Why do you HATE sin?

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JosephsDreams

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So is it worse when a Christian sins, knows it is a sin, has the Holy Spirit screaming at him don't do it, but does anyway?
I don't think I sin more then the "other guy", but when I do, that is often the scenario. Just disregard for the Holy in me.
 
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Maybe this next statement might say something not so good about me, but when I shot off that reply, I did not feel completely good about it. The Holy Spirit was yelling at me, stop. I knew it, I was just upset I was called a quack, or it was implied. I went through a whole scenario in my mind. I am trying to help, I get paid for what I am putting here for free, this guy has no idea of what he is talking about, blah, blah, blah. A lot of me, me, me.
I felt good and bad at the same time I wrote it.
But even then I knew it was going to come back to bite me.
I never said that we don't wish we didn't do MANY things...... yet we do them. What's that say about whether or not we REALLY hate doing them?
 

BenFTW

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So is it worse when a Christian sins, knows it is a sin, has the Holy Spirit screaming at him don't do it, but does anyway?
I don't think I sin more then the "other guy", but when I do, that is often the scenario. Just disregard for the Holy in me.
You find peace in the grace of God. In Christ there is no condemnation. The Holy Spirit is bringing to the forefront of your mind who you are in Jesus Christ. Righteous! VVhen you sin you are not acting in accordance with who He has made you to be. A new creation. VVe have to renew our minds to who we are in Jesus Christ.

2 Corinthians 5:21King James Version (KJV)

21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
 
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Maybe this next statement might say something not so good about me, but when I shot off that reply, I did not feel completely good about it. The Holy Spirit was yelling at me, stop. I knew it, I was just upset I was called a quack, or it was implied. I went through a whole scenario in my mind. I am trying to help, I get paid for what I am putting here for free, this guy has no idea of what he is talking about, blah, blah, blah. A lot of me, me, me.
I felt good and bad at the same time I wrote it.
But even then I knew it was going to come back to bite me.
I think it says you are honest with yourself. And that is a good thing.
 

JosephsDreams

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I never said that we don't wish we didn't do MANY things...... yet we do them. What's that say about whether or not we REALLY hate doing them?
Are we all double minded to some extent?
 
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So is it worse when a Christian sins, knows it is a sin, has the Holy Spirit screaming at him don't do it, but does anyway?
I don't think I sin more then the "other guy", but when I do, that is often the scenario. Just disregard for the Holy in me.
This is why the Bible says the Holy Spirit convicts "the world", not us. Christians, He REMINDS of who and whose we are... of our righteousness IN CHRIST.
 
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Do you think you love as well as Christ does? Well, neither do we hate as well.
 
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ok..another day at the office

time to sin...er sign off
 

JosephsDreams

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This is why the Bible says the Holy Spirit convicts "the world", not us. Christians, He REMINDS of who and whose we are... of our righteousness IN CHRIST.
I can't ever thank God properly the way I would like to, which is to never sin and obey Him blindly. We are like filthy rags come clean by the blood of Jesus. It amazes me how atheists, and agnostics and non practicing Christians can rationalize their thoughts about this.
 
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I can't ever thank God properly the way I would like to, which is to never sin and obey Him blindly. We are like filthy rags come clean by the blood of Jesus. It amazes me how atheists, and agnostics and non practicing Christians can rationalize their thoughts about this.
I find it bothers me a lot less when I accept that God knows what I really desire to do in my heart, even if it doesn't make it to the surface sometimes.
 
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It's been a long day here. I'm headed for the shower.
 

JosephsDreams

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I am getting tired. I worked out for over 2 hours today. A bit long for me. Be blessed you'all
 
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This is why the Bible says the Holy Spirit convicts "the world", not us. Christians, He REMINDS of who and whose we are... of our righteousness IN CHRIST.
Yeah I hear ya. But,,,,,, If the Holy Spirit convicts us of righteousness, it makes sense to say that we are also convicted of what is unrighteous as well. If the Holy Spirit guides us into all truth , it makes sense to reason that the truth includes the truth about sin which should be convicting to any true believer right? John 16:13
 
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To me sin is the pain we create whether for ourselves or other's or both.....that is why i hate sin
 
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I find it bothers me a lot less when I accept that God knows what I really desire to do in my heart, even if it doesn't make it to the surface sometimes.
Sounds good anyway:p
 

azlightsout

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I find it bothers me a lot less when I accept that God knows what I really desire to do in my heart, even if it doesn't make it to the surface sometimes.
Or just take's a very long time to surface -- aint that the truth
 
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ladylynn

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We cut someone down on this forum (a lot of that happens all the time) Why? Because we don't want to attack and get even? No, because we just can't make our fingers fly fast enough on the keys to dash off that stinging reply.

Do we often feel bad after doing some of that stupid stuff? Of course.... BUT NOT AT THE MOMENT WE DO IT. In fact, if we could check, we would see our BP and heart rate are soaring during that great retort we typed.


Ohhhhhhhh but after we do it., the reality of grace we didn't give out is a stark reality and contrast. Even in our heart at the very moment we had the thought to demolish that other poster - is in the face of the grace Jesus gave and keeps giving us.,AND just gave us.

