SO MANY PEOPLE DON’T LIKE BEING CORRECTED in love; don’t cherish rebuke,
Why?  Pride…

Remember this very true and righteous cautioning:

 

Proverbs 16:18
Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.

 

It is so easy to see, hear and feel sin everyday! We are living in the last days my friends:

 

2 Timothy 3:1-5
But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,  treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God—having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.

 

Christians are the ones who embrace correction! Christians are the ones who want to live right, speak right, and help anyone they can to live for God. Christians base their lives on the Bible: physically, emotionally, mentally – their soul, body and spirit.

Selah.

YES: Christians truly want to love God, want to be loved and love himself / herself, want to love the brethren, want to love their enemies (and we have plenty of them!) Christians cherish these God-given, God-breathed words: “I told you so!”

“I told you so!”  Beloved, say this with joy! Jesus says it! We need to help anyone we can, but they must be willing. Correction is applicable!

 

2 Timothy 3:16-17
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

 

“I TOLD YOU SO!”

 

John 10:25-26
Jesus answered, “I did tell you, but you do not believe. The works I do in my Father’s name testify about me, but you do not believe because you are not my sheep.

 

John 11:40
Then Jesus said, “Did I not tell you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?”

 

Satan and his minions use many tricks of their evil trade. Trade the truth for evil…
Yes, even to the point where the astute Apostle Paul gives this very dire warning:

 

2 Corinthians 11:3-4
But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ. For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the Spirit you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough.

 

Very Beloved: correction IS applicable! Don’t get your undies in a bunch! Take it like a man / like a woman – as a man of God / a woman of God. Do not take rebukes and correction as sin. You know one of the most ill-used statements is…
drum roll please…    “Don’t judge!”

 

The topic of judgement must be correctly meted out. God speaks and we are to endorse everything He stands for and stands against.
“I told you so!”

JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD:
2 Peter 1:16-18
For we have not followed cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of His majesty. For He received honor and glory from God the Father when a voice came to Him from the majestic glory, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”  And we ourselves heard this voice, which came from heaven, when we were with Him on the holy mountain.

 

JESUS IS THE ONLY WAY:
John 14:6
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

 

HEAVEN IS REAL:
Philippians 3:17-21
Brothers, become fellow imitators with me and observe those who walk according to our example. For many are walking in such a way that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ. I have told you of them often and tell you again, even weeping. Their destination is destruction, their god is their appetite, their glory is in their shame, their minds are set on earthly things.  But our citizenship is in heaven, from where also we await for our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,  who will transform our body of humiliation, so that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working of His power even to subdue all things to Himself.

 

HELL IS REAL:
Revelation 20:12-15
And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God. Books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. The dead were judged according to their works as recorded in the books. The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one by his works. Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.  Anyone whose name was not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.

 

 

SCRIPTURAL TRUTHS FOR THIS “JOY STORY”!

 

2 Timothy 3:16-17
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

 

1 Thessalonians 2:13
And we also thank God continually because, when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it actually is, the word of God, which is at work in you who believe.

 

2 Peter 1:20-21
Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet’s own interpretation of things. For prophecy never had its origin in the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

 

 

James 5:19-20
My brothers and sisters, if one of you should wander from the truth and someone should bring that person back, remember this: Whoever turns a sinner from the error of their way will save them from death and cover over a multitude of sins.

 

Acts 3:19-20
 Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord, and that he may send the Messiah, who has been appointed for you—even Jesus.

 

2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.

 

AND ONE OF MY FAVORITES! This makes me smile every time! These guys needed this finger-pointing!!

 

Matthew 3:4-12
John’s clothes were made of camel’s hair, and he had a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey. People went out to him from Jerusalem and all Judea and the whole region of the Jordan. Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to where he was baptizing, he said to them: “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?  Produce fruit in keeping with repentance. And do not think you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.  The ax is already at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.

“I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me comes one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.  His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

 

BELOVED: remember what may happen if you refuse correction…

 

APOSTACY!
Hebrews 6:4-6
It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit, who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age, if they fall away to be brought back to repentance, because to their loss they are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace.