Why? Because she loves me and wouldn’t want me to go out like that. Gladys would have to tell me to go wipe my nose. Imagine if I went to leave the house this morning, with something on the end of my nose. O my friend, not to correct sin is a form of hated, not love. To correct people means we are being unloving. There are those who say that Christians cannot take a stand against wrong, because of this passage. To say that we are never to express or form an opinion concerning others would go against numerous passages in the Bible, and against the example of our Savior and the apostles as they continually exposed and corrected error and evil. How are we supposed to determine who the dogs and hogs are if we don’t judge? In verse 15, Jesus tells us to look out for false prophets, and then tells us how we can spot them. Some of you have wondered where that came from.
In verse 6, Jesus says we aren’t supposed to throw what is holy in front of dogs and we’re not to cast our pearls before pigs. There are those who say that means Christians are not supposed to judge. It is quoted by folks who don’t even believe the Bible, usually when they’re ate up with sin. This passage begins with what is probably one of the most misquoted, misapplied verses in the entire Bible.
#KEEP IT REAL MEANING HOW TO#
Turn with me please to Matthew chapter 7, as this morning we are reminded again of how to keep it real.
Oh my friends, we need to get back to the Gospel. He was called a friend of prostitutes, tax collectors and drunkards. You know, people like that were the ones who used to flock to Jesus. “They’d just make me feel worse.” Things have certainly changed since the time of Jesus. “Why would I ever go there? I was already feeling terrible about myself. I will never forget the look of pure, naïve shock that crossed her face. At last I asked if she had ever thought of going to church for help. She had to do it, she said, to support her own drug habit… I had no idea what to say to this woman. She made more renting out her daughter for an hour than she could earn on her own in a night. Sobs and tears, she told me how she had been renting out her daughter – two years old! – to men interested in kinky sex. Unable to buy food for her two-year-old daughter. He said:Ī prostitute came to me in wretched straits, homeless, sick, In his book, What’s So Amazing About Grace, Philip Yancey tells the following story.