tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5528158760608808912.post-23981242309236973122008-07-10T02:00:00.000-07:002008-10-05T18:38:14.850-07:00<blockquote style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><b><span id="en-NIV-5405">Let the reader understand;</span></b></span></div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><b><span id="en-NIV-5405"><br /></span></b></span></div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><b><span id="en-NIV-5405">De. 18:20</span></b> <i>But a prophet who presumes to speak in my name anything I have not commanded him to say, or a prophet who speaks in the name of other gods, must be put to death."</i></span> </div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 130%;">[It's a good thing the Old Covenant has been replaced by the New Covenant.] How ever this only concerns the first death, there's no escaping the second and final death.]</span> </div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><b><span id="en-NIV-5406">21</span></b> <i>You may say to yourselves, "How can we know when a message has not been spoken by the LORD ?"</i></span></div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 130%;">[<i>How</i> can we know?]</span><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><b><span id="en-NIV-5407">22</span></b> <i>If what a prophet proclaims in the name of the LORD does not take place or come true, that is a message the LORD has not spoken. That prophet has spoken presumptuously. Do not be afraid of him.</i></span></div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 130%;">[How many times must this scripture be <i>said</i>? <b>Nothing</b> Ron "prophesied" came to pass!]</span></div></blockquote><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 130%;"> </span></div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><b>Is. 44: <span id="en-NIV-18558">24</span></b><i> "This is what the LORD says— your Redeemer, who formed you in the womb: I am the LORD, who has made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who spread out the earth by myself, <b><span id="en-NIV-18559">25</span></b> who foils the signs of false prophets...</i></span></div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 130%;">[Ron's 'prophesies' have been quite foiled.]</span> </div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><b> </b></span></div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><b> </b></span></div><blockquote style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><b>Mt.23:</b> </span><span id="en-NIV-23930" style="font-size: 130%;"><b>13</b> </span><span style="font-size: 130%;"><i>"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men's faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.</i></span></div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 130%;">[Do you see the implications here?]</span> </div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span id="en-NIV-23931" style="font-size: 130%;"><b>15</b> </span><span style="font-size: 130%;"><i>"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are.</i></span> </div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 130%;">[Do you see the implications here, too?]</span> </div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><b><span id="en-NIV-23932">16</span> </b><i>"Woe to you, blind guides! You say, 'If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.'</i></span></div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span id="en-NIV-23933" style="font-size: 130%;"> </span></div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><b><span id="en-NIV-23933"> 17</span> </b><i>You blind fools! <b>Which is greater</b>: the gold, or the temple that makes the gold sacred?</i></span></div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span id="en-NIV-23934" style="font-size: 130%;"><b>18</b> </span><span style="font-size: 130%;"><i>You also say, 'If anyone swears by the altar, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gift on it, he is bound by his oath.'</i></span></div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span id="en-NIV-23935" style="font-size: 130%;"><b>19</b> </span><span style="font-size: 130%;"><i>You blind men! <b>Which is greater</b>: the gift, or the altar that makes the gift sacred?</i></span></div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span id="en-NIV-23936" style="font-size: 130%;"><b>20 </b></span><span style="font-size: 130%;"><i>Therefore, he who swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it. </i></span><span id="en-NIV-23937" style="font-size: 130%;"> </span><span id="en-NIV-23937" style="font-size: 130%;"> <b><br /></b></span></div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span id="en-NIV-23937" style="font-size: 130%;"><b>21</b> </span><span style="font-size: 130%;"><i>And he who swears by the temple swears by it and by the one who dwells in it.</i><b><span id="en-NIV-23938"><br /></span></b></span></div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><b><span id="en-NIV-23938">22</span> </b><i>And he who swears by heaven swears by God's throne and by the one who sits on it.</i></span> </div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><b><span id="en-NIV-23939">23</span> </b><i>"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices—mint, dill and cummin. But you have neglected the <b>more important</b> matters of the law—justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.</i></span><span id="en-NIV-23940" style="font-size: 130%;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span id="en-NIV-23940" style="font-size: 130%;"><b>24</b> </span><span style="font-size: 130%;"><i>You blind guides! You <b>strain out a gnat</b> but <b>swallow a camel</b>. </i></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #330000; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: black;">[Example; <i style="color: #330000;">"...swears by the Temple means nothing"</i>; Ron says you can't grow spiritually at home, <i>just</i> you and God. </span></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #330000; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: black;">Example; <i style="color: #330000;">"...swears by the gold...is bound by his oath."</i>; Ron says you can only grow spiritually through him. Whoa! A <i>bit</i> arrogant. Scary.]