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Good evening!!! May we all pray for one another this evening.
God loves us all. We love one another.
Be blessed and Praise the name of the Lord.
Sandra encourage us once more this evening. If you get the chance.
Be blessed .
Chrisine we miss you!!! But keep up the work of the Lord. Water them beans!!!!!!
Hello Sandra and Amy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@Amy————–God bless you, and thank you for the encouraging words, and your prayer———————Sandra
Hello everyone. Its 3.36 pm and San angelo is at 107 degrees. As i look at the area i see so little green grass. And am reminded of the spiritual drought as well. But no matter how dark it looks there is good news in the future………………JESUS IS COMING. We must endure unto the end. The wolves greatly outnumber the sheep to the natural eye. But there are still more for us than against us. If you want hope…………..dont look to this world nor the things in it…………Tis in Christ above. Many think some of us are just odd creatures. Because we place our hope in that which cannot be seen. Not material wealth and comforts and pleasures of the world. It is in Christ alone. So few of us now can bodly say…….if i lose this or that…………..so be it. For our hope and joy comes from that which cannot be seen. And that is Christ in the heavens , seated at the right hand of the Father. Who comes quickly for his church.
The Good Lord giveth and the Good Lord taketh away. No matter what……………..To him be all Glory.
For our faith is not based upon the natural, nor our circumstances that come against us. No……..tis a true hope in that which endures for ever. Our heavenly home above in Christ. So everyone rejoice in the Lord…………and again i say rejoice in him. This world just aint my home.
@Sandra. I went through the same thing. God was so gentle with me concerning this. I know this because He confirmed me with His merciful Spirit while I was pleading with Him saying, “is it so bad if I smoke?” There is no doubt He leads us out of sin. And to tell you the truth, for quite a while I didn’t even know if smoking was a sin. I look at how Jesus tells us how it is what comes out of the heart that defiles us. BUT once He told me in my conscience that I needed to stop, I had to stop. And He did eventually tell me this. He showed me that I am dead to sin, and I am not to be mastered by anything. When I realized that it was my flesh pleading with Him to allow me to be mastered, I could feel His loving Spirit tell me that I needed to make a decision to follow the Spirit and deny my flesh. I thought it would be very hard. But once He quickened me of this conviction, and I made the choice to not even have them in my house, He gave me complete mastery, and I quit cold turkey.
That is my personal story. I will pray for you!! God bless you.
@Amy——-God bless you, sister. We all have our wolves, and none are perfect, “not yet”, but praise Jesus one day we will be. I am fighting with my own demon it’s name is “nicotine”. I have smoked for over 40 years, and have tried numerous times to quit, and failed. The patches, the gum, you name it, I tried it. This time I wont rely on man’s invention, I will rely solely on the Lord to take the craveings away. Pray for me to overcome this habit. God bless you————your sister in Christ—————–Sandra
If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must master it.” Gen 4:7
Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said, “Why do you entertain evil thoughts in your hearts? Matt 9:4
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. Heb 12:1
No, I beat my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize. 1 Cor 9:27
Sin is always crouching in our heart, desiring to have us but we have to master it. It easily entangle but we have to beat our body just as Paul had done.
By the meekness and gentleness of Christ, I appeal to you–I, Paul, who am “timid” when face to face with you, but “bold” when away! 2 Cor 10:1
There is meekness and gentleness in the Lord that we should imitate just as Paul imitated him.
@Sandra. Thank you. The book of Romans is incredibly packed with answers to many of the questions that swirl around. Chapter 6 is my favorite when sharing with people who have been taught the false gospel of just believing as a mental ascent – as they usually believe it is okay to continue in sin without a care. The Lord is teaching me to have compassion for these and changing my heart toward them (as I was a hypocrite!). Wolves came in not sparing the FLOCK.
Sandra we love you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
everyone, oops, had a misprint on Ro. 6:13—————-sorry! God bless———————
Greetingseveryone: Just read the post, I see the topic is sin, I pray that the scriptures I list will help answer
some questions.
ROMANS Chapter 6:
1)What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
2)God forbid; How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
3)Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ, were baptized into his death?
4)Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death; that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father; even so we also should walk in newness of life.
5)For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
6)Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
7)For he that is dead is freed from sin.
8)Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him;
9)Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
10)For in that he died, he died unto sin once; but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
11)Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
12)Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
13)Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin; but yield from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
14)For sin shall not have dominion over you; for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
15)What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
16)Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
17)But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
18)Being then made free from sin, ye bacame the servants of righteousness.
