more about the sermon on Sunday.
Today, don't turn away from this message or dismiss it as Christian rhetoric. It is indeed the words of life and true change. I know. I have practiced them for as long as I can remember and through some very awful storms of others addictions including my own struggles with sin.
i liked that the 12 steps were reviewed. certainly every human on earth belongs to the fallen since adam & eve. we are broken in some way - every single one. the good news is there is way to live despite the flaws. media, entertainers, liberal thinkers all try to erase this brokenness by appearing on the outside that they have their life together. from previous posts about friends, even famous ones, this is not true. it's a deception to think anyone on earth has answers.
now i know a few reading this blog may write me off because of disbelief in the adam & eve or scriptural telling of earths beginnings. if someone has anything that explains life on earth better than that, tell me about it. for now i without a shadow of a doubt know there is a God who created this world and all mankind. he is present and gave us the Scriptures to learn and live by. most of all he gave his SON to show us the way to God.
The pastor asked us all to look inside, to review our own addictions, especially if we weren't partaking of the major ones. admittance of our "sin."
CLICK FOR DEFINITION OF SIN A sin is this "Sin, then, is to transgress those boundaries God has set for us or to miss the target He set for us. Scott Ashley states in the website sited " In our struggle to avoid and overcome sin, it is vital that we understand exactly what it is. Let's see how the Bible defines sin."
in our lives we are to minimize sins that have mastery over us. i choose not to be a slave to alcohol, drugs, sex, or gambling. that came from seeing to many others fall into that nasty net of need. i do struggle with other things always working to be slave only to the righteousness of God spelled out in the holy scriptures.
A summary the four steps:
1. FIND A WAY TO FREE YOURSELF FROM SIN. Sin being a slave to something that ultimately ends in destruction on earth and into eternity. If you are in Christ (being born again by accepting Him as Savior) you are set free from sin.
2. ADMIT YOU HAVE A PROBLEM. It begins by knowing your weakness and where you are enslaved. Confess it and be cleansed.
3. CONSIDER YOURSELF DEAD TO THAT ADDICTION/SIN. If Christ be your master, then nothing can take that place. Salvation is health to the soul, mind and body.
4. DON'T LET SIN MASTER YOU. To stay clean and free one must turn your life and will over to God. DAILY: Surrender yourself to him in total trust. He is a God of life & wholeness, of blessing and righteousness.
It's all summed up in the book of Romans. Click to hear more about
Book of Life.
"Do not continue offering yourself to sin, but offer yourself to God. Since we are under Grace from God sin cannot have dominion over us.. READ: Romans 6:12-14
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