I love harlots...thought I might get your attention. Maybe I should also say that I hate harlotry. My mind was on the scripture in {Ephesians 6:12} that says, "for we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places." As christian men and women we are not at war against "persons", but against sin and error. We love adulterers but hate the adultery; we love the infidel but not the infidelity; we are to love the idolater but not the the idolatry; and so with the addicts but not the addictions that hold them captive and steal their souls; we love the heretics but not the heresy; and so on. "..for we wrestle not against flesh and blood..". We are at war with anything that opposes God and His truth, but not the opposer. We are supposed to hold to the command by Jesus in {Matthew 5:44} that says, "But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you." I know that many often make it a "war of flesh and blood", instead of a war against "wrong" and this leads to religious controversies and abusing each other with remarks etc. This is, "forgetting" what Christ's war is. We are not to fight against men but for them. While we could often be at war against someones person, the real enemy, which is the sin or error sits on the sideline and smiles. The "old time religion", "makes me love everybody." Lord don't let me be a part of the religion that says, " makes me slay everybody." Yes, slay every sin, every size sin, the big ones and the little ones, but do it in love for our fellow man. We don't want anything spared that is against God and truth, but never are we at war against "any man" that walks on this earth. "..for we wrestle not against flesh and blood.." And Lord I pray for our "leaders" but save us from faulty leadership in America, that would lead us away from the Godly principles that many of our fore-fathers evidently stood for. This has much to do with our liberty, peace, our comfort and especially our happiness. We don't want to see these taken away, but the problem is with the rulers of the darkness of the world, spiritual wickedness in high places and principalities and powers that only the Lord can destroy. Lord don't let our bibles become "chained up" and our preachers "silenced" from declaring truth that will save souls from the lake of fire, and at the same time be a blessing to "good-old-America". If we don't recognize and come against the true enemy of this land and time it is more than possible that America could be named among the dead nations. The signs of this time are all around us and God forbid that it should happen! We love people, and the "old time religion", that, "..makes me love everybody..", save us from the religion that says, "..makes me slay everybody..". Give me that old time religion!
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