“Are You For God or Against Him?”
BIBLE
READING: Matthew 12
Matthew 12: 30
Today there are
many who divide the world into various groups when it comes to religion and
devotion to God. Of course, there are
those who go to church and live according to the Bible. They see God as very active in the world and
their lives. He loves us and wants us to
be with Him forever in heaven.
Then there are
those who are spiritual. They don't go
to church or try to live according to the Bible, but they are spiritual in the
things they do. They see God in nature
and know that He is the creator and sustainer of the universe. They believe they will go to heaven because
they have been moral and have done more good than bad.
The final group
are those who have no thought to God.
They don't go to church, have no confidence in the Bible, and believe
that God is out there somewhere but has nothing to do with them. Everybody goes to heaven because they heard
somewhere that God is love.
God, however, has
said there are only two groups. These
are found in verse 30. You are either
for God or against Him. Either a person
believes that Jesus performed the miracles through the power of the Holy Spirit
of God, or he must say the power of Jesus' miracles was something or someone
else. None can be neutral when it comes
to Jesus.
Christ also said,
"He who does not gather with Me scatters." The language was based on shepherding
sheep. The shepherd either works with
Jesus and gathers His sheep or he works against Jesus and scatters them in
different directions.
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