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What is your motivation for resisting temptation to sin? - 11/13/2008 6:33:25 PM
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jbow
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Are you motivated to resist temptation by a fear of hell or are you motivated by a fear of being put to open shame or is it because you are miserable when you sin or is it because you want to please God or is it something else or a combination? Also, how long have you been in the faith? Look in your heart and be honest...
For me it is an evolving combination of all. Mostly it is because I am tired of being miserable, I have learned that God isn't going to disown me, so i'm not afraid of hell anymore... getting past fear of rejection by God brought me to the point of dealing with pleasing God and having either joy and peace or being miserable all the time.
I cannot say it is because I don't want to sin because, obviously, if I didn't want to sin there would be no battle, nothing to overcome. Yes, on one level, in the Spirit I don't want to sin but on another, in the flesh, it's all I want to do. So, I have to live by faith understanding grace and stay close to my Lord to have victory but what is your motivation right now? Where are you in your walk with the Lord?
What motivates you to resist sin?
Julien
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RE: What is your motivation for resisting temptation to... - 11/13/2008 6:49:09 PM
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I have been in the faith for 22 years and it has and continues to be a gradual maturing in Christ process for me. My battle with sin is not so much in the flesh, but it is in struggling against cynicism, pessimism, addressing ignorance, stupidity, arrogance, and my own anger over public hypocrisy.
My motivation to overcome that is humility. When I get on my high-horse, God always, ALWAYS shows me where I am no better and in my very struggle against it, God generally shows me where I am every bit as guilty as my accused.
Humility. With humility comes peace, contentment, love..................
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RE: What is your motivation for resisting temptation to... - 11/13/2008 11:26:03 PM
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I hate sin because:
7. It instills memories I must deal with
6. It muddies up my life
5. I don't like dealing with the result of sin
4. It makes me feel guilty, because I am guilty
3. It makes me feel stinkin' rotten
2. It messes with my faith in G-d
1. And most of all, it displeases my L-rd, whom I love, and who is so good to me.
I have been through times when I actually started thinking, "I'm not all that bad! I love the L-rd and want to please Him, so I live a good life, say my prayers, and go to services, so it's not that much of a struggle." And pride always goes right before a fall -- a really big one.
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RE: What is your motivation for resisting temptation to... - 11/14/2008 12:09:35 AM
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Interesting question. One that I've been pondering for quite some time.
Since I have a different image of God now; one that is more loving and gentle than the image I grew up with, the motivation to resist has changed due to this change of perspective. Don't get me wrong. There are many nights that I think about doing things, and I wrestle with God about it. I ask Him all about the what ifs and the why's. There are habits that are so embedded in my psyche. I don't wrestle with God about them the way I used to. I talk to God like I'm having a conversation with Him. I don't bargain, but I let him know where I'm coming from, which is kind of silly because He already knows where I'm coming from. I ask for Him to convict me if something I'm thinking about is a sin, because otherwise, I can rationalize doing most of my sinful behaviour. I'm very headstrong and stubborn.
So, I guess my motivation to not sin is to follow Christ because that's what it means to be a Christian. To completely accept the standard of behaviour that he's laid out for me.
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RE: What is your motivation for resisting temptation to... - 11/14/2008 7:21:24 AM
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I want to please God every day with all that I do. I've been in the faith for 25 yrs.
There's still plenty for me to do to please God and He knows I fall at times but He's there to pick me up.
I listen to the song Jesus Lover of my Soul by Darlene Zschech.
It makes me think and be concerned about how I live my life.
Jesus, Lover of my Soul.
Jesus I will never let you go.
You've taken me from the mirey clay, set my feet upon the rock, now I know.
I love you, I need you.
Tho my world may fall, I'll never let you go.
My Saviour, my closest friend. I will worship you until the very end.
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RE: What is your motivation for resisting temptation to... - 11/14/2008 9:25:13 AM
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There is a little verse in Luke where Jesus says;
(Luk 6:46) And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?
And it pretty well drscribes my motivations for resistaing temptation.
