Tag: morality

“This people honors me with their lips,
but their heart is far from me.

They worship me in vain,
teaching as doctrines human commands.”

Abandoning the command of God, you hold on to human tradition…You have a fine way of invalidating God’s command in order to set up your tradition!” (Mark 7:6-9)

It’s hard not to look at Jesus’ words and think about current culture, especially among those claiming to be Christians.

More and more people who claim to be Christians honor God with their lips, claiming to love God and follow him, but have abandoned God’s commands when it comes to morality.

They invalidate God’s commands in order to set up their own morality, teaching as doctrines what the world teaches.

This is becoming increasingly true when it comes to issues of sexual morality and gender. More and more people are abandoning God’s teaching on these issues to embrace the world’s.

More, they twist God’s clear teaching to make it match the world’s.

Jesus made it very clear his opinion of those who would do such a thing.

You cannot claim to honor and love God while at the same time abandoning his commands and following the teaching of the world.

Do you honor God with your lips while rejecting what he commands?

Or does your heart truly belong to him?