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I am always a little surprised to find that what one person
considers obedience, another person sees as legalism.
Jesus plainly gave a command in Matthew five. Do not
throw
that which is Holy to those who would trample it. It is a command straight from our Lord,
to be obeyed, not a legalistic ritual based on Mosaic law. I have great freedom in Christ but not the freedom to disobey a specific order. My question to
you is the same one I asked Judy. If those who sneer ar God's Holy word and wallow is sin the way a swine loves mud are not the hogs and the dogs of Matthew five, who is? If God has removed any longing for Him from their minds and abandoned them to their uncleanness,as
His word says He has, why do we insist on thinking that
God is too loving to ever do what He plainly says He has done?
"Splain that to me.
Terry
Dean writes:
Brother I for one don't perceive you as being wrong on you accessment of those that are reprobated-but not all those in the masses of Sodomites are reprobated-I have spoken to many that don't understand who Jesus really is or why they need a savior.It could be argued that there are swine in this same mass that I preach too-but remember there were also swine in the masses that Jesus/Paul preached too also-Yet they still delivered the message. I feel that you need to define what a pearl is. If -as you say- if it is the Gospel then both Jesus and Paul did wrong by cast their pearl before swine.That I can not believe- so there must be more to it then the simple message of the Gospel. I take to mean that which comes after the simple message of the gospel-Those thing God gives us as a testimony-which we lift up in song unto the deeper thing of God's word. But the simple message is for all as in the Great commission-Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every living creature (Mark 16:15). Bro it di
dn't say to preach it all but the swine-it said to all. Even those who had heard it are still accountable for on that day God will say" I didn't only send one preacher to warn you but I sent many-therefore you have no excuse. Then the punishment is more severe.
Romans 10:21 All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.
Ask yourself why God would do this-He knew that they wouldn't come because of a hard heart- yet he still reached for them. By your defination-God did wrong by reaching for those people.I see it as giving them every chance in the world to come to salvation-and woe be unto those that hear and still don't come-and a worse woe to those that come yet return to their sins. This is my view and should be examined for truth.
-I agree
with your accessment of this perversion, but would like to add that not
all sodomites are reprobated.
Jesus can also liberate this type of sinner as His grace is more than
enough to cover even this sin.
The difference in our view seem to reach into the area of legalism which
bound the Priest and the Levite while
on the road to Jericho in Luke 10:25-37. | 
