When Peter cried out against the crowd of five thousand that had gathered after a healing, he accused them of:
"delivered up" Jesus (Acts 3:13)
"denied the Holy one" (Acts 3:14)
"asked for a murderer" (Acts 3:14)
"killed the Prince of life" (Acts 3:15)
Notice that each accusation is centered directly on Christ. He doesn't get on their case about abortion, lust, drugs, sodomy, lying, gossip, etc. He comes down on them for rejecting and killing Jesus.
Sure these side issues have their place and need to be addressed, but where is our focus? When we preach against sin are we simply teaching people to be ethical and have good morals, good character, or are we pointing them to the person of Christ? When we think about holy living, do we look to how many times we've read the Bible, how many good sermons we've listened to, how correct our doctrine is, or do we look to our personal relationship with Christ? Are Jesus and and I together?
"delivered up" Jesus (Acts 3:13)
"denied the Holy one" (Acts 3:14)
"asked for a murderer" (Acts 3:14)
"killed the Prince of life" (Acts 3:15)
Notice that each accusation is centered directly on Christ. He doesn't get on their case about abortion, lust, drugs, sodomy, lying, gossip, etc. He comes down on them for rejecting and killing Jesus.
Sure these side issues have their place and need to be addressed, but where is our focus? When we preach against sin are we simply teaching people to be ethical and have good morals, good character, or are we pointing them to the person of Christ? When we think about holy living, do we look to how many times we've read the Bible, how many good sermons we've listened to, how correct our doctrine is, or do we look to our personal relationship with Christ? Are Jesus and and I together?
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