Oblivious Christians

It simply amazes me how people who claim to be saved for years will blatantly showcase their rebellion to doing the right things. This goes to all the "Sunday morning" crowd. You know... the "established" Christian who knows that they should not forsake the "assembling of the themselves together," but refuses to attend any other service during the week. That is nothing more than open rebellion to God's Word. Shame on them. Funny how these same folks call the pastor or the church office and complain about the hardships they are facing. Yeah, spankings hurt. When you rebel against God's will, he is going to chastise you. The mind-blowing fact about this group is that they just don't get it. Their consistent rebellion leads to consistent chastisement. Are they that oblivious to the fact that their rebellion and chastisement are connected. That maybe stopping the rebelling process would stop all the spankings? Or maybe they are just content being stubborn and openly rebellious. Then, when their children don't want to attend church at all, parents claim they don't know why their kids turned out that way. Now that is just plain oblivious.

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