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Know your rights
star it|3 comments|April 01, 2008|732 reads
 
We as Americans stand firmly on our rights. But what are the rights of Christians. Paul wrote:

6:6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with `him', that the body of sin might be done away, that so we should no longer be in bondage to sin; 6:7 for he that hath died is justified from sin.

So what rights do dead people have?


 freedoms of speech,
press, 
religion;
the right to keep and bear arms;
the freedom of assembly;
the freedom to petition;
prohibits unreasonable search and seizure;
cruel and unusual punishment;
compelled self-incrimination. 
prohibits Congress from making any law respecting establishment of religion
prohibits the Federal Government from depriving any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.
guarantees a speedy public trial
 
So we as Christians should not complain when someone offends you, or mistreats you, because we are dead!

5:10 Blessed are they that have been persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 5:11 Blessed are ye when `men' shall reproach you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. 5:12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets that were before you.


 
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Gary Robison
 Gary Robison
April 01, 2008

restore, this is how "I" see it:

according to Scripture, when someone mistreats me, I don't have the "right" to complain, now if it is a brother/sister in Christ, we need to confront the person and settle out of court the differences, we are not to take our problems between our selves before the world.

as to the problem you have with your neighbor's coal smoke??? Examine the situation and see if the Lord has been trying to teach you anything out of the problem. we go through trials in our lives for reasons the Lord has planned, nothing is an accident. Is it an actual attack of the enemy and if so what can the Lord bring about for good out of it? Is He trying to teach to love your neighbor, even when he is unlovable and spiteful? Can the Lord use the situation to bring your neighbor into the kingdom?

Gene Boecker
 Gene Boecker
April 01, 2008
I'm not sure what happened to the comment from "Restore" but the background is this:  Her neighbor has an outdoor coal-fired furnace.  The fumes from the furnace were being driven into their home and making them quite sick.  Her husband had to be taken to the hospital - several times as a result of the noxious fumes.  They politely asked the neighbor to get it fixed and were told to go mind their own business.  That has been several weeks if not months now and they are still getting the noxious fumes and debilitating health problems associated with them.  She was being deprived of life, and the pursuit of happiness and exercising her freedom of speech.

Sometimes you need to be able to use the legal system to move things along rather than be slowly poisoned.

A link to her blog on the topic;
http://www.mychurch.org/blog/149379/we-need-helpupdate-331
Gary Robison
 Gary Robison
April 01, 2008
i did not write this for her, i don't think? it was something the Lord had been working on me with, she had written to me though.... i had read her blog earlier though... but did not delete her comment though

I told her that

according to Scripture, when someone mistreats me, I don't have the "right" to complain, now if it is a brother/sister in Christ, we need to confront the person and settle out of court the differences, we are not to take our problems between our selves before the world.