08/25/22 TIPS FOR LIVING IN LAODICEA

08/25/22 TIPS FOR LIVING IN LAODICEA

It is one thing to deliberately support evil.
It is another thing for a thief to steal your money and use it for evil.
It is yet another to voluntarily participate in evil for personal advantage or financial gain.
We can't help that taxation, so-called (but in truth, legalized robbery), steals from us by force.
Legitimate taxation is one thing, but extortion is not taxation. (At least that was the view of Jesus Mark 12:13-17. Read this very carefully).
But the wise person, the righteous person limits his losses, the "spoiling" of his goods by organized crime, for evil purposes at his own personal cost.
Otherwise we are guilty for profiting from wickedness.

Persecution and suffering are part of righteous living.
2 Timothy 3:12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
Sometimes we deliberately lose personal advantage in order to do good or to not do evil.
Hebrews10:3
For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.