Comments on: Getting Slimed

By: Joseph Redmond

Joseph Redmond — Tue, 27 May 2008 06:31:41 +0000

I believe especially concerning a gallery it is possibly to get slimed. Have we forgotten the eye gate? I believe that there are places where the combination of looking upon that which is defiling as well as being demonically breathed upon there can arise some serious issues.
Now I believe that there is a place where we can be strengthened and we can possibly “prepare” for such situations. Though I believe that getting ’slimmed’ and ‘defiled’ is very likely.
Hope that made since I am really tired…

By: David Scoggan

David Scoggan — Fri, 09 May 2008 01:32:14 +0000

Listen Kyle, if you want to be right, you can be right, all I am trying to say is that there are not enough people during the day who like Catan… whoa, I didn’t know that was in there

By: kylegebhart

kylegebhart — Wed, 07 May 2008 07:58:25 +0000

sometimes ‘feeling slimy’ is discernment, etc, etc.

i think there are probably 6 other reasons someone could ‘feel bad’ when faced with evil circumstances - my point is that the defiling influence of sin isn’t related primarily to proximity to sinful people - but to our own innate weakness.

By: davidscoggan

davidscoggan — Tue, 06 May 2008 22:18:48 +0000

I don’t think that all people mean the same thing when they say, “slimed.” Where I grew up the word came to mean that feeling of “chills” or “sick to the stomach” in relation to something obviously evil.

Using a personal example of my own trip to the art galleries during First Fridays; I distinctly remember walking around a corner to be caught by surprise by a piece that was certainly forged in the pit of hell. It was not sensual or alluring in a way that one might expect, rather just a picture of Satan on a throne. Now in that moment of recoil I was not for a moment considering joining a cult or feeling any hints of attraction to the piece. Rather I was repulsed and shuddering and thinking to myself I never want to see that again. Now I certainly judged the artist concerning the probability of his/her salvation considering this is what followed from his/her heart. But my feeling I called “slimy” wasn’t linked to temptation.

By: kylegebhart

kylegebhart — Sat, 03 May 2008 07:52:30 +0000

i like you kris.

By: krisdohse

krisdohse — Fri, 02 May 2008 15:20:03 +0000

Yeah, another word for that price might be death. by no means small. and kyle honestly i’ve been praying for the grace and mercy to be able to pay that price, it is on my heart to be one who gives his life so that others can experience that victory, and have the authority to say to hurting people, “LIVE FOR REAL”. Sometimes however it seems that I’m Lazurus and this earth is Jesus; every time I just about good and dead some annoying worldly prophet comes and raises my flesh up.

By: kylegebhart

kylegebhart — Fri, 02 May 2008 00:17:36 +0000

i think the good news is that there is a place of victory from temptation in these dark places, but it is a victory that is hard-won by many daily choices to resist the evil one. it requires a lifestyle committed to giving, fasting, praying and meditation in the word - that is just a price that many of us don’t want to pay for true spiritual authority. by that i mean authority to reach out and by our touch and our prayers to cleanse the defiled and bring freedom to the captive.

By: krisdohse

krisdohse — Thu, 01 May 2008 20:31:35 +0000

Paul in 1 cor 10:29 also asks, “why is my Liberty judged by another mans conscience” and I don’t think he is asking this so that he can get away with something, but in order to be an effective minister of the gospel. Sometimes it seems that we want to put every child of God into one box of shoulds and shouldn’ts but the truth I think is that while one of us maybe able to enter a bar or art gallery and not have slightest hint of temptation another one of us could enter and be overcome. I spent some time in Pattaya Thailand, a town built out of darkness and filled with sexual immorality. Slimed is an understatement. However, there is not a place in this world that needs more christians to be present than this place. If I in my present position before the Father were to presume myself able to walk into this town, and present the gospel I would no doubt be overcome with temptation, my spirit is weak. however There are children of God who have been given the grace and strength to walk in this town untainted by evil that resides there, They are surrounded by prostitution, drunkenness, perversion of every kind and every form of injustice known to man. Yet inside of them is the power of Christ’s resurrection and they are withstanding the power of the evil one. How sad if I in my weakness forbid or worse didn’t support them living in the grace and liberty to be a light in the darkness?