Zaac
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8 If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,”[a] you are doing right. 9 But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as lawbreakers. 10 For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it. 11 For he who said, “You shall not commit adultery,” also said, “You shall not murder.”[c] If you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker.
12 Speak and act as those who are going to be judged by the law that gives freedom, 13 because judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment. James 2:8-13
In the fulfillment of the law, Scripture makes clear that to break one law is to break them all. So if we can pronounce judgment unto death for another because of his sins, we should Scripturally pronounce it for ourselves too, or else be guilty of hypocrisy.
This type of unrighteous judgment continues to be a point of contention in the church and one of the reasons so many make pitiful disciplers.
We think too much of the sin of others while constantly giving our own a pass.
What a different world this would be if we accepted that because we sin once, we too are guilty of murder, adultery, the homosexual offense, the addiction to drugs, etc.
What would the world be like if we truly loved our neighbors as ourselves and placed no greater weight on their shoulders because of their sin than we place on our own because of our sin? What would the world be like if we treated and loved those neighbors, who Scripture makes clear broke the same law that we did in our sin, like we would want to be treated and loved?
Yet it is evidenced on this board that the propensity of a lot in the church is always to do just the opposite.
Why? Because we favor ourselves and our sin over others? Because we are selfish and somewhat snooty with our salvation and are now looking down on others? What could the reasoning possibly be for why so many of the very ones who are supposed to love as they would want to be loved continue to show such animus and vitriol towards some who commit certain "bad sins"?
You break one, you've broken them ALL.
And yes , I realize that Scripture means that I too would essentially be guilty of the same thing that I'm pointing out. God forgive us.
raying:
3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.
We would probably treat people a whole lot differently. Phi. 2:3-4
12 Speak and act as those who are going to be judged by the law that gives freedom, 13 because judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment. James 2:8-13
In the fulfillment of the law, Scripture makes clear that to break one law is to break them all. So if we can pronounce judgment unto death for another because of his sins, we should Scripturally pronounce it for ourselves too, or else be guilty of hypocrisy.
This type of unrighteous judgment continues to be a point of contention in the church and one of the reasons so many make pitiful disciplers.
We think too much of the sin of others while constantly giving our own a pass.
What a different world this would be if we accepted that because we sin once, we too are guilty of murder, adultery, the homosexual offense, the addiction to drugs, etc.
What would the world be like if we truly loved our neighbors as ourselves and placed no greater weight on their shoulders because of their sin than we place on our own because of our sin? What would the world be like if we treated and loved those neighbors, who Scripture makes clear broke the same law that we did in our sin, like we would want to be treated and loved?
Yet it is evidenced on this board that the propensity of a lot in the church is always to do just the opposite.
Why? Because we favor ourselves and our sin over others? Because we are selfish and somewhat snooty with our salvation and are now looking down on others? What could the reasoning possibly be for why so many of the very ones who are supposed to love as they would want to be loved continue to show such animus and vitriol towards some who commit certain "bad sins"?
You break one, you've broken them ALL.
And yes , I realize that Scripture means that I too would essentially be guilty of the same thing that I'm pointing out. God forgive us.
raying:3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.
We would probably treat people a whole lot differently. Phi. 2:3-4