Rules

People will say:

"I like driving."

But to drive, there's a lot of rules to follow.

"I like my job."

You wont have it long if you ignore the rules.

"I like cooking."

So do I, but if you throw out the rules, you might just kill your family.

"I like sports."

Really? Do I have to mention the rules? If a Family Feud survey asked, "What do we do often that has rules?" I'm pretty sure you'd get the #1 answer with Sports.

"I like church, but not all the rules."

John 15:10-11 KJV

If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.

The first four things have minimal significance on our lives. But the fifth has eternal consequence.

So we get billboards in nearly every city claiming they are the Church for the unchurched. They range widely in style and doctrine. Some claim to have no doctrine. That's just ignorance.

People seem to only accept God on their own terms. So church after church lays aside God's commandments to draw a crowd and reach a segment of society that rejects rules.

You'll say that at least they're reaching them. But with what? Jesus is clear that a saved person will have no problem with the rules, so are you telling me that once someone is saved in a watered down church, they'll head to a good New Testament Church? No, they stay with the watered down Gospel. They stick with the poor excuse of a preacher in his Bermuda shorts, or cowboy vest, or bling-bling. He continues to tickle their ears, and they continue to enjoy it.

Then we read Matthew 7:21-23 and wonder who Jesus is referring to. In the next verse Jesus says, "Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock."

It's just something to think about.