"This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; vs7. in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men" Mark7:6b-7.
In this passage Christ quotes the prophet Isaiah on talking about the people of His day. But, if we survey the landscape of the church could we not see the same thing. Indeed we have many that merely pay lip-service to Jesus Christ and their lives are completely void of any sanctification induced holiness. On the other extreme are the law only crowd who teach their standards as Scripture neglecting the most needful thing of fellowship with Christ in an effort to have external holiness. In both cases and even those who lay coldly in the middle all our hearts are far from God. Is it any wonder that we have worship wars going on? What would happen to Christianity as we know it and all the divisiveness if each one of us got down on our knees and started repenting? Maybe then our worship will not be in vain.
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