COVENANT MINDED MINISTRIES

Sexual Abstinence and Virginity Defined

Sexual abstinence is the practice of voluntarily refraining from some or all aspects of human sexual activity, which involve strategies to find and attract partners (mating and display behavior), interactions between individuals, physical or emotional intimacy, and sexual contact.

Virginity is the state or condition of being a virgin (an unmarried girl or woman who has never had sexual intercourse or is pure, unsullied, untouched, or undefiled in sexual activity). 

This special state or condition is one commanded of God until marriage, and deserves the respect and honor due to those who conform.

By definition, virginity includes sexual abstinence; however, sexual abstinence does not include virginity when the girl or woman has previously engaged herself in sexual activity, in particular, sexual intercourse.

Sexual Activity At Risk Areas

Sexual activity involves four (4) main areas of risk, namely, (1) choosing to trust a partner who is physically at risk or diseased infected, (2) Sexually Transmitted Diseases (SDTs), (3) unwanted pregnancy, and (4) seeking or engaging in an activity which is legally or culturally disapproved.

Sexual behaviors that involve contact with the bodily fluids of another person entail risk of transmission of STDs (HIV/AIDS, chlamydia, syphilis, gonorrhea, HPV, and other STDs or Venereal Diseases (VDs)).

Reasons For Practicing Sexual Abstinence

Sexual abstinence is practiced for the following common reasons: (1) religious or philosophical reasons (e.g., chastity); (2) material reasons (to prevent undesired pregnancy and/or Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD)); (3) psycho-sociological reasons (e.g., clinical depression, social anxiety disorder, or even just negative past experiences; or, (4) legal injunctions requiring conformity.

After learning that one's body is the temple of God, and he or she presents his or her body a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God; and stops or discontinues sexual activity, because he or she acknowledges this to be their reasonable service to the LORD, is the most important reason for practicing abstinence.

Being a virgin until self-control can no longer be maintained, and entering marriage rather than to burn with passion.

Genuine Love Respects and Honors

God is love.  Genuine love respects and honors God and His Son Jesus Christ.  Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor God who sent Him.

The body is the temple of God , and the Bible is the Divine Manual on how one should live and possess his or her body in honor unto the Lord. 

All who respect and honor the word or God will also respect and honor your body as the temple of God.

God expects us to respect and honor His word so that our obedience will punish all disobedience which disrespects and dishonors His word. 

Those Who Refuse to Respect and Honor 

Anyone who refuses to respect and honor your body does not love you, because their will to violate your body to fulfill their sinful sexual thrist is lust and not love.

Do not allow anyone to degrade you by not respecting and honoring your body as the temple of God.

Those who refuse to respect and honor the temple of God have eyes full of fornication and adultery and cannot cease from sinning, because they have

a heart trained in covetous practices and are accursed befeore God.  And if they are accursed before God, then what fellowship should you be having with them?

They cannot mean you any good, because their goal is to defile and desecrate your body through their unrelenting-less cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting until they have succeeded. 

From such people you should turn away and stay away; and in doing so, you will honor your body, which is a member of the body of Christ.

Knowledge and Understanding of Your Body

Your knowledge and understanding of your body as the temple of God is a major priority in the eyes of God because of His hatred of sexual immorality and the diseases and problems resulting from the various sinful behavior practices. 

Sexual immorality is sin; there is no love involved at all, because God is not in it, but rather, against it.  So then, whoever calls it love is a liar and the truth is not in them.  Disrespecting and dishonoring what God commanded you not to do, is not love but lust.

When you have taken a steadfast and firm position on respecting and honoring your body as the temple of God , you will have eliminated all of the ills associated will sexual immorality that the world finds itself continuously troubled with. 

Those who do not respect and honor the position taken by you on this vital issue automatically identify themselves as haters of God, because they do not respect and honor your obedience to the word of God.

Other than God Himself, His Son Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit, the next level of respect and honoris to be given to your body, and then to the bodies of your brothers and sisters. 

People suffer for the lack of knowledge.  But when you know the way that things should be done and refuse to do what you know to be right, you will suffer the consequences. 

