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Needless Guilt
When all else is gone three things remain; faith, hope and love (or charity) (1 Corinthians 13:8 to 13). Does the world know what these words mean? Love is buying things for people who you want to be nice to you, like a bribe. Faith is believing that whatever you do your going to get to eat tomorrow anyway. And hope is the desire to win the lottery. Those are the ways of the world, this generation.
Adultery is infesting the world. Solomon could not find a monogamous woman in a thousand, and he had the pick of the crop, and only one man and it wasn^t himself. If you have lusted in your heart you have already committed adultery (Ezekiel 33:31, Proverb 6:20 to 35, Matthew 5:27 to 30). So presumably all are guilty, men and women. And there is no cause for divorce except on the grounds of adultery (Matthew 5:31, 32). So presumably all are free to divorce on the grounds of adultery. It also goes without saying that all are guilty of sin and are worthy of the penalty of sin, death. I am being facetious.
I suppose that the Church has to get everybody to feel guilty in an attempt to put the incorrigible in their place. The problem is that is does nothing for the righteous. And there are righteous people (Matthew 5:1 to 10). In my mind, the righteous are the opposite of the guilty, they suffer unjustly, the penalty of death is not merited. You cannot enter Gods kingdom unless your righteousness exceeds that of the Pharisees (Matthew 5:17 to 20). You cannot enter God^s kingdom unless you enter as a child (Mark 10:14, 15, Luke 18:16, 17). So many time I have heard ministers preach guilt to the congregation, imposing guilt on everyone including the righteous. I think this is wrong. I think that the righteous should be treated fairly. The evil should be chastised and their sins exposed. The righteous already know the greatness of G God and the insignificance and weakness of the self.
^This is the nineteen nineties,^ we hear so often. Why is it then that the atmosphere surrounding the explanation of Old Testament Ezekiel 33:30 to 32 best describes this generation? Why are the righteous and the prophets still hated as in Matthew 5:11 and 12?
2007 Jacques Gauvin
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