Mercy or Sacrifice?
The solemn, sacred, sacrificial assembly celebration has supplanted the God glorifying and unifying love for each other which is the mercy fruit that Jesus commands us to be know by.
Matt. 9:13 "But go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice.' For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners. "
Matt. 15:8-9 "These people honor me with their lips but their hearts are far from me, in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the precepts of men."
I hear man's preposterous precepts about loving God every Sunday morning while the body ignores it's own parts that are in need or, insisting on it’s own way, discards those who are consider “weaker.“ Churches, claiming to love God in their sacrificial assemblies, divide regularly over their own desires. No matter what your song claims, this does not glorify God.
Matt. 15:4 - 6 For God said, 'Honor your father and mother' and 'Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.' But you say that if a man says to his father or mother, 'Whatever help you might otherwise have received from me is a gift devoted to God,' he is not to 'honor his father with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.
1 John 4:20 - 21 If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother.
Will we continue to build our house on the sand? Is your church built on the shifting sands of mans desires and precepts? When the storm comes, and it will, it will devastate the house. Or, will we choose to build on the foundation that cannot be shaken. Is your church built on the solid foundation of Jesus and his command to love each other like he loves you? When the storm comes, and it will, we will be held together in the perfect unity that love provides. What happened when your church was hit by a storm?
Loving others is your acknowledgment of your dependency on love yourself. We depend on the love of God as demonstrated and commanded by Jesus Christ and it must show in us! The fruit of love is a unified body that reflects Jesus Christ living in us.
Don Campbell
Matt. 9:13 "But go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice.' For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners. "
Matt. 15:8-9 "These people honor me with their lips but their hearts are far from me, in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the precepts of men."
I hear man's preposterous precepts about loving God every Sunday morning while the body ignores it's own parts that are in need or, insisting on it’s own way, discards those who are consider “weaker.“ Churches, claiming to love God in their sacrificial assemblies, divide regularly over their own desires. No matter what your song claims, this does not glorify God.
Matt. 15:4 - 6 For God said, 'Honor your father and mother' and 'Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.' But you say that if a man says to his father or mother, 'Whatever help you might otherwise have received from me is a gift devoted to God,' he is not to 'honor his father with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.
1 John 4:20 - 21 If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother.
Will we continue to build our house on the sand? Is your church built on the shifting sands of mans desires and precepts? When the storm comes, and it will, it will devastate the house. Or, will we choose to build on the foundation that cannot be shaken. Is your church built on the solid foundation of Jesus and his command to love each other like he loves you? When the storm comes, and it will, we will be held together in the perfect unity that love provides. What happened when your church was hit by a storm?
Loving others is your acknowledgment of your dependency on love yourself. We depend on the love of God as demonstrated and commanded by Jesus Christ and it must show in us! The fruit of love is a unified body that reflects Jesus Christ living in us.
Don Campbell
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