Hebrew. 3:12Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
In the past, I use to hear the Elder generation say ” that it only takes one apple to destroy the whole basket.”
What they were telling me, in other words, was that a decaying fruit will infect the other fruit in its immediate area to the point where it will destroy eventually every fruit in the basket.
Its like death devouring every living thing around it. So as with the fruit so as with mankind also as in building every member in the the structure of that building is depended upon each other, as you weaken one it weakens all, to the point of collapse of that structure. We as Children of God need the support of each other to weather the storms and attacks of this world. This world cares nothing of you or what you believe, this world doesn’t like who you follow Christ Jesus or what you being taught by His word ” the truths of this world and how to survive the attack of satan and his Demons. Remember what Jesus said in John 15:18-25
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also. But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake, because they know not him that sent me. If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin. He that hateth me hateth my Father also. If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father. But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, † They hated me without a cause.”
But if you are apart of the Noise in the Body of Christ bring in doubt and or disbelief, dissension, hatred, jealousy, or all that is mention in Galatians 5:19-21 law:
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like:of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Are you apart of the Noise, the fruit in that basket that is infecting all that is around? Are you what Galatians 5 speak against that shouldn’t be apart of the body? Well if you are, there is healing and most of all Hope for you our Brother or Sister!
Points of Application:
Gal. 6 “if you are over taken in a fault”
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Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. 2).Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
3). For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. 4). But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another. 5). For every man shall bear his own burden. 6). Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things. 7). Be not deceived; God is not mocked:for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. 8). For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. 9). And let us not be weary in well doing:for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. 10). As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.
General Notes:
Read scriptures
1 kings 18:21, Prov. 6:19