Manhandled or Judged by the "Law"

I'm of the opinion the "True" expression as the Mercy and Grace of God is one of the most beautiful thoughts a person could "Ever" have as it pertains to God and a relationship with Him.

True to suggest something that is without blemish or stain.

If in fact you do see stains that would be due to the direct results where mankind and his reluctance towards repentance and change that has since "Man Handled" this message!

Some have even come to express it's depth (if that's even possible) as the "Too Good to be true" Gospel.

One of the most perplexing things I've seen within the book ends of everything today that "Hopes" to also define Christianity is exactly where and how does the Law of Moses and the freedom that is found in Christ fit into the "New" Covenant Gospel?

The same Gospel which Christ, His Apostle's and many of "Their" disciples lived and died in order for it to become "Well" establish in the earth. When I suggest "Well" established I also mean such that is considered "Healthy" and thriving as if a "Living" organism.

Established and then preached not only during the time period of the 1st century Church but also throughout history leading into "Today"?

The likes of mankind's own justification has reached as far as the white House in more recent years. Some that have actually been caught in deal breaking scenario's and taken to task for their under lying belief systems have been recorded saying such things as "The ways of the Bible are old and need to be updated to match today's standards" found in society.

This of course is only "After" circling the modern day wagons that are now only the shadowy voices of modern day "Clergy". Those photo shots and sound bites where the name under fire then bites his lower lip on Queue as the clergy form an "AA" (arm-in-arm) semi-circle around him in a warm embrace as if a public apology.

Because every difficult discourse does have its own context, certain facts should still remain on the other side despite everything else we suggest governs our personal conclusions drawn.

If you'll allow a few preliminary questions to be asked maybe your own responses will also help you reach the same conclusions I have?

Of course these can only be answered by those who claim Jesus the Son of God as their Lord and savior who was also sent from God Almighty as if also the ONE that will Judge in that day?

As well the mandates of the "NEW" covenant Jesus died in order to establish that "Have" already satisfied the wrath of God? The same wrath He describes whenever He is exposed to and is confronted with the clearly understood consideration of mankind's "Sinful" behavior?

Let's roll the tape.....

Are you going to be judged according to the mandates and sentencing that's laid out in the "Laws of Moses" on the day of Judgement all mankind will face?

Would you consider yourself "Stain Free" once you do examine those same laws as compared to your life lived?

What are the Laws of Moses? Are they only the Ten Commandments many love to defend "Today" as if the only Laws that were given to Moses for the benefit and keeping of the children of Israel?

How deep have you looked into the other 600 plus governing laws that were given to Moses as if the supporting framework of the over shadowing "Big Ten" commandments?

What happened to those who also broke the "Law" under the Old Covenant 'Mosaic Laws"?

Was it not the sentence of "Death" whenever there was a breach of those Laws that did not come with another alternative?

What was the "First" recorded breach as well the sentence handed down?

Who ultimately decided the fate of this aw breaker whenever the people as a whole could NOT decide?

Num 15:32-36

While the Israelites were in the desert, a man was found gathering wood on the Sabbath day. 

Those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses and Aaron and the whole assembly, and they kept him in custody, because it was not clear what should be done to him.

Then the LORD said to Moses, "The man must die. The whole assembly must stone him outside the camp."

So the assembly took him outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the LORD commanded Moses.
NIV

Was the breach of law this man performed the act of picking up fire wood? Was it that He picked up sticks on the mutually and clearly understood and acceptable day of the Sabbath they ALL were told to honor?

Let's examine the Ten Commandments and see which "One" of those laws his particular action violated?

Do we find written within the 10 commandments, "Thou shalt not pick up fire wood on the Sabbath"? No!

What do we find?

Ex 20:8-11

"Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates.

For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
NIV

Is it any wonder why today those who have one foot in the Old testament and one in the New seem as though stretched to the point of nearly being torn between these two realms? They're being stretched so thin almost to the point where they're now Translucent?

Thin enough to where light is now nearly able to pass through them?

Paul Harvey was a strong radio voice in his time. His one liner which lead to his continued broadcasting success was, "The Rest of the Story". How true is such a suggestion?

I don't think its the the rest OF the story being told by God, instead I see it as the "Rest" that's found IN the story God has given to humanity concerning ONLY one man who is also THE Christ!.

The story that is applicable every single waking day we enjoy. What is this day?

