dW 06.06.08

scripture

 

Romans 6:6-7

For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin- because anyone who has died has been freed from sin.  

 

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thoughts

 

The Apostle Paul wrote this. It reads easy and sounds simple. However, if you are anything like me then you know that when you try to live for God the flesh gets in the way. Today as I read these verses above I am a bit discouraged. I realize that I am no longer dead in my sin but I want to experience the freedom from sin ultimately fulfilled, which means that I have to wait until I reach heaven. But in waiting there is struggle and strife, victory and failure, brokenness and healing – these cycles are not necessarily enjoyable. However, it is within these cycles that we learn dependency on God and are refined to be more like His Son.

 

scripture

 

Romans 5:1-5

Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.

 

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dW 06.03.08

scripture

 

James 4:17

Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it, sins.

 

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quote

 

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

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Jeremiah 29:13 "You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart."

RE: dW 06.02.08

Did Jesus say that there is absolutely no other way?

 

John 10:25B-30

“…The miracles I do in my Father's name speak for me, but you do not believe because you are not my sheep. My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father's hand. I and the Father are one."

 

John 14:6

Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”

 

Do you think that God would have favorite children? Or that he would “save” some but not to others?

 

I would not say that He has favorites. At least not with the connotation that “having favorites” has. Central to the Bible’s teaching is that Jesus came to save sinners from the justified punishment for their disobedience to God. God is a just judge and therefore must judge sin but He loved us so that He provided a means for people to establish a right relationship with Him, belief in Jesus Christ due His death and resurrection. This is very clearly spoken of here:

 

John3:16-18

"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.”

dW 06.02.08

scripture

 

John 10:1-2

Jesus speaking, “I tell you the truth, the man who does not enter the sheep pen by the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a robber. The man who enters by the gate is the shepherd of his sheep.

 

John 10:7-10

Therefore Jesus said again, "I tell you the truth, I am the gate for the sheep. All who ever came before me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. He will come in and go out, and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.

 

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quote

 

God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.

Sri Ramakrishna – Hindu guru (teacher)

 

thoughts

 

Through my world view, which is the Biblical Christian world view, all religions are not the same. Jesus was very clear about how we come to God. Christianity is exclusive in that it teaches that there is one way to God and that way is through Jesus Christ.