verse of the day

Wednesday 20 February 2019

Stop throwing stones ( Matthew 7 v 1 - 6 )

There was a time not so long ago, when having a child out of wedlock was frowned on, I remember many years ago in a Salvation fellowship,a young couple were disciplined for have a child before they were married.Such a thing was considered a sin,and I  believe premarital sex is wrong,but humanity being what it is ,it happens,unfortunately it appears now to be normal.As a Christian we are called to be Holy,that means we are called to refrain from anything that is morally wrong as revealed in Gods word.The account in  Johns  Gospel chapter 8, of a woman caught in the act of adultery who was arrested and brought by the moral judges to Jesus.They told Him what had happened, and the penalty for such a sin,stoning to death.,but of course Jesus turned it on them,saying let him who is without sin cast the first stone,convicted, they all left, leaving only Jesus and the guilty woman.Now of course Jesus knew that this woman had sinned, He told her so,but He said, neither do I condemn you go and sin no more.So there are two important lessons in this story, we have to stop throwing stones,in moral judgement at others, moral failures. Next we must never forget that there are, moral values, and when we break them we sin,and that's very serious                                                                                                                    Words that challenged me,spoken by a father                                                                                            to his pregnant unwed daughter ,'' We don't                                                                                             judge one another,we love one another.''

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