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 Today I sat and talked with a fellow ministry concerning maybe partnering with them. As we both shared from our mentoring experiences, I was impressed with an understanding I may have had but never put it into words. Satan uses our memories, experiences, and even our thoughts to trap us into silence when it comes to speaking God's truth into someone else's life. I cannot speak for any other teacher, but God requires me to live out what I teach. My students will tell you if I am struggling in an area, I am honest concerning that issue. I also tell them what God requires, and obedience is not optional. The Church, though, has allowed immoral behavior to be accepted, possibly because the sin at one point was in their life. It is almost like Satan has convinced us that you are disqualified from speaking God's word if you have sinned.

Let me put it another way. Imagine that while you were at work that a broken filing cabinet took off the tip of your finger. While you were standing there in pain and a pool of blood, a co-worker said, "Yeah, that happened to me yesterday, but I did not want to tell you." How would you feel?
When we are redeemed from our sins by salvation through Jesus Christ, our sins were paid for in full. The very moment we die to ourselves and are raised in Christ, we are eligible and entitled to our Father's inheritance. From the first day of our liberty, we should tell everyone how to be released from the domination of evil. If someone rejects the message, then okay, but don't ever allow yourself to be silenced because you committed immoral acts in your past. We all have so get in line. What we can never do is let someone go to hell just because we disqualified ourselves or should I say, coward out. There are no do-overs in hell.
"Now I, Paul, myself urge you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ—I who am meek when face to face with you, but bold toward you when absent! I ask that when I am present I need not be bold with the confidence with which I propose to be courageous against some, who regard us as if we walked according to the flesh. For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh, for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ" 2 Corinthians 10:1-6 



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