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But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." -Romans 8:5 [FONT=Arial, sans-serif]
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A lot of believers who have been in the faith for awhile have heard this verse and they understand the simple truth to it, Christ died for us while we were still sinners. What the Lord is really stirring in my heart is that there is a lack of clarity. There is a lack of truth in the hearts of believers that are dealing with sin. I see condemnation in the believers’ life when they fall to sin. I know this by first hand experience. The bible says, "Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus." When we don't know the truth we become deceived, the very thing that happened to Adam and Eve. I am writing this with the belief that you have dealt or dealing with some sort of condemnation or pain to falling in any sort of sin. If not, praise the Lord. In Romans 8:1, It tells us there is no condemnation in Christ, what happens is when we sin we beat ourselves up. At the time of us falling to sin if you ask that person when they look in the mirror do they see themselves being righteous they answer will most likely be no. Now if you ask them if they are a Christian they will then respond most likely, yes. That’s when we have become tricked, and deceived. Because we become a Christian by faith, its the same way as becoming righteous in Christ, is by faith. When we fall to sin we have to get up. Staying down disqualifies us from service to God, pushes off an intimate relationship with God and many other things that make us fall to sin. That’s when the devil wins. The devil wants you to stay down, you fell to sin but yet the devil is keeping you from so much more. We cannot be perfect, but we can have an intimate relationship with the Father all the time. That's one thing the devil can't stop. Sin can lead us in a path that’s so far from why Christ died. We stop ourselves from knowing and believing we are still righteous. That is the truth, because we live by faith. Who are we to say, ‘I need to get right with God’ when we feel unrighteous or unworthy, Jesus died for that sin, He adopted us. We have son ship now; our Father is always going to love us no matter how many times we wrong Him. He will always be our Father; We were born again into faith, faith that makes us righteous. When we are in a relationship with God we need to tell Him everything and know His love never changes, He will still love you. God is never ashamed of you like you are about yourself. See yourself in the way God does. No longer do we live in our old ways, we are in Him, and He is in US!
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A lot of believers who have been in the faith for awhile have heard this verse and they understand the simple truth to it, Christ died for us while we were still sinners. What the Lord is really stirring in my heart is that there is a lack of clarity. There is a lack of truth in the hearts of believers that are dealing with sin. I see condemnation in the believers’ life when they fall to sin. I know this by first hand experience. The bible says, "Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus." When we don't know the truth we become deceived, the very thing that happened to Adam and Eve. I am writing this with the belief that you have dealt or dealing with some sort of condemnation or pain to falling in any sort of sin. If not, praise the Lord. In Romans 8:1, It tells us there is no condemnation in Christ, what happens is when we sin we beat ourselves up. At the time of us falling to sin if you ask that person when they look in the mirror do they see themselves being righteous they answer will most likely be no. Now if you ask them if they are a Christian they will then respond most likely, yes. That’s when we have become tricked, and deceived. Because we become a Christian by faith, its the same way as becoming righteous in Christ, is by faith. When we fall to sin we have to get up. Staying down disqualifies us from service to God, pushes off an intimate relationship with God and many other things that make us fall to sin. That’s when the devil wins. The devil wants you to stay down, you fell to sin but yet the devil is keeping you from so much more. We cannot be perfect, but we can have an intimate relationship with the Father all the time. That's one thing the devil can't stop. Sin can lead us in a path that’s so far from why Christ died. We stop ourselves from knowing and believing we are still righteous. That is the truth, because we live by faith. Who are we to say, ‘I need to get right with God’ when we feel unrighteous or unworthy, Jesus died for that sin, He adopted us. We have son ship now; our Father is always going to love us no matter how many times we wrong Him. He will always be our Father; We were born again into faith, faith that makes us righteous. When we are in a relationship with God we need to tell Him everything and know His love never changes, He will still love you. God is never ashamed of you like you are about yourself. See yourself in the way God does. No longer do we live in our old ways, we are in Him, and He is in US!