Saturday, August 13, 2011

How do I say this clearly?

What is it that people want? They make choices and then when that choice fails they complain. The secret is to fail a winner. That’s right, fail a winner and never look back. Are we supposed to be perfect?   No!  We are supposed to learn from our mistakes.  People have a way of complaining about every failure they have made without moving on.  Who cares what people think of you after you have just made a stupid decision?  I don’t!  Never judge people on one action (Unless it is something cruel and we all know better than that) I judge people only after I have cleared my own plate and after realizing this person ignores what is right. And yes the Bible says I can.  Where you ask?

The issue of judging is a contentious one, despite the Bible giving us clear guidelines about making judgments. In Matt 7:1-5, Jesus said not to judge. A closer look at this passage will show that He is referring to personal, hypocritical judging, telling us to take the log out of our own eye (Matt 7:5).   Also, it's quite obvious that we should not judge a person's motives or thoughts as we simply don't know what they are (1 Cor 2:11). In John 7:24, with regard to a matter of the Law, Jesus said, "Stop judging by mere appearances, and make a right judgment."   In clear terms, we are instructed to make judgments in matters of doctrine and righteous living (see Matt 7:15 and Rom 16:17 also).   If we fail to follow these commands then the Bible will become just another book and we will be without a foundation.  We'll then be like the Israelites in the time of the Judges: "In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as he saw fit" (Judges 21:25).

If you were in error, wouldn't you want someone to go against the trend and warn you?  Of course you would - so, in love, do it for your neighbor. James 4:17 warns us, "Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it, sins." Failing to judge righteously is unspeakably callous as it will leave a sinner on the broad road to destruction (or exposed to false teachers willing to lead him there) and will, bit by bit, turn the holiest of congregations into little more than a social club.

Look, God the almighty the Father of the son Jesus is the only God in the entire existence of this planet to have historically existed.  It is a proven fact by thousands and thousands of years of writings and witnesses.  These new Gods (Muslims, Atheists, Buda’s etc, etc) haven’t a chance.  Believe Muhammad was a God?  Read the Quran!  It says Muhammad prayed to God thousands of times.  A God don’t pray to a God.  A man prays to a God and in time dies like a man and is NOT risen like the true God.  Jesus.
Walter Gatlin

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