Jesus knowing man’s sin, offers love and forgiveness to all. Man in his hypocrisy, requires these gifts be earned.
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God’s concerned about fakers
God was a lot more concerned about people who faked it, than blew it. – Bob Goff
Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.“The Pharisee stood and was praying this to himself: ‘God, I thank You that I am not like other people: swindlers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. ‘I fast twice a week; I pay tithes of all that I get.’ “But the tax collector, standing some distance away, was even unwilling to lift up his eyes to heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, the sinner!’ “I tell you, this man went to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.” Luke 18:10-13
It doesn’t matter
The Bible is a sword
Truth without love is brutality
Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy. -Warren W. Wiersbe