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What Sin Is To a Believer (Who Has Christ's Spirit in Him or Her.)
marycee:
I hear many times Christians ask the question, "Is it a sin to do this or a sin to do that?"
Christians have the Spirit of God livingi in them Who leads them into all Truth. Sin to a Christian is falling short of obeying God's indwelling Spirit. It is not a cut and dried situation that man can give an answer to: Is this sin or is that sin. What may be a sin to one person is not sin to another. When people ask the question is something a sin, I like to ask them this:
1. Are you a believer that Christ died for all your sins?
2. Do you have the Spirit of God (Christ) in you?
3. Are you seeking to obey the indwelling Spirit as He leads you?
4. Do you study the Bible, particularly the New Covenant, to get the spirit of what is being said and then have a desire to obey the spirit of what is being said there as the Spirit quickens it to your heart?
5. Do you pray about all situations in your life, and pray especially diligently about difficult situations and decisions that you have to make? Only you know your particular situation and only God knows how to fix it!
6. Do you do your very best to obey what you believe to be the leading of the Holy Spirit in all matters?
7. Do you believe yourself dead unto sin and alive unto God as Romans 6 says?
8. Do you walk by faith?
9. When you fail, do you cast away any inner condemnation and insteadpray that God will direct you and lead you to more spiritual maturity?
If you do all these things, your spiritual life is going to be what God desires, and you will grow. If you live unto God, you do not have to worry about sin. (Romans 6:11)
Deborah-Leigh:
What I have learnt and believe from the insights taught at BT is that sin can be compartmentalised into three compartments, lust of the eyes, flesh and pride of life.
1 John 2 : 16 For all that is in the world – the lust of the flesh, craving for sensual gratification, and the lust of the eyes, greedy longings of the mind, and the pride of life, assurance in one’s own resources or in the stability of earthly things – these do not come from the Father but are from the world itself.
Any "to do list" can quite neatly be fitted into the striving for assurance in one’s own doing? there are 1050 commandments in the NT of which can be reduced to some 800 that are not duplications of the same commandment. From this list many different "to do" lists can be formulated! No one can make the potter create the pot the way the clay would do it!
There is another yardstick by which sin’s three compartments can also be gauged. Do you believe that you have free will or not? Those who believe that they have free will should read the Myth of Free Will available on the home page. It is a real eye opener!
Peace to you
Arcturus :)
marycee:
If Christ lives in you, He is Lord. Compartmentalising sin is living under the Old Covenant. Under the New Covenant, we obey the Lordship of Christ. That Lordship is based in the Love of God, Agape, which is to rule over the heart in all things.
Falconn003:
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I do how ever enjoy the wonderful firey Spirit.
God bless
Rodger
PKnowler:
I agree with you Marycee that what may be a sin to one person is not sin to another. So it can be hard to give advice to other Christians regarding sin unless it is a universal sin. God judges the motives of our heart where others can't see. It is good to have a fellowship of believers you trust though to be able to bounce things off of. Sometimes it helps me to work through an issue if I can talk to someone about it.
Blessings, Paula :)
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