I feel bad for my ridiculing of men who bring a bad spirit into a thread by their manipulated flesh. I know how bad it felt to always be carried about by my emotions and pride and resentments. I know how bad it felt to always lose control in my stirred up flesh when someone even so much as looked at me sideways with a rolling of their eyes or a snippy remark. And until such time as God calms our flesh, we are greatly harassed by it at all times or a lot of the time. I know how cutting my tongue can be, even with my flesh now calmed, when someone is running around like a child on too much sugar and bouncing off walls, stopping all gentle speaking in threads.
But I don’t know any other way to make someone consider what they are doing in ruining thread after thread. They are running amok, calling their brothers and sisters dragons and demons and workers of Satan because they ask a question or wonder if a verse means thus and thus or share something they may think. They act as if every person must be perfect in knowledge or must see things in scripture exactly as they do or else they are spawn of the devil. And God forbid that anyone should see more of the spirit of the word than they do! If that happens, they follow the brother or sister around to every thread, shrieking at them and stirring flesh left and right, trying to get others to join in with them in a flesh bender. The truth is that THEY are the ones having their flesh and emotions yanked and manipulated by demons. No, they are not possessed. But they are being manipulated to speak by their flesh and cause ruin and take away any and all peace. A foolish woman tears down her house with her own hands.
I have ridiculed only these brothers and only with the goal of getting them to settle down. And I didn’t do it in my flesh in anger although I realize it looks like that must be what is in my heart and looks overly rough to some. And I didn’t do it before a lot of gentle speaking first, sometimes over the course of years. If there is another way other than a spanking to make them stop calling their brothers awful names and pretending they are satan if they don’t hear their own opinions coming out of someone else’s mouth, I haven’t found it.
If you want to cast out demons, a Christian site is not the place to do it, because there is no way a demon can possess a man with the down payment of Gods Spirit in him. Yes, his flesh can be stirred and manipulated BY demons until it is put under his feet. And yes, he can have some pretty bad leaven he has swallowed, which you answer with scripture, not shrieking and arrogance.
I have been gentled and my flesh calmed by God. But I can’t let everyone be constantly harassed and hurt. If someone rubs your flesh up, just don’t go into their every thread. Speak your mind and leave. Shake the dust off your feet and leave if you can’t control your rudder. Is there any reason to attack people? Even if you feel strongly about something (we all do. I feel strongly about the necessity of knowing Jesus is God and think if someone keeps insisting He isn’t, they will not get very far with the only error you CANT have to advance to maturity and understanding.) But I don’t shriek and shriek to try to get them to see past their leaven.
Just conduct yourself respectfully and take a break if you feel your flesh stirred and your tongue trying to break loose in anger. If you can speak firmly but without anger, there is no problem. You can’t stop someone from insisting you are angry when you aren’t, but you sure can know if you ARE getting wrathful. The blood rushes to the skin of your face in a blush and you feel your heart beat faster. But if you feel that first motion and blush of anger, God is not pleased if you just decide to flesh out on someone. He is pleased if you leave and recollect yourself and talk to Him about the control you lack because of the enemy of your flesh.
