How to Be in the World but Not of It | Study the Bible with Me
John 2:15 it says do not love the world or the things in the world if anyone
loves the world the love of the father is not in him
over the past few years there's been a lot of acceptance in the church and I
think that's amazing God talks about love and he talks about us loving others
even if we think that they don't deserve to be loved so let's look at that first
so John chapter 8 so in John chapter 8 there's a story of a woman who was
caught in the act of adultery and according to the law of Moses a woman
who were caught in the act of adultery or cheating on their husbands or were to
be stoned so the people brought her before Jesus because they wanted to kind
of test Jesus to see if he will adhere to the law of Moses even though he was
you know preaching love and so it says that Jesus bent down in verse halfway
through verse 6 it says but Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground
with his finger when they kept on questioning him he straightened up and
said let any one of you who's without sin be the first to throw a stone at her
again he stooped down and wrote on the ground at this those who heard began to
go away one at a time the older ones first until only Jesus was left with the
woman still standing there Jesus straightened up and asked her woman
where are they has no one condemned you no one sir she said that neither do i
condemn you Jesus declared go now and leave your life of sin Jesus is the only
person who has not sinned he was the only one in that situation that could
have you know according to what he said stone her because he said let he who is
without sin throw the first stone and when it when the Bible says that Jesus
bent over and he started writing on the ground I've heard in certain sermons and
I kind of have to agree that people sometimes think that he was writing the
sin of the people who were there so he was just writing it on the ground you
know showing people the sins that they also do and since no one on his earth is
without sin no one can throw the stone at the woman no one could stone her and
the only one who could have is Jesus but you know he's so loving and merciful he
just said he said neither do i condemn you now go now and leave your life of
sin so Jesus just asked for us to change when we sinned and so that's what I just
try to look at in my own life what one person does I don't know how they're
feeling or why they did that but I you know I can't judge anybody for the sin
that they've done in their lives because I've messed up so many times and I've
you know and I continue to mess up and I continue to sin so how can I criticize
someone else and and treat them a certain way because there's sin when I
sin and Jesus doesn't condemn me for my sin so why should we condemn others in
general let's just remember to treat everyone with love and you know this
story of Jesus and you know the woman who was caught in adultery he didn't
condemn her he just asked her to change I mean even in verse 9 it says at this
those who heard began to go away one at a time the older ones first so the older
ones first I'm guessing that they probably had more sin in their lives
because they've been on earth longer than the other the younger people and so
when they were seeing the same that Jesus was writing in the dirt they left
first because they you know they had sinned for a longer amount of time since
they're older so I just strongly believe that Jesus wants us to love everyone
regardless of their sin and you know we are to love people because when we show
the love of Christ to others who don't know him it'll make them want to know
him Jesus wants us to come as we are you know he accepts us the way exactly the
way we are and the closer we get to him we can allow Christ to change others we
can't change anyone no matter what sin that they're doing so as long as we just
show them love and they find Christ for themselves and they seek God for
themselves then God will change them you know we cannot change anyone and so you
know we should just accept people for who they are and we should also
ourselves just come as we are to him now on the flip side I've also seen some
Christians kind of not call certain sin for what it is and not only accept the
sinner which is what Jesus wants us to do he wants us to accept the sinner but
some Christians including myself at times will also accept the
sin and now I'm not saying that you need to go on Facebook and post about you
know this is a sin and that is a sin if you are doing this and you know you
don't have Jesus in your heart and you're going to hell because that goes
back to love and you know no one's gonna want to get people who don't know Christ
they're not gonna want to get to know him if we display the word in that
fashion however if there is a situation where there is clear sin in someone's
life and we're saying that that's okay you know that's okay to continue doing
that sin or you know whatever send someone is doing it's okay and I
understand the heart of the person and what they're trying to say but at the
root of it all cinesín and let's not try to make it
okay to make that person feel accepted because what that person really needs is
love from the church but they don't need to also be coddled in a way if that
makes sense the scripture says do not love the world
or things of the world if anyone loves the world the love of the father is not
in him and so although Jesus calls us to love each other even says that's one of
the most important Commandments the scripture is saying that we need to love
the father more it takes a lot of careful wording but also I think it's
important to remember what comes first and in my life it's the Word of God and
God is first in my life so yes this is a sin but God accepts us the way we are I
hope I'm making sense because it's really hard to convey what I'm trying to
say without also offending people I've seen a lot of and there's even I think a
new type of Christianity where they it's all about love and it's all about
accepting everyone which like I said before it's good but that doesn't mean
that you know we can't tell people the hard things like yes this is sin
this is sin in your life but the beautiful thing is here's you know Jesus
has come so that he can help us change and we can you know work towards being
more like him and I think in this society where everyone is so extremely
easily offended it is difficult to navigate that and to explain to someone
sometimes what the obvious sin in their life is without them getting offended
and then walking away from the church we can't be afraid to talk about the Word
of God for what it is in order to avoid offending people
sinasohn just that's it like you know this it says in the Bible listen and it
is a sin so Jesus definitely hung out with people
that were not exactly perfect I mean nobody's perfect but he surrounded
himself with the sinners but he did not let that influence him he did not let
that influence his decisions his beliefs and he remained rooted in the word and
he was not afraid to call thin for what it is and Jesus was also not afraid to
offend people if he had to if it meant that it was lining up with the Word of
God and so just be very mindful of the things that you support the things that
you talk about that's okay and the things that you are kind of and
me me as well accepting as okay and I'm not calling it for what it is which is
sin God wants us to love the sinner and not the sin so as always thank you so
much for watching today's video I hope I explained it okay and I'll see you next
time on Wednesday for another Bible study bye