Jehovah's Witnesses Straight Talk - Forum/Blog

Matt.8:11 I tell you that many will come from the east and the west, and will sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven, 8:12 but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."

Can you just imagine thousand's of years of God's temple service and a religious government that every aspect of life in Israel was governed by God's laws, and yet a person not even of their nation had more faith!

Rom.9:27 Isaiah cries concerning Israel, "If the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant who will be saved.

Have you ever noted the connection between knowledge and a lack of faith? Seriously, what should be correct is upside down, knowledge should increase our faith in God, but for so many throughout the history of God and man it had just the opposite effect! It was Eves quest for additional knowledge causing her lack of trust in God and her husband, so what is the problem?

Rom.9:31 but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn't arrive at the law of righteousness. 9:32 Why? Because they didn't seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;

It actually very simple something a person can find in any field of mankind from government, religion, and commerce. The greater the knowledge the greater the power, the more power the more skeptical the person becomes, the more they test others to prove their knowledge. The less trust and faith they put in others because they know the ropes so to speak.

Mark 9:34 But they were silent, for they had disputed one with another on the way about who was the greatest. 9:35 He sat down, and called the twelve; and he said to them, "If any man wants to be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of all."
9:36 He took a little child, and set him in the midst of them. Taking him in his arms, he said to them, 9:37 "Whoever receives one such little child in my name, receives me, and whoever receives me, doesn't receive me, but him who sent me."

1 John 5:21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols.

1 John 4:4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

John 13:33 Little children, I will be with you a little while longer. You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, 'Where I am going, you can't come,' so now I tell you.

The power of lack of faith in God is disturbing to say the least where God's chosen people would be replaced by outsiders showing faith in God. The greater the knowledge from educated ones in their society the less they trusted God . Many today love making a show of their knowledge of God they won't even consider words of faith they want to dissected words in Hebrew and Greek explained by scholars before considering words of faith from Christ.

1 Corinthians 4:10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.

Those taken in by the high sounding words precise correctness of each article placing, enjoy the scholar language more than the love of God, thinking that such an unemotional legal approach makes them wiser then others with simple faith in God as love. Having no love of righteousness, but seeking the righteousness of men, a debate ensues over words to beat their opponent just like the world practices in darkness away from Christ. Yes! Just like the spirit of this world, not even understanding the world is set up on the same pattern something each legal scholar knows, the same is true of those using the system of legal science applying it to God's word.

1 Corinthians 3:18 Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

This they overlook is the nature of the natural man under sin alienated from God. This is the fleshly mind without faith, the same mind the Pharisees had and taught to Israel causing the very condition Jesus rebuked the entire nation over a lack of love and trust for the very God they boasted in serving legally! Don't be fooled Abraham the Father of Israel faith had no legally correct mind dissecting words into power for protection against acting in faith. No! Abraham defied every legal actions of mankind's mind to offer up his son Isaac on the altar for God.

1 Corinthians 1:27 but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong;

The pursuit of faith by legal mind is a lack of faith in God's love, in his giving good gifts to his children. In him giving his Son Christ Jesus to redeem us from the cruse of the law. Yes! The curse of the law which condemns each of us, without mercy, cursing us with wrath from God righteous judgments. Those reading God's word from the corrupted legal mind will curse themselves and those that listen, although appearing righteous in the flesh they are not the young children of God's Kingdom like Abraham.

Matt.18:1 In that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying, "Who then is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?"
18:2 Jesus called a little child to himself, and set him in the midst of them,
18:3 and said, "Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn, and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
18:4 Whoever therefore humbles himself as this little child, the same is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven.
18:5 Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me,
18:6 but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him that a huge millstone should be hung around his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depths of the sea.
18:7 "Woe to the world because of occasions of stumbling! For it must be that the occasions come, but woe to that person through whom the occasion comes!