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  From:  Evg. Chambers (hinotes)    11/14/2001 1:41 pm  
To:  ALL   (1 of 7)  
 
  260.1  
 
Snakes are very sneaky. 
I live in the country, on the east coast, so seeing a snake in the summer time, 
sleezing its way towards some unsuspecting individual was not unusual. 
I despise snakes. Because they personifies evil , in my personal opinion. 

My father, and mother (she was a bad sista!) would always grab the garden- 
ing hoe, or an axe, sneak up on those snakes, and chop thier heads off. 
They did anything to protect thier children from these poisnous creatures. 
Because if you are ever bitten by one, it could be deadly. 

One thing that I have always noticed about snakes, they love to hide. 
They would hide under old tires, old piles of wood, any places in the dark. 
And as soon as the light was cast upon them, they would curl up, and 
get angry, and you know that they were ready to bite you in anyway 
that they could. They wanted to kill you so that they could keep on 
living and biting and destroying living creatures. 

There are spirtual snakes in this world today. They are in our churches, 
kneeling at the altar beside us. They are on our choir stands, singing 
the songs of Zion, sometimes better than we do. Snakes are on our 
jobs, in our schools, and even among our family members. But, they 
look like us, walk like us, and talk like us. The only way that you can 
recognize them is when the light is turned on them, and thier venom 
shows. 

I found some scriptures in Romans 3: 13-18, that graphically describe 
the spiritual snakes. 

Verse 13: Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit." "The poison of vipers is on their lips. 

Have you ever met someone who would just cut you down with 
thier tongue? Never had anything good to say about anything 
or anybody. "They sang too long! Her lips are too big. You ought 
not wear that hat, it makes your head look big...So in so is my 
enemny. She's jealous of you..." 

This person will never offer to pray for you, or give you any encouragement. 
They gossip. Bewitch, weak minded , not prayed up saints ,with thier 
tongue, telling them everything bad about someone else,s o that they 
could look good. The next thing that you know, you just don't like 
the sista that sings soprano, or the one who has a good husband, 
smells good, prayed up and looking good. The snake has passed 
its poison into your spiritual veins. You have been bittened, and 
bewitched. 

Verses 14-18, really just tells it like it is. Now, this is a spirtual snake. 
14 
"Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness." 
15 
"Their feet are swift to shed blood; 
16 
ruin and misery mark their ways, 
17 
and the way of peace they do not know." 
18 
"There is no fear of God before their eyes." 

How can they fear God, when they don't even have a prayer life going? 
They don't have time to read the word, because they are so swift 
in shedding innocent blood. These spiritual snakes are controlled 
by thier daddy, the "Original Snake". He was cursed to be ruined, 
and to live in misery. And his children are following in his foot steps. 
He will end up in Hell for an eternity, and so will his off spring. 

True saints of God, wheter you are Holy Ghost filled or not, we need 
to stop playing with snakes. Stop even trying to get along with a 
snake. Because I don't care how much that you pet them, feed them, 
or make eye contact with them. They still have thier old nature, and 
they are still a snake. They will keep biting you until you die spiritually. 

I have spent a lot of days living with snakes. But, it has not 
been easy trying to break away. After I had gotten bittened one' 
time too many, I had to shake these vipers off, suffer the persecution, 
and move on In The Name of Jesus. Yes, these vipers get angry 
when you stop hanging with them. They will hiss, spew at you, 
and "back-bite" you so much, until you will not find any relief anywhere 
but in Jesus. The next thing that you know, you have an anointed 
prayer life going. Because you 've gotten the devil under your 
feet, and The Holy Ghost is holding him down. 

Spirtual snakes are not your friends. If you are seeing your prayer 
life decreasing, and your anointing becoming false, and you are 
always in the middle of division, then you need to check out the 
company that you are keeping. You just might be playing with 
a snake. 

Romans 8 
34 
Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died--more than that, who was raised to life--is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. 
35 
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 
36 
As it is written: "For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered. 


A true saint of God is automatically "picked out" to be "picked on". 
It comes with the blood. But, God's grace will help us to stand, 
and we don't have to compromise our salvation, by playing with 
snakes. 

Remeber the words of Peter! 
1 Peter 4 
3 
For you have spent enough time in the past doing what pagans choose to do--living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, car ...[Message truncated] 

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  From:  123four   11/14/2001 4:00 pm  
To:  Evg. Chambers (hinotes)    (2 of 7)  
 
  260.2 in reply to 260.1  
 
Marvelous post. We need to try everyday 
to remember this post. These serpents do 
sneak up so quietly and slowly and when 
you are not looking and so they are there 
and wrapped around us before we even know 
it. We weren't expecting. Like you said, 
we need to be expecting, be aware of 
this evil. 
I have noticed that those snakes do not 
like to hear good news about a Christian. 
If you share an answered prayer a friend 
had, then the snake will automatically 
come back with some retort about, 'If you 
only knew what I know about her' type 
remark. 

God help those who have vipers in the 
family as they will not leave peace in 
the family as they carry with them a 
gigantic spirit of strife. 

God Bless you for this post!
 
  
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  From:  David (DavidABrown)    11/15/2001 8:19 am  
To:  123four   (3 of 7)  
 
  260.3 in reply to 260.2  
 
Hi,

I have noticed that those snakes do not 
like to hear good news about a Christian. 
If you share an answered prayer a friend 
had, then the snake will automatically 
come back with some retort ..

Well said!

 

I totally agree that the snakes can be quickly identified by a lack of rejoicing in the things of God and of Gods people.

 

Excellent Post!!

 

God Bless You!

David



David A. Brown
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  From:  Jim (pentitent)    12/23/2001 9:06 pm  
To:  Evg. Chambers (hinotes)    (5 of 7)  
 
  260.5 in reply to 260.1  
 
Unfortunately, those snakes don't always sneak. There are some that appear right out in the open. They wear expensive clothes, are draped with jewels, and stand behind pulpits preaching that gain is Godliness.
May God bless and keep you, my brothers and sisters! 

 
  
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  From:  Evg. Chambers (hinotes)    12/31/2001 5:20 am  
To:  Jim (pentitent)    (6 of 7)  
 
  260.6 in reply to 260.5  
 
That disguise is normally what blinds the weak minded. 
Humble is the Way!




 
 
  
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   From:  Jim (pentitent)    12/31/2001 4:02 pm  
To:  Evg. Chambers (hinotes)    (7 of 7)  
 
  260.7 in reply to 260.6  
 
Amen!
May God bless and keep you, my brothers and sisters! 

 
  
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