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View Poll Results: Since becoming a Christian are you sinning less? | |
I have made much progress
|     | 97 | 43.69% | |
I have made some progress
|    | 81 | 36.49% | |
I still am the same as before
|    | 12 | 5.41% | |
I've gotten worse
|    | 15 | 6.76% | |
I'm too young a Christian to know
|    | 6 | 2.70% | |
I am not a Christian
|    | 11 | 4.95% |
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8th February 2004, 03:37 PM
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Reps: 18,289 (power: 30) | | | In the first four years I since I became a Christian, I progressed in leaps and bounds, but at the moment I'm in a rough spot spiritually. I feel far from God most days and truly struggle with putting Him first and laying down my self. I know He hasn't abandoned me and I know it's a matter of discipline and embracing grace and forgiveness, but it's still monumentally difficult right now.
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8th February 2004, 04:04 PM
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Reps: 55 (power: 0) | | | I've gotten worse. I"m constantly afraid of sinning and I just feel depressed overall. |
8th February 2004, 05:20 PM
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Reps: 973 (power: 0) | | Originally Posted by Staind I've gotten worse. I"m constantly afraid of sinning and I just feel depressed overall.
First of all, don't be depressed because the God who created the universe loves and knows you personally (Matt. 10:30). He sent His son to the earth to die for your sins (John 3:16). If you accept His gift to you, you will be spottless in His presence (Rev. 7:9, 1 John 1:9).
Now comes the hard part. 1 John 3:2-3 tells us that we will not be completely finished until we are face to face with Him. We are also told that because of this hope (the hope of being in His presence) we are to purify ourselves as He is pure. We are also to deal harshly with sin in our lives, and to cast the sins away from us (Matt 5:29).
"Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time: Casting all your care upon Him; for He cares for you." 1 Peter 5:6-7
In other words, give it all over to Him because He loves you and is faithful to complete you. |
8th February 2004, 06:55 PM
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Reps: 10 (power: 0) | |  It's better to give than to recieve.
Stay positive.
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8th February 2004, 07:19 PM
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Reps: 10 (power: 0) | |  THE STRUGGLE!!!
LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT THE STRUGGLE... SIN IS OUR LEPROSY PLAGUE. WE ARE THE LEPERS, FOR WE ARE STILL IN OUR FLESH, THEREFORE WE ARE GOING TO SIN, AND IF YOU ARE DISCERNING YOU WILL NOTICE YOU COMMIT SIN MORE OFTEN THAN BEFORE.
NOT BECAUSE YOU ARE A WORST PERSON, BUT BECAUSE IF YOU ARE GUIDED BY THE HOLY GHOST, HE WILL TELL YOU WHAT IS RIGHT AND WRONG. YOU AND ME, AND EVERYBODY IS A NASTY FILTHY SINNER... BUT GOD HAST RAISED US UP FROM THE FILTHYNESS... BE CONTENT, FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS YOUR INHERITANCE, BUT DONT THINK YOU ARE THE ROYAL CHILD OF GOD WHO NEVER SINS... REMEMBER, GOD LOVES YOU AS MUCH AS HE LOVES THE UNSAVED. HE EXPECTS YOU TO STAY IN HIS WILL, JUST LIKE A FATHER WOULD EXPECT HIS SON, AND TO THOSE WHO ARE NOT IN HIS WILL, HE WANTS THEM IN HIS WILL...
DO YOU KNOW WHAT GOD'S WILL IS FOR YOU???
2 COR 5:7 |
8th February 2004, 07:54 PM
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8th February 2004, 08:47 PM
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Reps: 55 (power: 0) | | Originally Posted by robl First of all, don't be depressed because the God who created the universe loves and knows you personally (Matt. 10:30).
If he does love me and knows me personally then why would he ever send me to hell? |
8th February 2004, 08:59 PM
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Reps: 10 (power: 0) | | | BECAUSE YOU NEED TO REPENT OF YOUR SINS, YOU SEE. HE HATES SIN, FOR HE IS HOLY. HE DOESNT HATE YOU, HE HATES WHAT YOU DO. |
8th February 2004, 09:14 PM
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Posts: 14,478
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Reps: 30,152,180,078,389,700 (power: 30,152,180,078,414) | | Originally Posted by semper_baptist LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT THE STRUGGLE... SIN IS OUR LEPROSY PLAGUE. WE ARE THE LEPERS, FOR WE ARE STILL IN OUR FLESH, THEREFORE WE ARE GOING TO SIN, AND IF YOU ARE DISCERNING YOU WILL NOTICE YOU COMMIT SIN MORE OFTEN THAN BEFORE.
NOT BECAUSE YOU ARE A WORST PERSON, BUT BECAUSE IF YOU ARE GUIDED BY THE HOLY GHOST, HE WILL TELL YOU WHAT IS RIGHT AND WRONG. YOU AND ME, AND EVERYBODY IS A NASTY FILTHY SINNER... BUT GOD HAST RAISED US UP FROM THE FILTHYNESS... BE CONTENT, FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS YOUR INHERITANCE, BUT DONT THINK YOU ARE THE ROYAL CHILD OF GOD WHO NEVER SINS... REMEMBER, GOD LOVES YOU AS MUCH AS HE LOVES THE UNSAVED. HE EXPECTS YOU TO STAY IN HIS WILL, JUST LIKE A FATHER WOULD EXPECT HIS SON, AND TO THOSE WHO ARE NOT IN HIS WILL, HE WANTS THEM IN HIS WILL...
DO YOU KNOW WHAT GOD'S WILL IS FOR YOU???
2 COR 5:7
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9th February 2004, 01:12 AM
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Reps: 973 (power: 0) | | Originally Posted by Staind If he does love me and knows me personally then why would he ever send me to hell?
Matt 25:41 "...into the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels."
Eze. 33:11 "...As I live, declares the Lord God, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked turn from his ways and live. Turn back, turn back from your evil ways!..."
God does not want anyone to go to hell. He created us in His image, which includes giving us free will. With this free will we are given the choice to follow God or not. It is this choice that determines your eternal destiny. God does not send anyone to hell. They go there willingly. | | |
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