LightShinesInTheDarkness

There's nothing wrong with an evangelistic sermon, but if you're always addressing the unsaved, when do you feed those who are already saved? When do you address their spiritual needs and instruct them with the knowledge that will grow them up into Christ? A man can only bring others as far as he himself has come. If all he knows is the gospel, all he will preach is the gospel, and there's much more to preach on than this, which Christians need. Lost sheep need to be found, but found sheep also need to be fed.

It is a joint work of myself and the Lord.

*Before criticizing this post, consider its items from the perspective of the New Testament's teachings, and of the Holy Spirit, rather than your personal feelings. 15 SIGNS YOUR PASTOR IS A DUD... 1. He treats lightly those things which the Bible treats seriously. 2. He makes lots of jokes and treats the sacred with irreverent humor. 3. He makes as many or more references to pop culture, sports, and secular writings as he does to the Scriptures. 4. He's wealthy; and he justifies it. 5. Your "pastor" is a woman. 6. Your pastor sounds like a secular motivational speaker or self-improvement guru. 7. He focuses on what God can give you or do for you, rather than on you doing His will. 8. He puts the word and traditions of men above and before the Word of God. 9. He makes everybody happy and never offends anyone. 10. He only talks about what God has done for you and promises you, never about what He expects or requires of you. 11. His "sermons" are 80% jokes and entertaining anecdotes and 20% spiritual edification. 12. He uses the pulpit as a platform for politics. 13. EVERY sermon is a variation of an evangelistic message. 14. He "customizes" the Scriptures to suit people's tastes or his own agenda. 15. His conduct and character do not exemplify that of Jesus Christ. My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation. (James 3:1 KJV) "A horrible and shocking thing has happened in the land: The prophets prophesy lies, the priests rule by their own authority, and My people love it this way." (Jeremiah 5:30,31 NIV) For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. (2 Timothy 4:3,4 ESV)

Reading Scripture in context and can give us a clear understanding of what is meant by the word fear. In some places it may refer to reverence, in others guilty fear, in others fear of death, in others terror, in others the reverently fearful (but not guilty) knowledge of God's ability to punish us for willful sin. We should be careful not to assume that a word means or is referring to the same thing in every place where it is found, even if the same word is used. Reading the context, identifying the subject and the purpose, and comparing Scripture with Scripture are crucial for a correct understanding of Scripture.

He (the antichrist) shall seduce with flattery those who violate the covenant, but the people who know their God shall stand firm and take action. And the wise among the people shall make many understand, though for some days they shall stumble by sword and flame, by captivity and plunder. (Daniel 11:32,33) And the people of God are already being seduced and flattered by pastors who are preaching a different gospel and a different Jesus, in various ways---some more subtly than others---preparing the way for the antichrist. It's sad and frightening to think that if Jesus Himself visited a church in another form and gave a sermon, His own people would probably think He was a heretic---so much has the doctrine of the New Testament been distorted and deserted. The worship of the beast will only be the ultimate abomination on top of all the others that already fill the temple of God.

All of this is true---but it has nothing to do with what I wrote in my previous post.

Love and faith depend upon each other and compliment each other. Love is not a substitute for faith, but the perfection of it. That is why the Bible says that love is the "greatest" virtue, and the "more excellent way": We may have and use spiritual gifts, and do works of faith, but those works are not complete in God's sight if they are not done in love. And the spiritual gifts will eventually be unnecessary and will cease, when Jesus returns and we are made perfect; but how much like God (who is love) we are, will remain forever; and Christ-likeness is more important than having spiritual gifts. Likewise, it is impossible to love God or anyone else without faith---which includes both keeping God's New Testament commandments with the instruction of His Spirit as to how to apply them, and doing what we know He wants us to do in specific situations and personal matters (personal faith)---which things comprise the evidence of our belief: Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. (James 2:18) The commandments of the New Testament are our instructions for how to love God and others. Without keeping these, there is no "love", nor any works, that God recognizes or is pleased with. We must have faith to walk in love, and without love the practice of our faith is not complete.

