Being an American (and making a generalization) I know what it feels like to want things more and more and I want them faster. This chapter starts off talking about how we as Christians take even our brothers and sisters to court, a court none the less that is run by people that don't even believe in God. If we as Christians, ones who are supposed to listen to God, aren't able to make judgement, then how is someone without God supposed to make a fair judgement? Paul then goes to suggest that there isn't anyone even in the Church qualified to make a judgement between believers. What good does this bring? What does it show non-believers, what does it say of the acuser as a person? I see in myself when I would do this a person who wants more and more, more usually of un-Godly, worldly, things. It is better to be hurt and recover than to try to hurt another more, only to really hurt yourself more in the process. The chapter so far what something I never really thought about. Paul then goes to expand on this issue saying someone wanting more and more will not enter the Kingdom of God.
9 Don't you know that evil people will not receive God's kingdom? Don't be fooled. Those who commit sexual sins will not receive the kingdom. Neither will those who worship statues of gods or commit adultery. Neither will men who are prostitutes or who commit homosexual acts. 10 Neither will thieves or those who always want more and more. Neither will those who are often drunk or tell lies or cheat. People who live like that will not receive God's kingdom.
Now I have heard these words before and you probably have too. Read them again with an open heart and be true to yourself. These words are very conficting. If you feel convicted continue with reading Colossians 3.
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