Jude 1:12
[ Apostates Depraved and Doomed ] These are spots in your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, serving only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried about by the winds; late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots;
Apostasy
In the book of Jude it talks about Apostates as regular Religious mixed in with the true people of faith causing deception and uncertainty. It says that Apostates sit with us in our midst talking about our Congregations and things of Jews & Christians. This being noted it goes on to say it is hard to notice a true from a false believer but God apparently knows their works and he says they are "dead". To me apostates are those who mix law & grace, those who practice apostasy by disobeying the guidelines of scripture by Women becoming teachers of Men when the Bible clearly commands no woman shall teach a man in Timothy.
1 Timothy 2:11-13
11 Let a woman learn in silence with all submission. 12 And I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man, but to be in silence. 13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve.
Those women out there with teaching ministries have gone the way of Balaam. This concept in scripture means they have gone after profit against the teaching of scripture which means they have essentially apostatized and departed from the faith due to money or other personal corruption.
1 Timothy 6:10
10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
So women should not have teaching ministries like Joyce Meyer who is clearly an apostate writing teaching books like the "Battlefield of the Mind" for the clear purpose of personal gain at the cost of scriptural obedience which negates every spiritual thing she has to say. This is not to degrade women but for them to learn God never granted them permission to be spiritual leaders except for being in charge of other women. Now I do think Beth Moore's ministry is biblical since she is focused only on teaching towards women or makes her teaching geared towards women like Women of Faith conferences and her theology being explained as sisterly concepts. So you see there is a very thin line where Joyce Meyer crossed but Beth Moore didn't yet they are both the same and yet both different.
Beth Moore doesn't openly express a concern for women she just makes her messages about them and surrounds herself with them which is what makes her stand out from her sisters in Christ. So apostasy is also getting into deceitful doctrines/dogma such as Mormonism, Jehovah's Witnesses, Works Based Salvation, etc.
For this reason Jude calls them "dreamers" since they are dreamers brought by arrogance, followers of the world, and practitioners of justification by good works when we are justified by faith not by works of the law, ROM 5:1.
Legalism
The Flatterers are many. So every time we see these flatterers running a muck we find out the hard way they were hypocrites and the like. Legalism breeds hypocrisy. Basically when they come disguised as sheep though they are ravenous wolves internally we don't have the foggiest idea when they turn on us and attack us for our beliefs. Sitting in Church Groups many times I have been verbally assaulted in the form of legalism by practitioners of favoritism who set themselves against me. Though they favored others I guess I am one of the folks you either love or hate and love to hate. So basically I notice a lot of normal people and cool people never get bothered and people generally leave them alone. But for some reason people give me a lot of beef and such. That being said sometimes they always say worse things than what I say about what I say in a harsh tone and intolerant manner that is just plain legalistic. They give gifts of praise to one another but leave me out of the loop for some reason. It's like I try to befriend my Christian brothers and it backfires horribly on me. This is why I recommend for my other brothers to not go around trying to befriend but just try finding true friends. I mean I myself got into the bad habit of trying to be everyone's friend in the Church for the sake of unity and that idea got completely annihilated. I tried volunteering at a Church to help with a revival meeting and the Pastor totally reeemed me a new one and let everyone else go but not me. I was so pissed it almost caused me to leave the Church. I came back though because I love God and want to serve him and I forgive them since I love them. Though I have been hurt by them I still have the love of Christ to love my religious enemies since his own kind hated him which were other Jews also so I must also do. Those who keep flippantly saying "Jesus Loves You" are in danger of being destroyed as there are using idle words to deal with the brethren and are no longer walking in the love of Christ. This being said they have not the love of God and only the love of the praises of men for they offer false comfort by saying Jesus loves you when this should only be used sparingly if at all. I hardly find it appropriate to even say that for most situations as it is sounds better when I just say it to myself rather than saying it trying to just to win a convert which has become a weak attempt at evangelism. "Jesus loves you" has become quite the cliche since people have used it so insincerely so often it has been used way too frequently and with way too much unrighteousness of heart. Love does not boast there is no reason to boast to many and say all the time "Jesus loves you" just to try to win them to Christ as this can become a form of legalism but rather we should allow our light to shine so that others see Jesus in us which is far superior than merely speaking flattery.
