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| 04/13/2013 recording date. audio/video is 9 minutes takes a few minutes to load so be patient please. Or just read ahead. Also the following week it is air on utube on turtle30cshell channel. Just type in website name when you got to utube. The Spirit Of Eternal Warfare Of Sin by turtle Coming from turtle30cshell.com, today I am your host Christina Farris. Talking on the eternal warfare that goes on in both sinner and Christian alike. We see the sin of others, and we know it wrong. It so easy to see the log in your brother’s eye or sister’s eye. Yet Christ came not to condemn but to save us from our sins. To truly be saved is not to be judge of your mistakes. Not to be judge at all. To state the truth of the affair Christians have with the world is to speak of sin of doing as the world does, to be friends of world. To be friends of the world is to say everything is okay. Go ahead and do what you doing it okay. It not speaking against those things which are wrong. Sometimes we have to look at the things we do that is wrong too. No one does everything right in the eyes of God, the church, godly parents, godly spouse, or even godly self. If we say we have not sin we make God a liar. No one is perfect, except God. God is the exception to all rules of imperfection, for God is the one that is perfect. He makes no mistakes, after all He got the map, the picture, the play book, and the set course to follow. We however only know about the map, the play book, picture, and the set course but we do not have all the compass points, pieces to the picture, acts or marks in the road. We only have God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit to teach us the way to go and how to find, each step, each piece, each scene, and each navigation point in life. How we react, how we define, how we interpret, each step, each piece, each scene and each navigational point in life, determines whether it fits into God map, picture, play book or set course to follow. Sometimes what we do does not fit in the plan of God for our lives and God cut those bad part out and throw them away because it just does not fit in God’s perfect plan. It does not mean it did not happen, it means the sin of our lives was cast out by the saving power of God. He trimmed away the bad to show only the good things in one’s life. What would it be like if we only told the good things in each others lives, or if the news only showed good stories with no warnings, or no crime. Our world would look perfect. Our world would look like the utopia we wish to live in. We see the events of lemons turning to lemonade instead of sour mash. We would see that life is glorious and no sorrow, but it be fooling ourselves with the judgment, argument, or lie that occurred. Though God desires us to live perfectly, He understand He created humanity not to be equal to Him and that why His Son death was so important. His blood poured out for us to cover or to hide our sin. Man first tried to hide sin, but God still found out. Adam and Eve garment only showed their sin more. God’s garment covered them in warmth and love before sending them into a world of trouble and destruction. He gave them a coat to help against the harsh elements of our world. God gave a second covering the blood covering that covers the sin that leads to spiritual life upon belief in His Son. He no longer looks on our nakedness of sin but see His Son precious blood that was poured out for you and me. If this is all God’s sees then why are we still looking beyond the saving grace of God in our brother’s and sister’s life. It is called the human factor without excuse. It called the human factor of not understanding they to have to deal with the world of sin and the thorns and briars in their own life. It the failure to see oneself as human and our brother and sister as equals. We were all made imperfect to be made perfect through our Savior Jesus Christ upon belief in His name. Today’s passage comes from James. Let us read today’s passage. James 4:1-17 KJV (1) From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? (2) Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. (3) Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. (4) Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. (5) Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? (6) But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. (7) Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. (8) Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. (9) Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. (10) Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up. (11) Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. (12) There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another? (13) Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: (14) Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. (15) For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. (16) But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. (17) Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin. Who are we to judge another, our job is clear we need to humble ourselves before God and draw nigh to God, looking at our brother’s and sister’s in the Lord with the same grace we have. Looking at the world and warning the world of sin. Not to say sin is okay, to say sin is okay is to encourage adultery against God. To encourage is sin in another person’s life is to be like in the movie the Christmas story where young Ralphie and his friends encourage another kid to stick his tongue on a pole in snowy cold weather to prove his tongue would not stick. Sin sticks to us like glue and only Christ can remove that glue. Our sin makes us a laughing stock to the world and tears of horror to the church world. Yet Christ grace is sufficient for all our needs. God giving more grace to some and less too others. How much grace has God given you with your backsliding, with your dancing with the world of sin, or just plan remaining in sin, when you know you should not sin. If you know to do good, do good. That’s simple. Yet to recognize it for what it is and come before God with a humble heart is not always so easy, but when we do we will also draw close God and God will lift us and stand us to our feet. Dear Heavenly Father help me not to judge my brother and sister in Christ but to judge sin for what it is. In Jesus precious name, Amen. |
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