<br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #330000; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: black;">Example; <i style="color: #330000;">"...You blind fools! <b>Which is greater</b>; the gold, or <b>the temple</b> that <b>makes</b> the gold <b>sacred</b>?"</i> So; You blind fools! <b>Which is greater</b>; Ron's ministry, or <b>God</b> who <b>makes</b> us <b>righteous</b>? Ron is a false teacher/prophet condemned to destruction. In any case, God is greater than His true ministers, whom He makes righteous.]</span></span></div></blockquote><div style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #330000; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #330000; font-size: 130%;"><b>2 Pe. 2:</b></span><span id="en-NIV-30486" style="font-size: 130%;"><b>1</b> </span><span style="font-size: 130%;"><i>But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly <b>introduce destructive heresies</b>, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves.</i></span></div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span id="en-NIV-30487" style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: black;">[Ron has done <i>just</i> that; introduced the destructive heresy of denying Jesus as Yahweh, the Eternal, Self-Existent, by teaching that He had a beginning. An easy lie to see through. Destructive because, by believing this, you are not of God; </span></span><span id="en-NIV-30487" style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: black;"><b style="color: #330000;">1 Jn. 4:2</b>.]</span><br /></span></div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span id="en-NIV-30487" style="font-size: 130%;"><b>2</b> </span><span style="font-size: 130%;"><i><b>Many will follow their shameful ways</b> and <b>will bring the way of truth into disrepute.</b></i></span></div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span id="en-NIV-30488" style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: black;">[Many have followed Ron's shameful ways.]</span><br /></span></div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><b><span id="en-NIV-30488">3</span></b> <i>In their <b>greed</b> these teachers will <b>exploit you with stories they have made up</b>. Their <b>condemnation</b> has <b>long</b> been <b>hanging over them</b>, and their <b>destruction</b> has <b>not</b> been sleeping.</i></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #330000; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: black;">[Ron's greed for power, self-importance, and your money, lots of your money. His condemnation has long been hanging over him.]</span></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #330000; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span></div><blockquote style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><b style="color: #330000;">Mt. 7:</b></span><span style="color: #330000; font-size: 130%;"> </span><span id="en-NIV-23332" style="font-size: 130%;"><b style="color: #330000;">15</b> </span><span style="font-size: 130%;"><i>"<b>Watch out</b> for false prophets. They come to you in <b>sheep's clothing</b>, but inwardly they are <b>ferocious wolves</b>.</i></span></div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 130%;">[Ron has come to you, pretending to be a man of God, but he <b>is not</b>. He is leading people <b>away</b> from Christ. Do you understand the seriousness of this? ]</span> </div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><b><span id="en-NIV-23333">16</span></b> <i>By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? </i></span></div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 130%;">[Ron teaches a different Christ! That is not fruit from God's tree, it is fruit from the Devil's tree].</span> </div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><b><span id="en-NIV-23334">17</span></b> <i>Likewise every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.</i></span> </div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><b><span id="en-NIV-23335"> </span></b></span><span id="en-NIV-23335" style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: black;">[Teaching a different Christ is bad fruit from a bad tree.]<br /></span></span></div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><b><span id="en-NIV-23335">18</span></b> <i>A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit.</i></span></div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span id="en-NIV-23336" style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: black;">[</span></span><span id="en-NIV-23336" style="color: black; font-size: 130%;">Someone who belongs to God, does not teach a different Christ.]</span><span style="font-size: 130%;"><b><span id="en-NIV-23336"><br /></span></b></span></div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><b><span id="en-NIV-23336">19</span></b> <i>Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.</i></span></div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span id="en-NIV-23337" style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: black;">[Sadly, this is the destination laid out in front of Ron.]</span><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana;"><span id="en-NIV-23337" style="color: #330000; font-size: 130%;"><b>20</b> </span><span style="font-size: 130%;"><i><span style="color: #330000;">Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them</span></i>.</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana;"><span id="en-NIV-23338" style="color: #330000; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: black;">[Yes, his fruit <i>is</i> recognized. It is quite easy to see that a man who teaches that Christ did <b><i>not</i></b> come in the flesh is <i><b>not</b></i> a man of God; <b>1 Jn.4:1-2 </b>]</span><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana;"><span id="en-NIV-23338" style="color: #330000; font-size: 130%;"><b>21</b> </span><span style="font-size: 130%;"><i><span style="color: #330000;">"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.</span></i></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><b><span id="en-NIV-23339" style="color: #330000;">22</span></b></span><span style="color: #330000; font-size: 130%;"> <i>Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?'</i></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><b><span id="en-NIV-23340" style="color: #330000;">23</span></b></span><span style="color: #330000; font-size: 130%;"> <i>Then I will tell them plainly, 'I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!'