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Asking Questions You Shouldn’t
Never ask a question you don’t want to know the answer to: “Were you talking about me?” I got asked that question after a sermon by a visiting gentleman. I said “no” and still don’t know why he asked. A guilty conscience whispers loudly! “Does that dress make me look fat?” I said that to make you smile, but yes that is also a question you never ask an honest man!
Cain made this mistake when he asked what he thought was a rhetorical question: “Am I my brother’s keeper?” (Gen.4:9). God had a different answer than Cain. Have you noticed that same question is asked in different words in a Judgment Day scene: Matthew 25:44-45 [HCSB] 44) “Then they too will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or without clothes, or sick, or in prison, and not help You?’ 45) “Then He will answer them, ‘I assure you: Whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for Me either.’
Make the application to anything we are doing, whether in loving God or our neighbor. Does anyone want to ask Jesus a question you don’t want to hear the answer to on Judgment Day?
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