Do not allow anyone to cause you to disrespect and dishonor your body by getting you to commit sexual immorality.  When you didn't know, you had and excuse. 

But now that you know, you have no excuse; to commit sexual immorality is right out rebellion against God.

Maintaining Celibracy and Virginity

Being that God intended for a man to maintain celibracy until marriage and for a woman to maintain virginity until marriage, where then did the saying, "if you don't use it you will lose it," when it comesdown to sex, come from? 

I'll tell you exactly where it came from; it came from the devil, the chief of all liars and the father of it.  God does give a gift that doesn't work or that you have to engage in sin to keep it working so that you will not lose it; because every gift from God is good and perfect. 

When it's time for marriage, the gift of sex will work; that's the only time it's suppose to work anyhow. So then, the problem is not with the obedient, but with the disobedient who do not want to wait. 

This is foolishness to those who do not know God, but to those who know Him, it is the words to peace with God and life in Him.

having eyes full of adultery and that cannot cease from sin, enticing unstable souls.  They have a heart trained in coveteous practices, and are accursed children.  (2nd Peter 2:14)

They have forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of Ballam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; (2nd Peter 2:15)

but he was rebuked for his iniquity; a dumb donkey speaking with a man's voice restrained the madness of the prophet. (2nd Peter 2:16)

traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, (2nd Timothy 3:4)

having a form of godliness but denying its power.  And from such people turn away! (2nd Timothy 3:5)

For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captive od gullible women loaded down with sins, led by various lusts, (2nd Timothy 3:6)

always learning and never coming to the knowledge of the truth. (2nd Timothy 3:7)

For by means of a harlot A man is reduced to a crust of bread, And an adultress will prey upon his precious life. (Proverbs 6:26)

This is the way of an adulterous woman: She eats and wipes her mouth, And says, "I have done no wickedness." (Proverbs 30:20)

Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge. (Hebrews 13:4)

You have heard that it was said to those of old, 'You shall not commit adultery.' (Matthew 5:27)

But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. (Matthew 5:28)

Undisciplined or Uncontrolled Sexual Drives

What many call having a strong nature is nothing but lusting for someone you shouldn't be lusting after anyhow. The experience of sexual sensations resulting from looking at a woman or man is lusting in the heart, which the Bible calls adultery. 

Do not be deceived.  You're no stud or sex queen with sexual drives you believe you're extraordinarily gifted with, but rather, without your knowing, you're being utilized by Satan to manifest uncontrollable and unrestricted lusts that you boast about, which is sin.

Anytime anyone (male or female) looks at someone and becomes sexually aroused, even to the point of erections subsequent sometimes by an orgasm(s), or sexually arousement anticipating orgasm, that's ungodly and undisciplined reactions that are not of God but of Satan. 

Each and every time those sinful desires are manifested mentally and/or carried out physically; they are sins.  So don't be bragging about your strong sex drive and what a studd or sex queen you are; you're only deceiving yourselves; because you're nothing more than an instrument of the devil, operating in the capacity of a whoremonger.

It's not godly desiring and wanting to have sex all the time.  Such individuals, rather they realize it or not, have a corrupt mind trained in sexual immorality by the devil, who seeks to destroy them any way he can.

For some of you, it doesn't even matter who or what you have sex with, as long as you get off whatever you're trying to get off (obtain orgasm).  You are a slave to sin, and for now, it has dominion over you, because you are under the control of the devil.

Your nature (flesh) seeks only to satify itself, and not God, because it is impossible to please God in the flesh. However, in the Spirit, you would only be having sex decently and in order, which would be pleasing to God.

With the mind of Christ, sexual feelings are acquired and implemented decently and in order between married mates that have been given the gift of sex to express those deep seated feelings.

This lawful sexual act before God is the ultimate consummation of marriage made in appreciation to God for all He's given to them, including, each other.

Problems in the World Today

There's no problem at all in concluding and supporting that there should be no sex without marriage, and where sex is carried out without marriage, many problems follow, as seen in the world today.

