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Just need to vent how about you?
Dave in Tenn:
The REASON there is no more sacrifice for sins is BECAUSE there has already been a sacrifice for sins...ONCE and FOR ALL. Judgement is not there because we haven't been forgiven. Judgement is there because we haven't learned righteousness. The Lake of Fire is in the PRESENCE of the LAMB--the One slain for the forgiveness of sin.
As Ray said, the first 'thing' that God does with sin in our lives is FORGIVENESS. It is AFTER forgiveness that repentance comes, and after repentance that cleansing comes. Do you think God has it backwards? What we have to do is BELIEVE, and that is what gets us started.
I did not mention in my earlier post that these issues I've dealt with are not totally gone. It's just that a tipping point has been reached where 1. I care. and 2. they no longer are defining factors in my life, but 'lapses' meant to keep me humble.
http://bible-truths.com/unpardon.html
and an excerpt:
But the main thing I would tell you, Kevin, is that if you FEAR that you might have committed this sin, it is actually evidence THAT YOU HAVE NOT committed this sin. Those who blaspheme the holy spirit HAVE NO CONSCIENCE about their sin and therefore don't even care. Since you care and are concerned it is proof that God has given you a heart that wants to do right. So follow God's leadings in your life and these feelings of guilt will leave you.
Kat:
Mat 11:28 Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
v. 29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
v. 30 For My yoke is easy and My burden is light."
You have made it here to BT Pierdut, you have come to the truth, you are at the Door (Christ; John 10:7, 9)... so how do you/we "take My (Christ's) yoke"?
John 3:30 He (Christ within us) must increase, but I must decrease.
Luke 10:27 So He answered and said, ""You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind,' and "your neighbor as yourself."
Rom 13:9 For the commandments, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not bear false witness," "You shall not covet," and if there is any other commandment, are all summed up in this saying, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
You are at the Door, you are at a place that very very very few in history have ever reached... you did not get yourself where you are, God did, so why not believe that God could bring you to completion in Christ? You think you're not good enough... ha ha, none of us are, in any way, the elect are the "base... foolish things... that no flesh should glory." Now that's something any of us can believe, even as Paul did, "I am the foremost of sinners."
So take heart, you are in good company, we all have had to have our eyes opened to what this world along with our carnal desires is all about, it's an experience in good and EVIL, but's it's temporary! It's actually a great relief to come to see things (this world) for what they are, so to take (be given) His yoke is such a blessing and then we can truly rest in Him.
Luke 9:23 Then He said to them all, "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.
v. 24 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it.
v. 25 For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and is himself destroyed or lost?
Rom 13:11 And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed.
v. 12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.
v. 13 Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy.
v. 14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.
mercy, peace and love
Kat
rick:
Hi Dave,
Thanks for the correction as I did not see it as you had said it. The sin issue has already been dealt with once and for all, its about learning righteousness here and now but I must say its not so easy giving up those things that are so deeply rooted in us that God refers to as sin.
The truth you said, if told in any church, would either close their doors or get you thrown out, I sadly believe it’s the latter.
I enjoy learning the real truth about God rather than that which I was once taught, however I feel before I can learn righteousness I need to unlearn all the things I was taught about God from early youth.
I see with God, it’s a little here and a little there for me, replace one lie with the truth here and another there. Its quite fascinating to come out from the deception and into the glorious truth a little at a time.
Your reminder that the sin issue has already been dealt with has lifted me in spirit, I feel renewed after reading your reply.
Bible truth to me is indeed second to none and such a wonderful place to retreat, to learn , and to grow.
Peace and love to all.
arion:
Pierdut;
When I read your latest comments what popped into my mind is the exact same thing that Dave wrote. Not trying to jack up my post count but it bears repeating...
But the main thing I would tell you, Kevin, is that if you FEAR that you might have committed this sin, it is actually evidence THAT YOU HAVE NOT committed this sin. Those who blaspheme the holy spirit HAVE NO CONSCIENCE about their sin and therefore don't even care. Since you care and are concerned it is proof that God has given you a heart that wants to do right. So follow God's leadings in your life and these feelings of guilt will leave you.
cjwood:
...Its quite fascinating to come out from the deception and into the glorious truth a little at a time.
:) :)
claudia
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