I'm studying the red letters. Just the words of Christ in the Bible. I want to know what He really said. I am at the point in my walk that I want to ask, "What else matters?"
I got some of my answers yesterday. I had a few questions about the sermon on the Mount. It was explained by my pastor that if you look at that particular text as a checklist of things to do, so you can be ... I must paraphrase because I can't recall the word he used ... but I'm just going to say "righteous", then you might as well pack it up and go home. Jesus used the sermon on the Mount to show us, here's the law, here's how inadequate you are, here's how to get to heaven - ME!
So, today, I'm thinking (and this will probably change because that's just how I am) ... what other words matter in this day and age except those that Christ said? If we would just hold onto that and follow through with striving towards Him and His Kingdom, a lot of what we go through would be like gravy, if we would only compare it to the damnation we deserve. After all, what was the cross, a stroll in the park?
I know we need God's Word as a whole, but just for simplicity's sake, what if we took those red letters and just followed them? I am fearful that in doing what I THINK I'm supposed to be doing as a Christian is really going to send me to the harshest judgment by the Boss. When I read what Jesus has to say, I think today's church is so RIDICULOUSLY FAR OFF; how can we even think we are going to win any souls to heaven with the meaningless lives we are leading? Why are we allowing the churches to lead us down the road to hell? Because I believe many of them are. We are a stale people who don't have a clue. I think we're all doing the opposite of what Jesus wants and we're letting church politics excuse it all.
Jesus said He came here to divide, and that is what will happen to us - only in this society, I'm afraid those with the most gadgets and technological know-how are going to be the ones that the mindless listen to, because people are too lazy to read the red letters for themselves. They are going to listen to the ones who paraphrase and diminish those words, shaping them into a neat little pamphlet that doesn't offend anyone. But, good luck with those red letters not offending anyone. Thank God, Jesus was the Son who was and is and is to come - because you know what? He didn't have to take anyone's crap. But what's more? In the end, he took it all, so we wouldn't have to walk about whining all the time about how someone scratched our car in the parking lot. WHO CARES, you mindless dummy?!
Think about this, if for no other reason we should be concerned about this. If no one calls these people out on the carpet and tells them why these things are so significant and tells them what IS significant, how else will we ever get their attention? Who's going to pay at the judgment seat when God wants to know why all these souls are in hell? Read the Word. We are.
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