In previous blogs, (the ones before this one),I’ve spoken about the morality of man and it’s escalating decline that has sent many off to an unstable and defeated life of want. The word Gospel in its self simply means “Good News’, The Good News as God has given it to us. Have you ever noticed that Jesus seldom, if ever, addressed the morality of man, and then it was to represent the Love of God and His eagerness to show them an easier and better Way of in a relationship with Him? Only with the exception of the religious leaders such as the priest and the Temple captains did He express any hostilities.
I have heard many T.V. and radio preachers proclaim that their system and program only preaches the Gospel, and that being straight from the Bible, but yet some of these, including the Gospel hours, still commercialize their program with advertisements of their own wares or that of their sponsors. What has become important to us? Is it our ability to capture a crowd? Is it a desire to be known? Is it our talent to sing or encapsulate a multitude of would be followers and take their money?
When we sell ourselves, our fleshly desires to selfishly see that we can make a difference, we then abandon the very fact that God changes people’s lives by having a relationship with them. These sermons of ‘Sally be good’ and ‘Johnny be right’ are more about ones lack of ability to understand that God is truly on the Throne and people can’t help but have their life changed by being intimate with Him. But when so many can’t understand a few of the mysteries of God, they turn to what they do know, hating sin. When we seek the face of Jesus, searching for those beautiful eyes of His, we are then no longer capable of doing wrong, much less thinking wrong, and are then translated into an area called the Kingdom of God; thus sin has no more grip on our lives; at least as long as we are in that position. It is then evident that trying to legislate or desecrate sin is not a standpoint that needs to be taken, it takes care of itself with His Love.
Preaching social behaviors and political issues in these man-made pulpits have no place in the category called “The Gospel” and could be replaced with the teaching of the Love of God. Love is what changes peoples’ lives.
Therefore there is a snake in the grass, call it a serpent or a viper, hidden as it was when Jesus called out the religious leaders because of their façade of righteousness, by their inexcusable excuse of what the Good News is.
