Isn't that what being in the wrong with Christ means? An offender may,but not always, be in the wrong with Christ due to pride or any number of things which would hinder their willingness to forgive.
You're absolutely right.
1 Corinthians 9:18 What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel. 9:19 For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more. 9:20 And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; 9:21 To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law. 9:22 To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some. 9:23 And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you. 9:24 Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. 9:25 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. 9:26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: 9:27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
But you are dealing with a consistent hypocrisy, in her and some of her pals on TOL.
A few days ago, someone on here repeatedly posted to her having forgiven her, or some such. She repeatedly spit on them, and went on with her usual nonsense that they were just tooting their own horn.
She is simply that vain; ever accusing anyone but herself and her pals of being proud, and all her other repeated nonsense.
In contrast, when one of her pals on here posted he forgave me for who knows what, she high-fived him.
This is a pattern with her and various of her pals on here that many have repeatedly called them on to no avail.
The following comes to mind about her and some of her pals, despite their ever attempting to ram down other's throats that they alone "follow Paul" - only to not only repeatedly prove otherwise, but to spit on anyone who does not agree with them.
It is crystal clear obvious their actual God is their going by their own emotion based nonsense in the moment; and that their glory is in their shame; and their mind ever that of the pettiness of this world, as per the following, but verse 17.
Philippians 3:17 Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample. 3:18 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: 3:19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.) 3:20 For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: 3:21 Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
Given this about her and her kind consistently, you'd best just view such through the lens of Romanse 5:6-8, and that much, from accross the street somewhere.
There is...no reasoning with such.
The Lord Himself failed miserably with their kind, in Matthew thru John.
Or as He had put that...
John 8:43 Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.
Again, all one can do when dealing with the double-standard of such ever one-sided condition based hypocrites is to allow it to remind us that each of us ourselves was also once not worthy of being forgiven either.
I mean, one might as well turn the would be lemons of the hypocrisy of such towards one into that ever cool, just right each time, hot summer's day sweet lemonade that can be focusing instead on the Cross to the Glory of God in His Son, as we look over at both such and ourselves through the lens that is..
Romans 5:6 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. 5:7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
By this, we turn their fraud, their animosity, into His victory in us, over their obvious need to spit on anyone who they look down down their noses at.
Personally, I continue to find this aspect of it all - the victory in Christ that can be ours in the very moment others would rob of us it - I continue to find it an ever fascinating study of the dynamics of the Believer's life right in the very moment that life throws its various curve balls our way.
And you'll know you are experiencing it when the negative in life comes your way, but you find yourself feeling like the warrior in the movie calmly walking away, as all sorts of explosions are going off behind him somewhere.
All the result of a focus on how that...
Romans 5:1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: 5:2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 5:3 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; 5:4 And patience, experience; and experience, hope: 5:5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. 5:6 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. 5:7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 5:9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. 5:10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. 5:11 And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.
All because of what we chose to focus on instead, when some life and or fool attempted to rob us of...the victory that is already ours...in Christ.
Now THAT is one heck of an Inward Man Revival!
Amen! And Amen!
