"O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh."
In order to understand what it means by our calling we begin with our heart. "From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth./He fashioneth their hearts alike."(Ps.33:14-15) When God has breathed into the nostrils of one he has done equally with all. However how each one responds to it is different. They have works as the Pharisees would seek a sign from Jesus. Are they seeking holiness or merely out of curiosity? As with the Pharisee in the Parable he has his works to show in order to justify himself. Before men they certainly sound holy as we have those play racial tropes and slurs to justify themselves. What does God speak of their fasts and prayers? " Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?"(Is.58:6)
So our estimation of our own worth does not count.
So we speak of heart as God sees it, can only by the word, which was with God. ( John 1:1) Jesus Christ, the word become flesh in us is where we are counted as being part of the generation of Jesus Christ. St Matthew refers to the Gospel as the book of the generation of Jesus Christ. "According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world," gives us a beginning. Christ dwelling in us by faith consequently gives us volume. Without Christ how we judge ourselves is no different than the Pharisee. Those who "trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others" are in the same cesspool of their hypocrisy. White Evangelicals or Ethnic minorities or whoever serve as false witness to despise the other belongs to the generation of vipers. Vipers are cannibals and in the church also we see them devouring each other on the basis of race and colour.
"O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh."
In order to understand what it means by our calling we begin with our heart. "From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth./He fashioneth their hearts alike."(Ps.33:14-15) When God has breathed into the nostrils of one he has done equally with all. However how each one responds to it is different. They have works as the Pharisees would seek a sign from Jesus. Are they seeking holiness or merely out of curiosity? As with the Pharisee in the Parable he has his works to show in order to justify himself. Before men they certainly sound holy as we have those play racial tropes and slurs to justify themselves. What does God speak of their fasts and prayers? " Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?"(Is.58:6)
So our estimation of our own worth does not count.
So we speak of heart as God sees it, can only by the word, which was with God. ( John 1:1) Jesus Christ, the word become flesh in us is where we are counted as being part of the generation of Jesus Christ. St Matthew refers to the Gospel as the book of the generation of Jesus Christ. "According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world," gives us a beginning. Christ dwelling in us by faith consequently gives us volume. Without Christ how we judge ourselves is no different than the Pharisee. Those who "trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others" are in the same cesspool of their hypocrisy. White Evangelicals or Ethnic minorities or whoever serve as false witness to despise the other belongs to the generation of vipers. Vipers are cannibals and in the church also we see them devouring each other on the basis of race and colour.
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