FEBRUARY 16 THE JESUS QUESTIONS
JQ#04
“And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye,
but do not consider the plank in your own eye?”
(Matthew 7:3)
LIVING FOR JESUS Daily Prayer
JESUS, Lord this is my prayer of thanksgiving — of all the things that I could
be doing and all the places that I could go, I have chosen to start each and
every day by writing the Name above all names — JESUS!
Lord, over the years as I have tried virtually every thing under the sun,
nothing has ever given me peace nor made me a better person than
calling on the Name of Jesus!
There is Truth and there is Hope,
and there is the Assurance that what God says He Will Do, He Does —
Lord, Your Word is Holy and Your Way is the True Path of Righteousness
so I pray for Your Guidance and Your Presence to lead me forward
keeping my eyes on Your Glory.
AMEN
THE JESUS QUESTIONS
JESUS started this section by giving us a command to
“Judge not…” (Matthew 7:1a)
and there is a gnawing in my spirit that is linking this command to today’s
new age definition of “tolerance”. Like so many other words used to control
our thought process (by whoever it is that thinks that the average man
cannot think for himself) the new meaning of “tolerance” does not carry
the same meaning that I grew up with. These verses from the Holy Bible
are being used against Christians in this new age of “tolerance” as we
are accused of being “intolerant” if we don’t accept people that have made
different life choices than we as Christians have made under the guidance
of the Holy Spirit and living a life as commanded by God Himself.
When we look at “tolerating” people, the new age definition has rewritten
the definition to mean that we completely accept them without passing
“judgment” on them and we have been led to believe that “total acceptance”
is the “right thing” to do and they are using this command from Jesus
“not to judge others” as proof that Jesus would have accepted them.
The problem I have with that thinking
is that if we “tolerate” the ungodly
as defined by God Himself
then we are putting man’s definition of
“tolerance” above the Godly Moral Standard!?!?!
By accepting the world’s definitions generated by men then we have
effectively made “Tolerance” our “new god” as we substitute God’s Moral Standard
of “do not judge” with new age “total acceptance” of every type of behavior
in the name of “new age tolerance”!
What is being overlooked in this
passage IS THAT GOD IS NOT SAYING
that the sinner will “not be judged”,
God is saying that we are to leave the “judging”
to the Fair, All Knowing God
who is the Righteous JUDGE of ALL!
We are to study what God declares as “Moral or immoral”
and we are to “tolerate” what God “tolerates”,
not by what moral standards man thinks
God should “tolerate” —
for everything THAT God does NOT “tolerate”,
GOD DECLARES is an ABOMINATION!
The “new age” definition of “tolerance” would leave us to believe that God
has changed His mind about what behaviors are “abominations” —
in reality God is saying that we are
“to leave judging others to Him
and we should accept
His judgement as our standard”!!
So if God writes in His Holy Word
that homosexual behavior is an “abomination”
then we should take God at His Word
instead of “caving in” to some
New Age definition of “tolerance”!
We have allowed our society to crawl
out onto a very slippery slope by “accepting” without question
these new age definitions that are being imposed on our social philosophy.
Two instances: (1) Abortion and (2) Same-sex marriages.
When did we as a society drop our Moral Standards based on
God’s Holy Word and allow a government appointed representative
body of 9 people (all lawyers) to decide what is “morally acceptable”
by a simple majority of as little as 5 people and to declare what
is “legal” behavior for millions of people?
We as a society have allowed the establishment of a new godhead in the
government that is “appointed” by the sitting administration and we are
letting them use whatever “politically correct” standard they chose to
establish as “morally acceptable” for our entire society?!
“The LORD is the everlasting God,
the creator of the ends of the earth…”
(Isaiah 40:28)
and yet the government in their thirst for “power and control” will soon
be passing legislation to outlaw the use of God’s Moral Standard and new laws
will be written to support this new age moral standard based on this new age
definition of “Tolerance”! Talk about a “double standard” —they will outlaw
the Bible first (using the separation of Church and State) but then use
the Bible (by quoting Jesus saying “judge not” taken completely out of context)
to justify their new “Tolerance” law because Jesus said “Judge not…” !?!?!
This discourse on letting the world establish the Moral Standard is in my opinion
the result of Christians “… giving what is holy to the dogs…” and
“casting our pearls before swine” because I see the future of Christians
(if we stay on this slippery slope) “trampled under [the government’s feet]”
as they “turn and tear [Christians] to pieces…” (Matthew 7:6)
Surely we must “educate” our government that “judge not” is to be
applied to “everyone that is not God”, and that includes the entire
government, for the government is NOT GOD,
the government is elected
and appointed BY OTHER MEN!
If we abandon
GOD’S MORAL STANDARD
and replace it with an “majority opinion” from
the “supreme court” (which is
comprised of “justices appointed (by man)”,
a 5-4 decision that our society cannot use
God’s Moral Standard to make laws,
THEN THERE IS NO JUSTICE!!!
