We live in a world where about
90% see things such as corruption, bribe-taking and giving, etc as normal
trends and the standard way of life. To these people anyone not indulging in
any of these is either unwise, old-fashioned, or stupid.
Then we have about 9% who know
these things are wrong (and sinful) but in the face of confrontation, they
compromise. To them, if you cannot beat them, you join them.
And then, there remaineth a 1%
remnant; these ones have been despised and regarded as foolish and
old-fashioned. These ones have lost jobs (and jobs opportunities) because they
will not compromise or be involved in bribery; they have failed exams because
they will neither cheat nor abet cheating. These ones have lost contracts
because they would not succumb to the worldly standards and popular status quo
of corruption and evil. Sometimes they feel the pains of having to stand for
the truth. They cry in their secret places because they have been denied things
they are rightly due just because of their faith. But friends, I present to you
the ones God is well pleased with - the 1%!!!
If 99% will be unholy and 1% will
chose and strive to remain holy (amidst the sufferings they encounter), God
will still not re-adjust the necessity/requirement for eternal life. The Bible
says, "let him that is unholy be unholy still; let him that is holy be
holy still...for behold I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every
man according to his work" (Revelation 22:12).
The pattern of majority is never
the pathway to Heaven. That majority engage in lying, pre-marital/extra-marital
sex, bribery, etc, doesn not make God approve of them. God says, "Be ye
Holy, for I am holy" and "Without holiness, no man shall see
God" (1 Peter 1:16; Hebrews 12:14).
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