l wrote this story about six months ago and after reading it, I hope you can understand about leaving a bad church just to find a new church.
Bad Apples Good Apples
When I was a little boy I use to go over to a friends house and pick apples because I really like apples and his mother would tell me, “whatever apples you pick, you can keep.†I was over in their yard twice a week with a small trash bag picking apples. My foster mom would make all sought of apple dishes and her homemade applesauce was the best. Sweet with a little cinnamon mixed in with it. My favorite was the caramel coated apples with nuts on them, or the sweet candy apples we would make all the time. Mrs. Reid would warned me about the hole in the apple. Said if there was a hole in the apple, there’s a good possibility there would be a worm somewhere snuggling inside of it. I have no clue why a worm would be in a apple other than to keep warm or to eat it but I do know, I can do without it. I also know that once an apple skin is puncture, it doesn’t take long for the apple to start to go bad. The color starts to change and in no time the apple is no longer good. So a worm in a apple is not a good thing. If you notice, with our lives we function just like that apple if we allow a worm (false leaders) to crawl inside of us and take control of our flesh. Do you remember in MIB (men in black) when the little alien was inside controlling the alien who we thought was human. Well we have a spirit in our human form as well. We all are born with a spirit in us but no one is born with the Holy Spirit in them. What kind of spirit did we have in us than? Ezekiel 36:26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. Now unlike a apple, we can’t take that worm out of an apple and make it new. We have to get rid of the apple and get a new apple. I know what a bad apple can do if you mix them with good apples. Eventually you are going to have a whole barrow of bad apples. Someone once told me, “if you have a bad leader in the church, find a new church.†Tell me this. If you take a good apple out of a barrow that has a bad apple in it, what will eventually happen with the other good apples? Will they not go bad? Instead of allowing the good apple to be picked and plucked out of the barrow that has the bad apple still in the barrow, why not get rid of the bad apple and keep the barrow of apples that are good. Matthew 7:16-20 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. There are a lot of good apples in the barrows. And we have lost a lot of good apples because of the barrow being allow to carry around the bad apple. And if you never get rid of the bad apple, the more good apples that goes inside of the barrow, the more bad apples you are going to get out of it. This doesn’t only happen in churches, this also happens in homes as well as work places. A wife who brings a abuser or a child molester into her home and winds up losing custody of her child because she chooses to stick with her bad apple. A father who chooses his new girlfriend over his kids and winds up putting his own kids in reform school because she doesn’t want to deal with them, so he picks his bad apples over his own kids. It happens and it happens all the time. Luke 6:43-45 For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes. A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh. And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?
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