-Emmanuel seemed
serious.(Matthew
12:30;
25:24-26).and
not lighthearted. If we are to follow Emmanuel example, should we also
be serious and avoid being lighthearted?
You would be serious too
if you knew you were going to die soon.
Emmanuel
came to die, for us, so we could, among other things, live joyfully, lightheartedly
and abundantly:.John
10:10; 16:24.(the
One whom God sent wants us to be full of joy);
17:13.(Emmanuel's
joy was in His relationship with the Father).
Follow Emmanuel's example and points of His personality and of others that
are particularly comfortable
to you.
We have
all been brought up in different times. Circumstances, along with concepts
held, help determine our personality. God wants individuals, not
clones.
-Should we be going door
to door and trying to hand out literature to others to bring them to God?
It is best to know someone
first. Then approach with
wisdom knowing that none can come to the Creator unless
He opens their minds. Be ready to help:.1Timothy
6:18; Titus 3:1; 1Peter
3:15. Apart from that, just leave
them be. Consider Emmanuel's prophesied example:.Isaiah
42:2.
The contact the apostles
had with the unconverted
was by getting the message out to groups gathered in public. They had more
wisdom than spending time going
'door to door'. And, the groups that listened to what they had to say,
came because they wanted to hear. They weren't accosted
by someone with a twisted
sense of evangelizing,
calling out to them as they may be walking by:.Isaiah
42:2 "He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard
in the street."
Many religious
people who have approached me seem to care less for me and more about
whether or not I accept their particular
religious philosophy
and/or literature. Better they learn some wisdom and compassion
towards others, works that will get them a great
reward. They need to learn how to master acts of love rather than acts
of religious.evangelizing
to 'witness':.John
13:35.
And they need to throughly
study their Bible so they can always be 'in tune' with the Creator
and therefore be ready to answer those who may ask them:.1Peter
3:15 "But sanctify
the Lord God in your hearts and be ready always.(how?).to
give an answer to every man that asks you a reason of the hope that is
in you with meekness and fear.".If
they do not ask, why tell 'em? Does God 'need your help'?.Matthew
3:9 ".....God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.".Luke
19:40.
If they do not.ask.you
a reason of what it is they may see in you, perhaps they just do not understand
it that way yet?
So there is your answer to
'witnessing'. Then you can be sure Creator is opening their mind to be
made aware of His presence now at this time. Please read the scriptures
here one more time.
Emmanuel
took away sin, that is, if you are in Emmanuel, you are in the
higher consciousness realm He came to reveal and out of the
ego realm where sin predominates.
What if nobody knew it? What
if there was no sin and nobody knows it? It is important to get the message
to others. You never know whose life you may awaken
to their true state. But you will never get the message into a mind
that God has not
opened.
