Wow! I’m so disappointed.
I just got back from a service this morning in which the pastor openly led the people to curse the abortionists during the pre-service prayer. [Actually, I went to Costco instead of sitting through the service. I just can’t stomach this.]
He prayed that they wouldn’t be able to sleep, and that God’s wrath would be on them — among other things. Yikes!
What about the ‘Christians’ who supported all of President Bush’s wars in which we killed many hundreds of thousands of innocent old folk, adults, children and embryos (women carrying children)? And many of these people won’t go to heaven like aborted fetuses will. Over 1 million people (made in God’s likeness) are dead in Iraq alone.
Which is the greater sin?
We did it in the name of Love, and it besmirched His name. I don’t hear any evangelical pastors leading prayers of repentance for that.
First, we take the plank out of our own eye. Then we’ll see clearly how to take the speck out of our neighbor’s eye. – Jesus
This is reverse-Christianity, you all: killing innocent people with bombs and bullets and wishing people dead with our prayers (James-3 curses). It’s God’s job to avenge, not ours. We’re to be examples of Love: “Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.” Whatever happened to WWJD — What Would Jesus Do?
This is sick, that ‘Christians’ think they can curse others who are made in Jesus’ likeness.
James 3 totally spells it out:
9 With it [our tongue] we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in the image of God. 10 Out of the same mouth comes forth blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so. 11 Does a spring send out from the same opening fresh and bitter water?
And if we read carefully, the deepest place of origin is not the tongue, but the heart (verse 14). And the source is demonic (verse 15). We need to have clean hearts, literally. Then we’ll have FREEeeeeeeeeeeeeeee————–dom!!!!!!!!!!
The only way I’ll ever possibly pray anything heavy on someone, I let God decide what to pray, by either praying in tongues for them or saying, Father, you deal with them according to what you determine is right.
It’s not for us to specifically pray (James-3 curse) in God’s wrath. James warns us to not do this!
Some will say it’s Biblical because David cursed those who were about to kill him. Well, there is zero support for this in the New Testament, which teaches a new and better way by which we draw near to God, Abba Father, now that we have the Holy Spirit inside of us. [And just because we have the Holy Spirit inside us doesn’t mean we’re going to heaven. See Rev. 3:1-5]
Consider Psalm 50. “You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought I was just like you.”
16 But to the wicked God says, “What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,
17 since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?
18 When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.
19 “You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.
20 You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son.
21 You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.
22 “Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be none to deliver. [Hell – editor]
23 Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.” For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.
Worship, not James-3 cursing prepares the way.
May we be holy. May the blood of no one be on our hands. May we be clean, and be right with all mankind.
We are not God. We live according to His rules. He calls the shots. “Those who are led by the Spirit are the sons and daughters of God.” “Those who are Christ’s have crucified their flesh.”
Again: First, we take the plank out of our own eyes. Then we’ll see clearly how to take the speck out of our neighbors’ eyes. The Holy Spirit will give us wisdom how to remove specks from others when we remove our planks, first. And cursing people are huge planks!!
Just think if we actually Biblically were salt and light. That we would be ONE, Jesus prayed. How would this put a dent in abortions? How many thousands of mothers would then be inspired to carry their children to full term — those who now are going into the clinics to terminate their child?
Com’ on people! Let’s love, love, love — and love some more — being c a r e f u l!
The Devil answers the cursing prayers, not God, and then the blood (or their sicknesses) are on our heads. May this never be.
“Don’t be overcome with evil, but overcome evil with good.”
Our goal is to be like Christ, to be ONE!
The greatest two commandments should be our focus, which means loving even those who would kill babies — which includes those who supported President Bush’s wars and refuse to repent (paragraph 4 above).
And the greatest commandment is to love the Lord, our God with all of our heart… — not cursing others from our hearts.
They’ll know us by our love —
not by our James-3 curses,
Jeff Fenske
Related:
My ‘Christians’ Cursing People posts at ONEcanhappen
My People Cursing People posts at ToBeFree
God’s Remedy for James-3 Cursing & Partysville in Today’s Church is James 4
Victoria Bingham
This is an excellent and very important article; I suggest posting it on Sermon Central. How well our Lord did prophesy when he spoke of the mote in the eyes of men.. This nation is under a great judgment for its failure to understand this very thing.. We have as a Christian nation permitted the USA to engage in rampant genocides throughout the Earth, Is it not fitting that we should also kill our own? Besides abortions, do we not murder our living children daily with the administration of demonic drugs both psychotropic (Ritalin, Zoloft etc etc) and vaccines, etc etc; The scope of this comment is insufficient to scratch the surface of our indiscretions worldwide. Though not only did modern observers and authors write reams on the subject of American death dealing (I think of Paul Craig Roberts and Anthony Sutton).. the prophets of old weighed in thousands of years ago, naming the US the ‘hammer of the whole earth’, as in Jeremiah chapters 50 and 51. The Apostle John wrote the reflection of the Old Testament’s ominous warnings to America in Revelation’s 18th chapter. Abortion is terrible, but it is more the bloody symptom of our disease than the disease itself. Christians who send their sons off to illegal wars and then malign our national murder of babies as if they were unique, are definitely blinded by their own self righteousness..
Jeff Fenske
Your last line is especially well said.
I find it interesting that pro-life used to be the voting litmus test for evangelicals, and that only included the life of the unborn. But now the litmus test seems to have changed in 2008, since Ron Paul was pro-life from womb to tomb (evangelicals rejected him), and John McCain was pro-choice for babies in the womb and pro-war for Muslims who live in countries that we’ve decried righteous to regime change.
What shocks me here is that I have yet to hear a sermon taught on James-3 cursing. I think this is true because most pastors like to curse people, what James and Jesus said not to do.
Most pastors are teaching and living a different gospel.