Today is the day the Lord has made, so be filled with His Joy! The only kind of Joy that He can provide from day to day in the assurance of His promises kept!

The promises made and kept that ONLY His seal of approval can keep assured until that day!

What seal is that you ask? The mutual seal and guidance of His his spoken words which became flesh who then dwelt among mankind for a short period time. The proof, validation and guaranteed deposit of His Holy Spirit to whosoever will in their complete acceptance of His person as their Lord!

The substance of something that is greater and stronger than the mere affordable words spoken from the mouth of a historically proven bunch of liars, thieves and murderers!

The signed sealed and delivered scroll upon which your name will hopefully be written and read from in that day. The day when the Sons of God are revealed for not only who they are but even more the "WHY" they have "WILLED" themselves over to be considered as if the Beloved of the Lord!

If the very breath you breath is not for the sake of Christ I would advise you to reread the conditions set forth by the Lord as if your personal preview of the landscape set aside for those who think they can EARN their way into His Bosom!

THE standard of Love has already Proved himself, yet as we consider our own reconciliation unto our God who is LOVE what will we find as the final assessment of our likeness in that day?

WERE you once a sinner whose NOW seen through the eyes of mercy who's since been given the power and family plans as to HOW to overcome the works of the devil while in this life or WILL you remain a defeated and Lifeless hired (paid) hand of the "One" you've stated is also your "Lord' who now sits at the right hand of Gods favorable throne of Grace?

If you are a hired hand you should consider yourself paid in full once you expire from this world.

John 10:7-20

Therefore Jesus said again, "I tell you the truth, I am the gate for the sheep. All who ever came before me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.

I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. He will come in and go out, and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy ; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. 

"I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.The hired hand is not the shepherd who owns the sheep. 

So when he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf attacks the flock and scatters it. The man runs away because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep. 

"I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me— just as the Father knows me and I know the Father — and I lay down my life for the sheep. I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd. 

The reason my Father loves me is that I lay down my life — only to take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father."  

At these words the Jews were again divided. Many of them said, "He is demon-possessed and raving mad. Why listen to him?"
NIV

Given the 'Right" to become

In terms of Contrast, how does one learn to truly appreciate without it? 

1 John 4:16-18
And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.

God is love . Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like him. NIV

Reality is the realm that will continue with or without you? 

There's a world full of commentary, yet what of the realm only the Truth can reveal?

Mark 8:29
"But what about you?" he asked. "Who do you say I am?" 
NIV

Stating something plainly does not guarantee its acceptance.

 Acts 26:22-23
I am saying nothing beyond what the prophets and Moses said would happen— that the Christ would suffer and, as the first to rise from the dead, would proclaim light to his own people and to the Gentiles."
NIV

John 1:10-13
He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him .

Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God.

NIV

Righteous expectation should be a fitted suit that's proudly worn.

 Col 1:19-22
For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.

Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior.
NIV

Failing to address what is otherwise true does not vacate the end result.

John 3:5-8
Jesus answered, "I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. 

Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. 

You should not be surprised at my saying, 'You must be born again.' 

The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit."  NIV

Division is merely subtraction that takes away from the presentation where truth is made whole. 

John 17:22-23
I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one: I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. NIV

Is a man truly blind because of ignorance or because he can't see himself fumbling around in the dark?

John 3:19
This is the verdict : Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. NIV

In this world the presentation of truth requires the breath of life and a physical address in order to prove the example for which it was sent. 

Hearing is not believing nor is deception seeing what it's not able to defend against.

Wisdom is the never ending inquiry that began by way of the spirit of the fear of the Lord. 

Theology in part nor partial truth equate to clarity.

1 Tim 4:1-2
The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron.  NIV

Seeing is not believing unless you live in a perfect world.

1 Tim 5:24-25
The sins of some men are obvious, reaching the place of judgment ahead of them; the sins of others trail behind them.

In the same way, good deeds are obvious, and even those that are not cannot be hidden.
NIV

Deception is no longer an accuser or an intruder when reasoning has welcomed it. 

Deception has to hide itself in a beautiful Garden.

How long does a man wonder around in the cause of his words he's placed his own hope in?

John 5:46-47
If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me. But since you do not believe what he wrote, how are you going to believe what I say?" 
NIV

True prophesy is advance notice of God of things to come and the reward found, the fruit of righteousness it produces.

The power that's been vested in the tongue is more than a toy in a world that's governed by the influence of mere children.

1 Cor 13:11
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child , I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.

