Remember the man named Paul, Rudy. He was guilty of a great slaughter of the body of believers, and because of Jesus' forbearance, became the most prolific of His disciples, of which the promises Paul passed on in the Scriptures, I am today able to glorify Jesus by personal witness to Jesus own forbearance of my own lack.

Remember, Rudy, it is our individual undone condition that murdered Jesus Christ and put Him on the cross. Can I not then make effort to extend the same mercy to another that they might have a reasonable chance to accept the same mercy.

Believe me, it is not easy to quell my own hatred for the deed of beheading we have seen. And I don't think our Father in heaven ever wants us to hate evil any the less.

Pastor Morris Venden has a note he leaves at the end of each one of the sermons he gives that I've had the privilege to pick up on and accept as what Jesus asks of me re: brotherhood of man.


"God does not know any sin He does not hate

"God does not know any sinner He does not love"

"God does not know any sin He is unwilling to forgive"

"And God does not know a better time than now"

Of course the sin that will not receive the benefit of that forgiveness is the unrepented sin. And I ask God to remove from me the inability I know is in my natural self, to hate the sinner for what he does. And it is a promise to me that He will, based on the Word.

"If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?" 1 John 4:20 NKJV

I look at that promise as I give witness to the brotherhood of man. It is obvious that man has the freedom to disenfranchise himself from the goodness of God. And I believe God has the solution for that also.

"But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you"Matthew 5:44 KJV

"Never take your own revenge, beloved, but leave room for the wrath of God, for it is written, " VENGEANCE IS MINE, I WILL REPAY," says the Lord.
" Romans 12:19 NASB emphasis theirs' LHC
Blessings!

I said the beheadings were a "fluke"....

You know, it's too bad that a vocal violent minority of a group of people give a whole group of people a bad name. But that's what happens.

"I do not ask that Thou mayest take them out of the world, but that Thou mayest keep them out of the evil."John 17:15 YLT