I'm often shocked at the thoughts and that racing BP and soaring heart rate I have when someone is mean to me at work. I think...Wow., where did THAT come from inside me!!!???? How could I have such anger when someone has simply treated me with disrespect? How could I have allowed their behavior to go straight to my inner person so fast to effect me?

Surly., I have a long way to go in the area of continually having my mind renewed and settled. And yet because of the finished work of Jesus and His imputed righteousness., God is not counting that sin against me!! HOW CAN THAT BE!!!??????

The truth that God's reality goes deeper and farther than mine is what braces me and keeps me steady. We live in this crazy confusing world full of disguised intentions of what people say and do. Not only others but even ourselves. Knowing the intentions of our heart is something the Bible tells us IT does as the Holy Spirit reveals truth in us. Perception and discernment come racing towards our hearts and minds as we do this life in these fleshly bodies. Our new spirit man God gave us at the time of our salvation is either dulled or sharpened depending on how much we have exposed ourselves to both the Word of God and the Spirit of God., and then applied the faith to believe it to hold us up moment by moment.

But the one thing that can't be missing in this journey is the grace of God. His grace goes deeper than ours. And it won't allow us to continue in sin.,even in the sins of the heart that no one else can see besides God.,and then us as He reveals it to us. Read the verses that describe the Word of God and what it does to us His sons. Many believers think God uses illness or death to discipline and or chasten His sons. What He uses is much more effective for the sons of God because that's what we now are.

Hebrews 4:12-13
[SUP]12 [/SUP]For the word of God is living and active and full of power [making it operative, energizing, and effective]. It is sharper than any two-edged [SUP][a][/SUP]sword, penetrating as far as the division of the [SUP][b][/SUP]soul and spirit [the completeness of a person], and of both joints and marrow [the deepest parts of our nature], exposing and judging the very thoughts and intentions of the heart. [SUP]13 [/SUP]And not a creature exists that is concealed from His sight, but all things are open and exposed, and revealed to the eyes of Him with whom we have to give account.


This is such a good topic and good post here BenFTW. Thanks for this thread. Especially the last paragraph.
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Why do you HATE sin?[/h]
"I hate myself." That at times has been the reverberation of my thoughts in self-reflection. This thread is asking for what reason do you hate sin? This question can be answered in consideration of others, but I'm going to take a different route. For me one of the biggest reasons I hate sin is because it haunts the mind.

Its always there, in memory, to remind us of how we have fallen short of God's glory. It attacks any innocence that we thought we had. In some ways the sins of the past are kept secret, never to be told because of the horrors we perceive would be upon the faces of the ones we love. This I hate about sin. It is a stain upon the conscience.

Along these same lines, I hate sin for the very reason that it gives ammunition to the accuser of the brethren. It equips the enemy to taunt, belittle, and condemn us. To throw us under the bus in a never ending onslaught of worthlessness. If we look in the mirror to see ourselves we most definitely do fall short of God's glory. Indeed, the beauty of God's holiness is awe inspiring. It makes my heart cry for sanctification and that is where there is hope.

The hope of the Lord bringing us through His process of sanctification is like a glimmer in the dark. There is light! There is hope. All that we have done in the past cannot define us, because present action speaks louder than an echo of the past. More importantly, His righteousness imputed stands at the forefront to tell the accuser of the brethren, "I've been set FREE!" It is Christ, in me. Its a renewing of the mind to identity. I am righteous, in Christ. The righteousness of God, imputed. I am a new creation! He says to be holy as He is holy and you bet with that command there is providence!

So yes, I hate sin but how I love God. How I love righteousness and holiness! Sin is sweet for a moment but the taste lingers until it is bitter and putrid. That is my cry today, God sanctify me! The past does not define me, it doesn't need to be brought up and pulled out as a skeleton from a closet. I am to reckon myself dead to sin and alive unto God. A new creation. To walk in who God has called me to be. Praise God that my sins of scarlet are as white as snow, the sins of crimson as white as wool. The blood of Christ has set me free and under God's grace sin's dominion is broken. Hallelujah.​


 
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So is it worse when a Christian sins, knows it is a sin, has the Holy Spirit screaming at him don't do it, but does anyway?
I don't think I sin more then the "other guy", but when I do, that is often the scenario. Just disregard for the Holy in me.
You have been justified and your spirit was made perfect and sealed,but men will see your sin as being worse since you are a Christian.

Hebrews 12:12-15
King James Version(KJV)

12.)Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;

13.)And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.

14.)Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

15.)Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
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I know that,that verse 14 a person has got to be saved by grace through faith but also, remember we should after salvation,present our bodies a living sacrifice.....

When people look at us hopefully they will see GOD In us and then we are like walking epistles and to GOD be the glory.
 
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jasonj

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So is it worse when a Christian sins, knows it is a sin, has the Holy Spirit screaming at him don't do it, but does anyway?
I don't think I sin more then the "other guy", but when I do, that is often the scenario. Just disregard for the Holy in me.

yes if you know what you are doing is wrong the word says " you will be beaten with many blows" if you don't know what you are doing is wrong " few". The more we accept that we are called to be holy people, the more the voice of the spirit is evident when we are in a situation where there is temptation. sin is just unacceptable to God, it put Jesus on the cross, caused His son to suffer horrible agony, not for His wrong, but just because God Loves us enough to make us a way to Live again. sin and also the idea that sin is acceptable or not a biggy, is deadly to the spirit of God in us