Robert Greenwald
smileygrn@hawaii.rr.com

God's Fail-Safe System
From October 3, 2013 6:37:55 PM HST

Definition of FAIL-SAFE. 1:" incorporating some feature for automatically counteracting the effect of an anticipated possible source of failure."  
" let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall."    Pride blinds our eyes to our sin and we think that we are the only one is the world with this unique failing.   Sin is common to all men even Jesus was tempted as we are yet He never fell.  Because my pride has nothing to do with your sin I can easily detect sin in others
13 "No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it."  (1 Cor 10:12-13)

The church has always been plagued with ethical and moral failures especially  the clergy because they elevate themselves above their brethren. God has designed a fail safe system in scripture.  Every human is capable of failure, or" falling  short of the goal so as to lose the prize."
 This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all.  If we claim that we have fellowship--(koinonia) with Him and walk in the darkness, we are both telling and living a lie  but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son continuously cleanses us from any and every sin.  If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (1 John 1:5-2:1) 
When we are in a transparent (koinonia) fellowship Christ's blood (the Holy Spirit) flows through us constantly cleansing us.  If we cut ourselves off (anger fear resentment) from intimate spiritual fellowship with the body of Christ His blood no longer flows and the cleansing stops
The key is Koinonia translated as  "1. fellowship    2. communion,  3. participation  4. sharing"

Paul's warns about the Lords supper "He eats and drinks judgment to himself if he does not judge the Body (of Christ) rightly. this is why many of you are weak and sick, and a number have died."(1 Cor. 11:29-30)  When individuals or fellowships, do not (judge) comprehend or understand the purpose of the Body of Christ they become weak, sickly and many fellowships die.

The Body of Christ consists of roughly a dozen families in an intimate functioning fellowship committed to Christ and each other. In the body all are on equal footing there are no superiors for all are peers.  With a hierarchy a mere mortal calls the shots and Christ is disposed as head. Without total trust transparency is lost, without total transparency trust is lost.
"Confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another so that you may be healed."   (James 5:15)
Confess your sins to those you can't trust there is a good chance you will find a knife in your back.

 "Reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction".   (2 Tim 4:2-3)
Robert S Greenwald  Oct.3, 2013