“Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.” (James 3:9)
Too often folks stand, with hands raised toward heaven, with tear filled eyes and sing, “Oh, how I love Jesus, O, how I love Jesus…” and leave the church and defame the preacher for his sermon. He preached too long, too loud or too soft. Then they begin to share the latest about the woman whose hair looked like a bird’s nest, who sang through her nose and off key.
The late Dr. Robert G Lee told of the time a lady came forward at invitation time and told the preacher she wanted to repent of her gossip and to lay her tongue on the altar. He said, “Lady, you’ll have to wait for the carpenters to rebuild the altar and make it longer.”
There is no such thing as a Christian praising God in one breath and cursing his fellow man in the next. There is not a partial salvation that allows part of you to be repentant and another part to be unrepentant.
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