The Doctrine of Perfection
I've had the pleasure lately of hanging out with a good friend of mine and his wife and well some interesting things have come up in our discussions one I'd like to call the "Doctrine of Perfection."
What I mean by this is this, you've met those people who give you the attitude that if your a good christian you'd wear these kinds of clothes, listen to this type of music and act in this way. There were a group of people in Jesus day that taught the same things, they gave such teachings on obedience of the law that there was no freedom there was nothing they could do, they were no longer able to just be people. These people were the Pharisees, that's right I'm saying that people that preach the Doctrine of Perfection are our modern day Pharisees, but remember something when these people come to condemn you for the things you do and that is a simple bible passage out of Luke 7:36-50 it's when a "sinful" woman came in and annointed Jesus and washed his feet, Simon critized her for this but Jesus rebuked him for rebuking her because she had done such a beautiful thing. He on many occasions has critized the Pharisees harshly and called them hypocrits because of what they taught and then went out and did. Another example with this is in John 8:1-11 when a prostitute caught in the act was brought before Jesus and he said "let he who has not sinned throw the first stone" then later he says "woman where are they? has no one condemned you?" "no one sir," she said. "then neither do I condemn you, go now and leave your life of sin." How powerful this is!!! Jesus would not even condemn a prostitute yet people in our churches today condemn people for listening to music and wearing clothes that they have deemed "unacceptable". I do not believe that Jesus would stand there and condemn these people, he would sit with them and talk with them and heal them of their broken spirits. He hung out with the dirty, sinful and unclean the people who the higher order of the Jews had thrown away as unclean and he made them all clean. So whenever you encounter someone teaching the Doctrine of Perfection remember this "realize that it was a prostitute who annointed Jesus and washed his feet, not those doing the 'right' things."
Have a good one all.
What I mean by this is this, you've met those people who give you the attitude that if your a good christian you'd wear these kinds of clothes, listen to this type of music and act in this way. There were a group of people in Jesus day that taught the same things, they gave such teachings on obedience of the law that there was no freedom there was nothing they could do, they were no longer able to just be people. These people were the Pharisees, that's right I'm saying that people that preach the Doctrine of Perfection are our modern day Pharisees, but remember something when these people come to condemn you for the things you do and that is a simple bible passage out of Luke 7:36-50 it's when a "sinful" woman came in and annointed Jesus and washed his feet, Simon critized her for this but Jesus rebuked him for rebuking her because she had done such a beautiful thing. He on many occasions has critized the Pharisees harshly and called them hypocrits because of what they taught and then went out and did. Another example with this is in John 8:1-11 when a prostitute caught in the act was brought before Jesus and he said "let he who has not sinned throw the first stone" then later he says "woman where are they? has no one condemned you?" "no one sir," she said. "then neither do I condemn you, go now and leave your life of sin." How powerful this is!!! Jesus would not even condemn a prostitute yet people in our churches today condemn people for listening to music and wearing clothes that they have deemed "unacceptable". I do not believe that Jesus would stand there and condemn these people, he would sit with them and talk with them and heal them of their broken spirits. He hung out with the dirty, sinful and unclean the people who the higher order of the Jews had thrown away as unclean and he made them all clean. So whenever you encounter someone teaching the Doctrine of Perfection remember this "realize that it was a prostitute who annointed Jesus and washed his feet, not those doing the 'right' things."
Have a good one all.
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