PANDEMIC OF SIN

PANDEMIC OF SIN

Ask The Pastor - June 7, 2020

Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in CHRIST JESUS (Col 1:28)

Be ye therefore perfect, even as your FATHER which is in heaven is perfect. (St. Matthew 5:48)

Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou ME?….it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. (Acts 9:4-5)

...who art thou, LORD?…what wilt thou have me to do?...(Acts 9:5, 6)

…which is CHRIST in you, the hope of glory (Col 1:27)

I in them, and THOU in ME, that they may be made perfect in one… (St. John 17:23)

Patient, Loving, Sweet, Wonderful, Gentle

Put GOD first

Start your day out with GOD

…The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance (Galatians 5:22-23)

Be Patient, and put GOD first

Did man have to know evil?

And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it (Genesis 2:16-17)

With GOD, there is no evil

GOD did not create evil

For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household. (St. Matthew 10:35-36)

GOD has all that man needs

Perfection:  would have to be CHRIST in us

There is no evil in GOD

GOD does not put evil in men

If the first birth of man is imperfect,

the second birth would have to be perfect,

or there would be no need to be born again

If the second birth has sin in it,

there would be no need to be born again

Marvel not that I said unto thee, ye must be born again. (St. John 3:7)

How could the second birth be the same as the first birth?

It took the SAVIOR, JESUS CHRIST to get us out of the predicament of sin

A pandemic

We have a SAVIOR who's freed us,

now we do good, living like JESUS would have us to live

satan influenced Eve's actions

If the first birth has sin in it (which is death),

Why would there be a need for a second birth

if we keep on sinning,

...still under the influence of satan?

…the wages of sin is death; but the gift of GOD is eternal life through JESUS CHRIST our LORD. (Romans 6:23)

People say:

"no one is perfect"

"no one can live without sin"

"you sin, I sin, everybody sins"

Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. (Job 14:1)

…it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment (Hebrews 9:27)

For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of GOD (Romans 3:23)

If when we're born again, all power of heaven is in us, if the Holy Ghost is in us,

and we fall short of the glory of GOD, then what type of Holy Ghost is in us?

(that is the fullness of GOD) the fulness of GOD is in CHRIST

And ye are complete in HIM…

For in HIM dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. (Col 2:10, 9)

If the second birth has sin in it, then what salvation do we claim?

for what purpose?

If a man can't move from death (wages of sin), there is no salvation in his life

If the gift of GOD is eternal life - 

that eternal life is in us NOW! 

Can eternal life have sin in it???

If the second birth does not take us out of sin

what is the purpose of our salvation in CHRIST?

what is the purpose of being born again,

if we still sin?

But CHRIST frees us totally from sin

Put GOD first in your mind

for CHRIST's sake

be patient

be hopeful

be thankful

be prayerful