Good point. Better to simply confess everything to the Messiah and let him take it to sort out. Then we would be naturally inclined to do better from an overwhelming sense of gratitude, instead of living life with the pervasive threat of failure, guilt, and condemnation hanging over our heads.
If the result is that we view and therefore treat others with more grace, understanding, and compassion (as these were generously bestowed upon us), then we can know unequivocally that something went perfectly right.
You just can't get these fruits of the Spirit over the phone.
Matthew 22:36-40
36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38 This is the first and great commandment.
39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
"Hang". Good word there. Colossians 2-3.
Better to simply confess everything to the Messiah and let him take it to sort out. Then we would be naturally inclined to do better from an overwhelming sense of gratitude, instead of living life with the pervasive threat of failure, guilt, and condemnation hanging over our heads.
If the result is that we view and therefore treat others with more grace, understanding, and compassion (as these were generously bestowed upon us), then we can know unequivocally that something went perfectly right.
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Well said! We are to confess with our mouths that Jesus is LORD, believe in our hearts that God raised Him from the dead, and follow His Commandments. Day-to-day Commandments are provided by His Holy Spirit dwelling in each of us as believers.
As God would have it, Hal Lindsey’s weekly broadcast addresses this issue precisely, and Biblically.