Saturday, August 22, 2009

What did Jesus say?

Did Jesus say feed my sheep or slaughter my sheep?
Did Jesus say love your neighbour or persecute your neighbour?
Did Jesus say when you give alms, your left hand must not know what your right is doing or to parade your uprightness in public?
Did Jesus say not to observe the splinter in your brother's eye or to notice the great log in his eye but not your own?
Did Jesus say treat others as you would like them to treat you or to treat others like trash?
Did Jesus say not to forgive or to bear every grudges?
Did Jesus say to gossip and make false accusation or to speak the truth?
Did Jesus say to condemn and throw the first stone or not to judge?
Did Jesus say eye for eye and tooth for tooth or go two miles even if anyone requires you to go one mile?
Did Jesus say love only those who love you or that love know no boundary?
Did Jesus say to give someone a snake when he asks for a fish or to give like the poor widow?
Did Jesus say to break and harm others or to save and heal them?
No wonder He says many prophets and upright people longed to see what we see but never saw it ; to hear what we hear and never heard it. How pathetic that will be...

Didn't Jesus say we must love the Lord our God with all our heart, with all our soul,with all our mind and with all our strength?
Didn't Jesus say we must love our neighbour and enemy as ourselves?
Didn't Jesus say be compassionate just as our Heavenly Father is compassionate?
Didn't Jesus say those who honour Him with lip service while their hearts are far, their reverence is worthless and their teaching are nothing?
Didn't Jesus say the ones who love money and pass themselves off as upright in people's sight is loathsome in the sight of God?
Didn't Jesus say make a tree sound and its fruit will be sound, make a tree rotten and its fruit will be rotten?
Didn't Jesus say good people draw good things from their store of goodness, bad people draw bad things from their store of badness?
Didn't Jesus say do not judge and you will not be judged; do not condemn and you will not be condemned; forgive and you will be forgiven?
Didn't Jesus say mercy is what pleases Him not sacrifice?
Didn't Jesus say have pity on your fellow-servant just as He had pity on us?
Didn't Jesus say the words of the mouth flow out of what fills the heart?
Didn't Jesus say if your eye is diseased, your whole body will be in darkness?
Oh.... how awful to have a wicked heart and what darkness that will be!

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