Anti-Anti's Modern Prosperendum

Consider Psalm 21:8-13. It's very interesting how the World keeps harping on about what we shouldn't say or think, and those things are directly related to God's praise in this Bible passage. It threatens direct harm. It speaks of the children of God's enemies in ways that we have been taught is wrong. So, think about it and wonder what you have believed from the World's teaching which seemed good but is actually opposed to right thinking as revealed in God's Word to us. Our enemies are not our friends, like the World is trying to coerce us into believing. And that coercion is very persuasive, because our Master Jesus told us to love our enemies. But His love burns their heads like hot coals. It's straightforward love to us, though. If we cross the line from doing truly kind things to the World and begin to think of them as our friends or as people we have to win to Christ by compromising the slightest goodness, then we've misunderstood Paul's method...

The people of the World have various methods of living. One, which I paint with the wide brush of "Stoics", sometimes crops up in books, and they mimic some of Christ's attributes. I've noticed it throughout cultures and philosophies of living. The example here takes on a laid-back appearance until they've had enough with whatever is around them, and then they claim that they're full up of that nonsense and lash out. The idea is that they have ultimate control and are rationally responding at the very end of the filling up of the cup of wickedness. Of course, that's what Christ is doing right now, and when He returns, His wrath will be intense and definitive, but He'll have waited with absolute patience in this way. Only when evil has done everything it can do will He make a total end of the World and remake it to rule over Himself for a thousand years. And while that's another conversation, consider for a moment how Christ is the Fountain of Youth...

 We've been made to be repulsed by goodness! If you don't believe Jesus was raised from the dead *in accordance with the Scriptures*, then you're not saved!  If you are friends with your unsaved *family members*, then you are acting like God's enemy. If you commune with the constantly sinning sibling in Christ, then you are sinning, and you are both hurting each other by it. We've been made to be repulsed by God's Word in many ways. Believe Him, and you will slowly change your point of view, learn why these things are good, and come to a viewpoint of strength against falsehood. Wouldn't you like that? There is a ripping apart of communion between communities - that's part of what holiness is, but do we despise it and call it wicked in our minds? Don't let the unbeliever into your gatherings, real Christians in our same Master and Savior, the actual - Jesus of Nazareth, God's Christ, Who is also the one Gods ("Elohim" is plural, you know...