19)I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh; for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
20)For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.
21)What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
22)But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
23)For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
I hope this helped in some small way. Just remember that none of us are perfect, sooner or later we are bound to fall. Praise Jesus, and give Him thanks, because of what he did on the cross, we can be forgiven. We are told to go and sin no more, we are to strive to lead a sin free life, just as Jesus did, but this doesn’t mean that we will. Let us not continue comitting the same transgression over, and over, and
then expecting to be forgiven for it, Jesus’ death is not a permitt to sin. God bless everyone, with love in
Christ, your sister in Christ————–Sandra
Hello Jose my brother in Christ…………………..fear not them quakes. I have a prayer request for all of you.
Pray Gods will be done in my life, and that i recieve direction of him. And that i submit in all areas known and unknown. That i only follow the direction he gives. This world is not my home.
Wherever he wills i go. So pray direction. Be blessed peoples of our Lord. The time to reach the lost is today.
@Amy amen sister.
@ Jose. I agree with you that this verse means the practice of sin. But some teach that we will NEVER sin. This is the message I got when Paul said we should be free of ALL sin……not leaving room for error or falling. Very important difference.
@Amy I think what that scripture on brother Paul’s comment is speaking of the practice of sin. To volenterely sin without any conviction what so ever is a problem that speaks for it self. When people practice sin with no fear of God it tells me that person perhaps is not born again or born of God. The Holy Spirit brings conviction of sin and leads someone to repentence. As one matures in the Lord the abbility to self control is accomplished. God Bless
@ Paul. If what you just said is true, than I do NOT belong to Christ. I got angry a week ago and lost my patience and expressed my frustration. I went to the Lord and he was faithful to forgive that sin, at least scripture tells me this is true. But if what you say is true, then I am no christian.
Though I do agree that my sin nature was nailed to the cross. I also believe that I will manifest that perfection according to the faith I have. My faith is not perfect, so I struggle sometimes. I have NEVER met a perfect believer.
Scripture tells us to confess our sins one to another (brothers and sisters in Christ). I don’t believe perfect believers would be able to do this if what you say is true.
You can and should be free from ALL sin today, and everyday. Jesus is without sin and so is His Body of believers. This is a fact. All need to believe and be Faithful to Jesus. Jesus freed YOU from sin. You are not in sin or to sin anymore. [NAS] [1 John 3:9] No one who is born of Jesus practices sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of Jesus
Love and Truth..
Amen Randall. I am learning more and more about this LOVE every day. It is so easy to get on a self righteous bandwagon which I was riding for a while. We can do nothing without Him guiding us, everything else is filthy rags.
In repsonse to Petes talking about noone is good, all sinned.
Heres some encouragin words just to add. Ecc 7.20 psalms 14 and 53. and romans chapter 3 v8 10 -13
It is true only God is righteous. Thus may we run to the only goodness we have.
That is Jesus Christ the great shepard of the sheep. The only good of all who believe.
May we continue on in his goodness, otherwise we too are cut off. But give all Honor and glory , all exaltation unto him. Praise God the Father of our Lord and Savoir CHrist.
IF we love we full fill the law within us in Christ. The word is in our Heart as he told the Israelites in the wilderness. The word which we preach as Paul later stated. Thus focus on loving the lord with all thy heart , soul, strength and mind. Love one another as Christ loves the church. The law is fullfiled in love. Love the Lord we keep his commandments, and his commandments are not grievious, rather fullfilling. If we say we love him we keep his commandments and have fellowship one with another. Focus on Christ, and walk in him and he in us, as apart from him we can do nothing. No man can say he is Lord of our life, without saying it by the spirit that dwells within us. I promise if you all will truly read the word, with such love for it , you will grow by leaps and bounds in faith. The word instructs us how to live, that we may be furnished , complete in instruction in righteousness , and made wise unto salvation. Submit to GOd, resist the devil and he will flee. Focus on doing more for others than for yourself. FOcus on their welfare above your own. Love your enemies, do good unto them and feed them. Follow peace with all men and holiness without which no man shall see theLord. Looking diligentely , lest any man fail of the grace of GOd. Remember, when it was when Christ reconciled us unto GOd.
While we were enemies, by the death of his son, we were reconciled unto GOd.
