Don’t waste what is holy on people who are unholy. Don’t throw your pearls to pigs! They will trample the pearls, then turn and attack you. (Matthew 7:6)Someone once said, don’t open a brothel with a prayer.
There are some things you cannot sanctify, no matter how much you want to. There are some things that God will not bless. Things may turn out all right with them, but it will not be the blessings of God that cause it to do so, it will just be chance.
There are some people that you cannot talk to. They will not listen. And not only will they not listen, they will ridicule to the point that it becomes counter-productive to even try to talk to them.
Jesus knew this. There were a couple of instances when he knew that there was no point in even speaking. One was with Herod at his “trial.” Herod wanted nothing more than a miracle. He wanted to see something that Jesus had done for everybody else. It is not that he would believe, but that he would be entertained.
It infuriated him finally that Jesus would not even speak to him. For one thing, Jesus had nothing to say to Herod. He knew things were going to go the way they were going to go no matter what kind of miracle he did anyway. So what was the point? To give in to Herod was to debase the power God had given Jesus and turn it in into entertainment.
That is one reason Hollywood cannot understand the power of God. They see it as purely superficial with none of the reality behind it. That is also why movies about Jesus and about Christianity are always foolish. The things God said are the pearls, Hollywood is the swine. They cannot understand it.
And, of course, since they cannot understand it, they make fun of it, ridicule it. In such an atmosphere, a Christian has difficulty doing anything, just as Jesus did. It is pointless. You are throwing something great and valuable to dogs for them to play with, something wonderful to pigs for them to eat.
That isn’t to say that we do not preach the gospel unless people are begging us to. But there are times when it is worthless to try.
In those instances all we can do is to live our lives in such a way that people can see who and what we are. Our lives have to be our words.
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