A Sister Hates her Brother?
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Matt 6:12 “Forgive us our
debts as we forgive our debtors” Gal
6:7 “Whatever you sow, you will also reap”
Before
I get started, let me say that I know both of these people. However, we could be talking about two women,
two men or a man and woman with the situation reversed. It does not matter. People, even religious people, get confused
sometimes and play into Satan’s game.
This is a story of a sister, and her older brother. Several years ago the family was torn apart
by strife. As Richard Boone said in the
movie Big Jake, “Your fault, my fault, nobody’s fault, it doesn’t matter.” The strife destroyed the family. These two siblings both attend church. They claim to believe. However, the sister refused to forgive or
reconcile. She swore never to speak to
her brother again. However, she did not
swear not to talk ABOUT him. She runs
him down to anyone that will listen. Her
church going friends, instead of rebuking her, listen, encourage her and carry
her gossip; sometimes back to her brother.
The sister and her group actually hope and pray that
the brother will fail so they can laugh, deride and feel superior. They do not believe the two scriptures at the
beginning at the top of this page.
The brother left town and tried to leave the trouble
behind. He is called or written
occasionally and told, “You will not believe what she says about you now.” We will talk about that later.
The brother is a successful man in his profession. He has been blessed abundantly by God. He prays daily that God will bless his sister
and her group MORE than God blesses him.
He loves his sister and prays for her joy, health and forgiveness. The sister tells everyone her brother is
going “right straight to Hell” and she will laugh when it happens. Every day, in church, she prays the “Lord’s
Prayer.” She does not even understand
the words. If she did, I am quite
certain she would NOT want God to forgive her the way she forgives her brother. She wants and expects grace she is not
willing to give her brother. However, the
scripture is very plain. It cannot
happen. I am certain that her religious
friends do not want God to forgive them the same way they forgive her brother. Neither do any of these want to reap and
feast on the hate, bitterness and resentment they have sown.
Paul tells us, “But the fruit of the Spirit is love,
joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, self-control; against such there is no law. (Gal 5:22). In which of these does the action of the
sister belong? Of the two rulers, which
one is honored by wanting a sibling to go to Hell? I dare you to say “God is honored when I want
a brother to go to Hell.” You
cannot. Neither can these that wait for
the brother’s failure. They would never
say that, but continue to spew hate and venom.
To those that would carry the tales to the brother, or
anybody else, I say “Stop.” Why would
you cause pain? “Oh, I do not want to
cause him pain. He NEEDS to know what is
being said / done against him.” What he
NEEDS is to continue in the joy, love, etc of the Holy Spirit. Satan hates that and will even use you to get
the brother off track.
We are to love and pray for our enemies (Mat 5:43-44).
We are to love our enemies and to do good to them that
hate us (Lk 6:27)
God will forgive us THE SAME WAY we forgive others (Mt
6:12, Mt 18:21-35)
And wanting a brother to go “right straight to Hell” .
. . ??????????
Forgive them, Father, for they know not what they are
doing.
