Brothers I was not raised in the church and I grew up pretty rough. I don't feel to go into details. I currently live in a neighborhood that on certain nights you can hear gun shots, helicopters, screams, had caught an individual in my back yard and escorted him back to the police who were chasing him (with out deadly force). I walk around the city of Fort Lauderdale and meet all different kinds of people. I talk with homeless, prostitutes (male, and females) drug dealers, gang members, and plain all around lunatics. No weapons do I carry, my 6-year-old daughter comes with me when I do Bible studies in front of one store where they have tables and chairs. If anyone is cursing or acting up I know how to persuade them to mind their manners.
All those with out using deadly force, or having to get down to the other persons level. My father taught me while I was still young that life was far from being a Hollywood movie and some times you give a beating and some times you take a beating. I have experienced both. I love my daughters and my wife and the Brothers and Sisters in the church family down here.
I would like to make this plain, no disrespect to the elders who have posted their views in this thread. The Lord knows I love you Brothers, I just have to say I will never hurt another person ever again. I will not go to a place where I would have to feel the locked focus of having to see the "other" individual as something that needs to be shut down, put out of commission.
Brothers I love my family and If we would have a situation (on the road or in my home) I would deal with it, through the power of the Holy Ghost. The Lord would give me what I needed at that time. I hate seeing children in fear, especially my own kin, and I would feel my blood run cold if anything would cause my girls to be frightened. I pray to the Lord and I am totally confident that He honors His word the same way He honors it when I pray for a sick person, with cancer, or another illness. The same way He honors it when I cast out a devil or when I baptize someone in Jesus name, and pray them through to speaking in tongues.
Is anything too hard for the Lord? Can He protect my babies and my wife like He did for Lot? I believe He will, and He has protected my family as we traveled 24 hrs to 48 hr (at times) driving in the old Lincoln through truck stops across this country. Passing through bad neighborhoods, rough towns, and during break downs when there was no one but me and my wife and an infant in a car seat.
I preach living on faith, I'm full time and the only one I depend on is Jesus, and if He can't get me out of a situation then I don't think I could do any better.
I am convinced that Jesus taught non-retaliation, no use of deadly force for any reason. You all pray for me.
If an attacker tried to hurt my children or wife, I would stand in front of them. The attacker or attackers would never get passed me. I would never need to use deadly force, just the power of Jesus Name.
In Jesus name
Brother Benincasa
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