Under Judaism a swine is an animal that is rejected because it is unclean.
Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast you your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you. - Mat 7:6 | |
We have cheapened the gift of God by treating it like something that can be picked up at the whim of the individual. Not so.
No one can come to Christ except the Father draw them. When the drawing happens it is an eternal life and death situation for the one being drawn.
There is no assurance that He will ever draw a person again. And even the attitude that the one being drawn can put God off or on hold is extremely rebellious in nature and so dangerous.
God is not a thing, He is a person and must be treated as a person.
No one can ever be worthy of Christ, but they can make themselves unworthy of Him by trampling His blood under their feet.
And whoever shall not receive you, nor hear you, when you depart there, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Truly I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city. - Mar 6:11 | |
It is time we proclaim the Truth as Jesus instructed the disciples and not as if we had an excess of some product that we beg people to take off our hands.
The answer to the question, "How do we identify a swine?" is simple:
A swine is a person who hears the Gospel Truth and rejects it.