Shortly after I believed in Christ as my Savior, I made Him Lord over my life; so in my life, obedience to His Word is absolutely necessary if He is to be my Lord.
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RE: What is your motivation for resisting temptation to... - 11/14/2008 10:45:31 AM
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It gets in the way of relationship with myself, and with others. Not so much with God - he seems to understand my actions better than i do....
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RE: What is your motivation for resisting temptation to... - 11/14/2008 2:10:24 PM
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What motivates you to resist sin?
I am not motivated to resist sin, I am motivated to Love God. God's love for me, results in my love for Him, which results in my dependence on God, which results in my obedience to God. Obedience is a natural response to love, it is not a legalistic obligation, and it is impossible outside of dependence upon Jesus Christ.
The passage that inspires me is Ephesians 5:8...
"For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light"
In other words...you were once a worm, but now you are a butterfly because of Christ. Why crawl in the dirt like the worm you were, when you can Fly like the butterfly you are?
Peace
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RE: What is your motivation for resisting temptation to... - 11/14/2008 4:05:42 PM
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Mainly because it does not bear good fruit and I don't like the results of it. Don't like to be removed from God's Presence. I love His Presence more than anything else on this earth or above and below this earth. I also don't feel right doing it; but also because I don't like it when someone has anything on me and sin often gives power over to someone else. I like the Lord to have the only power over me. Anything else turns me into a slave for someone else and then removes me from God's Presence and favour. I like to live in God's Presence. I love to be loved by Him and if I am in sin it hinders me from receiving that favour.
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RE: What is your motivation for resisting temptation to... - 11/14/2008 4:11:01 PM
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ORIGINAL: jbow
What motivates you to resist sin?
I am not motivated to resist sin, I am motivated to Love God. God's love for me, results in my love for Him, which results in my dependence on God, which results in my obedience to God. Obedience is a natural response to love, it is not a legalistic obligation, and it is impossible outside of dependence upon Jesus Christ.
The passage that inspires me is Ephesians 5:8...
"For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light"
In other words...you were once a worm, but now you are a butterfly because of Christ. Why crawl in the dirt like the worm you were, when you can Fly like the butterfly you are?
Peace
Good if you can be there... it has been a really long road for me getting there... to the point where I can say that I love God. It has been hard for me to understand grace and not become legalistic. I have always had this idea that sin came between me and God. I've always had a tendency to be all or nothing... if I gave in to a temptation I would become discouraged and then sin more and then find it hard to go to church etc etc... then come to the point of trying again.... full speed ahead and then fail again... etc etc
Like I said I didn't understand grace... I had this idea that I had to be good and if I sinned i'd feel as if I were guilty and if I sinned the same sin over and over... (which i did), i'd feel like maybe God was mad at me... somewhere in the back of my mind i'd have a suspiscion that maybe God was my enemy since I knew that I was not good enough... I didn't understand grace... and, for me, it was hard for me to love God, much less love Him with all my heart... when I wasn't sure of my security. You cannot love someone that you don't really trust.
I guess what I am saying is that it has always been hard for me to accept the fact that I am justified, cleansed, and secure in Christ when my failure and sin is so evident to me.
I reckon it is like getting the cart before the horse... I think that if we don't understand the love of God and understand that we are secure in Him we cannot love Him the way we should and then we cannot live the godly life He demands because it is that love that enables us to live a godly life... whew...
I know that it was unbelief. I realize that I have spent years believing the gospel story but not the 'good news' of God's unconditional love for me. I have found through experience that God is longsuffering and full of mercy.
I guess this is all the reason behind my OP question. Because it has been so hard for me, in my walk, to get past basing my position in Christ on my performance. I can see that it was wrong but it seemed right. It is so easy to condemn yourself when you sin especially when you know that you sin because you want to. Realizing that sin is not imputed to me has taken its power away. It is no longer my master. Yes, I love God more now beause of the road I have been down. I have learned how He covers me and protects me from myself, how He loves me so much even though I am unfit. That ... is what makes me love Him. I don't know how anyone can really love Him until they come to see His love and mercy in the face of their own rebellion and evil. His mercy in the face of my rebellion proves His love, that sin comitted and forgiven after becoming a Christian proves His love and constrains me to love Him. We love Him because He first loved us... and I think we can only know that by experiencing Hid mercy in our life when we deserve only condemnation and punishment.
