MORALISM'S
Greetings in Jesus Christ our Lord:
Up until now we have been looking at the church through the eyes of the world around us. We have seen the basic development of what have happened to men and women's lives as they have given themselves over to God; but there is in truth a deeper place where we must go individually for the cause of Christ to be complete within our lives.
There is a very personal journey for each one of us to take that cannot be seen by the world around us...it can only be experienced within us... to us. It is this which makes up who we are on the inside; and it is this character developed that God reads in the intent of our hearts when we deal with Him. I believe that it is this character and intent of heart that causes us to fail or to succeed in our prayer life, and within our Christian witness to the world around us.
Romans 2:, 3: both are written about that character and intent of heart. They begin with dealing with the tendency to cling to a law that was not ever written to save us ...only to convict us. In following after the law there is only one alternative in obeying it; either to be convicted that we are all sinners and we are in need of salvation, or by trying to cheat the laws by working around them as the Scribes and Pharisees did. The first way brings us to our knees in repentance, and the second way brings us to become hypocrites. Let's just say there are way more hypocrites out there than there are real Christians today.
The issue becomes our moral character in the face of simple Godly truth. We call ourselves by many different names. Romans 2:17-29 reminds us that we can call ourselves many different things, but the proof of what we are is not in our words, but rather in our deeds through our faith and loyalty. Paul spoke of what it was to be a Jew, and to follow the law by word only, but when obeying the law failing miserably. When we compare our own views to the New covenant of Christ do we find ourselves in that hypocritical role as well? Can we speak about love, and yet still hate; or do we find ourselves speaking to others about forgiveness when we ourselves are still holding things against someone else? Paul begins to ask all of us some very interesting questions about who we are on the inside...that place that no one else has access to except for us. and we will start to explore those areas as we dig a little deeper into who we are as Christians today...I pray that you will join me; may you richly bless God through your life in Him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
Up until now we have been looking at the church through the eyes of the world around us. We have seen the basic development of what have happened to men and women's lives as they have given themselves over to God; but there is in truth a deeper place where we must go individually for the cause of Christ to be complete within our lives.
There is a very personal journey for each one of us to take that cannot be seen by the world around us...it can only be experienced within us... to us. It is this which makes up who we are on the inside; and it is this character developed that God reads in the intent of our hearts when we deal with Him. I believe that it is this character and intent of heart that causes us to fail or to succeed in our prayer life, and within our Christian witness to the world around us.
Romans 2:, 3: both are written about that character and intent of heart. They begin with dealing with the tendency to cling to a law that was not ever written to save us ...only to convict us. In following after the law there is only one alternative in obeying it; either to be convicted that we are all sinners and we are in need of salvation, or by trying to cheat the laws by working around them as the Scribes and Pharisees did. The first way brings us to our knees in repentance, and the second way brings us to become hypocrites. Let's just say there are way more hypocrites out there than there are real Christians today.
The issue becomes our moral character in the face of simple Godly truth. We call ourselves by many different names. Romans 2:17-29 reminds us that we can call ourselves many different things, but the proof of what we are is not in our words, but rather in our deeds through our faith and loyalty. Paul spoke of what it was to be a Jew, and to follow the law by word only, but when obeying the law failing miserably. When we compare our own views to the New covenant of Christ do we find ourselves in that hypocritical role as well? Can we speak about love, and yet still hate; or do we find ourselves speaking to others about forgiveness when we ourselves are still holding things against someone else? Paul begins to ask all of us some very interesting questions about who we are on the inside...that place that no one else has access to except for us. and we will start to explore those areas as we dig a little deeper into who we are as Christians today...I pray that you will join me; may you richly bless God through your life in Him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
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