Major problems in the world today are violence, unemployment, pollution, not necessarily in that order, but from which arise increases in world population; increases in teenage pregancies and funding (including medical expeneses) required to provide living expenses; increases in teenage and young adult violence, including, but not limited to

stealing, drinking and drugs; shortages in food and water supplies; increases in disrespect and total disregard for one another; increases in murders because of covetousness and envy; increase in prostitution and other exploitations of sinful men and women; and a number of other environmental and domestic problems.

And we wonder why it's so much going on all the time in the world, and never, if ever, stop and realize what and adulterous and sinful generation we've living in.  Nevertheless, adulterers and fornicators increase the more as New Age and New Thought concepts seek to abolish marriage and the God of it. 

Blinded to the Value of My Body 

My experience has afforded me opportunity to expound on this matter, because I myself was fornicator and adulterer, but by the grace and mercy of God, through divine revelation and understanding, I am compelled to live for Christ and to destroy the works of the devil. 

You might be as I was, blinded to the value of maintaining one's body in respect and honor unto the LORD, because our body is the temple of God.

So as it was with me, so it was with many of you, and is with many of you now; promiscuous sexual activities from my early childhood into and over into adulthood was the way of life practiced and self-justified through comparing myself among some others and measuring my righteousness among their righteousness.

I, as many of you, devalued respect and honor due to my body by prioritizing sexual gradification above what I actually knew and believed to be right; but felt  if sexual desire was being manifested within me, I had a right to fulfill my desires; and by God's grace I would be understood and forgiven.

I am so thankful to God that I did not die in that corrupt state of mind.  My experiences, however, affords me opportunity to make a difference to an adulterous and wicked generation.  By the mercy and grace given unto me, and through divine revelation and understanding, I am compelled to live for Christ and to destroy the works of the devil.

It's Never Too Late to Change

But it's never too late to hear God's voice and commit to righteousness.  Any gift God gives to you is not and will not become dysfunctional, because it's His gift that's good and perfect. 

However, after participating in perverted sexual activities for so long, transformation to acceptable behavior practices may appear, but are not in reality, dysfunctional sexual behavior qualities.

You weren't supposed to be having sex like animals anyhow.  And now that you are involved in it lawfully, the meaning and results are different; so why shouldn't the behavior practices be different also. 

Many women have had to have hysterectomies as the result of being involved in perverted sexual activities with partners that abused them while calling it love.  Then there are many that have had or have sexual diseases as a result of being involved in promiscuous sexual activities. 

Since the godly approach is clean and descent, the results are clean and descent.  Where there's no sin, there's no sexually transmitted diseases and other personal problems associated with unlawful or ungodly relationships.  Sin produces sin; and where there's sin, there's trouble and turmoil (extreme confusion, uproar, disturbance, agitation, turbulance, riot and the like).  Therefore, avoid sin.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good. (Romans 12:9)

He who finds a wife finds a good thing, And obtains favor from the LORD. (Proverbs 18:22)

Nevertheless, because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. (1st Corinthians 7:2)

Let the husband render to the wife the affection due her, and likewise also the wife to the husband. (1st Corinthians 7:3)

The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does.  And likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. (1st Corinthians 7:4)

Do not deprive one another except with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come

together again so that Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. (1st Corinthians 7:5)

But I say to the unmarried and to the widows.  It is good for them if they remain even as I am; (1st Corinthians 7:8)

but if they cannot exercise self-control, let them marry.  For it is better to marry than to burn with passion. (1st Corinthians 7:9)

But I want you to be without care.  He who is unmarried cares about things of the Lord --- how he may please the Lord. (1st Corinthians 7:32)

But he who is married cares about the things of the world --- how he may please his wife. (1st Corinthians 7:33)

There is a difference between a wife and a virgin.  The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit.  But she who is married cares about the things of the world --- how she may please her husband. (1st Corinthians 7:34)

And this I say for your own profit, not that I may put a leash on you, but for what is proper, and that you may serve the Lord without distraction. (1st Corinthians 7:35)

But if any man thinks he is behaving improperly toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of youth, and thus it must be, let him do what he wishes.  He does not sin; let them marry. (1st Corinthians 7:36)

Nevertheless he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power over his own will, and has so determined in his heart that he will keep his virgin, does well. (1st Corinthians 7:37)

So then he who gives her in marriage does well, but he who does not give her in marriage does better. (1st Corinthians 7:38)

Being Sanctified or Set Apart for God

We should be sanctified (set apart) before marrying anyone, however, we know that's not always the case.  One who is sanctified knows how to love God, therefore knows how to love either his wife or her husband. 