NIV

Prov 18:21
The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.

NIV

James 3:4-6

Likewise the tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark. The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole person, sets the whole course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.
NIV

Finding yourself listening until the end of a matter does not entirely define who you are. 

An enemy does not promote Godly counsel nor do they always dress like an enemy.

The world did not just wake up one day and find itself entirely corrupt nor does the church God considers the apple of His eye.

2 Cor 11:14-15
And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light . It is not surprising, then, if his servants masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve.
NIV

Have you ever truly become someones friend until the day you receive the "Right" to that justification?

In other words, that are not so Obvious!

It's easy to suggest that fighting against God is a losing proposition yet what might that process look like from an earth bound creatures perspective?

Have you ever stopped and truthfully considered what CAN a created being as if an enemy of the Lord do here in the earth that could in ANY fashion somehow shrink or take away from "Who " God is?

Not only that, but in order for someone to consider themselves an enemy of God, they'd also need to know the specific details in order to know that "What" they were DOING also opposed His will?

It's one thing to operate with a lack of knowledge and I think the common sense counsel would label such things as a mistake. It's yet another to operate out of "Ignorance".

For the sake of the word masters who love to make words do the things they shouldn't, what does the essence of the word "Ignore" suggest?

The world I live in has accepted this word as if a verb is a cognitive action taken by someone who knew the truth of  a mater yet they turned acted as if opposed to what they claimed they were at least made "Aware" of.

That should NOT conclude that such a person who saw or encountered the same things then interpreted those same things as did those who "Believe" differently.

How then have we arrived at such a place where the word "Ignorance" then suggest a "New" of different event took place as though it defines and then divides those who do know and those who don't know and that because of what they choose to believe to be "True"?

Here's where the word "Believe, Hypocrite and Ignore" stand in a face off.

A face off to mean, "Would the real Meaning reveal yourself by taking off the mask you're wearing"?

Not to frame God too tightly and in terms there only being ONE true God and creator of all mankind, you've either heard the truth and don't believe (Ignore) or you haven't heard the truth and as a result are now and have been operating from a place that is without knowledge of the truth?

Or is it possible you've believed a lie concerning the person of God and all that He has done?

The Apostle Paul suggested that He acted out of "Ignorance" when he did the things he did as if opposed to God, but he also included for clarity the word "Unbelief" in the same utterance.

Paul saw and heard but he chose to ignore what he saw and heard as IF the truth.

What Paul chose not to believe was the truth about a certain "Man" named Jesus who also turned out to be the son of the same God he once that he thought he knew.

1 Tim 1:13-14
Even though I was once a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent man, I was shown mercy because I acted in ignorance and unbelief .

The grace of our Lord was poured out on me abundantly, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.    NIV

1 Sam 17:47
All those gathered here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the LORD saves; for the battle is the LORD's, and he will give all of you into our hands."
NIV

2 Chron 20:15
This is what the LORD says to you: 'Do not be afraid or discouraged because of this vast army. For the battle is not yours, but God's.
NIV

Notice the following does not state that we are to directly engage our enemy the devil because in a physical sense we can't, but instead because we are believers we then have been enabled to interpret the secrets to the kingdom of heaven which then reveal the "Schemes" of the devil.

Why? Because the secrets of the kingdom of heaven reside in the "Truth"

Where are the "Keys" to the kingdom of heaven? You'll only find them when you truly "Believe" the words that have come from the mouth of God.

Who is ABLE to faithfully relay the words God has spoken if not One who is carried along by the same Holy spirit that is also of God?

Eph 6:11-12

Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes. 

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood , but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

NIV

There is however another battle, yet is it being interpreted and fought as if it's already been "Won"? 

Fighting a loosing battle is never any fun and even less when those battles are against ourselves.

In terms of the knowledge that can only be found in the midst of the Alpha and Omega, only those who are willing to accept that the war has been won can then also lay down their carnal weapons they're attempting to use in a their otherwise "Not so obvious" spiritual battles.

The bad guy with a knife or gun are the easy ones to interpret as if those that have yielded their vessel and to whom? What about those that are not so "Obvious" in everything that they choose to do?

Those to mean, the vessels what may or may NOT fully know they've become a part of a wide sweeping "Scheme"?

Understanding the "Who" and coming to terms with the "Why" you're battling can sometimes cause a battle to be over much quicker and that because you've realized where the strength of your "Assumed" adversary comes from.

