Yes, I know how this works in the church these days, folks. You're the one's purposely watching naked people engage in explicit sex acts, but I'm the bad one here, lol. But I know that is where the church is these days.
Chances are many of you came into the church at the promise of God's grace in the forgiveness of sins, not also at the promise of God's grace in not wanting to be in bondage to sin anymore.
It took me until just recently what it was that was dividing the church into devout followers of Christ who defend right living and those who talk up the gospel of God's grace but who do not live it out. I think I now know the answer. Some of you did not come to Christ to be different people delivered from the things that condemned you as sinners separated from God. You came to him just for the forgiveness of sin, not in the desperate hope that you could be set free from your bondage to sin.
I don't necessarily blame the flock. I blame a very misguided and uneducated leadership who have misrepresented the gospel and who think they are doing right by luring unconverted and lukewarm people into the church with only one half of the gospel--the half about the forgiveness of sin, at the expense of the other half, the promise of the deliverance from the sin that a person should want to not walk in anymore and which should have been included in why they would want to come to Christ.
Secretariat is often called the greatest race horse ever to live; nobody has ever matched or broken his records. His actual owner makes a cameo in the movie, which starts by quoting the book of Job, and is quoted elsewhere in the movie as well. Oh dear, now we are going to have PHart breathing down our necks because betting is shown. War Horse is also a movie worth seeing, though it is a fictional story.
