Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Be-Attitudes - Mourning pt. 2
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Be-Attitudes - Mourning pt. 2
Paul talked about this in Romans 6, about how we shouldn’t try and misuse or misappropriate the grace of God by thinking it gives us the right to keep on sinning.
By no means, in truth, the grace of God is not a license to sin, but rather the power of God to overcome sin.
At this point, our plea should be: “Father, help me love the things you love and hate the things you hate.”
You see, God loves people, but He hates sin.
He loves people, but He hates pride, and so should we.
It is important to note at this point that mourning over sin and various sins will come in different stages for the believer.
For example, One believer may be convicted heavily about lying or gossiping, while another believer may be convicted of telling dirty jokes. Now all of these things, when taken at face value are not good things and could certainly be considered sinful, but we must always remember that unless the Holy Spirit convicts of sin, there isn’t going to be any true change.
In other words, it is not our job to go about fault-finding or telling people what we think they should or shouldn’t be working on, or what we believe to be the most deplorable sins in their lives.
Each of us must work out our own salvation with fear and trembling and walk in the amount of light the Lord is currently giving us.
Know this, as we mature in the Lord, we may get victory over some of the more visible and outward sins like stealing or cussing but then Holy Spirit will then begin dealing with us with things like motives, thoughts, the things that are less visible to others and even to us oftentimes.
We will never outgrow the Holy Spirit’s conviction nor will we ever come close to perfection on this side of glory, the ultimate goal being to be more and more like Jesus every day.
I want to end today’s encouragement with a verse found in 1 John 1:7
Keeping this scripture verse in mind, it will help us stay on the right track, with a proper view of sin and a love for others!
“But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.” NKJV
View all episodes
By Joshua Scott ZeitzPaul talked about this in Romans 6, about how we shouldn’t try and misuse or misappropriate the grace of God by thinking it gives us the right to keep on sinning.
By no means, in truth, the grace of God is not a license to sin, but rather the power of God to overcome sin.
At this point, our plea should be: “Father, help me love the things you love and hate the things you hate.”
You see, God loves people, but He hates sin.
He loves people, but He hates pride, and so should we.
It is important to note at this point that mourning over sin and various sins will come in different stages for the believer.
For example, One believer may be convicted heavily about lying or gossiping, while another believer may be convicted of telling dirty jokes. Now all of these things, when taken at face value are not good things and could certainly be considered sinful, but we must always remember that unless the Holy Spirit convicts of sin, there isn’t going to be any true change.
In other words, it is not our job to go about fault-finding or telling people what we think they should or shouldn’t be working on, or what we believe to be the most deplorable sins in their lives.
Each of us must work out our own salvation with fear and trembling and walk in the amount of light the Lord is currently giving us.
Know this, as we mature in the Lord, we may get victory over some of the more visible and outward sins like stealing or cussing but then Holy Spirit will then begin dealing with us with things like motives, thoughts, the things that are less visible to others and even to us oftentimes.
We will never outgrow the Holy Spirit’s conviction nor will we ever come close to perfection on this side of glory, the ultimate goal being to be more and more like Jesus every day.
I want to end today’s encouragement with a verse found in 1 John 1:7
Keeping this scripture verse in mind, it will help us stay on the right track, with a proper view of sin and a love for others!
“But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.” NKJV