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Bible Question (short): Are we over stressing the need to repent |
Question (full): Megiddo, I put a question to my children. The question was, if our house was on fire while they were watching their favorite TV show and I decided not to disturb them, would they hate me if they got burned? Their answer was yes. Well, you must see what I am getting at here. Is it showing “hate” to warn people of approaching danger? Any child understands this. We do people a great disservice by coming to them and saying “I am sorry to disturb your show, but I love you and Jesus loves you too. Would you mind coming outside with me because Jesus wants you to accept “God's gift of grace brought to us through Jesus...who died for our sins.” From a previous post o Rom 1:21 I wrote: "... Paul was reminding, perhaps even warning, the Corinthian Christians that those who continued the pattern of leading the same sinful and decadent life were not going to inherit eternal salvation because it would indicate that they were never regenerated, never born again, never saved. ..." I was reading an article that gets to the heart of the problem of dealing with repentance: "... Two men are seated in a plane. The first is given a parachute and told to put is on as it would improve his flight. He's a little skeptical at first because he can't see how wearing a parachute in a plane could possibly improve the flight. After a time he decides to experiment and see if the claim is true. As he puts it on he notices the weight of it upon his shoulders and he finds that he has difficulty in sitting upright. However, he consoles himself with the fact that he was told the parachute would improve the flight. So, he decides to give the thing a little time. As he waits he notices that some of the other passengers are laughing at him, because he's wearing a parachute in a plane. He begins to feel somewhat humiliated. As they begin to point and laugh at him and he can stand it no longer, he slinks in his seat, un-straps the parachute, and throws it to the floor. Disillusionment and bitterness fill his heart, because, as far as he was concerned, he was told an outright lie. The second man is given a parachute, but listen to what he's told. He's told to put it on because at any moment he'd be jumping 25,000 feet out of the plane. He gratefully puts the parachute on; he doesn't notice the weight of it upon his shoulders, nor that he can't sit upright. His mind is consumed with the thought of what would happen to him if he jumped without that parachute. ..." http://www.christiansinteractive.com called: "Bible and Teaching: Hell's Best Kept Secret , by Ray Comfort Posted by: JoeRick on Mar 06, 2003 - 06:10 PM" The main point of the article is that the Gospel has no strength without repentance. Actually there is no remission of sins without repentance. Pastor Glenn |