"You know that one thing?
God aint pleased with
He told you give it up
You wanna keep it
You got a million excuses, a million reasons but at the end of the day you still aint at peace yet..."
Pick It Up: Andy Mineo
"...And Jesus said, “I do not condemn you either. Go, and from now on do not sin any more." [John 8:11]
For if you have suffered physically for Christ, you have finished with sin.
[I Peter 4:1]
When I proposed this idea to my circle, I got a giant mix bag of responses. "Do you think you're just as good as Jesus?" "Do you think you can actually go your whole life without sinning, in that case why do you need Jesus if you're perfect?" was generally the jist of the responses.
I've been working on this idea for a while now, nearly four months, and in the greatest ways God revealed my answer.
There is a …show more content…
but even though you clear your history, your past isn't clean. You have still broken the laws and commandments of God, just as I. This is why we don't have the righteousness to save ourselves.
God is calling us out of temptation, God is calling us to freedom. He says "For my yoke is easy to bear, and the burden I give you is light." [Matthew 11:30] Weight is a perspective thing, and what is heavy to one person could be light to another. Jesus went through the wrath of God to bring us to this freedom, and to me, when put in perspective our lives are pretty easy in comparison.
There is such a shadow that we cast on people when we tell them that it will be impossible for them to kick their sins. The addicts and the beaten down, are beat down even more by their church, by the ones they trust. God is calling that person to freedom and when you limit God like that it hurts people. If God can create the world in six days, I think God has the power bring someone a choice to sin or not and provide them a way out with his name alone. [Romans
God aint pleased with
He told you give it up
You wanna keep it
You got a million excuses, a million reasons but at the end of the day you still aint at peace yet..."
Pick It Up: Andy Mineo
"...And Jesus said, “I do not condemn you either. Go, and from now on do not sin any more." [John 8:11]
For if you have suffered physically for Christ, you have finished with sin.
[I Peter 4:1]
When I proposed this idea to my circle, I got a giant mix bag of responses. "Do you think you're just as good as Jesus?" "Do you think you can actually go your whole life without sinning, in that case why do you need Jesus if you're perfect?" was generally the jist of the responses.
I've been working on this idea for a while now, nearly four months, and in the greatest ways God revealed my answer.
There is a …show more content…
but even though you clear your history, your past isn't clean. You have still broken the laws and commandments of God, just as I. This is why we don't have the righteousness to save ourselves.
God is calling us out of temptation, God is calling us to freedom. He says "For my yoke is easy to bear, and the burden I give you is light." [Matthew 11:30] Weight is a perspective thing, and what is heavy to one person could be light to another. Jesus went through the wrath of God to bring us to this freedom, and to me, when put in perspective our lives are pretty easy in comparison.
There is such a shadow that we cast on people when we tell them that it will be impossible for them to kick their sins. The addicts and the beaten down, are beat down even more by their church, by the ones they trust. God is calling that person to freedom and when you limit God like that it hurts people. If God can create the world in six days, I think God has the power bring someone a choice to sin or not and provide them a way out with his name alone. [Romans