Sin Is Nasty Business

[TrueFollowerOfChrist]

On 10/19/2023 at 6:34 AM, Starise said:

Being sinners by nature, I think we sometimes fail to see it for what it really is. We tend to quantify sin, as if stealing that pen at work is a lesser offense. In the grand scheme it's all the same thing, but God seems to be especially upset with sexual immorality of all kinds. I only say this because it's pointed out repeatedly above some of the others. 

God also hates liars and back biters. It's all nasty business no doubt. As saved believers God is weeding those things out of us and we desire to do what is right.

Have you ever seen a person who engaged in some of these activities later in life? The alchoholic has a bad liver or kills someone in a car accident, the sexually loose end up empty old people, maybe with a sexually transmitted disease, multiple divorces, a family with children from multiple fathers.A woman who thought the answer was an abortion. Utter devastation.

So why do some people continue to thrive on all of this? Look where it all leads. Jesus is the answer.

I think it's because people don't want to submit to a higher authority. They want their freedom to choose, and are willing to even choose wrongly if it means an independent choice apart from what God is telling them to do. Of course sin is very tempting because it's pleasurable. If it wasn't it would be pretty easy to not sin. It's very difficult to follow God's will in our lives because our old nature is still with us and will always fight against God's will.

[Starise]

10 hours ago, TrueFollowerOfChrist said:

I think it's because people don't want to submit to a higher authority. They want their freedom to choose, and are willing to even choose wrongly if it means an independent choice apart from what God is telling them to do. Of course sin is very tempting because it's pleasurable. If it wasn't it would be pretty easy to not sin. It's very difficult to follow God's will in our lives because our old nature is still with us and will always fight against God's will.

Sad but true, and when they make that choice it's all downhill from there. Sin is only temporarily pleasurable. Wouldn't you agree?

[Your closest friendnt]

18 hours ago, TrueFollowerOfChrist said:

I think it's because people don't want to submit to a higher authority. They want their freedom to choose, and are willing to even choose wrongly if it means an independent choice apart from what God is telling them to do. Of course sin is very tempting because it's pleasurable. If it wasn't it would be pretty easy to not sin. It's very difficult to follow God's will in our lives because our old nature is still with us and will always fight against God's will.

The main point is how to enter Heaven and how to know that someone is eligible to enter Heaven while he yet lives. This is demonstrated in the book of Acts with Paul and the man in Philipi, the man in Paul's vision, the Macedonian man the Warden of the prison Paul was in as an inmate.

This man got to believe that Paul and the disciples with him it was truth that they were indeed saved from the God of the Dead Hades according to the preaching of Paul that there is a new Inheritance for Mankind the Heavenly Inheritance in Jesus Christ. And this is why the Warden asked how he can also be saved from Hades. And Paul told him that he does not have to do anything to earn his way to Heaven but only to believe in Jesus Christ, as Paul protrade him in his preaching. When Paul said to him: "Believe in Jesus Christ and you will be saved". By that time the Warden had heard and he had witnessed enough to want to have what Paul and the other disciples had which was a Heavenly Inheritance and at the time of their death they know that they are going to Heaven. 

This is why Paul told him to believe in Jesus Christ and that Jesus has died for all including his wife and children and the rest of his family, which is that God has included the "Gentiles" in this blessing...because everyone whom the Warden had encounter as being saved from Hades that far were Jewish, which were Paul and the other disciples with him.

Paul further explained to him a lot of things about the faith which are not written down.

Edited October 23, 2023 by Your closest friendnt

[TrueFollowerOfChrist]

5 hours ago, Starise said:

Sad but true, and when they make that choice it's all downhill from there. Sin is only temporarily pleasurable. Wouldn't you agree?

Absolutely. Sin always looks enticing from the outside. But then once you partake you realize how horrible it is. Unfortunately most of us are very hard-headed and the next time that sin is presented before us we forget how bad it tasted the last time, or we think it might just be a little bit different this time.

[Starise]

On 10/23/2023 at 4:02 PM, TrueFollowerOfChrist said:

Absolutely. Sin always looks enticing from the outside. But then once you partake you realize how horrible it is. Unfortunately most of us are very hard-headed and the next time that sin is presented before us we forget how bad it tasted the last time, or we think it might just be a little bit different this time.

This in and of itself should be reason enough to realize they are sinners. The first step toward salvation. I hate this, I love this, I hate this, I love this, I'm dead. Let's break the cycle.