BIBLICAL FATHERHOOD--THE GREAT NEED OF THE WORLD 11gg ) THE SHEPHERDING FATHER LOVES A CLEAN HOUSE continued again

Men, we must not excuse sin by an unbalanced doctrine of grace. We do ourselves a lot of harm by not taking a strong stand against all sin, whether physical, mental, or spiritual.

There are some preachers who are in error because of their desire to correct the unloving, judgmental, and "hell-fire and brimstone" preachers of the past who revealed no evidence of the love of God. This love was revealed through Jesus when He spoke to the woman taken in adultery (John 8:3-12) and also the Samaritan woman at the well who had five husbands and the one she was living with was not her husband (John 4:7-30). Unfortunately they have swung the balance in the other direction which is also a great deception which I believe, according to Scripture, is just as wrong as the other.

Paul makes it clear in 1 Corinthians 6:9, "Know ye not that the unrighteous SHALL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God."

Jesus also said in Matthew 7:13-14, "Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it."

Be encouraged.

Colin Campbell