midge,
you mentioned us being stubborn.
well stop being stubborn and humble yourself before the Lord today.
you mentioned us being yet fallen in certain ways.
that isnt true. we are new creatures and ALL things are made new, and in romans 6 paul said our old man was dead and gone, hes not even kicking anymore if your living in the spirit.
i just cant stand any excuse or reply except "yes lord, i am living holy".
in the end, all God ever has for sin is judgment.
like a mentor of myne said today, you cant say "well hes more commited that me" no....your either commited, or your not, theres no middle ground.
if you could do better, you dont really care.
mis lizzie,
i believe that most of the body of Christ today needs to gain an understanding on many things so they can partake of them, not only in the area of sin free living.
yes it does seem strange that we need to this help to attain something is supposed just be ours for the taking, but satan has perverted many of the pulpits of america and around the world and its like God said about isreal. he said they were so far from him that they taught heathen nations how to sin, but do to good they had no knowledge.
it was supposed to be something that was just a simple way of life, but they had become so astranged and far from God and the truth, when they sought it out and tried to do the truth, they had no idea in the world were to start.
it shows how brain washed and deceived even the people who are called the body of Christ today are.
our brains have ran this sin over and over and over for so many generations and years and thought practicly nothing on sin free living, that when we see something that partains to it, it extremely confuses us.
but praise God for the written word, that can wash and renew our minds and what we know and how we think, no matter how far we have strayed.
but most people dont know the word very well, i would dare most people dont even study it for 30 mins on a daily consistent basis, when it is supposed to be studied night and day, the biggest thing in our lives.
thus we have no choice but to be taught and decieved by the voices of this world instead, and when the truth is presented, we truely have no idea what we are looking at and often are afraid of it.
and i am sad to say, that is many many pulpits, the true, pure, untainted word of God, isnt being preached.
i have even heard that most theologians or preachers dont even claim to believe that the bible is even the infallible word of God anymore, its not even literal to them. they just take what they can stomach and forget the rest.
thats one way to produce little baby christians, who may love the lord, but are eternally crippled and lame, becuase they have no understanding the truth and have no way to combat the battles their preachers are ignoring.
like it says in hebrews.
"let us go on unto perfection, not laying agian the foundation of repentance from dead works and faith in God"
most people never do go on into the holy perfection and completeness God has for them, and they are continually turning over and over wallowing in sin and repentance from it and constantly trusting in faith and grace to save them from the very present sin in their lives.
fully,
are you sure its covered?
its actually not, untill youve asked forgiveness and repented of it, meaning to you stop living that way.
jesus said in john 8 that whosoever commits a sin, is fully the servant of sin. and that servant would not abide in the house of the lord forever.
if you died in the act of that sin, you would not enter into the kingdom of heavon.
this doesnt show any kind of hopeless of salvation, it only shows the greater need to spend hours alone with the Spirit of God and memorise the scriptures and live seperated from all ungodliness, and walk cautiously pondering every step, and depend on the awesome holyspirit to endue you with power from on high, to cause you to never do any of those things again.
it is amasing, we say God is greater than all things, but we dont think hes greater and little bad habit.
i dont care if you have to go be a monk on the backside of the desert and never speak to another humanbeing again and make a vow of silence and never do anything but pray and read the bible till you die, to keep from commiting sins, you gotta do what you gotta do.
but thanks be to God, that isnt the only way.
but there is only one way to serve the Lord, and that is without sin.
1 pet 4.1
...those that suffer, have ceased to sin...