Carleys, we originally wrote to Clayton:
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No man can 'play' Christ. The very thought is blasphemy, possible only through the total arrogance of the man of sin.
You say, 'I wanted to be sure I had the right heart and mind for the Lord before I stepped into the sandals.'
And: 'When you become comfortable in that role is when you need to stop. Portraying Jesus is holy ground.'
Consider what the greatest of prophets until the Lord had to say about how he related to Jesus Christ:
'And he proclaimed, saying, There is One coming after me Who is mightier than I, the thong of Whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down to loosen' (Mark 1:7 MKJV).
Could you see John taking on the role of Christ in a play, or any of the apostles doing such a thing? As you have known a false Christ, so you have had a perverse image of the saints, Clayton.” [END]
How can you say there's no Scriptural support for what we've written? Like Clayton Jennings missed it, so do you. And you don't pick up on how Clayton disdainfully dismissed our godly instruction and us without supplying a single Scripture or reasonable argument in return. You fault us, who aren't at fault, but give the one who is at fault a pass.
“Is it not for you to know judgment? Who hate the good, and love the evil…” (Micah 3:1-2 KJV).
Neither did we curse Clayton when responding to his anti-Christ reply, just as the Lord didn't curse the Pharisees in Matthew 23 when He described and criticized their deplorable attitudes - and note He did so without quoting a single “proof” Scripture. You would have condemned Jesus as well for this “oversight,” and you do, because we spoke the truth by His Spirit and you've condemned us.
Here's what we said to Clayton in the second letter:
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History records that when it was Peter's time to glorify the Lord for real, he responded that he wasn't worthy to be crucified as was his Master, Whom he loved. 'Crucify me upside down,' he requested. They honored his request.
But you, you self-righteous viper and hypocrite, bastard and not a son of God, you presume to pretend to BE Jesus Christ, never mind pretend to being crucified as He was. You know nothing of taking up the true cross by His grace (The Cross - Only the Death Sentence Will Avail). You only know to glorify yourself, using and taking His Name in vain to do so.”
If professing Christ as Lord makes one a true Christian, then the Pope is a true Christian. But we know he isn't, and neither is Billy Graham or Clayton Jennings, brothers to the Pope but not brothers of the Lord. We don't hold such phonies accountable as we do brothers of the Lord, but rather expose the phonies as members of the Whore of Babylon, the bride of Satan “transforming themselves as ministers of righteousness, whose end shall be as their works” (2 Corinthians 11:15).
You write:
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In the end we all live in a Carnal world and we are all susceptible to sin.”
Living subject to a carnal world isn't a problem for God's children like it is for imposters such as Clayton Jennings, because the children of the Kingdom have the fulfillment of Jesus' prayer in John 17:
“I have given them Your Word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I do not pray for You to take them out of the world, but for You to keep them from the evil. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world” (John 17:14-16 MKJV).
We've been delivered from our sins and the sin nature of worldly man, but you and Jennings remain children of this world, subject to the Devil and the lusts of the flesh:
1 John 3:8-10 WEB
(8) He who sins is of the Devil, for the Devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed: that He might destroy the works of the Devil.
(9) Whoever is born of God doesn't commit sin, because His Seed remains in him; and he can't sin, because he is born of God.
(10) In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn't do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn't love his brother.
Clayton's sin and hatred became manifest when we spoke the truth to him, peeling away the façade of his
false love. Hating the truth, Clayton hates the Lord Jesus Christ, Who is the Truth, and you're right there with him. You both have nothing whatsoever to do with Him.
We'll post this in our Forum section on Clayton:
http://www.thepathoftruth.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=31
Paul Cohen
www.ThePathofTruth.com