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Barbs …. With A Point

The following barbs of wisdom come from The Sword and Staff publication, 2012, Volume 50, Number 3; pg. 13 (appropriate Scriptures and related articles have been added):

• The statutes of limitation do not run out on sin in the courts of heaven.

• When you leave this world (and you will), it is forever; so you better make sure where you are going now, for there is no coming back.

• If you never get right with God, when you die, you will be dead wrong forever (Romans 6:23).

• Religious motivation geared to the flesh will attract fleshly people whose real interest is not spiritual, but fleshly (and the spiritual life of the church will be further “dumbed down“).

• To talk to people about salvation, and never mention sin, is to miss the point of what salvation is all about.

• It is hard to walk with the Lord when worldly companions accompany us (1 Corinthians 15:33.

• We are approaching the point where we can fall from grace when we stop growing in the grace and knowledge of the Lord (2 Peter 1:5-10; 2 Peter 3:17-18).

• It seems the spiritually “dumb as an ox” must always run with the heard (worldly crowd – Isaiah 1:2-4).

• To think that we must have recreational programs and entertainment to keep the young people interested in the church, is to admit that we have failed as families and as a church in getting across to our young people what the church is all about.

• Those who don’t like the company of Christians, won’t have to worry about that in eternity.

• Church attendance is not determined by how far or how close we live to the church, but by how close we live to the Lord.

• If you have expensive tastes, and they are not subdued, you will eventually find life tasteless.

• It is easy for people who are shallow to go off on the deep end.

• Modern psychiatry (and much of today’s religion) would look upon the value of Christianity only as a “placebo” tool in dealing with human problems (while not really having any convictions about sin, salvation and redemption).

• Proverbs 16:31 says that “the hoary head is a crown of glory,” but obviously most modern day women don’t believe this.

• Compromising churches are ideal settings for hireling preachers, as church and preachers complement and accommodate one another.

• It probably can be said that most marriage problems are caused by selfishness in one way or another (see article).

• The “strange woman“ as identified in the book of Proverbs (Proverbs 5:1-5), seems to be no longer regarded as strange in our modern society.

• Who is the most to be pitied? A child afraid of the dark, or an adult afraid of the light? (John 3:19-20).

• People who are preoccupied with the (public) “image” need to remember that in the Bible, images were idols (Exodus 32; Daniel 3) .

• An inordinate preoccupation with things makes thieves and robbers out of us (Acts 5:1-11).

• Baptism cannot take the place of repentance.