Posts by JWME

I have been kicked out by Simon: My last post:

Thanks to all who have e-mailed me with their thoughtful questions and concerns. As stated, I cannot address all questions at once. I know that there are “ravenous wolves” and others (2Peter 2:1) waiting in their darkness to eat me alive. Already, my words have been twisted, just like their thinking on matters of faith. However, I know from many Bible examples this is “par for the course” with the lost and those crying out for help. Those who have e-mailed me, I will do my best to encourage you “as the day draws near” as a fellow servant of Christ. Your encouragement is needed and valued by me! This is truly a time of testing.

A constant thread of questions (affecting some’s faith) seems to revolve around the actions of other persons in the Christian congregation. Brothers, who do we follow? Is it not our Lord Jesus Christ? Will we not stand before Jehovah our God, “each one of us,” for our actions? “But,” some have asked, what about “men in authority,” “do they not reflect on all of God’s people?”

An example: King David calculated the premeditated, cold blooded, murder of his future wife’s husband. For just a moment, please put “flesh and blood” on the friends and family of the victim (who was a faithful servant of Jehovah), how angry and hurt they must have been at King David! Then on top of it all, Jehovah did not deal with him by death or removal from his very high station of authority! If you lived back then, my friends, what would you have done? What if the victim was a fleshly brother of yours? Would you continue to support Jehovah’s arraignment, or would you take cover with those in darkness of that time? Please give an ear and listen (Rom 10:17). Our faith will preserve us alive. And we can acquire this faith, even if we have misplaced it! Just ask in prayer. Do not follow men. Yes, men in authority, and other persons who seem to be “getting away with it,”may continue for some time. However, Jehovah, in his wisdom, dealt with King David in his own time and way. But it takes faith, my friends.

Insight: Many here have been stumbled. Jesus still calls the stumbled “my sheep.” Please search back in your hearts when you were acting under God’s Holy Spirit, call to mind the great feeling we had being “part” of his works and the many blessings we enjoyed in fellowship and “working good toward all.” We can get this blessing back!

Notwithstanding the above, many here have been “sifted.” The many “topics” on this site gives us a clue as to the reasons why. Homosexuality, Fornication; false, ignorant, teachings about self creation (evolution), mixing pagan worship with what belongs to Jehovah, causing divisions in the congregation and many, many other things detestable to our God Jehovah (1Tess 4:3-8., Eph 5:5). Some, use the Watchtower name to try to entrap. Others, offer a “Watchtower Store,” on their posts, are they turning this light into a commercial venture? All the while hunting the spiritually weak and weak minded. It will take brutal honesty with ourselves regarding how we have arrived in this situation and why. Yet, there is hope! Lets not become like most on this board: negative, complaining, while beating our fellow brothers, becoming much worse than the people they seem to despise, yet follow daily, on the outside, looking in. Brothers I ask, what are your goals, to correct mistakes or to punish?

I bear witness today, I call each one to his soundness of mind in Christ, I entreat, as a brother, those who are meek and kind in heart, to return to Jehovah. To those who are still on the “road to life,” continue to put up a fine fight for the truth, here, and in all manners of your life. To those wising to come back into God’s good grace and care, it is not too late to start now.

JWMAN