DHK said:
How about all of you. If you would not make such pre-determined judgments
You mean pre-determined judgments like "Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God?"
How about "Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God."?
Or perhaps this one: Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God."
Oh, here's a good pre-determined judgment: "For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God."
Oh, here's a good one!: "But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death."
You're quite correct that I have no right to judge, and that's why I do not judge. But, I have been commanded to preach right from wrong, and I've been commanded to preach the Scriptures which tell us that there are rewards for behavior, both good and bad.
I'm not going to shun something that he has esteemed to offer me. If it's important enough for him to offer it, it's important enough for me to want it.
But, I guess a
really,
really,
really,
TRULY saved person wouldn't sin, so these warnings obviously aren't aimed at saved people. Are they?
"Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city."