A curse on him who is lax in doing the LORD’s work!
A curse on him who keeps his sword from bloodshed! (Jeremiah 48:10)
There is a mandate that is given the Christian: Go into all the world and teach the gospel. The Christian’s response is to teach and to baptize and to continue to teach.
Nothing is worse than someone who takes on himself a job then does it half-heartedly. I personally would rather someone refuse than to do something halfway.
The same goes for the Lord. In Matthew 12:30, Jesus said, Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters. In other words, you either do something or you don’t. Inactivity is the same as not doing what is needed.
The great cry in our country today among the liberals is to leave your religion at home when you go to vote/school/work/etc. a real Christian can no more do this than he or she can leave their body at home, or their mind or the fact that they are male or female at home.
It is a neutrality that Jesus decried. He said, you have to do one or the other. You cannot do both. If you are not doing one, you are doing the other. If you are not serving him, you are serving the devil. If you are not active for him, you are not active at all.
The Bible says that there is no room for middle-of-the-groundness (if that be a word). You are either all or none. Your work in Jesus is all or none. If your spiritual sword is unblooded, you are cursed.
That sounds harsh, and of course, this is written from an Old Testament perspective and in Old Testament language, but it is no less true. Jesus in his passage put it a little more New Testament like language, but he still meant what he said.
He hates half-heartedness. Half-hearted worship, half-hearted singing, half-hearted devotion, half-hearted work. You can imagine what would happen if you just gave half-hearted love to your wife. It wouldn’t be long before she was gone. God will not stay around for someone who is half-hearted.
What he said was do it or don’t. You cannot play the middle. If more Christians took this to heart, our country would not be dying as a culture.
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