No bragging rights

Many believers have a rotten attitude towards the “unsaved” and towards other believers. They believe that THEY are right and they are “saved” and all the others are going to hell and they think that it is their right to look down on other people and to call down the fire of God on the sinners. They say:”God must destroy the sinners!”

I read from Luke 9:51 “And it came about, when the days were approaching for His ascension, that He resolutely set His face to go to Jerusalem; 52and He sent messengers on ahead of Him. And they went, and entered a village of the Samaritans, to make arrangements for Him. 53And they did not receive Him, because He was journeying with His face toward Jerusalem. 54And when His disciples James and John saw this, they said, “Lord, do You want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them?” 55But He turned and rebuked them, and said, “You do not know what kind of spirit you are of; 56for the Son of Man did not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them.”

Jesus came to save and we must have that same attitude. If we want to call down the wrath of God on the world, what about your family that do not know Jesus? What about your friends that are not right with God? Do you care for them? If we don't have the love of Christ in us then we don't belong to Him. Without love, we are nothing.

The love of Jesus must be in us. We read in 1 John 9:3 “No one who is born of God practices sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. 10By this the children of God and the children of the devil are obvious: anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the ONE WHO DOES NOT LOVE HIS BROTHER.” Most believers cannot see the sun shine on other people, on other believers. There is rivalry between religious groups, they hate each other, the love of Christ is not in them and by that THEY ARE PROVING THEY ARE SONS OF THE DEVIL. They belong to that religious group, to that church, they don't belong to Jesus! If Jesus is in our heart, it is not “Us and them,” it is: “We are following Jesus.”

Either we belong to Jesus and we love everybody else and we care for them, or we are sons of the devil. If the love of Christ is not in us then we do not belong to Him. We cannot look down on other people and then want to pick them up out of the mud. We need to have compassion, because we are not saved YET. We need to strive HARD to enter that narrow door. Jesus said:”Narrow is the door and FEW there be that find it.” We have nothing to boast about. We must work out our own salvation with fear and trembling.

May Jesus bless you.