Know the Fruits

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Know the Fruits of those who appear as Ministers of Righteousness!
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By the Watchman Dana G Smith
Keywords: Jesus Christ, Love, disciple, bless, Words: 3578
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Ask yourself about the Fruits? Wolves or Sheep?

Where does the LORD teach it is okay for Christians to curse one another? Where does it teach that Christians are to curse anyone? On the contrary, we are to bless them which persecute us, we are to bless and curse not! We are not to recompense evil for evil!

Matthew 7:16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
Matthew 7:20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

Romans 12:14  Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not.
15  Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.
16  Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.
17  Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.

James 3:9  Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.
10  Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

It was years ago and my family and I was in the audience that very night. Afterwards those in the church were alarmed at what had happened. It was a large city in the Midwestern state of Colorado, Denver to be exact. We had waited outside in line for hours while some protesters lined upon along the street against the famed evangelist. The time arrived for the meeting to start and we were all inside, in our seats, waiting with faith and hope that the Lord would move.

It was in that meeting, however, that this very famous and world renowned person decided the Lord told him to curse his enemies. His enemies in fact were the church, or to say, those in the church in certain leadership that saw his ministry and practices as somewhat misleading and false. To be precise, they were fervently opposed to this man. The results had been the cursing of the enemies he had come to understand that was trying to cut and undermine his ministry.

There was silence in the large crowd when he finished. Many, I suspect were stunned as to what had just happened. Here in a meeting for the Lord, we were looking for a move of God. What happened was unusual and unscriptural. We came from a solid fellowship of believers. We pastored in churches, had been youth pastors, and I had graduated from the bible college associated with our fellowship. In all that time, no one cursed his enemies, let alone other believers. There were others that probably did not fully understand the ramifications of what had just occurred. There before tens of thousands this man had just let out a tirade of curses against those who disagreed with his ministry and had apparently gotten him upset. Before all those people he stood up, as a man of God, a prophet, who had said a ‘thus saith the Lord’ then let it out, a barrage of curses against those he was vehemently fighting.

The question needs to be asked, “How does a person curse a Christian?” How does a brother or sister in Christ curse another brother or sister in the Lord? Then you need to ask again, “how does one curse an unbeliever or an enemy?” The answer, if you want a real biblical one is, ‘they do not.’ The meeting ended, the evangelist continues today, and everyone has forgotten this whole episode. That is except for those of us who still think it was unbiblical and of course the LORD, who does not forget what we do.

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