Having sincere love as the foundation of the marriage assures success, because God is the head of both parties involved. 

Both having understanding of their duty to maintain sexual relations with each other so that neither will be tempted by Satan to have sex outside of marriage, prohibits and ultimately destroys the devil's opportunities to accomplish sexual immorality in their lives.

Maintaining one's celibate state is an honor for a man, as maintaining one's virginity is an honor for a woman.  That which the world does not honor is exalted by God. 

The favor of God is much greater than the favor of the world.  If a man has difficulty in controlling his sex drive he should marry, and if a woman has difficulty in controlling her sex drive she should marry.

On the other hand, if a man can control his sex drive, that is, has power over his own will, then he should maintain his celibacy.

And likewise, if a woman can control her sex drive, that is, has power over her own will, the she should maintain her virginity.

There is no approval whatsoever by God for sex outside of marriage; and those who promote such are liars and abominations to God.

Reprioritizing Our Standards of Living

Our standards of living have got to be reprioritized and reemphasized to accomplish the godly living God requires of us. 

It is ridiculous for us to continue in the way we are going knowing the results we've already gotten from our disobediences. 

I truly believe that now that many have been opened up to the truth, that many are ready as I am to change and make a difference.

As we increase in knowing God through is knowledge, understanding, and wisdom, we will know what God has willed and will bear fruit in every good work, while living a life worthy of the Lord. 

Deepening our relationship with Jesus is the only way to a healthy and prosperous spiritual l life.  Everything we say and do reflects on the God we claim to know and love

And they were greatly astonished, saying among themselves, "Who then can be saved?" (Mark 10:26)

But Jesus looked at them and said, "With men it is impossible, but not with God; for with God all things are possible." (Mark 10:27)

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. (Philippians 4:13)

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. (Romans 12:1)

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. (Romans 12:2)

Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, (Philippians 2:5)

Eyes and Hearts Full of Sexual Sins

One whose eyes if full of fornication and/or adultery also fills his or her mind and heart with fornication and/or adultery. 

We are to have the mind of Christ, in which, there is no fornication and adultery.  So then, we should know that there is no time that fornication and adultery is approved of God, because it is sin. 

Only through His grace and mercy have those who have committed fornication and/or adultery survived, because the penalty of sin is death.  Thank God for His mercy that endures all generations.

Understand this!  The penalty of sin is death, and God is justified after sin to kill us if He so desire. 

It's not automatic that we just live on anyhow after sinning, it's only by His grace and mercy that we live.  Sin isn't a joke or anything to play with; the penalty of it each and every time we sin is death.  

We should stay away from the death zone as often as possible, because, who knows the power of His anger; for as the fear of Him, so is His wrath.  So then, we need Him to teach us how to number our days that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

Fearing the LORD God Almighty

Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, The people He has chosen as His own inheritance. (Psalm 33:12)

The LORD looks from heaven; He sees all the sons of men. (Psalm 33:13)

From the place of His dwelling He looks On all the inhabitants of the earth. (Psalm (33:14)

He fashions their hearts individually; He considers all their works. (Psalm 33:15)

Behold, the eye of the LORD is on those who fear Him, On those who hope in His mercy. (Psalm 33:18)

To deliver their soul from death, And keep them alive in famine. (Psalm 33:19)

Our soul waits for the LORD; He is our help and shield. (Psalm 33:20)

For our heart shall rejoice in Him, Because we have trusted in His holy name. (Psalm 33:21)

Let Your mercy, O LORD. be upon us, Just as we hope in You. (Psalm 33:22)

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, But fools despise wisdom and instruction. (Proverbs 1:7)