Made the righteousness of GOd in CHrist. So focus on loving others and winning souls to CHrist. Remeber too, any sinner can do good to those who treat them well. Even at my worst i did this. Christian love is seen in how we treat those who persecute us. Like Christ we dont rail back, nor repay wrath with wrath. ALways be quick to forgive, lest Satan get an advantage on us. Read peoples. Read the word. Truly our only hope, strength, salvation, and righteousness is of GOd in Christ. We have all been made partakers of that tree(christ) whether jew, gentile, free, slave etc. No matter what race, etc, the only way is in Christ alone. And we too can see how we love God by how we love the brethen.
yall be blessed.
Amen and absolutely. If we are not trying to stop sinning then Jesus is not our Lord. God did not give us mission impossible as 1 Cor 10:13 and DT 30:14 tell us there is no temptation we cannot overcome to conquer sin.
It is possible to not sin, if your truly born from above:
1Jn 3:4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
1Jn 3:5 And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.
6 Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.
7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
9 Whosoever is born of God DOTH NOT COMMIT SIN; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
Leviticus 20:7 states to sanctify yourself and be holy
1Pe 1:16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
While reflecting upon the “Standing” and the “State” of the believer, some thoughts came to mind. Were assured of our “Standing” in Christ, and our position “In Him” is given us in the Ephesian epistle. This however differs greatly from our present “State”. If the two are confounded, only confusion can arise. The logical coarse, in the end, would be to try to conform our “State” to our “Standing”. But, how is this accomplished? Perhaps we have an answer in Hebrews XII:8+9 “Jesus Christ yesterday and to-day the same, and to the ages;
with teachings manifold and strange be not carried about, for [it is] good that by grace the heart be confirmed, not with meats, in which they who were occupied were not profited”…
The idea that we cannot stop sinning is a lie. What did God say about our ability to obey Him?
Deuteronomy 30:11-14 Now what I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach. 12 It is not up in heaven, so that you have to ask, “Who will ascend into heaven to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?” 13 Nor is it beyond the sea, so that you have to ask, “Who will cross the sea to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?” 14 No, the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart so you may obey it.
1 Corinthians 10:13 NO temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.
Temptation will always be with us. We will always have some warring with our flesh. But to say it is impossible to overcome temptation and cease to sin is not scriptural. The verses like there is no one righteous not one, and all our righteoussness is as filthy rages have been misconstrued. These verses attest to the fact that we all have sinned and have fallen short of the glory of God. Therefore, we ALL are in need of a savior. We cannot earn our salvation. But these verses do not say at all that we cannot defeat sin. That is a doctrine of man. 1 Peter 4:10 says if we suffer we will be done with sin. Most of us dont want to suffer we dont want to give up our sins totally. Paul speaks of crucifying ourselves, that is painful. Jesus says to pick up our cross daily to follow him. That is very difficult and impossibel to do in the flesh. Again thankfully we have repentance and grace to be reconciled with god if we are not perfect but DO NOT BE DECIEVED BY ANY MEANS JOHN TOLD US
He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as the Lord is righteous. Our righteousness is not of our own, it comes from our faith and the grace and the subsequent laying down of our llves for God and walking in obedience. Not by power or might but by HIS SPIRIT we can do it, it certainly should be our goal to walk in total obedience. If we tell someone a goal is not achievable, guess what, it becomes a selfullfilling prophecy.
While most won’t achieve it. We are told by paul TO AIM FOR PERFECTION. If we don’t think it possible to stop sinning, guess what. You wont stop sinning. It is possible and some have achieved that as the bible states. But again that is why god loves us so much he grants us repentance if we exercise it. Praise God for that.
As long as this fallen world exists and our physical bodies remain sin does not quit. Not until the final coming of God’s kingdom. Sin will keep knocking at our door as long as we live in this broken, rebellious, twisted world.
Paul says we have died to sin (Romans 6:2 2By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?), that sin’s claim upon our lives has been broken. We do not have to give in to it. Jesus Christ breathes his Spirit into us (Romans 8:14 14because those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God), giving us the power to resist sin’s advances and live a strong, new life. But we must choose to resist sin. Every moment of every day.
What level of victory over sin can we expect before the day when Christ comes? Less important than the degree of victory is the direction we are going. We can expect, as we learn to consistently yield more of our will to the Holy Spirit to move progressively in the direction of obedience. When we fail and do not choose to trust the Spirit to empower us, we can confess our sins, receive forgiveness and keep moving forward. And one day, when we are united with Christ, we will be completely fee from sin’s influence.