No elohim being, spiritual or human, can prevent a man from singing praise unto the LORD.
Psalms 138:1 KJV I will praise thee with my whole heart: before the gods will I sing praise unto thee.
In the flames of Hell, political idolaters will still claim they're winning. Pride does that.
Psalms 138:6 KJV Though the LORD be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afar off.
I have found that, for the most part, if you are living for Christ and preaching His Word, these sorts will not want to be around you. However, if one of these sorts creeps into your local church and refuses to repent, they are to be removed from the church, regardless of how much tithe money they contribute to the church.
1 Corinthians 5:9 KJV I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
1 Corinthians 5:10 KJV Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.
1 Corinthians 5:11 KJV But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
In excommunication from a local church, it is only permanent if the offender refuses to repent. The goal should be restoration, and I believe that if they are truly saved, they will repent. Church discipline is rarely practiced these days, and I suppose that’s why we read about 'test-driving' wives to save marriages in the media today.
1 Corinthians 5:5 KJV To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
1 Corinthians 5:13 KJV But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
The people who confessed and believed did so because of the word of faith that Moses preached to them, and they were saved.
Numbers 21:7 KJV Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.
Numbers 21:8 KJV And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.
Numbers 21:9 KJV And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.
Faith is a gift from God that is given to us through the Word of God. If you confess with your mouth, it is because the word of faith is in your mouth, and if you believe in your heart, it is because the word of faith is in your heart. Without this faith, you are not saved.
Romans 10:8 KJV But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;
Romans 10:9 KJV That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
Romans 10:10 KJV For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Who is the Holy One and Savior?
JESUS CHRIST
Isaiah 43:3 KJV For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.
Acts 3:14 KJV But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;
John 4:42 KJV And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.
Whose are we witnesses for?
JESUS CHRIST
Isaiah 43:10 KJV Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
Acts 1:8 KJV But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
If Jesus is not the LORD (God), He is not the “Saviour.”
Isaiah 43:11 KJV I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.
There is no other who can forgive our sins.
Isaiah 43:25 KJV I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
Jesus saves! Therefore, He is God—the Son of God and the sole Mediator between God and man.
Isaiah 43:12 KJV I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, that I am God.
Christ is King!
Isaiah 43:15 KJV I am the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King.
Isaiah 43:25 KJV I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
Father, thank You for the word of faith! In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
