{"id":4383,"date":"2017-09-25T01:57:42","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T01:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=4383"},"modified":"2017-09-25T01:57:42","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T01:57:42","slug":"what-religious-folks-really-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=4383","title":{"rendered":"What Religious Folks Really Hate"},"content":{"rendered":"

What Religious Folks Really Hate<\/strong>
\nActs 6: 11-14.<\/p>\n

1. They said that he speaks blasphemy against Moses.\u00a0 It is unheard of in scripture to blaspheme a man, only God can be blasphemed.\u00a0 But that was the problem.\u00a0 Their devotion to a dead prophet proved they hated the Lord whom Moses loved.\u00a0 They would have stoned Moses just as they did Stephen.<\/p>\n

2. They said that he speaks blasphemy against God. Stephen proclaimed that Jesus is the Son of God, one with God (v55-57.) Jesus Christ our Lord is both God and Man.\u00a0 Those who reject Christ\u2019s messengers reject Christ.\u00a0 And those who reject Christ reject God.<\/p>\n

3. They said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place.\u00a0 Sinners love their places of worship more than the Lord of glory. Still do!\u00a0 Vain religionists will enter a church building once a week, thinking they are more righteous for doing so. That is exactly why the Lord promised to destroy the temple and Jerusalem. It was all worthless.\u00a0 That is why he promises to destroy this world and everything in it when he calls the last of his redeemed children home.<\/p>\n

4. They said that he preaches, Against the law.\u00a0 They hated that Stephen declared that the law of commandments was given for the purpose of showing sinners their dire need of a Savior and for restraining the unrighteous.\u00a0 They hated that Stephen proclaimed that the ceremonial law had served the purpose of foreshadowing Christ our High Priest and our Lamb.\u00a0 They could not understand how a believer follows Christ, led of the Spirit, not the flesh; how believers serve in newness of Spirit, not in the oldness of the letter.\u00a0 They had a form of godliness but denied the power of Christ to dwell in and constrain the believer by love rather than law.<\/p>\n

The Word strips man of his imaginary righteousness by declaring sinners are altogether a stench in God\u2019s nostrils.\u00a0 Religious men hate to be told they are unrighteous.\u00a0 God chooses whom he will and passes by whom he will.\u00a0 Sinners hate God\u2019s sovereign right to do as he pleases.\u00a0 Christ alone pleased God for his people. Sinners hate for someone else to receive the glory they covet.\u00a0 The Holy Spirit must regenerate and draw a sinner to Christ.\u00a0 Sinners hate to be told they can not do anything to bring themselves or to keep themselves from bowing to God. Believer, settle it in your mind, men do not reject the truth set forth in God\u2019s word because they love God and believe on Christ.\u00a0 They do so because they love themselves and hate God.
\nClay Curtis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What Religious Folks Really Hate Acts 6: 11-14. 1. They said that he speaks blasphemy against Moses.\u00a0 It is unheard of in scripture to blaspheme a man, only God can be blasphemed.\u00a0 But that was the problem.\u00a0 Their devotion to a dead prophet proved they hated the Lord whom Moses loved.\u00a0 They would have stoned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-clay-curtis","category-false-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4384,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4383\/revisions\/4384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}