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Dear Darlene,
Thank you for visiting my website and
submitting your comments and concerns in your emails. I pray that my Holy
Father in heaven grant you a fuller understanding of His Holy Word. I answer
your comments and concerns in this context.
Your comments:
(1st and 2nd emails): I was feeling you=
on
tithe and offering now about Women and the churches i<=
/span>
can't stand to hear you speak against women like that although it's being
quoted from the Bible. God sa=
id
"He'll pour out His spirit upon all flesh that ye may receive Him. I t=
hink
you are anti-christ
(3rd email): Why don't you mention Jesu=
s as
the "Son" you most of the time quote as "Christ"
My Response(s): Now, I find it strange,=
yet
it is not strange that you want to agree with my teaching on tithing but you
refuse to even hear my teaching concerning women and the Church of the Livi=
ng
God. You know I have
found in my time that some people are okay with you as long as your teaching
agree with their own private beliefs but if you have any difference in their
own private interpretation of the Holy Scripture then they refuse to even h=
ear
anything you may teach (2 Tim. 4:3-4). I mean, let me ask you, are all those
who disagree with yourself on tithing also referred to as "antichrists=
”
by you?
You say I speak against women, in what =
way
you do not clearly say, my guess is you which for women to teach in the Chu=
rch
of the Living God. Now, I suspect you are talking about my article on
"Jezebel" which have Holy Scriptures
interpreting my teachings and I list these Scriptures backup which you your=
self
acknowledge, yet you still refuse to accept it. You seem to partial quote a
Scripture without giving the verse, however if you are referring to what
happens in Acts 2 on the “Day of Pentecost” when God poured out=
His
Holy Spirit on the first 120 followers of the Way of Christ Jesus then you =
and
the world are mistaken in your private interpretation of these verses. For =
the
world would have you to believe that these verses granted women the authori=
ty
to teach in the churches of the Saints of God, however these verses are
unrelated to the order of authority in the Church of the Living God. Yes, t=
he
Holy Scripture is clear on the authority of men in the churches of the sain=
ts
of God (1 Cor. 11:3).
Now, you also questioned whether or not=
I
am an “antichrist” because of this one aspect of my teaching on
women in the churches of the saints of God. Again, you do not list what
Scripture makes me the “antichrist” but I guess you are referri=
ng
to 1 John 4:2. And again, you are mistaken with your own private interpreta=
tion
of the Holy Scriptures you seem to be quoting as to why you believe I should
refer to Christ Jesus as the Son of the Living God more often than I do on =
my
websites. First, if you think a person that says Jesus is the Son of God mu=
st
be from God then you are mistaken because a person just saying Christ is the
Son of God does not prove that someone isn’t an “antichristR=
21;.
I mean there are many false teachers and prophets and prophetess out there
claiming Christ is Lord and Son of God but they are still
“antichrists”. Besides you yourself say “most” of t=
he
time I use “Christ”, this implies that you see on my websites t=
hat
I do refer to Christ as the Son of God. But, you having to justify your cal=
ling
me an “antichrist” used this to just=
ify
it.
However, when you read Scripture you mu=
st
read it in the proper context, in 1 John 4:2-3 it says, “By this you =
know
the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in
the flesh is of God, and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Chri=
st
has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the antichri=
st,
which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world” (NK=
JV).
These verses must be read in context with 1 John 3:24 and 4:1-6 to more ful=
ly
understand what is being said in this Scripture. For it clear from these ve=
rses
that the Scripture is saying, we should “test the spirits” to s=
ee
if they are from God or not. This means if there are spirits (thoughts in y=
our mind
trying to lead you astray) then you must determine if they are from God. And
you determine if these “spirits” are promoting spiritual things
from God by their confessions concerning the Spirit of God living inside of
your flesh and blood body because God gave His Spirit to us for this purpos=
e to
test the “spirits” (1 John 3:24). Whether these
“spirits” we must test are promoting something spiritual without
acknowledging the power of God that lives in us, if indeed we are the child=
ren
of God (Rom. 8:9). And these verses further say, the Spirit inside of the
believer “is greater than the one who is in the world” (1 John =
4:4
NIV). This means that the spirit in the world have been overcome by the Spi=
rit
of God which lives in the children of God; and we as children of God have
overcome these spirits. Yes, this further means that the world listens to t=
hese
“spirits” for they “speak from the viewpoint of the world,
and the world listens to them” (1 John 4:5 NIV).
Therefore, I exhort you to do as the Bereans did after hearing a teaching or preaching mes=
sage,
that is “they received the message with great eagerness and examined =
the
Scriptures every day to see” if what was said is true (Acts 17:11 NIV=
).
For it is also clear from the Scripture, that those who profess to be from =
God
should listen to sound doctrine and “whoever knows God listens to us;=
but
whoever is not from God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the
Spirit of truth and the spirit of falsehood” (1 John 4:6 NIV). This =
mean
if we are speaking sound doctrine then you should listen to what we are say=
ing
to you. For the world will not hear what we are saying, the world accepts i=
ts
own and refuse to listen to sound doctrine seeking teachers that agree with
their own private interpretations. Again, I pray that my Holy and Righteous
Father in heaven grant you and your household understanding in His Holy Wor=
d.
Amen. Praise God.
In Christ Jesus Love,
Evangelist Ron Davis, servant of God