For the LORD gives wisdom; From His mouth come knowledge and understanding; (Proverbs 2:6)

For the LORD will be your confidence, And keep your foot from being caught. (Proverbs 3:26)

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. (Proverbs 9:30)

Avoid Evil and Wicked People

He who earnestly seeks good finds favor, But trouble will come to him who seeks evil. (Proverbs 11:27)

Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge, But he who hates correction is stupid. (Proverbs 12:1)

The righteous should choose his friends carefully, For the way of the wicked leads them astray. (Proverbs 12:26)

The simple believes every word, But the prudent considers well his steps. (Proverbs 14:15)

A wise man fears and departs from evil, But a fool rages and is self-confident. (Proverbs 14:16)

A quick-tempered man acts foolishly, And a man of wicked intentions is hated. (Proverbs 14:17)

The simple inherit folly, But the prudent are crowned with knowledge. (Proverbs 14:18)

A proud and haughty man --- "Scoffer" is his name; He acts with arrogant pride. (Proverbs 21:24)

The desire of the lazy man kills him, For his hands refuse to labor. (Proverbs 21:25)

Make no friendship with an angry man, And with a furious man do not go. (Proverbs 22:24)

Lest you learn his ways And set a snare for your soul. (Proverbs 22:25)

Do not eat bread with a miser, Nor desire his delicacies. (Proverbs 23:6)

Apply your heart to instruction, And your ears to words of knowledge. (Proverbs 23:12)

A man with an evil eye hastens after riches, And does not consider that poverty will come upon him. (Proverbs 28:22)

The bloodthirsty hate the blameless, But the upright seeks his well-being. (Proverbs 29:10)

Two things I request of You {Deprive me not before I die}: (Proverbs 30:7)

Remove falsehood and lies far from me; Give me neither proverty nor riches --- Feed me with the food alloted to me; (Proverbs 30:8)

Lest I be full and deny You And say, "Who is the LORD?" Or lest I be poor and steal And profane the name of my God. (Proverbs 30:9)

For three things on earth is perturbed, Yes, for four it cannot bear up: (Proverbs 30:21)

For a servant when he reigns, A fool when he is filled with food. (Proverbs 30:31)

A hateful woman when she is married, And a maidservant who succeds her mistress. (Proverbs 30:32)

If you have been foolish in exalting yourself, Or if you have devised evil, put your hand on your mouth. (Proverbs 30:32)

For as the churning of milk produces butter, And wringing the nose produces blood, So the forcing of wrath produces strife. (Proverbs 30:33)

A Virtuous Wife

Who can find a virtuous wife?  For her worth is far above rubies. (Proverbs 31:10)

The heart of her husband safely trusts her; so he will have no lack of gain. (Proverbs 31:11)

She does him good and not evil All the days of her life. (Proverbs 31:12)

Charm is deceitful and beauty is passing, But a woman who fears the LORD, she shall be praised. (Proverbs 31:30)

Mean-Spirited Contentuous People

There are those who proclaim holiness with their mouths that are mean-spirited and contentious, wicked and unreasonable, who manifest the fruits of self-righteousness, self-ambition and envy.

Some are just mean-spirited and ungodly, while others claim closeness  with God with their mouths, but their hearts are far from Him.

These are they who are perversed; caring only for themselves while giving an outward appearance of caring for others for what they can get out of them.

Better to dwell in a corner of a housetop, Than in a house shared with a contentious woman. (Proverbs 21:9)

Better to dwell in the wilderness, Than with a contentious and angry woman. (Proverbs 21:19)

As charcoal is to burning coals, and wood to fire, So is a contentious man to kindle strife. (Proverbs 26:21)

A continual dripping on a very rainy day And a contentious woman are alike; (Proverbs 27:15)

Whoever restrains her restrains the wind, And grasps oil with his right hand. (Proverbs 27:16)

but to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness --- indignation and wrath, (Romans 2:8)

tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek; (Romans 2:9)

but glory, honor, and peace to everyone who works are good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. (Romans 2:10)

For there is no partiality with God. (Romans 2:11)

But if anyone seem to be contentious, we have no such customs, nor do the churches of God. (1st Corinthians 11:16)

A person can be either despise instruction or respond in reverence, understanding that the ultimate Giver

of instruction is God, regardless of the instrument He uses to bring His instructions through.  Correction is only for the one's good who have a desire to do what is right.

