The real Jesus expects his followers to stop sinning, whereas the fake Jesus only expects them to keep believing that he is Lord and that he died for their sins.
Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.
John 5:14. NIV
Unless you repent, you too will all perish.
Luke 13:5. NIV
Sorry, buddy, but there comes a time when
Even though you’ve been hurt
And you’re not feeling well
And you’ve got your own issues and triggers—
We’ve got to face the fact that your sin life—
Complicated as it may be by these things—
Rests firmly on your own disinterest
In being wholly righteous.
Big boys and girls learn to suck it up
And do what’s right—
Even when it’s hard.
And you, sir, are quite obviously not trying.
There are those who count themselves
Deliberately the nicest sort
And who think it a grave sin
To confront another human about his sins.
Kay and I were watching Suits, where it was said that character Harvey Specter was hated by many of the other attorneys in the law firm because “he’s always right”.
Huh?
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When we rail against the hypocrisy of others
And yet play the hypocrite ourselves?
Man was to be judged
According to how he would behave
Concerning God,
Concerning the angels,
Concerning other men, and
Concerning the animals.
We are planted in this Greenhouse
To grow in righteousness,
Yet from the moment we sprout, the others
Start saying that it’s up to us
To decide what it’s all about.
The moment he figures out that
He has met someone smarter than him,
His heart sinks a bit, in recognition
That he himself should be smarter.
Not every true thing is conveniently obvious. And even so, large numbers of people may well operate on the assumption that all true things are—or should be—obvious. It is a common overestimation of human capability, often based on the assumption that what can be detected should be detectable without effort—and more particularly, detectable by our natural human senses.
Here are a few ways it happens:
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