Pure Faith
The gospel of James states,
“Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.” James 1:27.
If there is one thing that upsets me is it’s when people calling themselves Christian do things that are morally and spiritually wrong.
Mahatma Gandhi said,
As I write this Canada is coming to grips with it’s history of treating native children atrociously in residential schools. Many of the atrocities done by people calling themselves Christians.
Such atrocities done in the name of Christ did not start in the nineteenth or twentieth centuries. In centuries past the Crusaders supposedly doing the will of God, from all over the world slaughtered thousands.
Today people calling themselves Christians are at the very least speaking harshly against people of other faiths and ways of life.
Such people to my mind are not Christians. If they are, they are by the slimmest of margins and are very misguided.
Harper Lee in her book To Kill a Mocking bird said,
“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)...” Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird.
Jesus made things clear when it comes to who is a Christian when he said,
“Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.
By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thorn bushes, or figs from thistles?
Likewise every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.
A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit.
Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’
Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’” Matthew 7:15-23.
We as true believers in Jesus Christ need to be speaking out against people who are not presenting the word of God correctly. We need to be correcting them. Following the command of the Apostle Paul who said,
The apostle Paul wrote,
“What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside?
God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked man from among you.” 1Corinthians 5:12,13
We need to be doing this while at the same time showing the love of God to those around us be they Christians or not.
We need to be following the example of Jesus, remembering His words when he said,
“So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets” Matthew 7:12.
We need to remember the words of Jesus who said,
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.” John 3:16,17
Please think about it.
The gospel of James states,
“Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.” James 1:27.
If there is one thing that upsets me is it’s when people calling themselves Christian do things that are morally and spiritually wrong.
Mahatma Gandhi said,
“Jesus is ideal and wonderful,
but you Christians
- you are not like him.”
Mahatma Gandhi.
Gandhi seen the worst in man during British colonial rule in India. He seen men that claimed to be Christians do atrocious things to people.As I write this Canada is coming to grips with it’s history of treating native children atrociously in residential schools. Many of the atrocities done by people calling themselves Christians.
Such atrocities done in the name of Christ did not start in the nineteenth or twentieth centuries. In centuries past the Crusaders supposedly doing the will of God, from all over the world slaughtered thousands.
Today people calling themselves Christians are at the very least speaking harshly against people of other faiths and ways of life.
Such people to my mind are not Christians. If they are, they are by the slimmest of margins and are very misguided.
Harper Lee in her book To Kill a Mocking bird said,
“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)...” Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird.
Jesus made things clear when it comes to who is a Christian when he said,
“Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.
By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thorn bushes, or figs from thistles?
Likewise every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.
A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit.
Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’
Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’” Matthew 7:15-23.
We as true believers in Jesus Christ need to be speaking out against people who are not presenting the word of God correctly. We need to be correcting them. Following the command of the Apostle Paul who said,
The apostle Paul wrote,
“What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside?
God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked man from among you.” 1Corinthians 5:12,13
We need to be doing this while at the same time showing the love of God to those around us be they Christians or not.
We need to be following the example of Jesus, remembering His words when he said,
“So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets” Matthew 7:12.
We need to remember the words of Jesus who said,
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.” John 3:16,17
Please think about it.
