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"Victor F. Antoine" |
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18 Apr 2005 01:29:43 PM |
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Today's Daily Encounter; Rules vs. Relationships |
Today's Daily Encounter
1. Rules vs. Relationships
"He [Jesus] looked them in the eye, one after another,
angry now, furious at their hard-nosed religion
[hardness of heart]" (Mark 3:5, MSG).
This was Jesus' response when he healed the man with
the withered hand on the Jewish Sabbath, after which
the religious leaders began to plot how they might
kill him.
Jesus was angry with these Pharisees because they
loved their rigid, legalistic rules more than they
loved people. They had religion, but they certainly
didn't have God!
What is even more absurd is that these same religious
leaders who murdered Jesus insisted that he be taken
off the cross before sundown (the beginning of their
religious Sabbath day) because it wasn't "lawful" for
him to be hanging dead on the cross on their Sabbath.
To leave him there would have broken one of their
religious laws and they would have felt ceremoniously
unclean! It was acceptable to crucify and kill Jesus
but not acceptable for the innocent victim to remain
hanging on the cross once dead. Amazing!
As strange as it may seem, religion may send more
people to hell than anything else! That is, religion
that depends on one's own "good works" or adhering to
"legalistic religious rules or ritual" to get them
into God's heaven. God's Word makes it very clear, "By
grace are we saved through faith--and not of
ourselves--it is the gift of God. Not of works lest
anyone should boast."1 That is, we can never earn our
way into God's heaven. We are saved only because of
God's unfailing love and mercy and by our trusting in
Jesus Christ and his dying on the cross in our place
to save us from our sins.
Sure, Christianity is a religion but in one sense
religion, generally speaking, is man's search for God,
but Christianity in its truest sense is God's search
for man. It's about Jesus Christ, the son of God,
coming to earth in the form of a man to make
reconciliation with God possible for us through his
death on the cross in our place. Christianity has
nothing to do with living by a set of man-made
legalistic rules--such living will never get anybody
into God's heaven. Christianity is about making it
possible for us to have a right relationship with God
through Jesus Christ and then having right and healthy
relationships with people.
Suggested prayer: "Dear God, please help me to
understand more fully and appreciate more intensely
the true meaning of what you have done for me to make
possible the forgiveness of all my sins, and the hope
of spending eternity with you in heaven because of
what Jesus did for me when he died on the cross in my
place to pay the price for all of my sins. Thank you
for hearing and answering my prayer. Gratefully, in
Jesus' name, amen."
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| User: "Antagonist for God" |
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| Title: Re: Today's Daily Encounter; Rules vs. Relationships |
18 Apr 2005 02:45:37 PM |
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On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 18:29:43 GMT, "Victor F. Antoine"
<giladan@pipeline.com> spake thusly:
Today's Daily Encounter
1. Rules vs. Relationships
"He [Jesus] looked them in the eye, one after another,
angry now, furious at their hard-nosed religion
[hardness of heart]" (Mark 3:5, MSG).
This was Jesus' response when he healed the man with
the withered hand on the Jewish Sabbath, after which
the religious leaders began to plot how they might
kill him.
Jesus was angry with these Pharisees because they
loved their rigid, legalistic rules more than they
loved people. They had religion, but they certainly
didn't have God!
Even more clearly stated, they put their traditions of
men over the Commandments of God. Matthew 15 is a
wonderful chapter about this and can also help clarify
the problem with the RCC.
--
Antagonist for God
Silence in the Face of Doctrinal Criticism is Suicide
http://www.ecclesia.org/truth/solution.html
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| User: "Antagonist for God" |
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| Title: Re: Today's Daily Encounter; Rules vs. Relationships |
18 Apr 2005 02:46:34 PM |
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On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 18:29:43 GMT, "Victor F. Antoine"
<giladan@pipeline.com> spake thusly:
Today's Daily Encounter
1. Rules vs. Relationships
"He [Jesus] looked them in the eye, one after another,
angry now, furious at their hard-nosed religion
[hardness of heart]" (Mark 3:5, MSG).
This was Jesus' response when he healed the man with
the withered hand on the Jewish Sabbath, after which
the religious leaders began to plot how they might
kill him.
Jesus was angry with these Pharisees because they
loved their rigid, legalistic rules more than they
loved people. They had religion, but they certainly
didn't have God!
Even more clearly stated, they put their traditions of
men over the Commandments of God. Matthew 15 is a
wonderful chapter about this and can also help clarify
the problem with the RCC.
--
Antagonist for God
Silence in the Face of Doctrinal Criticism is Suicide
http://www.ecclesia.org/truth/solution.html
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