YOU DON’T HAVE MANY FRIENDS BECAUSE YOU LIVE CONSECRATED Most people are not living a godly consecrated life so often tolerate living in unrepentant sin and have many friends who are also living ungodly lives. Many of these people complain how they were victims of life, angry and selfish, tolerating gossip, sexually impure, addicted to unhealthy food, alcohol, etc. And they make fun of you because you don’t have many friends. Saying you just can’t get along with people when in reality it’s because you won’t live a compromised life of sin. When you truly choose to live for Jesus you pursue consecrating your life to what Jesus talked about in the Bible and then you become more like Christ. You repent and change from living in your flesh and sin becomes rare in your life. Therefore your circle of friends will become smaller. You forgive everyone who hurt you, repent for pride and sin, command demons out of you and walk in the fruit of the spirit. You change from living a very sinful life full of the flesh to making sin rare and living in the fruit of the spirit. So then there are less people in the…

JESUS SAID WE MUST JUDGE… WITH RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT Many people state that we must not judge anyone at all referring back to when Jesus said in Matthew 7:1-2 “Judge not, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you"  Jesus was talking about those who were living unrighteously, in unrepentant sin and judging others like the compromised Pharisees….they had pride and religious spirits….they had logs in their own eyes that they needed to remove first before they could accurately judge. Righteous judgement is good and required. Jesus judged righteously the hearts of people.  The Pharisees were angry with Jesus for healing on Shabbat because they called it work and no work should be done on Fridays after sunset - not even healing people miraculously from lifetimes of paralysis or leprosy and doing what was right which they never did. Jesus talked a lot about the need to judge righteously throughout the book of John.  So Jesus said we need to judge from a righteous, godly standard. The problem is most Christians are not delivered from demons so they can’t…