I hate to say that the churches are "brainwashing" people, but they sort of are. I keep seeing and hearing the same errors over and over again---as though people are repeating things they've memorized---and it's obviously not substantiated by the word of God: It's coming from seminaries; it's coming from pastors; it's coming from the teachings of Calvin and Arminius and "early church fathers" of this kind and that. And people are listening to teachers and pastors and taking their word, instead of searching the Scriptures to see if what they are saying agrees with what the Bible teaches. Especially if what is being taught sounds nice; or if it is traditional, and everybody they know believes it or does it. After all, the more people believe a thing, the more likely it is that what they believe is correct, right? Not necessarily. (And if we look at the Scriptures, the majority were usually wrong. Remember Noah? Lot? The people of Israel in the wilderness, during the time of the Judges, in the time of Elijah, and in the time of the Prophets? The Jews at the time of Christ?) Unfortunately for many, the objective truths of God's word don't change according to personal preference or popular opinion. We either know them (to the degree that God has taught us), or we don't. But knowing them or not knowing them, liking them or not liking them, living according to them or not, doesn't change the truth, or the fact that we are and will be subject and accountable to God's truth, and not to people's various teachings based on misinterpretations and misunderstandings. Nobody is going to be able to blame their pastor or their seminary professor for what they didn't know or for teaching them wrong on the Day of Judgment. All true Christians have the Holy Spirit and most also have the written word of God to consult, whether and however they choose to use it. Our seeking is determined by our own desire. Some of us seek to confirm what we want to believe, or to find justification for doing what we want to do---and not sincerely, to know the truth in order to do what is pleasing to God, no matter what it is, or what the personal cost. (God knows the heart and weighs our actions, and He answers people like this accordingly: They stay confused.) And some of us don't seek much at all, because we're lazy, and busy with other priorities and pursuits, and it's just not that important to us. We're fine to let the pastor tell us what to believe and what the word of God says and means without objective fact-checking. And God doesn't reward laziness. Besides this, I know that most Christians like what they're getting---regardless of whether what they are getting is correct or not. Even if they are told and shown that various teachings they are embracing are erroneous and that things they are doing aren't pleasing to God---according to His word---they keep on. They probably already know it. They simply don't care. The sad truth is, they love themselves, as their actions prove to God, day by day; but they love to talk about how much God loves them and everybody else. The ones who are not like the Christians of the church in Laodicea, are like the Christians of the church in Ephesus. The fact is, most people don't wind up in hell because God doesn't love them; they wind up in hell because they don't love Him. So what difference does it make how much God loves you if you don't love Him? Hell is full of people who God loved. For the time is coming when people (Christians) will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. (2 Timothy 4:3,4 ESV; parentheses mine.) They hire the men they want to hear, and fire the ones they don't. For wicked men are found among My people; they lurk like fowlers lying in wait. They set a trap; they catch men. Like a cage full of birds, their houses are full of deceit; therefore they have become great and rich; they have grown fat and sleek... (Fits the profile of the pastors of many 'successful' churches today...) An appalling an horrible thing has happened in the land: the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule at their direction; My people love to have it so, but what will you do when the end comes? (Jeremiah 5: 26-28, 30,31 ESV)

The tormenting guilt and fear of knowing that one is sinning (willfully sinning), and that one does not have a good conscience toward God on account of something that one is doing, is the kind of fear that 1 John 18 is referring to: Knowing that one is doing something wrong, but not being penitent about it (not having the godly sorrow that leads to repentance). It is the kind of fear a child has when he or she is doing something their parent has told them not to do---or that of a person who is knowingly breaking the law: Fear of deserved punishment. Christians can have this kind of fear if they choose to do something they know God does not want them to do; and they should. The right response to that tormenting fear would be for them to repent of whatever it is they are doing, to avoid the potential consequences of persisting in it. (1 John 1:9) But Christians do not always choose to do this. Sometimes, they persist in doing what they want to do, even though they know what God says about it, and what He wants of them. And if this is the attitude they have, and what they are choosing to do, then they should rightfully have that kind of tormenting fear, which is their guilty conscience's and God's way of letting them know that He is not pleased and that all is not well between Him and them---that the Christian needs to repent of whatever it is that he or she is doing. (1 John 3:19-22) If a Christian ignores this, God will use other, more severe means of correcting him or her (discipline of some kind). And if they still refuse to obey Him, they put themselves at risk of even forfeiting their salvation---the very worst punishment. This serious warning is written to true Christians: For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries. Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses. How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has spurned the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace? For we know Him who said, "Vengeance is Mine; I will repay." And again, "The Lord will judge His people." It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. (Hebrews 10:26-31 ESV) (That "fear" is a whole lot more than respect.)

Having experienced the severe chastening of the Lord personally, I can honestly say that it was the best thing that God ever did to me---after saving me, and delivering me from an eating disorder. Before I experienced that discipline, I really did not fear God, even though I was saved; but afterwards, I came to! I have been walking in the fear of the Lord ever since, and reaping the blessings of doing so. I couldn't be more thankful to Him for what He did, even though it was torment at the time: My love for Him is even greater for having had that experience of His discipline---knowing how much He loves me; and He has become so much more precious to me. (God knows us better than we know ourselves, and our true needs; He knows the capacity of our sinful nature and the deceitfulness of sin and its consequences, which we underestimate. That is why He is the Shepherd, and we are the sheep.) "My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by Him. For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and chastises every son whom He receives." It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live? For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, that we may share His holiness. For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. (Hebrews 12:5-11 ESV)

(You may want to re-read the original post more carefully, as this was addressed and explained.)

