That may be, but you can not save your soul by finding some church member who is failing to live as he or she ought to live. The more you look at them, the more you are apt to be like them, and if they are lost, and you are not saved, you both will perish together.
THEREFORE thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things. But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things. And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgments of God?
Romans 2:1-3.
JUDGE not, that ye not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s 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 out of 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.
Matthew 7:1-5.
SO then every one of us shall give an account of himself to God.
Romans 14:12.
Account of “himself”, not his neighbor.
FOR we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
II Corinthians 5:10.
You had better save your own soul, and try to help others than criticise them. If you know how, they ought to like, be a Christian and show them how the counterfeit christian proves the genuine, just and the counterfeit dollar proves the genuine.
You may as well argue “Don’t deposit money in a bank, there are men in the banking business that have embezzled. Don’t join the lodge or trades unions." There are hypocrites in every lodge and union in America. There are hypocrites everywhere.
Remember—When the Church goes through the Pearly Gates, those hyporites will be left on the outside of the gate, on your side, unless you repent, and you will have to spend all eternity with them. Would it not be better to repent, and live with them a few years in the Church, than to spend all eternity with them elsewhere? You must spend some time with those hypocrites, somewhere. Where shall it be?
SO then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.
Romans 14:12.
FOR it is written, as I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.
Romans 14:11.
AND whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
Revelation 20:15.
Take Christ as Your Saviour, a perfect example, and do not lose your soul through looking at inconsistent christians.
HE that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
Mark 16:16.
FOR by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God; not of works, lest any man should boast.
Ephesians 2:8, 9.
Illustration: John 21:19-22.