Part III: Do I Pick and Choose

Text: 2 Samuel 11:4
Bathsheba came to David, and he slept with her. (She had purified herself from her uncleanness.) Then she went back home.

Well, we see they were concerned with keeping the Law … at least the part about washing properly.

But what about …“You shall not commit adultery.”
Or …
“You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife.”

It’s so easy for them to pick and choose the commands they want to follow and those that they want to ignore - giving the appearance that they are covenant people but actually just serving themselves.

“You are like whitewashed tombs, beautiful on the outside but full of dead men's bones. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.” Matthew 23:27-28

“Be on your guard against hypocrisy. There is nothing hidden that will not be made known. What you have said in the dark will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whispered in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed from the roofs.” Luke 12:1-3

“People will be lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God - having a form of godliness but denying its power … ” 2 Timothy 3:4-5

~ Is it easy for me to pick and choose the commands I want to follow? What pieces of God’s laws am I choosing to ignore? ~

--from Wednesday's class, Oct. 17