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this hour.

I shared some of my own writings with this group and they were very well received.
Having just been thrust out of my place of ministry and fellowship, I was hopeful
that I would be able to find some fellowship and encouragement through this group.

Another brother was given oversight of the discussion forum on this site, and I began
to notice an attitude of disdain, and even reviling, toward those who had not yet seen
the same truths that the people who participated in this group had seen. At first I
thought it was an aberration, but then I began to notice it more and more. I
questioned the brother overseeing the discussion forum about it, and in a very
shocking way he defended his attitude of mocking and reviling those who remained
in what was referred to as the “Christian Religious System.”

As I communicated with this brother the Spirit immediately opened my eyes to the
snare of Satan. Satan wanted me to react to the pain of my expulsion from the body
by donning an attitude of bitterness toward those who had cast me out. He hoped
that my desire for fellowship would lead me to cast in my lot with these brothers and
sisters, and to join them in an attitude of retribution and revenge by reviling the
system and the people who had been the instruments of my separation.

The Spirit immediately let me know that I could not join them, nor did I even desire
to do so. I knew that to embrace the same attitude would be a failure of love, and this
is the most grievous of failures in the Kingdom of God. I began to try to reason with
those in this group and to show them why they could not obtain the blessing of God
by reviling others, but they would not receive my words, and in turn they began to
revile and mock me.

I am going to insert here some excerpts from this correspondence. In these excerpts
the ambush of Satan is revealed, as is the attitude he would entice others to adopt.
I will first list some of the comments that troubled me that were written by the
moderator of the group, as well as some of the arguments he gave defending his
position. Note that CRS stands for Christian Religious System.

[comments of moderator]
And this is the greatest thing that we, as anti CRS'ers could do for the
CRS, for which I have neither sympathy nor disdain. I have not been in
a mainline denomination in years, so the mess doesn't move me...

I will say, that you will probably react to some of my "strong words" to
others on the list, especially to those who come in and are really just
"browsing" like one does on the net, not having any idea of where they
have landed... I speak what I hear the Father say, and often it is not