Romans 13:9 "Love your neighbor as yourself"
Matthew 7:3-5
New International Version (NIV)
3 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
I often ask myself, how can i help and support other people spiritualy when i myself lack in so may area's of my life. God tell us to love our neighbor's as we love ourselves. I can clearly see the meaning in the passage above Matthew 7:3-5. I think the passage tells us that of we walk around with blinders on and totally oblivious to what we struggle with and continue to commit the same sin's over and over again how can we see and help the others around us that are sinning as well.
We need to look deep into our hearts and souls and lay down our own struggles at the Lords feet and remove the large and obvious plank sticking out of our eye.
The pharisees asks God why he didn't wash his hands before eating and God explains that we can clean the outside of the cup all we want but it's what is on the inside that needs cleaned. The eye's are a direct line to our hearts and souls and we continue to look at women with lust, or view porno online, or anything else that disgraces our God we will never beable to be the person God had created us to be.
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Permalink Reply by Josh Daneker on -
Love thy neighbor as thyself. Love is different than acceptance though. Love cares, acceptance enables and sometimes we have to show our love by not enabling sinful behavior.
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Permalink Reply by Tom Rallis on
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If by "sometimes" you mean our own children then i agree.
If "sometimes" applies to law abiding adults - then this retributive justice just seems self righteously mean spirited.
Josh Daneker said:Love thy neighbor as thyself. Love is different than acceptance though. Love cares, acceptance enables and sometimes we have to show our love by not enabling sinful behavior.
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Who Dow "neighbor" refer to?
Same "neighbor" in Leviticus as Romans and Matthew?
Josh Daneker said:Love thy neighbor as thyself. Love is different than acceptance though. Love cares, acceptance enables and sometimes we have to show our love by not enabling sinful behavior.
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Permalink Reply by Josh Daneker on
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Why would it be mean spirited? If you care enough to do so for your own children, shouldn't we care enough to do so also with others? I know we have more invested with our children and family, but we should also think of all as family. It's difficult to do so quite often, but if we are all united as "Children of God" then we all are part of a spiritual family. We can't force our beliefs on others, but when given an opportunity we should at least stand firm on our truths. God's Word doesn't bend, and our beliefs that we receive from Him shouldn't either. It offend some, it might cause us to lose friendships or put a strain on relationships, but if we waiver in our faith then we waiver in our trust in God. We are not perfect and this will happen from time-to-time, but for us to build our walk with Jesus then we must always strive to put our total trust in Him and let Him work out the situations here for us. God bless Tom.
Tom Rallis said:If by "sometimes" you mean our own children then i agree.
If "sometimes" applies to law abiding adults - then this retributive justice just seems self-righteously mean spirited.
Josh Daneker said:Love thy neighbor as thyself. Love is different than acceptance though. Love cares, acceptance enables and sometimes we have to show our love by not enabling sinful behavior.
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Permalink Reply by Josh Daneker on
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Luke 10: 25-37
Tom Rallis said:Who Dow "neighbor" refer to?
Same "neighbor" in Leviticus as Romans and Matthew?
Josh Daneker said:Love thy neighbor as thyself. Love is different than acceptance though. Love cares, acceptance enables and sometimes we have to show our love by not enabling sinful behavior.
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