A Jealous God
by Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
We heartily thank God for every politician, athlete, actor or even criminal who
comes to know Christ as Savior. But conversion alone does not qualify one for a
place of prominence in Christian service. This, especially in Paul’s epistles,
is reserved for mature believers, wholly separated to God and established in
the truth (See especially II Tim. 2:21).
When hearts beat faster because of the presence of some glamorous personality
on the Christian platform; when such personalities receive adulation which
belongs rather to the Christ who died for them, God is dishonored and
displeased.
True, the motive in procuring such "crowd-getters" may have been to
reach greater numbers for Christ, just as some of our spiritual leaders become
yoked together with apostate unbelievers in evangelistic endeavors in order to
reach souls for Christ, but the end does not justify the means. It is never
right to do wrong to accomplish some good end.
Have we forgotten that God’s Word says: "I the Lord thy God am a jealous
God" (Ex 20:5) and "I will not give My glory unto another" (Isa
48:11)? True we quote here from the Ten Commandments, but remember, Paul in his
epistles quotes all the Ten Commandments except one (re the sabbath). The covenant
of the Law has been done away but not the moral law itself, and God is the only
Being who has legitimate and urgent reason to be jealous of His glory.
Christian leaders are playing a dangerous game when they give glory due to God
alone to prominent personalities so as to swell their audiences.
It is time for the Church to realize that salvation is the work of God and that
true and lasting results will follow only when we conduct His work in His way.
How God
Saves Men
Believing Christ
DIED, that’s HISTORY.
Believing Christ
DIED for YOU SINS and Rose again that’s SALVATION.
Read Romans
1:16, Romans 10:9-10 and 1. Corinthians 15:1-4
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