Man's Ways Promote Sin, God's Ways Resolve Problems

Someone said, "A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest." This is true, I have met many Christians who say they believe the bible but will come up with their own idea of what God meant and disregard the portions that explain away their own idea.

 
For example, the modern idea that we should forgive when someone is not sorry for our own emotional health. The Bible does not say such a thing. Here is what God says;

 
Luke 17:3-4 "…3Watch yourselves. If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him. 4Even if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times returns to say, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”

 
Most Chrisians today completely miss the phrase in the passage in Luke, "if your brother sins, rebuke him," and the other phrase that says; ""if he repents forgive him." They completely disregard the "if" statements because they go against the cultural psychological teaching that says to forgive because someone might be mean because they are hurting themselves.

 
Notice that we hear forgive those who are not sorry, but we never hear a statement to the one who offended to repent. So in other words, the one who offends others is coddled while the one who was offended was punished for not forgiving someone who didn't even want it because they didn't think they did anything wrong.

I have met many Christians who support divorce and remarriage, even if they have not done it themselves. Even after Christ said the following;

 
"Mark 10:11-12
So He told them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her. / And if a woman divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery.”

Luke 16:18
Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

1 Corinthians 7:10-11
To the married, I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband. / But if she does, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must not divorce his wife.

1 Corinthians 7:39
A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes, as long as he belongs to the Lord.

Romans 7:2-3
For instance, a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage. / So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man.

Malachi 2:14-16
Yet you ask, “Why?” It is because the LORD has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have broken faith, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant. Has not the LORD made them one, having a portion of the Spirit? And why one? Because He seeks godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit and do not break faith with the wife of your youth. “For I hate divorce,” says the LORD, the God of Israel. “He who divorces his wife covers his garment with violence,” says the LORD of Hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit and do not break faith."

There are many more principles like this that Christians violate, doing what is the easy thing and allows them to feel superior but in fact, are against God's ways. His ways are harder at times because they bring about lasting and real change. Man's ways allow sin to grow merely to feel better.

 
God's ways are about growth and strength and dedication. Man's ways are about personal comfort and pleasure, which do very little to help people in spiritual and emotional growth. God's ways are sacrificial and helpful; man's ways are selfish and useless.

Just something to think about!!!!!