</i></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #330000;"><br /></span></div><h5 style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 130%;">The</span> <span style="font-size: 180%;">Wise</span> <span style="font-size: 130%;">and</span> <span style="font-size: 180%;">Foolish</span> <span style="font-size: 130%;">Builders </span></h5><div style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #330000;"> </span><span style="font-size: 130%;"><b><span id="en-NIV-23341" style="color: #330000;">24</span></b></span><span style="color: #330000; font-size: 130%;"> <i>"Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.</i></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #330000; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: black;">[Who is the Rock? Jesus, not Ron, who teaches a different Jesus.]</span><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #330000; font-size: 130%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 130%;"><b><span id="en-NIV-23342" style="color: #330000;">25 </span></b><i><span style="color: #330000;">The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock.</span></i></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #330000; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: black;">[Because they built their faith on Christ, not a man.]</span><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #330000; font-size: 130%;"> </span><span id="en-NIV-23343" style="color: #330000; font-size: 130%;"><b>26</b> </span><span style="font-size: 130%;"><i><span style="color: #330000;">But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.</span></i></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #330000; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: black;">[He who builds his faith in one who is <i>not</i> Christ, or even<i> of </i>Christ, but a false teacher.]</span><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #330000; font-size: 130%;"> </span><span id="en-NIV-23344" style="color: #330000; font-size: 130%;"><b>27</b> </span><span style="font-size: 130%;"><i><span style="color: #330000;">The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash." </span></i></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #330000; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: black;">[It <i>fell</i> with a <i>great</i> <i>crash</i>.]</span></span></div></blockquote><div style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span id="en-NIV-30522" style="font-size: 130%;"><b>2 Pe. 3:15</b></span><span style="font-size: 130%;"> <i>Bear in mind that our Lord's patience means salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him. <span id="en-NIV-30523"> </span></i></span></div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><b><span id="en-NIV-30523">16</span></b> <i>He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are <b>hard to understand</b>, which <b>ignorant and unstable people distort,</b> <b>as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.</b></i><b> </b></span></div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 130%;">[Yeah, like this distortion of Ron's; 'Christ coming in the flesh doesn't mean He came down from heaven and became flesh, it means He comes and dwells in <i>our</i> flesh.' What a lie!]</span><b> <span id="en-NIV-30524"><br /></span></b></div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><b><span id="en-NIV-30524">17</span></b></span><i><span style="font-size: 130%;"> Therefore, dear friends, since you</span> <span style="font-size: 180%;"><b>already</b></span> <span style="font-size: 130%;">know this, </span><b><span style="font-size: 130%;">be on your</span> <span style="font-size: 180%;">guard</span></b> <span style="font-size: 130%;"><b>so</b> that you </span><b><span style="font-size: 130%;">may not be</span> <span style="font-size: 180%;">carried away</span> <span style="font-size: 130%;">by the</span> <span style="font-size: 180%;">error</span> <span style="font-size: 130%;">of</span> <span style="font-size: 180%;">lawless</span> <span style="font-size: 130%;">men</span></b><span style="font-size: 130%;"> and <b>fall</b> <b>from</b> your secure position.</span></i></div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span id="en-NIV-30525" style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: black;">[already know...be on your guard... carried away...error of lawless men...fall...]</span><br /></span></div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span id="en-NIV-30525" style="font-size: 130%;"><b>18</b> </span><span style="font-size: 130%;"><i>But <b>grow</b> in the grace and <b>knowledge</b> of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. </i></span></div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><i>To <b>him</b> be glory both now and forever! Amen.</i></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #330000; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: black;">[<b>Grow</b> in the <b>knowledge</b> of Jesus! How's that add go? ...'No one wants to look foolish.']</span><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #330000; font-size: 130%;"><br /></span></div><blockquote style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span id="en-NIV-30589" style="font-size: 130%;"><b>1 Jn. 4:1</b></span><span style="font-size: 130%;"> <i>Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. <span id="en-NIV-30590"> </span></i></span></div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span id="en-NIV-30590" style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: black;">[<b>TEST</b> people to see <b>whether</b> they are from God!</span><br /></span></div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><b><span id="en-NIV-30590">2</span></b> <i>This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, </i></span><span id="en-NIV-30591" style="font-size: 130%;"> </span></div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span id="en-NIV-30591" style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: black;">[Ron does <i>not</i> acknowledge that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh. No! He denies it! SOMETHING SO <b>EASILY</b> REFUTED! YES, <b>EASILY</b>, AND IN JUST A COUPLE OF MINUTES. THAT'S ALL IT TAKES. NO LONG HOURS OF RESEARCH OR STUDY, JUST A COUPLE OF MINUTES. It takes some time investment to go over the "Did Jesus Have A Beginning" article, but only a couple of minutes to go over the "Who Is Yahweh" article. Even without my article, you could do it yourself with a concordance in between ten to twenty minutes!]