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I asked Bob (in love) after he told me he was a lying, thieving, adulterer, "Bob, by your own admission you are a lying, thieving, adulterer, and that is only a few of the commandments and you have to stand before God on Judgement Day, do you think you will be innocent or guilty?
It's one thing to know you have sinned but a whole other thing to know you are guilty and deserve a sentence of punishment! We know that the whole world stands before the Judge of all creation with a guilty verdict without Christ. 3:19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. As I have shared with many, many people one on one on the streets of our country over the last decade, most have thought they would go to heaven because they were so good. Some became convicted of sin after I shared with them, but still felt they would be INNOCENT before God because he was a loving, forgiving God. When that is the case, I share this parable with them to help them understand that God is a just Judge.
Let's say you were caught robbing a bank. They caught you on the bank's video cameras and there was not a shadow of doubt it was you. You then stood before a good, moral, loving Judge for your sentencing. Do you think he would let you go or would his verdict be guilty as charged? (Most say Guilty) So standing before the Judge of all humanity who has seen every evil thing you have ever done, said, or thought, do you think you would be innocent or guilty? After this short parable most people(believe or not some still think they would be innocent) get it and agree they would be guilty and you can begin to see the godly sorrow that leads to repentance and salvation in Christ. 7:10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance unto salvation, `a repentance' which bringeth no regret: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
Many people believe that all of this convicting of sin and the guilt thereof is solely the job of the Holy Spirit. After talking to thousands who don't know their sin has sentenced them with a guilty verdict, you would then have to say the Holy Spirit isn't doing His job which is preposterous. Just like we lay hands on the sick and they recover, God works with us as co-laborers and many times brings the guilt of sin under conviction through our preaching, preparing our listeners for the redeemer, Jesus Christ!
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| December 22, 2007 |
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Thank you for this wonderful blog.
God Bless |
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| December 22, 2007 |
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| God bless you for your love and zeal for the Lord. Yes, we need to be white-hot witnesses for our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ! |
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| December 22, 2007 |
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| Until and unless the preacher of the gospel speaks on the sins, people do not know about the sins at all. Many people think that social drinking is not a sin because they have been taught like that. Today, thousands of Christians divorce and remarry which Jesus Christ calls the sin of adultery. Since the churches failed to preach on this particular sin, today we find most of the Christian marriages devastated by this sin. |
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| December 22, 2007 |
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| OUTSTANDING THANKS FOR SHARING |
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| December 22, 2007 |
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| Jeff
These things need to be addressed (sin). We need to address these things to people as the scripture speaks according to Matthew 18: 15-20. It is not of course with the mind set that we of are better than anyone else, but rather hoping that the person is given repentance to the acknowledging of the truth: that the person turns from the sin. It is not only about the person in sin, but also in how we approach the person.
Could you imagine a person going to hear a preacher, that preaches that you can not be free from sin. What is the sin of the preacher then?? There can be some very vile sin's in a persons life. What if the sin of the preacher that teaches children a pedophile? Do you really want a person that preaches that you cannot be without sin, and is a pedophile teaching your children?
This is not about looking for sin and being self righteous. This is about the power of the Holy GHost working within, making you totally free from sin, and preaching the same. If I see a brother overtaken in a fault (in sin) to go to that person, hoping that they will hear and repent.
Most times that I speak to someone about being free from sin they laugh at it. Though the scripture speaks: "You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free". People usually respond by saying I have no "Major" sin: i.e. maybe just "lying" or "thoughts". How about those thoughts: What does the scripture speak regarding the thoughts? Are not all our thoughts to be brought into the captivity of Christ?? These things are not possible with man regarding their flesh. But by the power of the Holy Ghost it is possible (the camel Mat 19:23-26) As a camel cannot go through the eye of the needle (the gate) unless stripped of it's load, neither can we enter into heaven unless totally stripped of sin (in this life).
Think about it: God is the one that takes away sin!! Would a person mean to tell me that God has taken away those "BIG" sins, but not the power the (so called) "LITTLE sins (lying/thoughts). The God that I serve is powerful, even to the taking away of all my sin. The woman taken in adultery was not condemned by Christ, as many point out when I speak to them. Remember though: Christ told that very same woman "Go and SIN NO MORE!!"
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| December 24, 2007 |
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| Jeff
Herein is the dilemma, just as Paul spoke of it in Romans 7:"For I know that in me (that is in my flesh) dwells no good thing". By the power of the flesh trying to over come sin, man will ALWAYS FAIL.. ALWAYS. Paul did not say in Romans 7 that a person can not overcome sin, ..... it was about how you can overcome sin! The end of Romans 7:24-25 sums it up: "O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from this body of death (The question)? (The answer) I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
It is not that a person can not be free from sin (How most all people interpret Rm 7), it is how you CAN be free from sin (Rm 7:24-25 & Rm 8:1-20). So the bottom line is does a person what to live in Rm 7:1-23 (sin), or Rm 7:24-25 & Rm 8:1-20 (no sin)?
The law shows us what sin is and brings us to Christ to be justified by faith. It is faith in what the Word of God tells us we must do, for his power (Holy Ghost) to be given to overcome sin.
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