Misconceptions About God

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I recently read an internet poll about Christian views of God. 46% of those polled believe that God is a God of wrath and judgment. 16 % believed that God hated sinners and was a God of punishment. Out of all those polled only 20% believed that God was a God of Love and that he loved everyone. There were a couple of other categories listed but what opened my eyes wide and gave me a shock was how many Christian believers are in rejection! In essence all but those 20% believe God is a God of rejection, just waiting to reject, judge and punish.

Satan is the prince of this world and Jesus said that the world would hate you if you believed in him because it hated him first. The entire world ideology is based on an underlying sea of rejection in every shape and form. It’s known as the dog eat dog world for a reason. Clever as he is the enemy has planted the seed of rejection within the heart of the body of believers through the lie that God lives to punish for lack of perfection in performance. This is nothing more than his underlying root of rejection. This has bred into the church self righteousness, bigotry, cultism, cessations, wrath, hatred and so many more isms than we want to admit to.

Critical words, condemnation of others, judgmental attitudes towards others in the form of self-righteousness all are forms of Satan’s Kingdom based on rejection. Many groups come together in criticism of other groups and in a group of that nature you have a unity in criticism and judgment. The people of that group are unified and accepting of one another, while condemning those that disagree. They feel justified the more people they convince to stand with them.

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...our life will be centered on work. What is your desire in life? If we die to ourselves daily we are able to give up our fleshly desires for the desires of God. So many people don’t understand this concept and they feel it is a destitute walk of sacrifice and are unwilling to take it up. I can assure you that this walk may have the appearance of lack but it is anything but lack. God will meet you at whatever level you wish to reach. If you focus on him first, the rest will follow but if you are tied to the world the potential loss of worldly things will strike fear into your heart and you will fall. If you try to walk with one foot in the world and the other in the kingdom of God you will find yourself in a turmoil racked with questions and chaos. You can have all the good things in this world but you have to first be willing to give all things up to do so.

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