If the only thing I ever talked about to my friends was how my dad would occasionally spank me when I did something wrong, how do you think my friends would perceive my Father? In the same way, if as a Christian the only thing you talk about is how much people need to repent, and how awful they are, and how angry God is with them and their sin, what kind of picture do you think you are painting for the world around you? Let me settle something once and for all. I am agains’t sin, but sin is a done deal! Jesus over paid for your sin and sin is no longer an issue with God. I still haven’t had a single person who boasts of all their theological knowledge actually address this: ”..that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.” – 2 Cor 5:19 You will notice it says that God is not counting people’s sins against them. That coincides with Hebrews 8:12 and Hebrews 10:17 which says God remembers our sins no more. Does that mean we have a license to sin and that God is totally okay with it? NO, NO, NO, a thousand times NO. We have died to sin, how can we live in it any longer? (Romans 6:1) You’ll also notice it doesn’t say that we have been given the ministry of “telling people how sinful and dirty they are”. …if you think that’s your job, you are elevating yourself above God. You know who else tried to do that? The devil. In John 16, Jesus said this about the Holy Spirit: “And when [the Holy Spirit] comes, he (not you)will convict the world (not the church) concerning sin and righteousness and judgment: - concerning sin, because they do not believe in Me (again, this is talking about the world, the unbelieving, NOT the church…if you think this applies to you, you need to get born again); - concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father, and you will see me no longer (this is talking about convicting the church of righteousness, their right standing with God, not rubbing their sin in their faces…why would God do that if He remembers our sins no more?) - concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.” – John 16:8-11 Yes, this is diametrically opposed to just about everything you were taught growing up in church. But that is just what it says. youaregodsbeloved3.wordpress/
Posted on: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 07:35:40 +0000
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