Jivin J’s Life Links 9-17-09
by JivinJ
Sep.17, 2009 4:04 pm |
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
“Way to attack someone who wants to attend a pro life event.”
“I’m sure Jesus would urge him to stay away as well….”
Posted by: Hal at September 17, 2009 11:02 AM
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HAL,
Jesus has not made me privy to HIS thoughts on this particular situation, but I can give you HIS response to some similar situations.
Matt 3:5-8 5 Then Jerusalem and all Judea and all the country round about the Jordan went out to him [John the Baptist];
6 And they were baptized in the Jordan by him, confessing their sins.
7 But when he [JtB] saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees [Jewish clergy] coming for baptism, he said to them, You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee and escape from the wrath and indignation [of God against disobedience] that is coming?
8 Bring forth fruit that is consistent with repentance [let your lives prove your change of heart]; AMP
HAL, did Jesus condemn John the Baptist for ‘harshly’ confronting the religious leaders at an assembly of believers?
Judge for yourself.
Matt 11:11 Truly I tell you, among those born of women
there has not risen anyone greater than John the Baptist;
yet he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. AMP
HAL, you say, tho Jesus might allow someone else to talk this way, HE would never resort to such language Himself.
Matt 12:22-24, 33-34 22 Then a blind and dumb man under the power of a demon was brought to Jesus, and He cured him, so that the blind and dumb man both spoke and saw.
23 And all the [crowds of] people were stunned with bewildered wonder and said, This cannot be the Son of David, can it?
24 But the Pharisees, hearing it, said, This Man drives out demons only by and with the help of Beelzebub, the prince of demons.
33 [Jesus said to the Pharisees] Either make the tree sound (healthy and good), and its fruit sound (healthy and good), or make the tree rotten (diseased and bad), and its fruit rotten (diseased and bad); for the tree is known and recognized and judged by its fruit.
34 You offspring of vipers! How can you speak good things when you are evil (wicked)? For out of the fullness (the overflow, the superabundance) of the heart the mouth speaks. AMP
Matt 23:15,29,33 15 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites)! For you travel over sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes one [a proselyte], you make him doubly as much a child of hell (Gehenna) as you are. AMP
29 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites)! For you build tombs for the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous,
33 You serpents! You spawn of vipers! How can you escape the penalty to be suffered in hell (Gehenna)? AMP
And my personal favorite:
Luke 11:45-46,52-54 45 One of the experts in the [Mosaic] Law answered Him, Teacher, in saying this,
“You reproach and outrage and affront even us!”
[And Jesus said, insult, Insult, INSULT! You wanna hear insult. You ain’t heard nothin’ yet!]
46 But He said, Woe to you, the lawyers, also! For you load men with oppressive burdens hard to bear, and you do not personally [even gently] touch the burdens with one of your fingers.
52 Woe to you, lawyers (experts in the Mosaic Law)! For you have taken away the key to knowledge; you did not go in yourselves, and you hindered and prevented those who were entering.
53 As He left there, the scribes and the Pharisees [followed Him closely, and they] began to be enraged with and set themselves violently against Him and to draw Him out and provoke Him to speak of many things,
54 Secretly watching and plotting and lying in wait for Him, to seize upon something He might say [that they might accuse Him]. AMP
Jesus did not have much ‘grace’ for religious hypocrits who had a form of godliness, but lacked the substance thereof and subsitituted legalistic obedience to religious traditions for a relationship with the living GOD.
Jesus loves sinners who know they are sinners and do not put on religious aires.
yor bro ken