November 4
Indeed, it is faith that pleases God, yet not all faith has the ability to satisfy His righteous requirement. There are pagan worshipers whose idea of complying with the demands of the cruel, demonic gods they serve is to sacrifice their children to them.
One of the world’s three monotheistic religions teaches its children from an early age that there is no greater way to please their god than to sacrifice their lives for him. This bloodthirsty god demands not only their sacrifice of themselves but the murder of innocents in the process of expediting themselves.
It takes great faith to throw ones children to crocodiles or to detonate a bomb that will leave ones mortal body in fragments. But, if the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is the true God; if the God who spoke to Moses and said, “Thou shalt not kill” is the only Deity worthy of worship that He purports Himself to be (See Exodus 20:1-17), then no amount of faith to do heinous deeds will favorably impress Him!
Man cannot make himself right with God through any extreme act of violence or devotion on his own part. The only thing that can wash away man’s sin is that which is stated by Paul in Romans 3:22, “God makes people right with Himself through their faith in Jesus Christ…” Believing Jesus makes man spiritually alive—no one, nothing else.
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