time? 43 It will be good for that servant whom the master finds doing so when he returns. 44 Truly I tell you, he will put him in charge of all his possessions. 45 But suppose the servant says to himself, ‘My master is taking a long time in coming,’ and he then begins to beat the other servants, both men and women, and to eat and drink and get drunk. 46 The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of. He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the unbelievers.
47 “The servant who knows the master’s will and does not get ready or does not do what the master wants will be beaten with many blows. 48 But the one who does not know and does things deserving punishment will be beaten with few blows. From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.
49 “I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! 50 But I have a baptism to undergo, and what constraint I am under until it is completed! 51 Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division. 52 From now on there will be five in one family divided against each other, three against two and two against three. 53 They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”
This is a direct warning from Jesus to the preachers and priests and deacons and teachers of the law, and all Christians. Jesus was warning His disciples.Using your station in life to abuse others is wrong.
The church, when I was a kid, was a place where everything was honest and correct. The preacher was an honest man who loved his children and adored his wife. The preacher was above reproach. No one could say anything wrong about the church or the preacher because they were there for Jesus and since Jesus was the perfect son of God, so were the church and the preacher. It was transferred! It was understood.
Using your station in life to abuse others is wrong.
Today I opened the Religion forum and found yet another example of the downfallen church and the downfallen leaders. Priest having gay clubs is not something I want to think about right before my first cup of coffee. I told you it was happening, but no one believed me! A preacher was holding church services in a bar on Water Street, down by the Baltimore docks. The bar was a gay bar. The parishioners were "disowned gays and hookers". They were not "disowned" by the church, they were "disowned" by humanity and the priest was there to "lift them up". I attended a service. I was invited when I found out my ex was not a straight man. The priest told my ex to bring me, and I would see his "parish" was a safe haven for gays. and hookers. This was NOT a Christian Church. Rape is not a Christian protocol. They called him Pastor Jim. He was a rapist demon, and he was indeed ordained by the church. I knew.... I knew he was a demon! I thought it was my prejudice.
Using your station in life to abuse others is wrong.
Pastor Jim was a "man of the cloth" according to his "church". He was indeed really ordained by the church. They didn't have a clue what happened in that "church" of his. They thought he was witnessing to the gays and whores from the Baltimore Block. They thought he was running a modern-day church in a brothel like Paul. They thought he was working for God. they were financing his kingdom. He was raping.... physically raping anyone who attended. They trusted him. He was a pastor of the church.
Everyone knows the preacher represents the church. The church is of God so the preacher must not be disputed. It's transferred.... It's understood.
He used being "a man of the cloth" like having a key to heaven. He was the guy who could get you into heaven in spite of what and who you are as long as you do exactly as he says.
Using your station in life to abuse others is wrong.
To those who much is given, much more will be asked. He failed.
Using your station in life to abuse others is wrong.
