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Putting God’s Seal of Approval on your Sin

“Putting God’s seal of approval on you Sin for an Excuse”

How many times have you said “God understands me?” What about the statement “He’s still working on me,” as to say He understands me? So its ok when we quote the word as our justifying weapon. “Christ died for me true enough, but I’m only human!” Being human does not give you the unction to continue to sin.

Romans 3:23-24

For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

“We all are sinners, saved by grace,” is the statement we hear people say right after they’ve sinned. But those are just excuses to justify what they’re doing. How long does it take one not to sin? The same length of time it takes to do the sin. The reason we can’t say no to sin is because we’re so busy saying yes to the mess. Some people want to stay in their mess, because they’re at home in their mess. You ever seen pigs, out in the field, jumping up and having a good time? But as soon as they get to a mud puddle, they roll in and and make funny noises. Don’t you know you you’re in a mess? The pig looks up and says, what a mess it is. Some people like to write stores about their mess. They are enjoying their mess. God is still working on me. I’m just a new Child of God and I’m just getting use to God’s rule. I’m not talking about the world, I’m talking about saints, trying to put God’s seal of approval on their mess. How long do you stay short of His glory?

Romans 8:33-34

Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he
that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.

We can not go on thinking its ok to go on and sin and think Christ will just be born again through Mary and go through the entire process again. Every time you do a mess, you put Him up on the cross, and then you lie about it and try to justify it. If you are a sinner, don’t half step it. If your going to sin, go all the way.

Hebrews 10:22-27

Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;) And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.

Do you know how to get back in the graces of God? Or are you still living in that same mess you were in before? If we willfully sin, Christ won’t get back on the cross again. The wages of sin is death. Not a physical death, but a death of the soul.

1 Peter 4:1-6

Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries: Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you: Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead. For this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.

One must remember that Jesus dying on the cross wasn’t for us to continue in our old ways that we had in the world nor to justify our weakness in our sinful nature or revive sin that we can’t seem to get over.

1 Corinthians 6:8-11

Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren. Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

 

This not to your condemnation but to your salvation in Christ Jesus.

Hebrews 3:6-8

But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end. Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

In my conclusion: Know this the time is now that when you hear the Rhema in “Greek means utterance” words of truth of Jesus and those words become Zao in Greek meaning “ living or alive “ to you, then you need to live it while there is life in your body!

The Conflict of Your Christian Life

James 2:1-26, James 3:1-18

We constantly have some sort of conflict that takes place in our lives; jobs, neighbors, families, etc. As believers in Christ we are constantly conflicting. The Easter holiday is upon us, and as Christians we are conflicting with each other concerning whether or not Easter is a valid and biblical holiday to celebrate. On one end of the spectrum we believe Easter has direct ties to Jesus death, burial, and resurrection. On another end of the spectrum, we believe that Easter is steeped in extra biblical traditions that have infiltrated the biblical Feast days of Passover and Unleavened Bread. As believers, we have to get back to what is Biblical.

Who is a Christian, who isn’t a Christian? James 2:1-15 says we should not have respect of persons, yet we do. We should give the needy what they need, yet we don’t. If we have the necessities for ailing people, we should provide them. Yet, we’d rather pray that they get food, or clothes, when we have food and clothes ready to give to them. Then on the other hand, we turn around and ask God for something. Do you think He’ll give us what we’ve asked for if we can’t help the needy for necessities that we have readily? Further, do you think the person you are praying for will even turn their mind to think on Jesus? This becomes a conflict of your salvation and puts your compassion in question.

Faith without works is dead.

These two can not exist a part from on another. If you are a believer, then why are you doing things opposite of what a Child of God does? Here are a list of things that Christians may go through in their walk that cause them to have conflicts:

1) Christian behavior Romans 13
2) Sin Romans 6:1
3) To live holy or not, that is the question, James 2:1-26, 3:1-18, James 4:1-17
4) Flesh and spirit, Romans 8:1,2,4-14
5) The voice of Jesus, People have conflict with this because they can’t determine if its Jesus or not talking to them. Matthew 16:17, John 10:27, Act 9:1-18, Job 1-7
6) Lust, James 1:14-15, Ephesians 2:3, 2 Timothy 2:22, Titus 3:1-4, James 4: 1-10
7) To pray or not to pray, Matthew 6:7, Mark 11:24, Luke 18:1, Luke 22:40-46, 1 Thessalonians 5:17

The word conflict means war or clash. The greek word for conflict is athlesis, which means a combat, struggle or fight.