He who despises the word will be destroyed, But he who fears the commandment will be rewarded. (Proverbs 13:13)

The law of the wise is a fountain of life, To turn one away from the snares of death. (Proverbs 13:14)

Good understanding gains favor, But the way of the unfaithful (transgressor) is hard. (Proverbs 13:15)

A prudent man acts with knowledge, But a fool lays open his folly. (Proverbs 13:16)

Poverty and shame will come to him who disdains correction, But he who regards rebuke will be honored. (Proverbs 13:18)

Anxiety in the heart of man causes depression, But a good word makes it glad. (Proverbs 12:25)

A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance, But by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken. (Proverbs 15:13)

The heart of him who has understanding seeks knowledge, But the mouth of fools feeds on foolishness. (Proverbs 15:14)

All the days of the afflicted are evil, But he who is of a merry heart has a continual feast. (Proverbs 15:15)

The heart of the wise teaches his mouth, And adds learning to his lips. (Proverbs 16:23)

Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, Sweetness to the soul and health to the bones. (Proverbs 16:24)

Watch Out for Scoffers

A scoffer (the worst kind of fool) laughs at righteousness, because he or she is wise in his or her own eyes.

Unlike scoffers, some fools, although naive and inexperienced, are open to suggestions; sometimes even

those established in folly may rethink their positions; but scoffers strongly reject instruction and correction.

knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking in their own lusts, (2nd Peter 3:3)

and saying "Where is the promise of His coming?  For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation. (2nd Peter 3:4)

Blessed is the man Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, Nor stands in the path of sinners, Nor sits in the seat of the scornful; (Psalm 1:1)

He who corrects a scoffer gets shame for himself, And he who rebukes a wicked man only harms himself. (Proverbs 9:7)

Do not correct a scoffer, lest he hate you; Rebuke a wsie man, and he will love you. (Proverbs 9:8)

A wise son heeds his father's instruction, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke. (Proverbs 13:1)

A scoffer seeks wisdom and does not find it, But knowledge is easy to him who understands. (Proverbs 14:6)

Fools mock sin, But among the upright there is favor. (Proverbs 14:9)

A scoffer does not love one who corrects him, Nor will he go to the wise.(Proverbs 15:12)

Justifying Our Wrongs As Rights

We can so easily rationalize and justify our wrongful action.  Consciously or unconsciously, we easily fall victim to self-deceit, making our conscious fictitiously clear of any wrong doings and taking a position of innocence, when in reality, we are still guilty of the wrongs we've done.  God knows the secret motives of our hearts and weighs why we do what we do, whether it be good or evil, regardless of what attitudes we display openly to deceive the general public. 

So then, we shouldn't be too confident in our self-perceived innocence of what we've rationalized and justified as right, when in fact, we were so wrong.  Therefore, rather, we should remain aware of our constant need for God's cleansing grace, especially when we find ourselves out of order and acting in a manner unpleasing and unacceptable to God.

And when we've manifested such an inappropriate behavior and if it's brought to our attention and we refuse to acknowledge any wrong doing nor take any corrective action, we're stupid and just out-right rebellious and un-reconcilable.  Whatever Christianity one is claiming or seems to be religious about,  who refuses to receive instruction and take corrective action, manifests a very poor witness for the body of Christ if, in fact,  his or her proclamation has any validity to it at all.

Masters of Deception

Workers of iniquity, in particular, those who are masters of deception, often make very impressive first impressions and are able to camouflage their deceptive practices with consistency and precision for quite some time.  Therefore, it is very important not to make friendships very quickly with anyone, in particular, strangers and people that we know very little or nothing about at all.  Walking in the Spirit and being led by the Spirit will open up unto us their hypocritical behavior practices when we trust the LORD with all our heart and lean not to our own understanding.  What amazing disclosure and victory we have in Christ Jseus.