The simplicity of the fool, being void of wisdom, focuses on self, while the simplicity that is in Christ, filled with devotion, is simply focused on Him.
Proverbs 1:22 KJV How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
2 Corinthians 11:3 KJV But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
The fear of the LORD can be received in a simple way through faith in Christ or the hard way through refusal; either way, it will come. The former bears the fruit of life, and the latter bears the fruit of death.
Proverbs 1:23 KJV Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
Proverbs 1:24 KJV Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
Proverbs 1:25 KJV But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
Proverbs 1:26 KJV I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
Proverbs 1:27 KJV When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
Proverbs 1:28 KJV Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
Proverbs 1:29 KJV For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
Proverbs 1:30 KJV They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
Proverbs 1:31 KJV Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
Those who refuse Christ only sense death when preaching is within their sight and hearing. Yet for those of us who belong to Christ, it is like the fragrance of lilies of the valley. Death attracts death, and life attracts life.
2 Corinthians 2:15 KJV For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:
2 Corinthians 2:16 KJV To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?
Many corrupt the Word of God by twisting and conforming it to their denominational or cult talking points for personal gain. Whereas, those who preach with sincerity do so at a personal cost.
2 Corinthians 2:17 KJV For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.
The dispensationalist shouts, 'Rightly divide the Word,' yet they cannot rightly divide that the LORD fulfilled His land promise by dividing the inheritance.
Numbers 34:29 KJV These are they whom the LORD commanded to divide the inheritance unto the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.
God does have a special place for those who are outcasts—people who fall outside societal norms and remain unmarried for various reasons, including biological factors or being foreigners. This includes those tempted by unnatural attractions, such as same-sex desires. If these outcasts trust in the LORD to overcome such temptations, a special reward awaits them.
Isaiah 56:4 KJV For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;
Isaiah 56:5 KJV Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.
Isaiah 56:6 KJV Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;
Gospilled Minute #149
Do you feel as though you don’t belong or aren’t accepted? God knows, and as long as you belong to Him and are accepted by Him, that’s all that matters. Sadly, if you’re devoted to the Word of God these days, you’re often an outcast. If you want to understand whom the LORD is gathering into the Israel of God, you must grasp this verse.
Isaiah 56:8 KJV The Lord GOD which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather others to him, beside those that are gathered unto him.
An impotent church is led by greedy dogs who preach partial truths, devoid of cost, for their own personal gain.
Isaiah 56:10 KJV His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
Isaiah 56:11 KJV Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
Father, thank You for loving the outcasts. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
