Re: Christian baker vindicated by Supreme Court is back in court

Originally Posted by
shepherdsword
I wasn't dealing with the issue of the cake. I actually agree with you on that. I am against a LBGT militant agenda that would force a business man to do something that violates his conscience. Perhaps one day it will try to successfully force ministers to actually marry them.Something we cannot allow.
I was responding to how you said RK used a good example. He did not. He used it improperly and you said it was a good example. It was not.
I was trying to probe into a deeper area where often we as Christians will throw stones at others and ignore our own sin. I think it's the real reason we have this battle in the first place. We yielded to the the state and gave them the schools and the media which was used to indoctrinate our society. We were too busy building our own lives and careers and ignored the battle for the hearts and minds of our youth. Our little pet sins caused us to drift further and further from a true walk in the Spirit and we are losing the battle for the very reason this land was first settled. Freedom of religion.
A worthy discussion indeed!
I sometimes think that the abominations we see fill us with such anger and hatred that we strike out without really thinking. It is at this place I see room for improvement with God given wisdom.
The whole concept of the log in the eye and the speck in the eye is often misunderstood. God told us to deal with the log in our own eye first. We think that means "deal with your own sin completely". But that misses the point. The log is a greater sin. I asked the Lord one time about this passage. I couldn't understand how I could see the speck with a log in my eye. The Lord opened my understanding that the issue wasn't seeing the speck, but rather, being blind to the eye. When I was a boy, my mother was way less concerned with the speck, than she was with my eye. What Jesus was coming against all the time in his ministry was those that were more concerned about the speck, than they were the eye.
The log in the eye is representative of breaking the two great commands... loving God and loving our neighbor. If we love our neighbor, then we are concerned about the neighbor's eye far more than we are the speck. We want the speck gone because of what it does to the eye. Far too many times we are more concerned with what the speck does to us, or what it looks like, overlooking the cost to the eye which has the speck.
THIS is the true story of the Good Samartan. He loved the man left for dead. Never once did He participate in that man's sin. But in the end, it was the man He was concerned with. It was the man He wanted to help. When the speck of sin, and death, and the enemy had taken their toll, the Good Samaritan was there to help because He loved the man and was concerned with the eye.
The video of the woman I posted above is a FANTASTIC example of loving people in the midst of their sin without being involved in their sin. It is worth watching and is only a few minutes long.
Matt 9:13
13 "But go and learn what this means: ' I DESIRE COMPASSION,AND NOT SACRIFICE,' for I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners."
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