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2nd letter to Blumenauans
CHAPTER 1
- You do not know when this was written, nor who writes, but know who wants to talk to you.
- I do not know if you are a man or a woman.
- But what does it matter? You are reading, and you can build with it.
- I do not know your mistakes, your name, your surname, your schooling, your financial conditions;
- However, I direct this letter to any resident of Blumenau and neighboring towns, who may receive light by reading this.
- Daniell, a very flawed servant, I write this after contending and inclining to desires.
- I saw a wind like never before in Blumenau, dragging leaves and making a loud sound.
- I had thought of throwing this letter from a high place, but I was told that this is not necessary, and I have to write the letters without thinking of other things.
CHAPTER 2
- I am perplexed about today's Christianity.
- Only talk about prosperity, victory, achievements, a fabulous life gifted, superb, etc.
- Teach people to be like the foolish;
- Of whom the Bible briefly referred, as also predicted what is happening today, in 2 Timothy 4: 3:
- "For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but with their ears itching, they will heap doctors for themselves according to their own lusts."
- Who are these doctors? Pastors who preach prosperity today.
- And many churches do not want to admit losing believers to other churches
- (competitors, as if it were a capital competition) and then they preach only what pleases man, and so they fill their churches.
- But we can not speak pleasing man, but speaking what is fitting for building up people and souls to please God.
- 1 Corinthians 4:14: "I do not write these things to put you to shame, but I admonish you as my beloved children."
- If I have a son that hinders him;
- I will allow him to do this within my house so that while he, alive, does not come out of it,
- Or with love will I rebuke him, lest he come out dead?
- It is similar to that which happens in the churches today.
- Do they prefer that the faithful keep their souls dying, or that they hear the truth even if they want to leave?
- What's the use of having the church full of lost souls?
- For the church with only seven saved members is better than a church with a thousand confused members.
- As it is written, many shall be called, but few shall be chosen.
- And: the door is narrow.
- Galatians 1: 9-10: "Now as I told you again, now I say unto you again, If any man shall preach any other gospel unto you than that which ye have received, let him be accursed: for I persuade men now or to God? Or do I seek to please men? If I were still pleasing men, I would not be a servant of Christ. "
CHAPTER 3
- Today is taught to crucify, not to carry the cross.
- Now, to have glory in heaven, must we have glory on earth?
- Is God unjust because the wicked are glorified on earth while the good suffer?
- Do Christians have to live as kings on earth?
- Has Christ ever returned, and here is paradise?
- Is here on earth heaven for the wicked and hell for the good?
- But the earth is not everything, and it is not here that it will be revealed to us what we are to be.
- For Earth, hell and heavens are similar, but different.
- 1 Corinthians 15:19: "If we hope in Christ alone in this life, we are the most miserable of all men."
- For the one who, knowing Christ, sins; than he who sins in his ignorance.
- By those who say they love Christ, but their hearts are on the earth,
- And they give priority to things that are vanity (vanity are things that are not eternal), they are like the most sinful of all.
CHAPTER 4
- Who sins more? The wanderer who can become a new creature, or what he says is a new creature and does not recognize his mistakes?
- For whoever claims to be already converted, and sinning voluntarily,
- He does not allow himself to become Spirit and truth, not word.
- Can he who says he has become converted convert himself without believing to have deviated from the path?
- For they live as deviants but claiming to be converted.
- And yet they want to repress whom they call sinners!
- What will we do about people like that? Teach them, admonishing with humility that comes from love,
- And fight in prayers for those whom we believe may come to repentance.
- As for us, let us not think that God and the Bible are equal to these hypocrites, their doctrines, and their churches.
- Let us love above all things, loving God above all things,
- Loving the neighbor more than we love, and loving us above the corruptions that this world offers;
- Gluttonies, drunking, smoking, sensuality, malice, envy and things similar to these.
- For these are evil to the body (the temple of the Holy Spirit) and to the soul.
- I am neither a priest nor a pastor. I do not consider myself a worker, because of so many failures.
- I have no church, I have no religion.
- But I ask that you receive this letter as receiving it from an apostle, knowing that I am not.
- May our greatest love be to Christ Jesus, so also shall we love the Father; for God is one.
- And if we love Jesus, we suffer with him, and with him we shall rise in glory.
- Galatians 1: 7: "Who is no other, but there are some who trouble you and want to disrupt the gospel of Christ."
- Today, many churches are uneasy and scandalized;
- Being hypocrites on one side, disbelieving on the other.
CHAPTER 5
- But he who is of God knows that in himself he receives the presence of Jesus and the Spirit,
- Who loves his neighbor and helps all, who seek to gather with other sincere Christians and admonish the wicked,
- Who seeks knowledge of the truth and is not embarrassed by the affairs of this life.
- Colossians 3:23: "Whatever you do, do it with all your heart, as to the Lord, and not to men."
- John 12: 42-43: "Yet many of the rulers believed in him;
- But they did not confess him because of the Pharisees, lest they be expelled from the synagogue.
- For they loved the glory of men more than the glory of God. "
- Matthew 24:35: "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away."
- Matthew 24: 38-39: "For as in the days before the flood they did eat, drink, marry, and marry, until the day that Noah entered into the ark.
- And they did not perceive it, until the flood came, and brought them all, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. "
- And why do those who say they are converted but sinners sin?
- John 9: 39-41: "And Jesus said unto him,
- I have come into this world for judgment, that those who do not see may see, and those who see may be blind. "
- And the Pharisees that were with him heard it, and said unto him,
- Are we also blind? Jesus said to them,
- If ye were blind, ye would have no sin; but as you now say, we see; therefore your sin remains. "
- Galatians 5:14: "Let the whole law be fulfilled in one word, in this: thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself."
- Romans 6:12: "Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in its lusts."
- 2 Corinthians 2:17: "For we are not as many as counterfeiters of the word of God, but we speak of Christ sincerely, as of God in the presence of God."
- Read also Galatians 5: 17-25, and Philippians 4.
- As a man, I got very tired writing this letter, but my spirit rejoices.
- Read with love and diligence all the biblical quotations contained herein.
- Grace and peace, and love, be with you.
- mssdaniellmesquita
- Blumenau, 03/15/18