I see things differently now. I see that I live in the Spirit and I can choose to walk in either the flesh or the Spirit, but I live in the Spirit! I am in Christ and I am secure in Christ because of what He did. (Before, it was all words that I knew... but just words, not reality, not for me because I was not good enough.)
I am learning to walk in the Spirit. I find that sin loses its power when you understand that it has been paid for, that you have no guilt. I know that may sound weird or wrong but I that is the way I understand it now... it may seem like a liscense to sin but it is rather the power of God to live a godly life. There is no threat hanging over my head. I can fulfill the law because I am free from the threats of the law.. if that makes sense. I'm sure others have put it in better words.
I know i'm probably not making a lot of sense but it is something I am working through.
I used to try to not sin so I could be good enough, so I wouldn't end up in hell. That did not work. I now see resisting temptation as being who I really am. I now can love God because I am not trying to win His love... I realize that He loves me as I am, and that makes me love Him.
I can now keep the law because I am not condemned if I don't keep it, (Jesus took the condemnation for me, thank you Jesus). God demands that we keep His law but He also empowers us to keep it by removing the threat and by giving us His Spirit so that we can walk in love.... amazing grace indeed.
I wish I had seen this a long time ago...
Julien
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RE: What is your motivation for resisting temptation to... - 11/14/2008 4:14:06 PM
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jbow
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Mainly because it does not bear good fruit and I don't like the results of it. Don't like to be removed from God's Presence. I love His Presence more than anything else on this earth or above and below this earth. I also don't feel right doing it; but also because I don't like it when someone has anything on me and sin often gives power over to someone else. I like the Lord to have the only power over me. Anything else turns me into a slave for someone else and then removes me from God's Presence and favour. I like to live in God's Presence. I love to be loved by Him and if I am in sin it hinders me from receiving that favour.
It really does get old in a hurry huh... I also hate the way it makes me feel then I hate myself for doing something I hate... things are looking up though because of His love and grace.
J
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RE: What is your motivation for resisting temptation to... - 11/14/2008 5:48:48 PM
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quote:
ORIGINAL: jbow
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ORIGINAL: URForgiven
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ORIGINAL: jbow
What motivates you to resist sin?
I am not motivated to resist sin, I am motivated to Love God. God's love for me, results in my love for Him, which results in my dependence on God, which results in my obedience to God. Obedience is a natural response to love, it is not a legalistic obligation, and it is impossible outside of dependence upon Jesus Christ.
The passage that inspires me is Ephesians 5:8...
"For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light"
In other words...you were once a worm, but now you are a butterfly because of Christ. Why crawl in the dirt like the worm you were, when you can Fly like the butterfly you are?
Peace
Good if you can be there... it has been a really long road for me getting there... to the point where I can say that I love God. It has been hard for me to understand grace and not become legalistic. I have always had this idea that sin came between me and God. I've always had a tendency to be all or nothing... if I gave in to a temptation I would become discouraged and then sin more and then find it hard to go to church etc etc... then come to the point of trying again.... full speed ahead and then fail again... etc etc
Like I said I didn't understand grace... I had this idea that I had to be good and if I sinned i'd feel as if I were guilty and if I sinned the same sin over and over... (which i did), i'd feel like maybe God was mad at me... somewhere in the back of my mind i'd have a suspiscion that maybe God was my enemy since I knew that I was not good enough... I didn't understand grace... and, for me, it was hard for me to love God, much less love Him with all my heart... when I wasn't sure of my security. You cannot love someone that you don't really trust.
I guess what I am saying is that it has always been hard for me to accept the fact that I am justified, cleansed, and secure in Christ when my failure and sin is so evident to me.
