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How Dare You!

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Shall I keep the following words to myself?  Shall I be tender, soft spoken, and reserved, as I share what comes?  I will not.  I will speak with a voice different from the current “brand” of Christianity, being proclaimed among so many today.

I will speak with defiant authority.  I will say what is right.  And I will encourage all to “hear”.

How dare you keep it to yourself?  How dare you shrink back from assault (as if today’s world will do you any more harm than to ignore you)?  How dare you keep the Holy Words of God to yourself, while the entire world around you burns to the ground with wicked abandon?  You call this Christianity?  You call this “Love”?

When Christians stood up and pointed to the truth, this world was a different place!  The wicked feared their approach.  “Oh, Crap!  Here comes one of those Christians!”  And they would hide for the fear such faithful ones brought with them.  But today, it is the Christian who hides.

How dare you live your life at ease and contentment, while the millions of unsaved sinners pass you by!  How dare you think you will be well received by the Holy One who endured such a horrible beating for His willingness to proclaim the truth.  How dare you think you will have a place among the holy ones who have proclaimed despite their fears!  And how dare you leave the proclamation to such sinners and fools as I!

The standard

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The world does as it desires.  Try to restrain it into holiness and it will kill you.  In fact it may kill you just for sport.

But put aside the threat of death.  They only usher you into the Lord’s presence forever.

Regardless their thirst for pleasure and blood, the Soverign God desires their willing love. 

As proof of God’s desire he has dispatched his son among us and glorified him for his obedient love.  And now he has left the Lord’s people among those who hate him.

God is the standard of all things good.  The Lord Jesus goes on record to show us personally what that means.  And now we are left among them to display the standard we are taught to love.

We are urged, all day long, to love the Lord and obey his commands.  But not solely for the purpose of salvation.

We are to love him and obey him for the sake of those who hate him, just as we witness the Lord Jesus do for us.

God the Father is the standard.  The Lord Jesus is the display of that perfect standard.  We to then are to display the obedient standard among those who do not know.

Every time you cut corners in your obedience, you teach others to do the same.  Even disobedience in secret will not remain so. Every time you obey without question, you teach others to do the same.  For no good action can remain hidden.

Let us willingly become part of the standard of God.  Let us live such lives that when they look at us they can see the expectation.  By all means let us teach the righteousness of God according to what we have attained.

And let no man think that if he shrinks back the expectations up on him will be less.  There are souls to save.  There is righteousness to teach.  And class is in session as long as you breathe the air of this world.