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Jesus also said IF your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. If your eye causes you to sin... pluck it out......
Not EVERY word is to be taken strictly literal. Otherwise everyone would be nothing but blind, torsos without tongues (as our tongues cause us to sin... maybe even more than the eyes or hands as the tongue does NOTHING but utter what is in the heart. If you have not given yourself in prayer for God to change your heart, you are simply as a pharisee, washing the outside of your cup while the inside is dirty.
There is no good in ANY of us as we are ALL in our flesh the children of Adam and so... we on our own... no matter our deeds remain short of the grace of God. He changes our hearts, HE reveals truth to use through the Spirit. Not our own foolish minds, not our emotions..... it is ALL God, down to the very light that is within us.... IF one has much light and much of the Spirit is given... that much more will be expected of them. One with little light and very little of the Spirit, less will be expected.
You can not call a 3rd grader stupid because he/she does not understand subjects from highschool or college... the same thing with the light and Spirit one has within them.
That is why we are to warn out of love. Does that mean it will be flowery and the person will want to hear it? No.... BUT there is a difference between saying to the child that doesnt understand "let me help you and show you how its done" (love) and simply calling them stupid or acting as if you are superior to them in intellect (arguing/not love) because YOU understand what they do not.
There was a post here a while back about a Christ follower woke up in the middle of the night being called to a strip club.
Now on the surface, does a Christian belong in such a place? Absolutely not. However this story happened to end with a woman being converted from that life to the life of a follower.
If you love the law.... then no matter what came of it... he was wrong in your mind.
IF you love the Spirit you look at the fruit that such a thing bore... which is a soul saved. It took obedience and not worrying about what others would say about how wrong he was. In love of the Spirit you can step back and understand we ARENT all the same part of the body.
A foot has NO right to tell the hand how to do what the head tells it to do.... God is the head, we are all different parts. What God counts as obedience to one, may be destruction for another.
Jesus came to be an example, He came in love to SHOW us how we are to be. Sometimes gentle, sometimes firm and with strong words of warning...but ALWAYS to walk in love. Not judgement, not pride and not to condemn others that do differently than ourselves.
Not EVERY word is to be taken strictly literal. Otherwise everyone would be nothing but blind, torsos without tongues (as our tongues cause us to sin... maybe even more than the eyes or hands as the tongue does NOTHING but utter what is in the heart. If you have not given yourself in prayer for God to change your heart, you are simply as a pharisee, washing the outside of your cup while the inside is dirty.
There is no good in ANY of us as we are ALL in our flesh the children of Adam and so... we on our own... no matter our deeds remain short of the grace of God. He changes our hearts, HE reveals truth to use through the Spirit. Not our own foolish minds, not our emotions..... it is ALL God, down to the very light that is within us.... IF one has much light and much of the Spirit is given... that much more will be expected of them. One with little light and very little of the Spirit, less will be expected.
You can not call a 3rd grader stupid because he/she does not understand subjects from highschool or college... the same thing with the light and Spirit one has within them.
That is why we are to warn out of love. Does that mean it will be flowery and the person will want to hear it? No.... BUT there is a difference between saying to the child that doesnt understand "let me help you and show you how its done" (love) and simply calling them stupid or acting as if you are superior to them in intellect (arguing/not love) because YOU understand what they do not.
There was a post here a while back about a Christ follower woke up in the middle of the night being called to a strip club.
Now on the surface, does a Christian belong in such a place? Absolutely not. However this story happened to end with a woman being converted from that life to the life of a follower.
If you love the law.... then no matter what came of it... he was wrong in your mind.
IF you love the Spirit you look at the fruit that such a thing bore... which is a soul saved. It took obedience and not worrying about what others would say about how wrong he was. In love of the Spirit you can step back and understand we ARENT all the same part of the body.
A foot has NO right to tell the hand how to do what the head tells it to do.... God is the head, we are all different parts. What God counts as obedience to one, may be destruction for another.
Jesus came to be an example, He came in love to SHOW us how we are to be. Sometimes gentle, sometimes firm and with strong words of warning...but ALWAYS to walk in love. Not judgement, not pride and not to condemn others that do differently than ourselves.
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