nephilimiyr
I've Been Keepin My Eyes Wide Open
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Thats how you are portraying God. It may not be your intent, however thats how its coming across. God waiting up in heaven with a big stick to punish us the minute we step out of line.
True holiness does not come as a result of adherance to a set of external standards. Grasp that and you can start living the life you were supposed to live
It may not be how you are intending to come across, however every time I read your posts I am hearing someone saying that true holiness comes from an adherance to a set of external standards rather than allowing the Holy Spirit access to all areas of our life and allowing Him to change us from within.
I would hope the fact that numerous people get a similar message from your posts should perhaps encourage you to look at how you are communicating.
As long as believers are motivated by what they feel, rather than what the Scriptures tells us, there will be this problem of believing that we are the ones who make ourselves holy. And, the excuse used for perpetuating the problem will be one given about semantics, or that their pastor told them about the "me" generation. The Word of God was not intended to be for poetic license. But, because volitions are the issue with God's plan, there will always be a way out of submitting to what is truth. Myself, included, that's why renewing our minds to the new self is something we must do always, everyday.
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