TOLERANCE IS NOT A VIRTUE, IF ITS OBJECT IS SIN!
(By Emerson Blythe)

We are taught TOLERANCE as a virtue.

It may be our undoing!

Many are preaching it.

(Mat 7:1-2)  ""Do not judge, so that you may not be judged. {2} For with the judgment you make you will be judged, and the measure you give will be the measure you get."

It is interpreted not as tolerance of other people's personalities or irritative actions, but of all manner of sin and immorality.  YET...

In the same context: (Mat 7:6)  ""Do not give what is holy to dogs; and do not throw your pearls before swine, or they will trample them under foot and turn and maul you."

WHO IS GOING TO JUDGE WHO THE DOG IS???

AGAIN: (Mat 7:15-19)  ""Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. {16} You will know them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thorns, or figs from thistles? {17} In the same way, every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit. {18} A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. {19} Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire."

WHO IS GOING TO JUDGE WHO THE FALSE PROPHET IS???

Jesus said we would know them by their fruit. 

Jesus not only said Judge not, but He also said, Judge...
(John 7:24)  "Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment."

There are many things we have to judge every day.  Many in our society today are being deprived of the ability to judge by the TOLERANCE crowd!!!

(Heb 5:14)  "But solid food is for the mature, for those whose faculties have been trained by practice to distinguish good from evil."

RIGHT IS RIGHT, AND WRONG IS WRONG.

Or, is it...
RIGHT IS QUESTIONABLE AND WRONG NONEXISTENT?

Do we call God by the right name?  If so, is it wrong to call Him by some other name?

Is there right moral behaviour, and wrong moral behaviour?

Is Christianity the right religion?  Then are all others wrong???

LET'S THINK FOR A MOMENT CONCERNING TOLERANCE:

To Thyatira: (Rev 2:20)  "Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols."

NRSV: (Rev 2:20)  "But I have this against you: you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophet and is teaching and beguiling my servants to practice fornication and to eat food sacrificed to idols."

(Mat 24:43)  "But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered (TOLERATED) his house to be broken up."

(Titus 1:10-11)  "For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision: {11} Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake."

(1 Tim 5:19-20)  "Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses. {20} Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear."

(2 Tim 4:2-4)  "Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. {3} For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; {4} And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables."

(Titus 1:12-14)  "One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies. {13} This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith; {14} Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth."

(Titus 2:15)  "These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee."

TOLERANCE IS NOT A VIRTUE, IF ITS OBJECT IS SIN!