మన పరిచర్య వాక్యానుసారామేన?||More On Dead Works || Telugu Christian Messages
Channel: Raja Devathala
Date: 2017-03-06

We want to continue with our study on the difference between being religious and being spiritual, to see what the Bible says about dead works as opposed to good works and evil works. We saw in our last study that there is a difference between the works of the flesh - evil things that are so obvious that our unconscious tells us about them and dead works, which could be good works, but works that spring from a corrupt source. We have considered two of them in our last study; works, those are done reluctantly or grudgingly without joy and works those are done not out of love for God.

Now we want to continue looking at some other works which may look good on the outside but which are dead in God's eyes.

Third dead work that we shall look at is works done without zeal. We read in Revelation 3:15-19 about the Lord speaking to the elder of the church in Laodicea and saying, 'You are lukewarm, you are neither hot nor cold, you are not on fire, and you are half-hearted.' Further He says, 'I wish you were either cold or hot.' Now in the world, there is a saying: 'Something is better than nothing,' but the Lord, apparently, doesn't believe in that. He says, 'I wish you were cold - dead or on fire. But this half-hearted type of Christianity, I am not interested in', and, finally, in verse 19, the Lord says, 'therefore be zealous.' Half-hearted works are dead works.

In quoting an Old Testament commandment, Jesus said in Mark 12:30 that we are to love the Lord, our God. It doesn't just stop there. We must love the Lord with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our mind, and all our strength. He said that that is the first commandment. In other words, our whole being must be taken up with the love for God. For example, when you worship God, there is a lot of difference between a whole-hearted worship and a half-hearted worship. When you praise the Lord, you can say hallelujah, and the other person says hallelujah, there can be a lot of difference between the two. In the other, it springs from the depth of his heart; he is really thankful to God and he praises the Lord with all the heart. But you have gone through the ritual. You have said the right words. It is not a sin to say hallelujah, but it is a dead work as far as you are concerned. It doesn't come from the depth of your heart; it is lifeless. Our worship and our praise must be whole-hearted.

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