</span><br /></span></div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><b><span id="en-NIV-30591">3</span> </b><i>but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world. </i></span></div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 130%;">[Yeah, you guessed it; Ron is anti-Christ. Ron teaches that a God was created! Wouldn't want to be in <i>his</i> shoes.]</span> </div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span id="en-NIV-30592" style="font-size: 130%;"><b>4</b> </span><span style="font-size: 130%;"><i>You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is <b>greater</b> than the one who is in the world.</i></span> </div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><b><span id="en-NIV-30593">5</span></b> <i>They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world <b>listens</b> to them. </i></span><span id="en-NIV-30594" style="font-size: 130%;"> </span></div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><b><span id="en-NIV-30594">6</span></b> <i>We are from God, and whoever <b>knows</b> God listens to <b>us</b>; but whoever is <b>not</b> from God does <b>not</b> listen to <b>us</b>. This is <b>how</b> <b>we recognize</b> the <b>Spirit of</b> <b>truth </b>and t<b>he spirit of falsehood</b>.</i></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #330000; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: black;">[So, if you are from God, then listen to God, because whoever is not from God does <i>not</i> listen to God. Frankly, you are listening to Ron, a falser teacher/false prophet, and are <i>not</i> listening to God. Maybe Ron scares you with his prophesies, or maybe he makes you feel hopeful...it doesn't matter, it is <i>your</i> responsibility to verify the truth. You cannot do that if you limit yourself to the scriptures he gives you with <i>his</i> sorry, faulty exegesis, and say to yourself; "Hmm, sounds reasonable." <b>Find out</b> if it is true by looking up your <i>own</i> scriptures! It's <i><b>your</b></i> responsibility. You cannot ride someone else's coattail into the Kingdom!]</span></span></div></blockquote><div style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #330000; font-size: 130%;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span id="en-NIV-28976" style="font-size: 130%;"><b>2 Co. 11:2 </b></span><span style="font-size: 130%;"><i>I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. I promised you to one husband, to Christ, so that I might present you as a pure virgin to him.</i></span> </div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span id="en-NIV-28977" style="font-size: 130%;"><b>3</b> </span><span style="font-size: 130%;"><i>But I am afraid that <b>just as Eve was deceived</b> by the serpent's <b>cunning</b>, <b>your minds may somehow be led astray</b> from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ.</i></span> </div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span id="en-NIV-28978" style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: black;">[Didn't Satan sound <i>so</i> reasonable, telling Eve she wouldn't die? <i>Sounded</i> <b>reasonable </b>to her, and, whoa; she didn't die! But then, that's not the death that was in question, it was the permanent death, the death of the spirit, the soul, but then, Satan <i>knew </i>that when he conned her. What did <i>that</i> cost?]</span><br /></span></div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span id="en-NIV-28978" style="font-size: 130%;"><b>4</b> </span><span style="font-size: 130%;"><i>For if <b>someone comes to you</b> and <b>preaches</b> a<b> </b>Jesus<b> other than </b>the Jesus<b> we preached</b>, or if you<b> receive </b>a<b> different spirit</b> from <b>the one you received</b>, or a <b>different gospel</b> from <b>the one you accepted</b>, <span style="color: #660000;">you put up with it <b>easily </b>enough</span><span style="color: #330000;">...</span></i></span></div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><i>...</i></span><span id="en-NIV-28986" style="font-size: 130%;"><b>12</b> </span><span style="font-size: 130%;"><i>And I will keep on doing what I am doing [loving you] in order to cut the ground from under <b>those who want an opportunity to be considered equal with us</b> in the things <b>they boast about</b>.</i></span> </div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 130%;">[And what a boastful man you <i>are</i> Ron. Myyy goodness.]</span> </div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><b><span id="en-NIV-28987">13</span></b> <i>For <b>such men</b> are <b>false apostles</b>, <b>deceitful</b> workmen, <b>masquerading</b> as apostles of Christ.</i></span></div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span id="en-NIV-28988" style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: black;">[Fortunately, most of us see <i>right</i> through you Ron.]</span><br /></span></div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span id="en-NIV-28988" style="font-size: 130%;"><b>14</b> </span><span style="font-size: 130%;"><i>And <b>no wonder</b>, for <b>Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light</b>.</i></span></div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span id="en-NIV-28989" style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: black;">[Yes, <i>no</i> wonder.]</span><br /></span></div><div style="color: #330000; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><b><span id="en-NIV-28989">15</span></b> <i>It is <b>not surprising</b>, then, if <b>his servants masquerade as servants of righteousness</b>. Their <b>end</b> will be what their <b>actions deserve</b>.</i></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #330000;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 130%;">[No, it <i>is </i>not surprising that you masquerade as a servant of righteousness, and you end <i>will</i> be what your actions deserve, Ron.]</span><br /></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5528158760608808912-2398124230923697312?l=asbereansdid.blogspot.com'/></div>Seeker Of Truthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05974355570014495622asbereansdid@live.com0