Only those who live in the spirit will understand what you just posted there. It was excellent and spot on. Very well stated and succinct. If only all those who read that would understand. sigh
I know.
Been there, done that.
Agreed, however if some would just focus on the scripture verses given in metmoms post....and that before the Lord.... without any reference materials or commentaries....He would give them understanding of these truths if they truly want to know the truth....because He is the reveal-er of truth and wants them to know it.
No doubt about it that the ten commandments certainly convicted me of my sin...there was no escaping my failure to keep them, though I certainly attempted to play them down as I went along, I wasn't so bad....until that one verse which follows:
"If any man sins in one of the LEAST of these commandments, he is guilty of THEM ALL"
A ton of bricks fell on my head as I read that....will never forget the great sense of hopelessness, there was no escape or excuse or reasoning then.
I remembered not honoring my mom, the lie I told to avoid trouble, using the Lord's name in vain, and the sins just kept piling up in my mind as the pictures came to mind of occasions and events throughout my life.... Though I didn't realize it at that time, it was God's Spirit putting His finger on each one....and believe me there's no place to hide when He begins such a work....like a movie reel frame by frame in ones mind. I knew without question I was doomed.
The result of that was I went into a room alone, on bended knee and cried out to God.... that I was not leaving that room until I knew things were right between He and I...and that was the beginning of all which would follow.....well actually it really began when I picked up a large family bible and began to read.
For the word of God is living, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. .......Hebrews 4:12
...So shall my Word Be that Goes Forth Out of My Mouth: .....it shall not return to me void;... but it shall accomplish that which I please, ....and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it......Isaiah 55;10,11
Truth always has this power..... whether preached, ...or read, ...or communicated by conversation,.... or impressed upon the memory and conscience by the Holy Spirit. .....There can be no escape from the penetrating, searching application of the Word of God.