ONENESS ONENESS

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Addendum to previous message to mwb-

I somehow sent the wrong file which was missing a few important key phrases.
Please forgive me, with my humblest apologies and receive this in addition
to the previous post.

(These computers can be a real trial sometimes, can't they?)

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This should have been part of the first part, following the scriptures on
rebukes-

Please believe me when I tell you, I know what it's like to receive a very
severe public whipping before God's people. Been there- done that! And it's
possible it could happen to me again (remember Peter, how many he was
rebuked more than once by Jesus, and again with Paul about Judaizing?). It
seems VERY grievous at the time, so much so one seriously wonders whether
one's life is worth the living! Remember Judas? These  (Peter and Judas) are
examples of two types of reactions to chastisements felt in the heart. But
the scriptures about chastisement I have personally found to be VERY TRUE!
He who endures such chstisement, comes through on the other side with a
GREAT lesson, and opportunity for many rewards, for- Rom 8:28 ...all things
work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called
according to his purpose. The very chastiement I am referring to about
myself made me broken enough to yield my soul to God in a whole new and
living way.

These chastisements, therefore, ARE at times, NECESSARY to purge us of our
old natures, and therefore, they are not to be shunned, nor feared! For
thank God that He cares enough to correct us, no matter how stern He must
be. Sometimes we have sins in the heart that we have refused to take out and
look at, which, if we don't receive correction for in this life but rather
stubbornly cling to them, there will be no hope of our salvation in the life
to come- for no sin will enter into that Holy City city! We either get rid
of it here, or we don't go! So which is better, pretending we have no sin,
or to willingly receive chastisement in the form of strong rebuke from our
loving Father?

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And this should have been how it ended-

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You all may be asking yourselves, who is this that has such nerve as to
stand up to the mighty United Pentecostal Church, Inc.! The largest Oneness
Apostolic organization in the world! Well, I would be inclined to ask you
right back- what nerve have you to stand up to the GREAT AND ALMIGHTY GOD,
and His word in adding and subtracting from HIS concepts, precepts and
commandments?

But that wouldn't necessarily answer the question, would it. So I'll tell
you plainly why I have such nerve- we are brethren! We are members of one
body! We are members, therefore, one of another! Are we not therefore- ONE
man? Yes, ONE man!

Therefore it behoves me, which also goes for us all- 1Co 9:27 "...I keep
under MY body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I
have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.!!!

And if there are factions, and man-made traditions in my body, who am I, or
any of us, to have the nerve to presume to stand up to others such as Rome,
and Protestantism to presume to take the traditions and man-made isms, and
shisms out of their bodies? If I/we don't have the nerve to stand up to our
own self and cleanse ourselves from ALL iniquity, what nerve could I/we ever
hope to have to stand up to anyone else's? If we can't keep the commandments
of God intact, and entire, what nerve have we to expect others to do so, in
any thing great or small?

Mat 7:3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but
considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? 4 Or how wilt thou say to
thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam
is in thine own eye? 5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine
own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy
brother's eye. 

1 Cor. 5:12 For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do
not ye judge them that are within?

By Tom (not afraid to stand up and give or receive a spanking when it's due)
Raddatz
or maybe that should read- 
By Tom (beat myself down daily) Raddatz!




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                      May God Bless you! From Tom Raddatz
                   http://www.corecom.net/~tomrpp/watchman.htm

"That I may know him;... Not as though I had already attained, either were
already perfect:... I count NOT myself to have apprehended:... I press
toward the mark for the prize..." -Phil. 3:10-14. 
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