Here is a twist for us to consider.
Was not satan made to the pleasure of God?
Was he not a liar from the beginning?
Is he not a creation of God?
So in a reason is he not our brother?
Do we curse our brother thus insulting the creator?
He was created for Gods purpose, can we fault him for who he is?
We'll God destroy him for carring out his purpose?
Understand I don't like evil and I feel your pain in here but I think if we look
at this in Gods eyes we can come to a reason to that if I'm correct and feel free to correct me if I'm wrong he will be set free also from sin and evil.
I guess I'm just thinking when evil will be no more needed.
Your thoughts?
In Christ.
Randy
When we are focused on "Who is my brother?' We are yet carnal and our focus is in an old idol.
I need to be as good a husband to my wife as I can and then I will become like Christ." NO. You will go back to Egypt and puff up like a pharisee.
We cannot reason out evil with a manufactured evil mind. You have to believe God. We say be balanced. You cannot, will not, ever be balanced and be able to attain that mark which is set before all of us in Christ.
Impossible.
We are not still carnal minded, those with Christ in them have been buried with Christ and have a"newness of life," not the old carnal self.
Rom 6:4 We were buried therefore with Him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
v. 5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.
v. 6 We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.
Do not stop fighting the good fight for that next precept or line. Do whatever is on your heart to do. If you physically restrain a deep, ugly desire and are abel to keep it down even though it is still there then you are deceived and will die in your sins. You must not resist evil but let evil do it's job. God made it all good for his good will and his plan. Until you stop trying outwardly to love a mate that you do not like but you carnally disguise it the rest of your life, you build yourself up and take your eyes off of the only true way to love her. Christ in you. The only way for evil to kill off the flesh is for you to delight yourself in the Lord and then always act out the desire of your heart until it is purged out and no longer a desire.
As long as we cling to the law and try to do it in our flesh, we will build up our flesh no matter what we think.
Please do not be offended by my post, but I believe we must be on guard always to encourage each other to stay strong and faithful. That we must die daily. Come out of Babylon daily until we are out of our flesh completely
"And he answering said to him who spake to him, `Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?' And having stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, he said, `Lo, my mother and my brethren! for whoever may do the will of my Father who is in the heavens, he is my brother, and sister, and mother" (Matt 12:48-50)
"and he answering said unto them, `My mother and my brethren! they are those who the word of God are hearing, and doing" (Lu 8:21)
"because whom He did foreknow, He also did fore-appoint, conformed to the image of His Son, that he might be first-born among many brethren" (Ro 8:29)
"or it was becoming to Him, because of whom are the all things, and through whom are the all things, many sons to glory bringing, the author of their salvation through sufferings to make perfect, for both he who is sanctifying and those sanctified are all of one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, saying, `I will declare Thy name to my brethren, in the midst of an assembly I will sing praise to Thee;' and again, `I will be trusting on Him;' and again, `Behold I and the children that God did give to me.'" (Heb 2:10-13)