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The document discusses issues of tolerance in society and churches, specifically regarding actions that go against God's commands. It notes approval of abortion, liberal education, and government overreach in media and everyday life. It also observes lying, gossip, hatred, immorality, and lack of obedience to God's law in TV, marriage, and some churches. The author believes Christians should follow the over 1000 commands in the New Testament, trust God over their own understanding, and focus on unity, humility, and serving others as Christ did.

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1 - Toleration in The End Times

The document discusses issues of tolerance in society and churches, specifically regarding actions that go against God's commands. It notes approval of abortion, liberal education, and government overreach in media and everyday life. It also observes lying, gossip, hatred, immorality, and lack of obedience to God's law in TV, marriage, and some churches. The author believes Christians should follow the over 1000 commands in the New Testament, trust God over their own understanding, and focus on unity, humility, and serving others as Christ did.

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Toleration in the End Times

I recently have read WorldNet Daily commentaries about how USA citizens are tolerating or
approving actions that God hates like abortion, radical liberal public education, Federal
Government taking over freedom and individual responsibility. But what might be worse than
that and is common in TV programs (talk shows, judge shows, soap operas, and movies (even
the ones with nice scenery and apparent nice civilized people), theatre and DVD movies, bars,
parties, families, and Christian churches? Lying, deceit, gossip, slander, hatred, prejudice,
fornication, and adultery. I have observed a lot of such on TV, in marriage, and in Christian
churches since I have been in Germany for almost 7 years. I have tried to go against such by
sharing Jude 20-23 with many:
Jude (from the Lockman Foundation Amplified Bible)
“20 But you, beloved,
build yourselves up [founded] on your most holy faith
[make progress, rise like an edifice higher and higher],
praying in the Holy Spirit;
21 guard {and} keep yourselves in the love of God;
expect {and} patiently wait for the mercy
of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah)--
[Who will bring you] unto life eternal.
22 and on some have mercy and compassion who waver {and} doubt.
23 [Strive to] save others, snatching [them] out of [the] fire;
on others have pity [but] with fear,
loathing even the garment spotted by the flesh
{and} polluted by their sensuality.”

I was active in a Sabbath keeping denomination who prides itself about their stand for the
Sabbath and the Ten Commandments against those denominations which believe that God’s Law
was fulfilled by Jesus Christ when He died on the cross and that Christians now are free from
God’s Law. But the truth is that the ordinances and commandments for the Israelites were ended
and the Ten Commandments and many other commandments in the Old Testament are still for
us today. But true born again Christians are not under the Law, but are with the Law and the
Holy Spirit wants to guide them in every decision every day if they live Proverbs 3:5-6.
The following is my translation of those important verses:
Trust in the Lord
with all my heart,
and lean not on my own understanding
or past experiences.
In all my ways acknowledge
(be thankful for) Him,
and He (via the Holy Spirit) shall direct
my thinking and doing.

Did you know that there are over 1000 commandments in the New Testament?

Meanwhile, the denomination that I mentioned above which promotes what they say is the
forgotten or misinterpreted commandment of the Ten Commandments (which were the only
commandments written directly by the hand of God), apparently tolerates and approves (1)
individuals who love their spouse, their pastor, someone else, their children, their job, sports,
or/and their church more than God (breaking the First Commandment), (2) individuals who
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gossip and slander in their church (breaking the Fourth Commandment), (3) individuals who
slander against their parents (breaking the Fifth Commandment), (4) individuals who indicate
hate for others (breaking the Sixth Commandment because Jesus Christ said that hate is equal to
murder), (5) individuals who are in romantic and sexual relationships not with their spouses
(breaking the Sixth Commandment), (6) individuals who are hearing false witness against others
(breaking the Eighth Commandment), and (7) individuals who covet. I have witnessed such a lot
in the past 6+ years here in Germany and I have witnessed a lot of such in most of the churches I
have been to in the USA. I now want to return to my homeland and live in a friendly English-
speaking community and go to a friendly English-speaking church, and continue my Internet
ministries going against the above mentioned sins that God hates. Instead we should be living
the following and Jude 20-23 so that we are better examples to others and we will be obeying the
Bible commandments for proper relationships with God and human beings:
Philippians 2:1-5
“1 If there be therefore any consolation in Christ,
if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit,
if any bowels and mercies,
2 fulfill you my joy, that ye be like-minded,
having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.
3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory;
but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
4 Look not every man [or woman] on his [or her] own things,
but every man [or woman] also on the things of others.
5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.”

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