{"id":84,"date":"2018-01-04T18:24:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T18:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aroundtheloopdesigns.com\/cbm\/?p=84"},"modified":"2021-07-17T18:26:11","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T18:26:11","slug":"the-gatherers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aroundtheloopdesigns.com\/cbm\/the-gatherers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gatherers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a Kingdom\u2019s perspective, we are to be on God\u2019s side.\u00a0 That is because a kingdom is not supposed to be divided or work against itself.\u00a0 Jesus said, \u201cHe that is not with Me is against Me; and he that gathereth not with Me scattereth abroad\u201d (Matt. 12:30).\u00a0 So, the question is: are you a gatherer or a scatterer?\u00a0 Do you gather God\u2019s people, or scatter them?\u00a0 Do you gather in the harvest, or frustrate the gathering?\u00a0 Once, the disciple John came to Jesus and told Him that he saw a man that was not a part of their group, using Jesus\u2019s name to cast out devils and he forbad him.\u00a0 Jesus responded that John should not forbid those doing the work of God.\u00a0 His reasoning was that no one who does a miracle in Jesus\u2019s name, could speak evil of Jesus.\u00a0 Similarly, anyone who is not against Jesus is for Him (Mark 9:38-40, Luke 9:49,50).\u00a0 The implication is, not to be against those doing the work of God; even if they are not in a group that we approve of.\u00a0 When we promote unity of the faith, we gather.\u00a0 Otherwise, we tend to scatter.\u00a0 Jesus said that His works testify that He is of God (St. John 5:36, St. John 10:25, 38).\u00a0 So, as a rule, be supportive of the works of God.\u00a0 Those are ministries where souls are being saved, the sick are healed, devils are cast out, and the poor and hungry have their needs met.\u00a0 If there is any doubt, tread carefully.\u00a0 It would be better to say nothing at all, than to be guilty of resisting the works of God.\u00a0 There is enough harvest to keep us busy gathering.\u00a0 Let God judge the scatterers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Apostle Calvin Brown Sr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a Kingdom\u2019s perspective, we are to be on God\u2019s side.\u00a0 That is because a kingdom is not supposed to be divided or work against&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aroundtheloopdesigns.com\/cbm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aroundtheloopdesigns.com\/cbm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aroundtheloopdesigns.com\/cbm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aroundtheloopdesigns.com\/cbm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aroundtheloopdesigns.com\/cbm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aroundtheloopdesigns.com\/cbm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/aroundtheloopdesigns.com\/cbm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aroundtheloopdesigns.com\/cbm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aroundtheloopdesigns.com\/cbm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aroundtheloopdesigns.com\/cbm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}