Romans 2:11,13,25-29
I really love this chapter and how Paul lays things out for us. It seems to me that in this chapter and espescaly in the above mentioned verses that Paul is really telling us about the charater of God. He is saying that he is just, understanding and fair; He is no respector of persons, he respects our actions not our words, and that just because someone does not or does have more knowlegde then another or was brought up a sertain way does not make them any more eleigible for the kingdom of god.
Our Heavenly Father loves all of his childeren very much and will give them all a chance to return to him. Our Father judges us on our rightous action upon the intent of our hearts. It's less, so and so lived a perfect life and more, so and so did the very best they could with what they were given, and it was there Charater and disire of goodness that really is the measure of a man or a woman.
So thinking about this chapter I would say that a statment of principle would be......
Though we live our lives according to the laws of earth and heaven, we are not nessasacraly worthy of the kingdom of God. It is why we live those laws that make us worthy of the Kingdom.
Charity (the PURE love of God) the true measure of a man.
2 comments:
I imagine that it was harder during this time to accept that Gentiles could attain the same kingdom the Jews thought they were "privileged" to. Although in our time we are more accepting of other religions and their beliefs, sometimes we might fall into the feeling the Jews had. God loves all people. Everyone will have an opportunity to hear the Gospel. We have a greater responsibility because we have the Gospel in our lives now. The mission of the church is to bring ALL men unto Christ. As members of the church we should have this desire, rather than sticking up our noses and thinking we are "safe" in the kingdom of heaven.
So many times on my mission I would come accross the I just like the stories of tithing we all hear of in a testimony meeting. If you are paying tithing to get the blessing then spiritual aspect of the law has fallen from our sites . We pay it because we love God enough to sacrifice our time and money to the building of the Kingdom of heaven. I love God so much for they way in which he will judge us. As long as we have taken our one talent and turned it into more than we had first received then we will be a “good and faithful servant.” We will be just as profitable as the man that received 5 talents
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