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June 12, 2025 at 09:41 AM
Ever since I started blogging, I can't count the number of preachers who have reached out to me, seeking permission to lift teachings from iBlogGospel and preach in their congregations. To me, it's more noble to ask for permission than just going ahead to lift it without my knowledge. I've always given them the go-ahead. I also can't count the number of those who have lifted teachings from that blog to preach in their church or even write books. You can't go about fighting and scrutinizing everyone. It shows misplaced priority. Maybe you don't have important things going on in your life, so you have all the time in your hands. While Jesus preached about the HYPROCRISY of the Pharisees, He once used the hyperbole: “*straining a gnat and swallowing a camel.*” Matthew 23:24 (KJV): “Ye blind guides, _which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel_.” A gnat is the tiniest form of a mosquitoe. Most of us know it. It bites you and you find out it's very tiny like a single piece of sand. For anyone to rather worry about a gnat falling into their drink, than them swallowing a full camel—that's a serious adage that depicts the highest level of HYPROCRISY and MISPLACED PRIORITIES. That's exactly what Jesus rebuked the Pharisees for—leaving the very weighty matters of the law and focusing on irrelevant ones. Matthew 23:23 (KJV): “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.” For the preachers who have reached out to me in the past seeking permission to use teachings on the blog to preach in their church, maybe some would have condemned them and asked them, “Why don't you seek God for your own message to preach?” Give people a breathing space. No matter how much you try to squeeze and cleanse other people from what you see as dirts, you can't save everyone. Even God isn't saving everyone. There are millions of false preachers all over the earth, God is not killing them. There is absolutely no problem if you choose to avoid TV, avoid smartphones, avoid AI, and avoid social media. It's your choice to be traditional and rigid. Maybe that's your personal consecration with God, but don't try to pass the same as a standard to other Believers. At the end of the day, it makes you appear more righteous than them—and that's exactly where you fall off. The very thing Jesus cursed the Pharisees for.
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