So, what is your strategy??
- Believe there is no real sin ...it only matters what consensual individuals agree upon for mutual benefit.
- Believe that sin is relative ...or perhaps only your relatives sin.
- Believe your sin is comparatively small to many others you know of.
- Believe God understands you the way you are ...and loves you.
- Believe sin is sin...and all sin should be looked at, and is significant enough to consider remedies.
- Believe sin is forgiven ...and "Que Sera Sera", whatever will be, will be.
- Believe sin should be repented of (if at all possible, and it is always possible ---only we are human, and often take longer than perhaps we should), and God is ready to forgive.
Strategy has so much to do with attitude and aspiration.
Bummer for those of you who believe in #1, if you live under a communist dictatorship.
Bummer for those of you who believe in #1, if you live under a communist dictatorship.
Looking at #2, it can be the "not me" scenario. You hear a sermon, and say you wish someone else you know could've heard the message, not because it impacted you so much, but because you're sure everyone else has to change.
God views sin differently than you ...#3s read your Bible.
Yes, God understands all of us, and loves all of us ...yet, we are the ones who need to understand that though God loves us as we are ...it is as we are His, and He wants us to change. A good start is loving Him ...and a good start is reading His Word to us, the Bible. And obedience is not a dreaded thing that we adults can be thankful we've outgrown. Try to absorb that for starters, #4s.
May be on the right track #5s ...but difficult to look at through our eyes. Read the Book of Judges ...and only by looking at the love of Jesus, through the New Testament, does it all make sense. Jesus is God's remedy for our sin ...yet, He would guide us out of sin, not encourage us that anything goes.
I hope #6s don't think that since we all sin, that none of it matters ...and it doesn't matter if we keep on sinning.
Must not separate the Father and the Son ...and we are fooling ourselves if we think life could be okay through our own human goodness, or our own interpretation of God. Must include Jesus, #7 and all other numbers ...or we are just allowing a number to be done on us. And that is not just the feared 666, though the Book of Revelation, however difficult to understand, is true. Yet, why would we fear what we are saved from ...through our faith in Jesus??
What does faith require??
And does admission not come before remission, which then gives us admission ...with Jesus having covered our admission price??
God views sin differently than you ...#3s read your Bible.
Yes, God understands all of us, and loves all of us ...yet, we are the ones who need to understand that though God loves us as we are ...it is as we are His, and He wants us to change. A good start is loving Him ...and a good start is reading His Word to us, the Bible. And obedience is not a dreaded thing that we adults can be thankful we've outgrown. Try to absorb that for starters, #4s.
May be on the right track #5s ...but difficult to look at through our eyes. Read the Book of Judges ...and only by looking at the love of Jesus, through the New Testament, does it all make sense. Jesus is God's remedy for our sin ...yet, He would guide us out of sin, not encourage us that anything goes.
I hope #6s don't think that since we all sin, that none of it matters ...and it doesn't matter if we keep on sinning.
Must not separate the Father and the Son ...and we are fooling ourselves if we think life could be okay through our own human goodness, or our own interpretation of God. Must include Jesus, #7 and all other numbers ...or we are just allowing a number to be done on us. And that is not just the feared 666, though the Book of Revelation, however difficult to understand, is true. Yet, why would we fear what we are saved from ...through our faith in Jesus??
What does faith require??
And does admission not come before remission, which then gives us admission ...with Jesus having covered our admission price??
