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- Ignorance
and sentimentality are a lethal combination.
These are the two characteristics
that create spoiled children and political liberalism.
A soldier of the Cross is
not allowed to yield to the feelings of feeling sorry for someone
because of a human condition or a good sob story. We minister
because of grace and not because anyone deserves it.
The enemy can come up with
the finest acting and the most clever story. If Christians are
not careful, they can be swayed by all the wrong things, and
can be easily talked into , for example, holding a grudge against
someone they have never even met!
There is a little soft place that
we all have, and it is a weakness of the flesh. It wants to please
certain people and at the same time control certain circumstances.
Believers who have eaten afresh of the Word of God will be vigilant,
and may feel the sentiment, but will see through the scam.
The most common evidence that sentimentality
has taken over is when someone wants to rescue or help another
when it is not appropriate.
We absolutely, positively
may not be led by feelings in any area. As you have heard
me say many times:
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- God's
Word is more real,
- Than
the way that you feel!
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