Colossians 3:5-7
Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry. For it is because of these things that the wrath of God will come upon the sons of disobedience, and in the you also once walked, when you were living in them.
Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry. For it is because of these things that the wrath of God will come upon the sons of disobedience, and in the you also once walked, when you were living in them.
It is astonishing how the Gospel never gets old. How can one get tired of something that mankind still cannot fully comprehend. It boggles the mind to think that God Himself would save sinners like us through the person and work of His only begotten Son Jesus Christ.
Ah, true love. Self-sacrifice. Love, not with mere words, but with action to keep it strong.
O How wonderful it is for the children of God to know that the Eternal Son has propitiated the wrath of God so that we might fellowship and have a relationship with the One who loved us first.
While we glory in the cross of Christ, we still must remember one thing, we are still on this earth. The finite flesh still surrounds us and sin is crouching at the door ready to devour all who embrace it.
O How easy it is to cave! How easy it is to rationalize! We have become infatuated with traveling on the simple road of compromise where sin abounds ever so much and men are happy with wallowing in the filth of their sin. This sin in which they are ignorant of. Yet on the other hand, others are quite aware of their predicament. They are fully aware yet have embraced the rubbish and have consumed the waste of this world. They continually neglect the consequences of such a lifestyle...
Brethren, may we never put on the old ways that God has instructed us to put off lay aside. Indeed, new creations are called to live a life contra to what was former. Surely, we must remember the words of Thomas Watson when he stated that,
Ah, true love. Self-sacrifice. Love, not with mere words, but with action to keep it strong.
O How wonderful it is for the children of God to know that the Eternal Son has propitiated the wrath of God so that we might fellowship and have a relationship with the One who loved us first.
While we glory in the cross of Christ, we still must remember one thing, we are still on this earth. The finite flesh still surrounds us and sin is crouching at the door ready to devour all who embrace it.
O How easy it is to cave! How easy it is to rationalize! We have become infatuated with traveling on the simple road of compromise where sin abounds ever so much and men are happy with wallowing in the filth of their sin. This sin in which they are ignorant of. Yet on the other hand, others are quite aware of their predicament. They are fully aware yet have embraced the rubbish and have consumed the waste of this world. They continually neglect the consequences of such a lifestyle...
Brethren, may we never put on the old ways that God has instructed us to put off lay aside. Indeed, new creations are called to live a life contra to what was former. Surely, we must remember the words of Thomas Watson when he stated that,
"It is better to go with difficulty to heaven than with ease to hell."
Not that we keep ourselves from hell by good works alone, but we must remember that it takes much Godly discipline and spiritual-mindedness to deny the desires of the flesh. We cannot do this on our own! And we must not attempt to do so. It takes guidance from heaven and the power of the Gospel pull a depraved man from his folly. It is by the Gospel alone where a dead man can be raised into new life and come before God justified and cleansed from all transgressions past, present, and future.
Grace never grants us a license to sin! I pray that we never approach sin with the motive to abuse such glorious grace!
Righteousness. Our spirits are willing but the flesh is weak. What must we do to be free from this bondage?
You cannot do anything. God must do everything.
Surely one must not approach this like the fatalist who take no responsibility for their actions! We are called to confess our sins and God is faithful and just to forgive us. Surely God has planned to accomplish much through His children all for His glory and good pleasure.
Saints, be strong in the faith. Hold fast to the word and desire Godliness above all things. Not that we lord it over others, but so that our testimony will not be hindered and that we may be found blameless before God knowing that we accountable to Him and Him alone. Our obedience does not soil or defile the name of Christ, it magnifies it. May the name of Christ never be put to shame by those who are called His children!
So I ask you, stay alert brethren. Desire God above all that this world has to offer. It is easy give in, and all are struggling, but the Lord is with us and He shall see us through to the end. May we never turn our back on Him.
"May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it?" (Romans 6:2)
How can you who died to sin... still live in it?
Really, how could you?
How could WE?
Grace never grants us a license to sin! I pray that we never approach sin with the motive to abuse such glorious grace!
Righteousness. Our spirits are willing but the flesh is weak. What must we do to be free from this bondage?
You cannot do anything. God must do everything.
Surely one must not approach this like the fatalist who take no responsibility for their actions! We are called to confess our sins and God is faithful and just to forgive us. Surely God has planned to accomplish much through His children all for His glory and good pleasure.
Saints, be strong in the faith. Hold fast to the word and desire Godliness above all things. Not that we lord it over others, but so that our testimony will not be hindered and that we may be found blameless before God knowing that we accountable to Him and Him alone. Our obedience does not soil or defile the name of Christ, it magnifies it. May the name of Christ never be put to shame by those who are called His children!
So I ask you, stay alert brethren. Desire God above all that this world has to offer. It is easy give in, and all are struggling, but the Lord is with us and He shall see us through to the end. May we never turn our back on Him.
"May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it?" (Romans 6:2)
How can you who died to sin... still live in it?
Really, how could you?
How could WE?
