Why can't we live and let live? -
03-09-2020, 06:31 PM
Every once in a while we get in the forum or in real life, the voice of a person, Christian or not, telling us to “live and let live”. This is always in connection with us preaching the Word of Our Lord to the sinner, those unfortunate people who are condemned to Hell for not knowing or not listening to the Gospel.
So, why shouldn’t we? Why do not let them sin, and keep it to ourselves? Why shouldn’t we mind our own business?
Because the Lord is ordering us to go out to preach and save them. It is a direct order:
Mark 16:15- And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. (Notice it says creature, so I preach the Gospel even to stray dogs. I cannot remember the many times I have been called “crazy” for doing so)
It is not optional. When we see a homer, WE GOT TO PREACH to them, show them they are going to Hell. When we see an "empowered" woman, it is OUR TASK to let her know she is a whore and she is going to Hell. When we see a rebellious kid, WE MUST tell him and his father that the lake of fire is waiting for them.
Does this make us unbearable from the point of view of the deviated and the neutral? YES. Does this make us obnoxious? YES. But we should not care about other´s opinion.
If a girl was raped, and is going to an abortion clinic, with fear, taking on his 16 year old hands the most difficult choice she have confronted in her entire life, with not many support from anybody and with his rapist still out there, should we go there and yell at her for being a murderer? THE ANSWER IS YES. We are not here to be the good guys, the cool ones, reasonable and understanding people. Abortionists, whores, gays and democrats in general are condemned to Hell but every soul we can save is precious.
And there is yet a more selfish reason for doing so, as well. When God gets enraged for all the sin going on (sin He has created, because He creates evil as well - Isaiah45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things) He destroys an entire population, and saves only a few. Not ALL the good people or ALL the faithful are saved. No, most of the times only a family (like Lot´s or Noah´s) is saved.
So unless you are pretty sure God is not going to go on a massive killing blast or you are absolutely sure God is going to choose your family next time, over all the other True Christian families, then you need to go out of your chair and make the level of sin go down.
Surely an app measuring the level of sin could be useful. An index of sin is also of use,telling us when God is going to be done with humanity again and will start with some genocidal maneuvers.
But until we have those useful apps, we need to keep sin as low as possible. And that means going out and preach for the sinners, and to stop them from sinning.
1 Thessalonians 4:16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the TRUMP of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first.
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