ABORTION - The Hypocrisy Christians Won't Talk About
I AM PASTOR DEB
English - June 26, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 43.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingChristianity Religion & Spirituality christianity apologetics church biblical doctrine bible study god jesus holy spirit bible deliverance macon georgia Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
How would you feel if your spouse told you, “I only married you because I had no other choices?” God doesn’t want us to obey His Word based on the fact that we have no other choices. He wants us to obey His word because despite the available choices, we choose Him.
God wants us to decide to pursue what doesn’t seem to be the easiest route, despite what we think our limitations and abilities are, but because we are in a covenant relationship with Him we walk confidently knowing who He is, knowing He’s got our back, knowing with Him on our side we can face anything, knowing that because of who He is no weapon formed against us will prosper, knowing that what the devil meant for our demise, He has the power to turn it around and work it for our good and His glory.
God is not one who forces His righteousness on us and neither should we force our opinions or even God’s righteousness on another. When we do that we have picked up a mantle God never ordained, when we do that we have stepped outside of the boundary set by the almighty. When we do that we have entered into the sin of judgment.
James 4:12 There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
Now I don’t want anyone to take this scripture out of context, right is right, wrong is wrong, and sin is sin and someone proclaiming what is wrong and what is a sin is not judging.
“Not judging” addresses the human tendency to take spiritual truth and twist it into hypocritical superiority just as the Pharisees had done. Sometimes our pride makes us criticize and judge others so that we feel better about ourselves.
James warned believers, James 4:11–12 “Don’t speak evil against each other….your job is to obey the law. God alone, who gave the law, is the Judge. He alone has the power to save or to destroy. So what right do you have to judge your neighbor?”
When it comes to the laws of the land, violating the rights and livelihood of others, every citizen should be held accountable, judged and even suffer the consequences of their violation. But when we start putting place governing laws that cross into the spiritual and personal realms of people we are violating what God has ordained and commissioning ourselves as God.