We know that God wants us to love Him, but does He also want us to fear Him? The answer, if we examine the Scriptures, is clearly, YES. The fear of the Lord is not a relic of the Old Covenant; Christians are instructed and reminded to fear God in the New Testament also. Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling... (Philippians 2:12 ESV) But why? If God is love, and if we are saved, why would God want us to fear Him? The answer is, because the fear of God protects us from sin and its consequences, which is what our loving God wants. So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was being built up. And walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it multiplied. (Acts 9:31 ESV) Contrary to popular belief and teaching, it is not merely gratitude and feelings of love for God that keeps Christians from sinning and leads them to obey Him---at least it shouldn't be, according to the Bible---but also rightful fear. The fear comes from knowing that if we choose to despise Him, God has the power to chasten (discipline) us, and even to take away our eternal life, if we stubbornly persist in willful sin after coming to be in Christ, by refusing to do what we know He wants us to do and what He commands us. (See Hebrews 10:26-31) For Christians, the fear of God should be a holy fear---not a guilty terror, as the unsaved have. We know that God loves us, and that we are saved because of His love and His mercy---forgiven of our sins and assured of eternity with Him when we die, through our faith in Jesus Christ---for which reason we have joy, confidence, and peace. But we should also bear in mind that this promise is not unconditionally guaranteed to us, and that if we choose to despise the Lord and refuse to repent, He is able to take away what He gave us. (See John 15:5,6,9-11; Romans 11:19-22) That knowledge is wisdom, and it helps to keep us from doing evil things that we would otherwise consider or take lightly---even preserving our physical lives at the cost of disobeying the Lord. The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, that one may turn away from the snares of death. (Proverbs 14:27) (Of course, if you have been following my threads, you can see the relevance of this exhortation and reminder: If you don't fear God so as to obey Him in the easy times, much less will you be faithful to Him in the worst of times, when your physical life is on the line. Don't fool yourself.) This is what Jesus said, speaking to His own disciples: "I tell you, My friends, do not fear those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more that they can do. But I will warn you whom to fear: fear Him who, after He has killed, has authority to cast into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear Him!" (Luke 12:4,5 ESV) The fear of the Lord produces good things: It leads us to turn away from evil, helps us to deny the strongest temptations of sin, and produces in us a rightful reverence for God that we won't have without it. "A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a Father, where is My honor? And if I am a Master, where is My fear? says the LORD of hosts to you, O priests, who despise My name." (Malachi 1:6 ESV) (Where indeed, O people of God?) The faith of the Old Testament saints that we so admire was coupled with the fear of the Lord, and it was their strength to withstand temptation and their motivation to obey God, for which He blessed and rewarded them. The God of the Old Testament and the God of the New are the very same God. He has not changed His attributes or His attitudes. If we believe that He has, we deceive ourselves. God still wants His people to fear Him, just as He wants us to love Him. The love of God is to keep His commandments, and the fear of Him helps us to obey Him, which we would be more lax about if we did not---potentially to our own spiritual peril. Yes, God is love, and part of that love is to protect His sheep. This is why He wants and commands us to fear Him; because He knows that mere gratitude to Him and the desire to do what pleases Him because we love Him is not enough to turn us away from strong temptation. We need to fear Him also, just as we would fear a parent who we know loves us, but also has the ability to punish us for doing what we know we know we ought not to. God says that He is love because that is the attribute by which He desires to be known by man, not because He doesn't have other attributes in equal measure: It is not a matter of what He is, but of what He chooses to show. God has the potential for as much wrath as He has for love (the evidence being that the unsaved will suffer His wrath for all eternity just as the saved will enjoy His peace and joy for all eternity); but He desires to show more mercy and love to man than He does justified wrath. Like a jewel with equal facets, the one that faces the light is the one that shines; but that doesn't mean that the jewel has only one facet. The man-ward facet of God is love; but it's quite obvious from the Scriptures that that is not His only attribute, and that God's mercy and patience toward man are not infinite. There will be an end to His patience with impenitent men, and there will also be wrath for those who choose not to continue in His kindness after receiving His mercy. David was a man who loved God with all of his heart, soul, mind and strength, a man who delighted in the Lord, and who was a man after God's own heart---not because he was perfect, but because he was sincere. And David, who knew God very well, feared God, and wrote much about the fear of the Lord and its benefits. The Christian who loves God, as David loved God---who is keeping His commandments to the best of his or her ability and who is doing what he or she knows to be His will and pleasing to Him to the best of his or her ability, and desires to do the same, will not have guilty fear, for perfect love casts out the fear of rightful punishment for willful sin. A Christian with a good conscience toward God for the aforementioned reasons will not have this kind of fear; but we should all walk in the fear of our awesome God, who has the power both to chasten us and to condemn us. As long as we have our sinful nature, the fear of God is both essential and relevant. "I tell you, My friends, do not fear those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more that they can do. But I will warn you whom to fear: fear Him who, after He has killed, has authority to cast into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear Him!" (Luke 12:4,5 ESV) Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered and said to the king, "O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter. If this be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us out of your hand, O king. But if not, be it know to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up." (Daniel 3:16-18 ESV) And another angel, a third, followed them, saying with a loud voice, "If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand, he also will drink the wine of God's wrath, poured full strength into the cup of His anger, and he will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever, and they have no rest, day or night, these worshipers of the beast and its image, and whoever receives the mark of its name." Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus. (Revelation 14:9-12 ESV)

