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aqrinc:
There was a time when i was very comfortable with cussing and carousing. In my current workplace
many times the language get's pretty spicy and loud. I caught myself first getting upset, then
remembering how i was and could still be even though Christ in me Is In Charge. You will know when
it is the beast or The Lord in charge by the thoughts and feelings you have then.

Geo.


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--- Quote from: WhoAmI on October 07, 2008, 12:49:46 PM ---No one can be different by faking. Unless they are really changed then limiting the amount of cuss words doesn't make them holy. There are also many people who are "married" but do not love their spouse and fake getting along because of financial reasons. I think God wants us to strive but he knows all the fakes as well. No one can hide behind acting or "marriage certificates" or any other outer show. I find making a religion of these verses makes us fakes.




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Very true, but I think we should avoid such people when we can.  ll Tim.3:1-5.

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daywalker:
Ever since I first started reading Ray's teachings, and began my journey "out of Babylon", I've noticed the profanity in others and myself a whole lot more. It's almost like this "emotional" side of me has emerged. (not that I cry all time or anything  :D, it's more of a sympathy thing)

Whenever I say or do something offensive, it hurts me. Even things that I didn't used to think were wrong. And when other people say profane things, it hurts me to. It doesn't make me angry really, it just hurts. The main thing I try to do is focus on making myself the "example" (so-to-speak) for others, and not telling them how they should act or speak. Of course, since this is only possible through GOD, I pray constantly for Him to mold my personality and purify my mind, so that I act and speak as He would have me to.

Ironically: the more I pray these things, the more things I notice in myself that are not Godly. (Yikes!) It's seriously overwhelming, the person I desire to be VS. the person I am... It's like GOD is saying to me, "As you can see, Christopher, we've got a TON of work to do here".  ;)

It is very humbling, yet at the same time, it really helps me to understand that I am no better than anyone else.. ANYONE ELSE... and that only GOD can give a person the ability to be GOOD and do His Works.

The more I understand this, the better I feel, and the better I treat those around me.

Anyways, have a good one!  :)

EKnight:
Thanks for this thread Brenda. 

I deal with someone who seems obsessed with sexual profanities on a daily basis.  Not a day goes by where something of a vulgar, sexual nature is not mentioned.  The problem for me is that there once was a time where I would have actively participated in such conversations.  Now I am trying to rid myself of that part of me and everyday is a challenge.  Sometimes, I myself, share too much about sex AND I have been known to be a "cussing sailor".  One of my kids (when they were younger)once said to me "mom, do you have tourets(sp?)?"  That's bad!  So even though I am working on it, I find myself falling back to those bad ways because it is in my life every single day in huge proportions.  If this person was overheard by a "boss" they would be thrown out the door without question.  On the other hand, there are qualities I admire about this person and I wish I had.

Eileen

Martinez:
Hi OBrenda

I actually find listening to Babylonian Christian's blaspheming left, right and centre about how God is going roast most of humanity for not exercising their God given freewill to make a wise and timely decision in this life to say an eleven second sinners prayer to claim their free fire insurance much more offensive than any sexually explicit vulgarity or collection of choice words could ever be!

I guess they just don't realize how depraved that stuff is, but when turn around and get all offended at someone for saying a four letter word, talk about straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel!

OBrenda:
God Bless You Martinez,
Amen and Thank God....I don't believe anyone here on this forum would swallow that particular camel.  ;D
But many in Babylon Do.   :-\   I believe we would all agree it is much less offensive to drop the F-bomb, than to accuse God of sending people to hell.  I'm encouraged at the responses here are not, of the spirit of self righteousness, but responding with balance to how God leads our heart to respond to it, and with the scriptures define it.

It's the fine tuning of understanding, that is being searched on another thread about showing our light, vs not letting our right hand know what our left hand is doing. We all come here with different experiences, upbringing  & teachings from Babylon.  I pray my interest on this point, may bring freedom and ease with our family here, as we together search to hear what God's mind is on the matter.

I'm one who has heard many peoples opposing opinions through the years, I have my own, but I desire to honor and understand what God says about it.

Thanks Eileen, Daywalker & George, your comments reflect what I've been trying to process, with a different sensitivity to walking this out, without retreating to a cave  ;D

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