So women should not have teaching ministries like Joyce Meyer who is clearly an apostate writing teaching books like the "Battlefield of the Mind" for the clear purpose of personal gain at the cost of scriptural obedience which negates every spiritual thing she has to say. This is not to degrade women but for them to learn God never granted them permission to be spiritual leaders except for being in charge of other women. Now I do think Beth Moore's ministry is biblical since she is focused only on teaching towards women or makes her teaching geared towards women like Women of Faith conferences and her theology being explained as sisterly concepts. So you see there is a very thin line where Joyce Meyer crossed but Beth Moore didn't yet they are both the same and yet both different.
Beth Moore doesn't openly express a concern for women she just makes her messages about them and surrounds herself with them which is what makes her stand out from her sisters in Christ. So apostasy is also getting into deceitful doctrines/dogma such as Mormonism, Jehovah's Witnesses, Works Based Salvation, etc.
For this reason Jude calls them "dreamers" since they are dreamers brought by arrogance, followers of the world, and practitioners of justification by good works when we are justified by faith not by works of the law, ROM 5:1.
Legalism
The Flatterers are many. So every time we see these flatterers running a muck we find out the hard way they were hypocrites and the like. Legalism breeds hypocrisy. Basically when they come disguised as sheep though they are ravenous wolves internally we don't have the foggiest idea when they turn on us and attack us for our beliefs. Sitting in Church Groups many times I have been verbally assaulted in the form of legalism by practitioners of favoritism who set themselves against me. Though they favored others I guess I am one of the folks you either love or hate and love to hate. So basically I notice a lot of normal people and cool people never get bothered and people generally leave them alone. But for some reason people give me a lot of beef and such. That being said sometimes they always say worse things than what I say about what I say in a harsh tone and intolerant manner that is just plain legalistic. They give gifts of praise to one another but leave me out of the loop for some reason. It's like I try to befriend my Christian brothers and it backfires horribly on me. This is why I recommend for my other brothers to not go around trying to befriend but just try finding true friends. I mean I myself got into the bad habit of trying to be everyone's friend in the Church for the sake of unity and that idea got completely annihilated. I tried volunteering at a Church to help with a revival meeting and the Pastor totally reeemed me a new one and let everyone else go but not me. I was so pissed it almost caused me to leave the Church. I came back though because I love God and want to serve him and I forgive them since I love them. Though I have been hurt by them I still have the love of Christ to love my religious enemies since his own kind hated him which were other Jews also so I must also do. Those who keep flippantly saying "Jesus Loves You" are in danger of being destroyed as there are using idle words to deal with the brethren and are no longer walking in the love of Christ. This being said they have not the love of God and only the love of the praises of men for they offer false comfort by saying Jesus loves you when this should only be used sparingly if at all. I hardly find it appropriate to even say that for most situations as it is sounds better when I just say it to myself rather than saying it trying to just to win a convert which has become a weak attempt at evangelism. "Jesus loves you" has become quite the cliche since people have used it so insincerely so often it has been used way too frequently and with way too much unrighteousness of heart. Love does not boast there is no reason to boast to many and say all the time "Jesus loves you" just to try to win them to Christ as this can become a form of legalism but rather we should allow our light to shine so that others see Jesus in us which is far superior than merely speaking flattery.
1 Corinthians 13:4
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does notboast, it is not proud.
Legalism is the result as doing religious observance in a lack of love or no love. Basically when we do things out of fear so that God will accept us like evangelism or whatever and we don't have love in our hearts we might as well sit at home for this does not accomplish the purpose and plan of God. We need to only do things because we want to do them an not because we are afraid something bad will happen to us if we don't. This is the good news is that the work is finished and we can just sit and wait on the Lord to move in our lives. There's no rush. It's about doing what you want when you want and not doing things because you feel obligated to since this will cause legalism to come and pop up.
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