I prefer to point you to the Scriptures to find it for yourself, with God's help. I will provide you with these three bits of advice, and will comment no further to you on this matter: When seeking truth from the Lord be sure that you have these things: 1. A humble heart 2. Pure motives 3. No known sin in your life (a good conscience toward the Lord and His peace that you are doing what is pleasing to Him to the best of your knowledge and ability.) You can disregard this advice to your own loss, but I strongly suggest that you take it. May the Lord give you all that you need of Him.

Just because a truth is there in the Scriptures, doesn't mean you will see what is right in front of your eyes for what it is. That does require understanding and conviction from God; otherwise it's every man's word against another's, each man using the Scriptures to support what he believes, whether what he believes is actually correct or not. (This forum being a case in point.) Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures... (Luke 24:45)

The Scriptures alone won't and can't prove it, as my previous post explained. But you can find the proof of it yourself in the Scriptures with God's help, and I would encourage you to look into the matter. If He doesn't show you the truth about this, you won't know it, no matter how much Scripture could be provided by myself or anyone else.

Not exactly: They may be projections of one's personal beliefs---based on what one may have been taught by one's church or gathered from one's own study of the Scriptures; but the post-tribulation rapture is, in fact, the correct interpretation; and this fact must be revealed and confirmed by God to the individual, as there is no other way to truly know it---except, of course, as the events themselves come to pass. Knowing what the Bible says is no guarantee of understanding what it means, as browsing the threads in the forums on this site makes obvious. Two people may use the same scriptures to support opposing positions. One of them may be right and the other wrong, or they may both be wrong. It is possible to know the true meaning, but this depends upon God, and not one's own mind and study only. And once one knows a Scriptural truth, it doesn't matter what anyone else believes about it; you will know that it is correct. The Scriptures will prove themselves according to the truth, not according to our personal beliefs (unless, of course, our personal belief is based upon the knowledge of that truth.)

I maintain my response to you in my last post. I am not unsure about this matter or searching for the truth about it; I already know it. And this fact will be proven by the events themselves, as they take place, as I said previously. (Providing more misinterpreted Scripture isn't going to make the Lord return when you think He is going to; He's still going to return when the Bible actually says that He will, whether you understand the Scriptures or not.) It really makes no difference how much Scripture one provides as evidence of the correctness of a false teaching: A false teaching is still false and a wrong interpretation is still wrong, as the events themselves will prove. So there's no point in providing Scripture to support your incorrect interpretation, or in our debating the matter---so much the less so given the abundance of Scripture you have provided to support your belief: If you've compiled so much "evidence" to support a pre-trib rapture from studying the same Scriptures as I, there's no Scripture I can provide you that can---independent of Divine intervention---show, and assure you of, the truth about this. (But may the Lord do so, for you, and for others who are likewise mistaken/deceived about it.) (Also, I am female. )

Of course you will know that this is not correct when it doesn't happen, if the Lord does not show you otherwise beforehand (which I sincerely hope that He will). I hope you will prepare yourself according to those seven tips, and that you will bear them in mind, even though you believe the pre-trib myth. All the scripture in the Bible won't make something that isn't true come true; and it will be obvious that you misunderstood the Scriptures in this matter when what you believe they teach or prove doesn't happen as you believed. (I don't care how a person arrives at the answer to an equation if the answer is incorrect: If you get 7 from 2+2, you're wrong no matter how you arrived at the conclusion, so showing me the steps is pointless. The pre-trib rapture---like the theory of evolution---is fiction: It makes no difference what "evidence" is used to "prove" it; it is still false. And the pre-trib rapture teaching will be proven false by the events themselves, regardless of whether you understand the Scriptures---as will all misinterpretations of end-time events and their chronology.)

