Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Jesus the weak?

Jesus in Matthew's writing on the sermon on the mount tells us that MANY
will not be let into the kingdom of heaven and just before this he told
us that narrow is the way to eternal life.

Psalm 5:5 - God HATES sinners

In Romans Paul is telling us that God is storing up wrath for the
wicked. Should we not warn them?

In John 8, Jesus tells us that those who do not follow Him are not
children of God but children of the devil.

Does God love everyone? Yes in a universal sense since He created each
of us, but in a specific way he hates sin and will remove it from His
presence.

Your right, you don't call out sin in front of everyone, you don't run
around poking your finger in people's faces calling them a dirty rotten
sinner that God's going to kill. However, you don't shy away from it
either. The scriptures speak for themselves, the gospel is about God's
righteousness and holiness, Jesus demonstrated his grace and mercy.
Remember though this is the same Jesus who was there at creation and the
same Jesus who will be there to judge and destroy.

Read through the sermon from Matthew 23, read it out loud and with the
passion that Jesus would have had, words like "you snakes, you brood of
vipers, how will you escape being condemned to Hell?", that sounds
pretty in their face. Have someone read it to you, there is no way to
read that in a quiet voice with meekness, it would have been said with
authority and power.

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