Have their been times when you've finally figured out that you were the one aiding the enemy and NOT someone else? Aiding your enemy by providing what some might term "Intel"? Specific details that end up harming you the way only a True enemy can?

Many sets of earth bound ears only hear what they've decided to selfishly interpret.

What many seem to forget is when the word "They and Them" gets used those words are not only speaking in terms of only the inhabitants of the earth but instead in general terms to the "Chosen" enemies of God?

Chosen? How are they chosen?

Through the exercising of their own "Will".

Until the soul (will) of a person realizes it is "Free" to choose, has that same same soul truly made a choice all it own?

When it is said of a child that "They have come of age", what does this statement suggest?

They've realized within their soul that they are "Free" to choose? This type of freedom can only present itself once the apparent cost have been weighed. It those NOT so obvious "Cost" that WILL always "EVENT-ually" catch us!

ALL of the those considered as the enemies of God can not interpret the parables uttered from the mouth of a savior sent to humanity (Sons of men).

Only those that CAN hear are also those that CAN see and understand and those that CAN are those who have "Believed".

Matt 13:11-13
He replied, "The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. Whoever has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him. 

This is why I speak to them in parables: 

"Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand. 
NIV

If earth bound thinking were to overcome the events found in the earth, do they not all require meeting with at least one death before the eternal reward is fully realized?

When you find yourself opposed to the hand of God at work, more often what you're fighting against is the very shaping of the image God had in mind for you before the battle even began.

An image though small as it may seem at the time is only part of the entire consideration of what God is doing in the earth.

As if a part of something He's created that can only be found on the other side of a particular set of circumstances or conditions.

Where's the bridge from here to there some might ask?

It's built from a unique rock God has termed "Faith" and you don't just happen upon this rock called faith. You might stumble over it, but that's only when it's attempting to introduce itself to you. That rock still requires you recognizing its unique significance.

If you don't "Know" the "Who" that also tells you what to "Believe" how can you ever come to "Know" what Faith truly is?

NOT knowing would be like looking for a particular type of rock in a field full of rocks not having ever seen one before?

What many can't seem to reconcile is a God that says "God is Love" to then associate that with the "Way" God then introduces you to the true essence of "Love" and that followed by enormity of how a love that is also "True" functions here in the earth.

Some of the worst battle's ever fought might have began in the name and for the sake of love, yet their ending has nothing to do with Love. Doubt what I suggest, then consider domestic violence in a household that claims God is present and sovereign in the mind of ALL the inhabitants of that same household?

Please join me in a better time and place that only God can provide where we can each be edified in His eternal purposes and intentions for those who choose to believe the truth. It truly is better to give than to receive once you've believed!

Esau, the conductor of his own Train

Things that get said in a lifetime have a limited opportunity to find their everlasting home sw. 

Every waking day begins with the evidence assumed to be true about love and the accompanying woes of life, only then to find the next day holds a new set of circumstances that now require their own interpretation. sw

As believers in Jesus as our savior, how true to OUR emotions are we?

Those same emotions we also claim escort us from one set of circumstances to the next in our daily lives?

If you're still with me in this thought, when it's suggested below "Don't fall", what have you read? Does the image of a undefined weight come to mind? Maybe as if a weight that can cause your knee's to buckle if it's carried too long?

It's never inferred that man will NOT encounter temptation as if it were a weight, no instead the word of God suggest that this person can find relief from this weight!

1 Cor 10:12-13
So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don't fall!

No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear.

But when you are tempted , he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.

How often DO we allow ourselves to be trapped by not only our own emotions, but also tempted by the emotions of others?

In order to hear the true "Rest" in what's being said, the first thing the hearer NEEDS to truly understand is the word, "Brother"

Gal 6:1-2
Brothers, if someone is caught in a sin, you who are spiritual should restore him gently.

But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted . Carry each other's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.
NIV

Matt 4:1
Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil.
NIV

How can Jesus touch the essence of our human weakness if we assume that we as 2/3 mere mortals are not also tempted by the same devil Jesus was? 

And since the same sun that shown when Jesus was here also shines today, how different the following words when we think upon ourselves?

How can we also be partakers in a divine nature if we only see ourselves as if AWAY and at a distance?

Isa 26:9-10

My soul yearns for you in the night; in the morning my spirit longs for you.

When your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.

 

Though grace is shown to the wicked, they do not learn righteousness;

even in a land of uprightness they go on doing evil and regard not the majesty of the LORD

NIV

Ps 119:28

My soul is weary with sorrow; strengthen me according to your word. 

