I Receive No Honor From Men
This people honoreth me with their lips but their heart is far from me howbeit in vain do they worship me teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. (Mar 7:7)
To hear and read the thoughts of many Christian believers today one would think "the way" Jesus came into the world to deliver onto Israel was nothing new.
Subsequently the church of Jesus Christ, as a whole, has lost its way as did the Jews before them and have subsequently returned to their own vomit by walking the crooked road paved by the hands of men with the doctrines of men.
What I hope to show here is that even with the best of intentions and true hearts for God, many Christians have gone the way of the Pharisees, as evidenced by their doctrine, their stiff-necked-ness, their zeal, and their hypocrisy.
Now I write these things not as one who stands in a spirit of judgment or condemnation over any person in heaven or on earth, for there are none that are good, not one, I do so rather as one who understands that we have ALL been given over, by the Father, to our Lord Christ for judgement because ONLY He Is Worthy!
We (mankind) on the other hand, for now, see through a glass darkly and know in part (1Cor 13:12).
How then can we declare ourselves worthy to make righteous judgments about anything?
Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God Moreover it is required in stewards that a man be found faithful but with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you or of man's judgment yea I judge not mine own self for I know nothing by myself yet am I not hereby justified but he that judgeth me is the Lord.
Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God. (1Cor 4:1-5)
My ONLY hope is that someone finds something written here that blesses them in some small way and helps them to climb out of the theological boxes they have been put into so they can experience "the life" of peace and rest that Jesus sacrificed Himself for all of us to posses in this lifetime.
William R Mullins Jr (Bill)
a recovering Pharisee
I wish you all Peace & Rest in our Lord Christ Jesus.
Amen & Amen