Boy how mankind has watered down the gospel.
Scripture says we are lost in a sea called the "kosmos" and that we are being drug down by satan, the ruler of this world. We are in a state of hopelessness, and drowning, and we do not even know it, We think we are swimming along prety well, when we do not see the waterfall up ahead that is fatal. If we are not rescued before we hit those falls. It will be fatal, and all hope will be lost.
God tried to show us how desperate our situation is, by giving us the law. A few commands, And said, here, You confirm and obey every one of these commands, And you can get out of the water by yourself without having to be rescued.
And if you could not do this, This would be how you can make up for it, A man called a high priest had to take an innocent animal. Slit its throat, and poor its blood over an alter.. And it could not be just any animal. It had to be a chosen animal. without blemish (innocent)
yet here we have people who say, No no no, thats not right, You can be righteous God wants you to be holy, And he is offering you a house to live in, Take him up on it, and do not leave this house, and you will be rescued from the river after your life is over (eternal life is given after we die, if we did everything that God wanted us to do, obeyed him continuously, Kept having so called faith in him, and walked the walk)
The thing they forgot., They still have that law hanging over their heads. That law, Which they could not fulfill, that law, which God said, would bring a curse on them if they did not obey ever jot and tittle. Will condemn them, because they failed to take the sacrifice of the innocent one, who would die for everyo one of their sin, and rescue them from the sea of life which is leading us to destruction.
They water down the law. To make them appear holy. They water down the law, to make them appear religious, and right, They take the sins they do have, and hide them (do them in private) or ignore them altogether as being inconsequential (I just committed a boo boo, it is ok, God will forgive me, I just need to repent again) as if that repentance is going to equal the animal sacrifice that was commanded to redeem sin..
Its sad, they get angry at us who have been rescued by Gods living sacrifice, and have been sent back through the gates of hell to help God rescue other people (including them) because we tell them their standard is wrong, They are still in the river headed for destruction and they do not even know it. That if they do not repent, they will die when the reach the end, Only this death will be eternal. That they have watered down the law. James said you commit the least of all sin, your guilty of the entire law. And because if it, you are cursed. Their so called Boo Boo's and Oopsies, are so putrid to an all righteous God, Gods justice demands punishment, and that punishment will be carried out. Nothing can stop it.
Either the lamb, slain on Calvary, or their own eternal death, Someone will pay the price for those oopsies, and they should not take them so lightly.
The anger persists, We lie about them, We slander them. We Love sin, and want an easy way out (we all know how HARD it was to make that step of faith, it was one of the hardest things we ever did, To admit guilt, to admit defeat and to admit hopelessness goes against the grain of every human dna cell,,) and we just hate them,
No people we love you, thats why we are trying to share Gods love with you. Open your eyes, See the danger you are in, Repent, and ask God to rescue you before it is too late.
