Allowing a child molester or pimp teach teenagers in a Sunday school class?
Personally I don't think its unforgiving or unchristian to deny someone with that past to be placed in a position of power over children or temptation for themselves.
what are your thoughts?
what does the Bible say about it?
Personally I don't think its unforgiving or unchristian to deny someone with that past to be placed in a position of power over children or temptation for themselves.
what are your thoughts?
what does the Bible say about it?
The mercy of God is granted to those who truly stop and forsake their sins, not the ones who cover them!
Your enemies pretend!
Psa 66:3 Say to God, How much to be feared are Your works! Through the greatness of Your power, Your enemies pretend obedience to You.
Yes, we are to fear God! Those who are righteous (doing what is right by faith) have a healthy and respectful fear of God, knowing just how awesome and powerful He is! And we know that obeying His commands is a pleasure, and a part of our everyday life.
His power is forever evident in His great and mighty creation, and in His wonderful works of love, mercy, and continued guidance and protection to His true saints!
But there is always a strong contrast between the righteous and the wicked, the light and the dark, and the friends of God and His enemies! The right ones are simply the called out ones, who have actually crucified their flesh with Christ in repentance, and have a real saving faith built on obedience to the truth, keeping unspotted from the world, have departed from iniquity, and are dead to sin (willful acts of rebellion and lust) now cleansed and purged by the precious blood of Christ, standing in the gap for Him and His truth!
Many today who profess to be of Christ, see nothing wrong with pretending to obey God, they defend their right to sin, which to them means they are not perfect, and struggle and stumble every day.
But do they mean they struggle and stumble with immortality? Being a drunkard? Violent out bursts? Adultery or fornication?
Yes, many who profess Christ think they cannot obey God, mocking His great power over sin, temptation and the devil, they have many excuses why obedience is an option, and why they cannot obey Him, by repenting (stopping) their sin and rebellion against Him, then follow His son Jesus Christ on the narrow path that leads to life, they say Jesus did it for them, His obedience covers their ongoing disobedience and love of the world, but then they have no answer when God said:
Rom 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
Rom 1:19 because the thing which may be known of God is clearly revealed within them, for God revealed it to them.
So the enemies of God are not just the vile criminals waiting on death row to be punished for their crimes, but the ones who make every excuse in the book why they can come into the kingdom still defiled, full of sin and disobedience, hoping God will change them in due time, while they bank their whole eternal destiny on being born a sinner, (pagan Augustinian teaching)) unable and unwilling to repent, and stop their willful acts of rebellion against God.
Thus the great exchange is made for them, aka substitution, where the obedience and righteousness of Christ is magically transferred to their account, now they are off the hook, obedience to them is a good thing to do, but never mandatory as commanded!
Tommy