NIV

What course of action does an enemy held in "Common" take while being compelled in this robbery as if after the very "Essence" of everything which compels OUR soul(s) to then act?

Is he only after the results of our said "Emotions"?

Is this one enemy in common only after the net result of our actions or is this enemy after what causes our emotions to run away with our souls?

Who's spirit has performed falsely and whose spirit have we followed as though our father? sw

Just how strong and potent is the truth in your life? Is it more powerful than the commonality and influence of our bodily glands?

Is life only about training our Hormones or mastering a specific PH chemical balance in our bodies?

Such a realm where the likes of psychology would rather you were "Trained" to respond?

Trained to respond in such a way that only their accept-able written code and recorded methods seem to be the overshadowing influence that also "Works"?

Please don't hear what I'm NOT saying, because there is a place for secular (worldly) psychology.

That place is wherever the absence of Christ is and that only long enough in order to sustain a person's physical body until the point in time where "Truth" can enter their lives and address the root of the "REAL" problem.

Please hear me when I say, "I have NO PROBLEM with sedating or medicating someone in order to keep them from harming themselves or others" just as long as Truth is given the opportunity to also do a GOOD work in their mind as well.

Rom 12:2
Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is — his good, pleasing and perfect will.
NIV

Money can not purchase "True" relationship(s) despite what psychology and false religion try to sell. The only thing either of those can supply is the false sense of a relationship that requires payment in order to sustain itself.

Brethren acting out of the purest sense of love and loyalty to one and the same Father of us all and only because we have fulfilled the duty of all that we've believed to be "True".

The thought of living vicariously through another is NOT some vague notion. God desires to LIVE through as many as will believe that He too maintains this desire to do so, yet what would that also require?

Possibly getting to "Know" Him"?

Not that I expect that everyone will like me or enjoy what I do say, but if you don't at least listen to me how will you know whether of NOT you also like the person presenting as if for your own consideration (judgment)?.

Many will suggest that God hears them and there would be absolutely nothing wrong with that thought, but let me ask you this, how many personalities do suppose would call You a friend for any length of time if you were the ONLY the only one being heard?

Jesus try's to tell us when it's recorded, "Jesus wept" or "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful" as does the apostle Paul. They try to tell us that there is more to love than many are "Willing" to look into as if a pair of eyes.

2 Cor 7:8-11
Though I did regret it — I see that my letter hurt you, but only for a little while— yet now I am happy, not because you were made sorry, but because your sorrow led you to repentance.

For you became sorrowful as God intended and so were not harmed in any way by us.

Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.

See what this godly sorrow has produced in you: what earnestness, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what concern, what readiness to see justice done.
NIV

The world would have you to think that it's ONLY mission in this world is for you to be comfortable in your "Own" skin. That sounds great, but how is that working out for those who do believe in Christ as if the very essence in Christ having come in order to save us from what mankind alone assumed was "Right"?

Comfortable "Now" and comfortable for eternity obviously interpret differently, yet it's always in the revealing of the truth when True comfort comes along as if the suit it's being asked to wear.

Are you truly a fish out of water because you've decided to jump into the boat or one that's been caught and cast upon the shore for dinner?

The Lord that is Good set the life of Esau before our eyes so that we wouldn't take lightly the divine nature of such a great salvation as our inheritance.

Too much emphasis often gets placed ONLY upon the acceptance of the Father, whereas the adopted son must also ACCEPT the father as He is so that He too might fulfill the obligation as if the Father.

Be careful when you pass judgement not only as though a son who desires acceptance, but also for the sake of what the one True Father has determined a true friend is and does.

Heb 12:14-16
Make every effort to live in peace with all men and to be holy ; without holiness no one will see the Lord.

See to it that no one misses the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many.

See that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his inheritance rights as the oldest son.
NIV

Lev 20:25-26
You are to be holy to me because I, the LORD, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be my own. NIV

1 Peter 1:17
Since you call on a Father who judges each man's work impartially, live your lives as strangers here in reverent fear.
NIV

There's a reason the church of today looks to distance itself from the likes of the church of Corinth more often depicted in holy writ, yet the truth be known the greatest lesson for the church today could more than probably be found in the letters written concerning the behavior of the church that was in "Corinth".

It's never only been about the fruit. I don't know about you but I've eaten some beautiful fruit in my life that was either sour or bland!