Sunday, September 26, 2021

LET SCRIPTURE BE YOUR GUIDE - TOGETHER YET INDIVIDUAL

 


 

What is Christianity – a personal relationship with the Lord or a corporate relationship? Why not both, instead of one or the other, as one “scholar had written without any Scriptural support:
 
                  Christianity is not about a personal relationship with Jesus.
 
Cannot we read the Bible on our own? Doesn’t it say:

                  The faith that you have, keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who has no reason to pass judgment on himself for what he approves. But whoever has doubts is condemned if he eats, because the eating is not from faith. For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin. (Romans 14:22–23)
 
While we should seek the counsel of others, ultimately, our faith is personal, between ourselves and the Lord. Even when mistaken, it is I who must bear the responsibility for violating my faith.
 
God works with us, not only as a Church, the Body of Christ, but also individually:
 
                  The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself. (Ezekiel 18:20)
 
I hope that this lesson demonstrates that we all need to be Bereans (Acts 17) who weigh everything against the Scriptures.

 

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