"Does Take The Meat and Spit Out the Bones Apply to the Bible?"

Have you ever noticed how you can mention any kind of an opinion on Facebook, Twitter or any other type of Social media outlet and as long as it's a liberal opinion you are set to go. You can watch the "likes" and comments climb. Sometimes in a matter of minutes. However, post anything that goes against the flow of society today and not only don't you get those "likes". The comments you are getting are down right hateful. Why? Because the bible teaches Christians to be "all loving and non judgemental." (or so they would have us to believe.  And in a sense that is correct. (Again, that is for another day and another post. :) )
What I want to talk about for a moment is this idea of only obeying a portion of the scriptures. And ignoring the rest.  
Why do we even do that? Oh, and yes I said "we" look in the mirror. I'm sure everyone of us can pinpoint at least one area in our lives where we have slacked for one reason or another. Maybe it's in forgiveness (because lets face it, Forgiveness isn't easy. )  Or in how we dress, church attendance.... Any number of things.  It doesn't even have to be drastic.  In a Christians life we look at the outside world and judge by the homosexuals and the alcoholics and all of the drastic sins (which certainly do require talking about). While hardly ever stopping to take a look at our own sins.  Inadvertently (or on purpose sometimes) taking what we want out of the bible, and doing away with the harder portions for us to live out.  
How do we ever expect a lost and fallen world to listen to us if we won't even take all of Gods word and obey? If we can't obey the very words of our Lord, we certainly can't expect a fallen, unsaved world to believe that they should. Right?
Matthew 7:3-5
"And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brothers eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? 
Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye."

The Bible talks a lot about changing Gods word, or taking away from Gods word. But, there is one passage in particular that I am going to use tonight.  And that is Revelation 22:18-19
"For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, if any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
And if any man shall take away from the words of this book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. "

YIKES. That should answer any questions about spitting out the bones. Right?  But, what bones are there anyway?
Doesn't the Psalmist say that His words have been purified as by fire 7 times?
Psalm 12:6
"The words of the Lord are pure words, like silver refined in an earthen furnace, purified seven times."

WOW, Have you ever seen silver be refined? Let alone 7 times?  I dare you to look it up on youtube. Or even find someone nearby and watch it done. It's pretty amazing.

If we want to be a good Christian example for the unsaved around us, as well as live out the scripture WORD FOR WORD.  We need to first get to know the word.
John 1:1
"In the beginning was the word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. "

Do you have an in depth personal relationship with God?  You can't live out every word that He spoke if you don't first get to know Him, and have the Holy Spirit living within you.
The Word won't even make sense to you unless the Holy Spirit speaks to you. and you need Him living inside you.

I feel like I wandered a little off topic on this one. But, hopefully I stayed close enough to topic to still get the point across.
Stay blessed my friends.


Bre Shafer