Just to clarify on my last post. I think I made it sound like condemnation is a natural feeling you have to just get over by yourself. I made it sound like, if you're aware you're a sinner then deal with it. Jesus has done the job so get on with real life, man. Well, I really just wanted to get across this immense feeling that forgiveness is not telling you it's ok, and it's not telling you that all is forgotten. The last thing God does is forgive and forget. He forgives you, but that is a pain borne by Christ that makes reconciliation possible. If He forgot you ever did anything wrong, He wouldn't be loving, He'd be utterly dumb.
Jesus knows you're screwed up. He was tempted in every way but didn't sin. It means He knows the struggles faced, so we have someone who can sympathise with us. Sin is bigger than you, but Jesus is bigger than that. If God is in you, which He is because the Holy Spirit indwells all those who believe in His glorious Gospel, then you can beat sin. That's something to have immense peace about. When Paul says don't sin, he knows it's not as easy as ABC, but, to quote the controversial man of the time, Todd Bentley, "I don't think about sinning when I'm singing spirit-filled songs of praise to God."
I have to agree with Todd on that one. That may cause a rift between some Evangelicals, because if a man is slightly wrong on one thing we shouldn't listen to him at all. But I am a firm believer of seperating the wheat from the chaff.
Interesting to feel like I'm side-tracking when in fact this fits right in; God takes your good, that is in you by His grace, and increases it. What is rubbish, worthless, offensive, etc. He burns away with His Holy fire. The pain of forgiveness is like a burning, but it was either Him or you, right? And Jesus took that pain so you didn't have to. So the sin is considered as dealt with, and you can feel free to be burned in a furnace to get rid of the crap, and refine your very self into what God wants you to be.
That's enough clarification for one day.
Jesus knows you're screwed up. He was tempted in every way but didn't sin. It means He knows the struggles faced, so we have someone who can sympathise with us. Sin is bigger than you, but Jesus is bigger than that. If God is in you, which He is because the Holy Spirit indwells all those who believe in His glorious Gospel, then you can beat sin. That's something to have immense peace about. When Paul says don't sin, he knows it's not as easy as ABC, but, to quote the controversial man of the time, Todd Bentley, "I don't think about sinning when I'm singing spirit-filled songs of praise to God."
I have to agree with Todd on that one. That may cause a rift between some Evangelicals, because if a man is slightly wrong on one thing we shouldn't listen to him at all. But I am a firm believer of seperating the wheat from the chaff.
Interesting to feel like I'm side-tracking when in fact this fits right in; God takes your good, that is in you by His grace, and increases it. What is rubbish, worthless, offensive, etc. He burns away with His Holy fire. The pain of forgiveness is like a burning, but it was either Him or you, right? And Jesus took that pain so you didn't have to. So the sin is considered as dealt with, and you can feel free to be burned in a furnace to get rid of the crap, and refine your very self into what God wants you to be.
That's enough clarification for one day.
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