Of Goats and Pharisees..

[ScottA]

when I read Paul talking to them about still being carnal and for this reason he fed them with milk, because they could not yet bear the meat…I don’t hear a slight or condemnation but instead an urging…as an nursemaid cherishes her children. Christ Jesus said the same to the disciples in “I have more to tell you but you are not yet able to bear it.” We see where that led… on this side of it: how could those running scared—fearful in heart and fainting.. become “standing” instead of “falling away”?

maybe I’m crazy, most days I think I am but what if everything in the word of God points…at what we tend to despise and discount: which are the goats. For instance out of the mouth of babes You have perfected praise, or when Jesus thanked the Father for revealing it to babes? Then Paul points to them as babes in Christ, yet carnal… feeding a babe til it is weaned to become fully matured and grown up in Christ being equipped of God to bear all things. How can this not be “His praise perfected” out from the mouth of babes? Babes —yet carnal —rejected of men but received of God—for the perfecting of His Body …not able to bear but by His power; to show His strength in weakness, in Him they are made Strong. Scary to me is “if any hurt one of these little ones” they “Harm Me” …Paul said something similar in sitting with a weak brother in the temple…where if Paul destroys him who was weak, Paul destroyed Christ. To me it speaks of: let the tares and the wheat grow together; unless you pull up that which was planted in Christ of God; along with that which was planted of man…so then you sin against your brother and no longer walk in Charity. Which to me speaks of: the one who says he walks in the Light, then let him walk in the Light of Christ doing no harm.

Point is, we (or at least I’ve always heard) an owning or claiming as ourselves as “the babes” being yet carnal… all the while claiming to be “mature” and weaned from the milk…so confusing is claiming both “carnal” babes in need of the milk, and also those eating the meat… how can that which is carnal bear the meat? Consider again where Christ told them He had more to tell them but they couldn’t bear it yet. With God will put no more on you than you can bear…but with it He will what?

Yes, the "goats from the sheep" passage was rather directed to those who being fed milk and also meat, still buck against.

I wouldn't say you are crazy...and yes, the goats and rambunctious of the flock--indeed, they are not unlike Paul who kicked against the goads. And if God extended him grace, He might well extend it to many goats.

Great points--thanks!

 

[Taken]

Yes...the problem is--they remain among us in sheep's clothing. Even here. And many are their victims.

Could they look like....Coiffed hair, wearing a 10,000 suit, veneer smile, with armed body guards, with a microphone, say you know God the thing, telling you how they can guarantee peace, safety, good health, food, housing, free education....
Right after they confiscate the funding from the people though corrupt compulsion laws?

Does that sound like the wolfs....pretending to be in sheep’s clothing...?

Glory to God,
Taken

 

[ScottA]

Could they look like....Coiffed hair, wearing a 10,000 suit, veneer smile, with armed body guards, with a microphone, say you know God the thing, telling you how they can guarantee peace, safety, good health, food, housing, free education....
Right after they confiscate the funding from the people though corrupt compulsion laws?

Does that sound like the wolfs....pretending to be in sheep’s clothing...?

Glory to God,
Taken

Haha...I think you are referring to the flaming goats!

And then there are the stealth goats.​