Amen. We must be united with God in Spirit in order to worship Him; but, being thus united with Him, we must also worship Him according to the commands of His word, which is the true worship of God. We cannot add or take away from this and call it the worship of God; for in whatever way we deviate from what He gave us, to that degree what we are doing is not in fact worshiping Him, whatever we may call it or think that it is. It is not acceptable or pleasing to Him. So both of those things are important. All true Christians have the Spirit requisite; but the truth requisite is gone to rack and ruin. And as we know from what our Lord had to say to the church in Ephesus in the Revelation, and to King Saul through the prophet Samuel, and to the people of Israel through the Prophets, and to the Jews during His earthly ministry, partial obedience is not acceptable to God; nor is worshiping Him any old way we want to.

The reason for that sentence: Let's consult His Word (the Bible; remember that book?) was because I know very well, as do many Christians, that the specific commands that I listed after that remark are purposefully twisted and disobeyed by a whole lot of Christians---and they have no intention of changing. They already know what the Bible says about these things: They just don't care to do it. The point is, it matters to God so it should matter to you. But it doesn't matter to a whole lot of us. Obviously. They act like they don't know what the Bible says, or that it doesn't actually mean what it says, or that God doesn't care whether they obey His commands for worship or not and that they can do it their own way, and re-shape the faith to their own liking and purpose, just like the Jews did--which Jesus rebuked them for. (Tell me I'm lying about this. You know full well that I am not. The evidence all around us defies argument to the contrary.) It was not a condescending remark, but one of contempt for the behavior of people who think it's okay to rebel against God and have no intention of doing otherwise. My question to you is, why does that not make YOU angry and disgusted? Not being perfect and making mistakes is not the same as being rebellious, nor does it make one a hypocrite. As the scriptures provided in my original post clearly showed, rebellion is deliberate disobedience to a known command of God, not making mistakes in keeping His commandments (not being able to keep them perfectly all of the time, which no Christian does). Now, why not go to your pastor---or any pastor---and ask him why he deliberately disobeys God's command for worship by permitting women to speak in church. See what he says and what he does. Then get back to me. P.S. "Gloom and Doom" is sometimes the nature of the truth. The books of the Prophets are largely gloom and doom. Why?

I believe the meaning of my previous posts was clear.

It doesn't matter what other Christians think about you, but what God knows about you and what you know about yourself before God. You need to know--- as do we all---that you are doing His will and that He is pleased with you. If think we have such peace, but are not keeping His commandments as we know them, that peace is a phony peace. It may be peace of mind for having what we want, but it's not peace from God. Why should you care what I or any other Christian thinks or knows about your walk with Jesus? Is He pleased with it? How do you know? Are you keeping His commandments (the commandments of the New Testament) to the best of your knowledge and ability? Are you doing your best to please Him and living for Him as you know He wants you to? (These are not questions to answer to me, by the way, so please don't.) By this we shall know that we are of the truth and reassure our hearts before Him; for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart and He knows everything. Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God; and whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do what pleases Him. (1 John 3:19-22) There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. (1 John 4:18) For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. And no creature is hidden from His sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account. (Hebrews 4:12,13) Don't assume that a person who preaches hard truths is a hypocrite. Hopefully they aren't, for the same word of truth that judges others also judges the one who delivers the message. A wise man lives transparently before God, in full expectation of giving an account to Him; for nothing is covered up that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known.

Amen and amen.

I don't understand why some Christians can't seem to understand that encouragement, rebuke, warning, righteous joy and righteous indignation all come from the SAME Spirit. It's like their ears open when something is pleasant and close when it isn't pleasant, regardless of whether what is said is true and right or not. Read the Psalms: All of these things (encouragement, rebuke, warning, righteous joy and righteous indignation) are there. Read the gospels: All of these things are evident in Jesus' life during His earthly ministry. Read the epistles: Same thing. The serious things, the pleasant things, the unpleasant things---all come from the same Spirit, throughout the God-breathed Scriptures. If you can't recognize the Spirit of God unless He's saying something pleasant or something that you want to hear, I question your ability to recognize Him; as should you.

I suggest re-reading the title/subject post (which is self-explanatory) more carefully, and my subsequent posts, previous to this one, if you need further clarification.