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I truly want to be a follower of Christ, and I’m trying my best to follow his commandments. But, it is so hard! Especially when you realize how terrible every single human being is on this earth! Trying to love those classmates that constantly promote sim and lust, those politicians taking advantage of their citizens and trying to have full control over them, the people with other religions which statistics show they flee to another country and then start committing terrorist attacks so that they can display their false gods! I’m just tired of everyone! I don’t even know how Jesus is capable of loving all of us! But I need help, cause I want to love everyone as much as I can, even when it is hard and they don’t show you respect
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The very purpose for which one believes in God is what matters most. If one’s faith is centered on seeking only personal blessings, success, ambitions, comfort, and prosperity according to the desires of the flesh and the world—if throughout one’s life one continually prays only for worldly family problems, business issues, relationship troubles, workplace concerns, children’s matters, success, or health—then no matter how much that person claims to believe in God, and even if they pray in the name of Christ, such prayers are nothing but vain, carnal prayers driven by human lusts. They live as if they are true Christians, yet they do not live a life that follows the love of God—the love that sacrifices even one’s own life.
Today, nearly all religions and nearly all Christians place moral lessons and emotional inspiration at the forefront. But human morality and ethics are teachings that arise from human determination, willpower, and self-reliance—not from the truth of God. Truth is the divine law rooted in God’s righteousness, justice, faithfulness, and equity. Moral standards, however, vary from person to person depending on environment, upbringing, and experience.
For example, if we say, “Let us be good children” or “Let us be diligent people,”the standard for goodness or diligence will differ for each person. No one can define precisely how much effort or to what extent diligence must be practiced in a way that everyone will agree. Thus, conflict is unavoidable. This is why many people elevate their own moral standards and raise their own voices—because morality is based on human standards that shift from one person to another. Therefore, religious people and Christians who rely on human morality inevitably end up betraying the words of Scripture.
Their faith becomes no different from the lives of worldly people who justify themselves with vague and subjective moral standards. Likewise, most pastors today preach moral values rather than truth. Consequently, Christians have become conditioned not by Scripture, but by morality—and this is the tragic reality of modern Christianity. A faith built on human morality—on self-awakenings, resolutions, and determinations—is not the faith of Christ. Because such preaching only combines worldly moral lessons with emotional inspiration, people end up relying on their own strength, repeating self-determination and self-reform, and therefore can never escape the evil habits of sin that keep repeating throughout their entire lives.
Sermons based on human moral values are teachings of men—they stimulate human emotion and produce human inspiration, not truth. Truth is not a momentary emotional stirring that inflates the heart like yeast. Truth is what leads us to receive divine wisdom and the power of God—the love poured into the heart—that enables us to overcome sin. In other words, teachings that stir human emotion, awaken human resolve, or strengthen human will—all of these are moral values, not the truth of God. The truth of God is the divine power manifested in His love—a power strong enough to put to death the human limits, evil habits, fallen nature, and sinful body that can only repeat sin.
Any sermon that cannot lead people to receive this divine power and wisdom, but only promotes words, theories, morality, or emotion, is nothing but moral leaven. A faith that pursues morality disguised as truth can never escape the bondage of sin. It can only repeat sin for a lifetime, because it relies on human determination, awakening, and self-confidence. If you are still repeating sin today, then you are merely a slave being dragged by moral teachings disguised as truth—not a child of truth who lives in the love of God. Wisdom that stirs emotion is not the truth of God. God works only through a good conscience, for God is love revealed through a pure and upright heart.
Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.(Romans 1 : 21~25)
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world….(1 John 2 : 15~17)
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.(James 4 : 3~4)
Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.(Hebrews 12 : 16~17)
Scripture teaches us not to seek our own worldly and fleshly blessings—the kind of repentance that, like Esau, can never lead to true transformation. It also commands us not to live a fleshly life driven by the nature of the body, as the people of the world do.
The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.(2 Peter 2 : 9~10)
Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.(Ecclesiastes 11 : 9~10)
From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.(Pslams 17 : 14)
Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!(Isaiah 5 : 8)