I reckon it is like getting the cart before the horse... I think that if we don't understand the love of God and understand that we are secure in Him we cannot love Him the way we should and then we cannot live the godly life He demands because it is that love that enables us to live a godly life... whew...
I know that it was unbelief. I realize that I have spent years believing the gospel story but not the 'good news' of God's unconditional love for me. I have found through experience that God is longsuffering and full of mercy.
I guess this is all the reason behind my OP question. Because it has been so hard for me, in my walk, to get past basing my position in Christ on my performance. I can see that it was wrong but it seemed right. It is so easy to condemn yourself when you sin especially when you know that you sin because you want to. Realizing that sin is not imputed to me has taken its power away. It is no longer my master. Yes, I love God more now beause of the road I have been down. I have learned how He covers me and protects me from myself, how He loves me so much even though I am unfit. That ... is what makes me love Him. I don't know how anyone can really love Him until they come to see His love and mercy in the face of their own rebellion and evil. His mercy in the face of my rebellion proves His love, that sin comitted and forgiven after becoming a Christian proves His love and constrains me to love Him. We love Him because He first loved us... and I think we can only know that by experiencing Hid mercy in our life when we deserve only condemnation and punishment.
I see things differently now. I see that I live in the Spirit and I can choose to walk in either the flesh or the Spirit, but I live in the Spirit! I am in Christ and I am secure in Christ because of what He did. (Before, it was all words that I knew... but just words, not reality, not for me because I was not good enough.)
I am learning to walk in the Spirit. I find that sin loses its power when you understand that it has been paid for, that you have no guilt. I know that may sound weird or wrong but I that is the way I understand it now... it may seem like a liscense to sin but it is rather the power of God to live a godly life. There is no threat hanging over my head. I can fulfill the law because I am free from the threats of the law.. if that makes sense. I'm sure others have put it in better words.
I know i'm probably not making a lot of sense but it is something I am working through.
Julien
Yes, it sounds like you are working through it, and that is a good thing. It helps to remember this amazing truth...God knows you and yet He still loves and accepts you just as you are. We may have unrealistic expectations for ourselves, but God does not.
Christ is the only One who can and has fulfilled the law, and it is only He that fulfills the law in us. We are only branches, Christ is the Vine. A branch is totally dependent upon the vine for fruit production, as well as for life itself. No matter how hard we grunt and groan, no matter how hard we try, we will never be able to produce even a tiny little hard bitter fruit.
It is only Christ who produces good fruit in and through us as we abide in Him.
Abiding means fixing our eyes upon Jesus...
Hebrews 12:2
"Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God."
He sat down because His work was complete and it was successful...
Hebrews 10:14
"because by one sacrifice He has made perfect forever those who are being made holy"
If you are in Christ, you have been made perfect forever! That is the truth. Believe it. What more is there to say but...thank you Jesus, thank you.
Peace
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RE: What is your motivation for resisting temptation to... - 11/15/2008 11:44:54 AM
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Transformational: a process in which a closer relationship to Jesus allows us to see how weak and blind we are to some truths revealed. It's really not motivational, but rather it is a realization of knowing that we can get close to the father when we admitt our weakness, and Jesus will show us him and a truth to provide us with strength, and along with that is a child like coming to the father for love, and in that love we will recieve his grace of growth. So as we grow we will learn that some sins are not part of our new direction, because of our changed hearts, we seek a new source of truth, but must know that we have so many veils that have to be torn in our hearts and will revel more truths of God's love toward us.
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RE: What is your motivation for resisting temptation to... - 11/16/2008 3:23:12 PM
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but must know that we have so many veils that have to be torn in our hearts and will revel more truths of God's love toward us.
I agree... the heart is so deceitful.
J
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RE: What is your motivation for resisting temptation to... - 11/18/2008 5:43:56 PM
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Isa.59
2: But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
( Is it, I want to feel as "Holy" as God? ) ( Am I "competing" with Him? )
I believe that I can learn the difference between scoring points by not sinning, and really seeing how much the Lord loves me.
In light of the cross, I fall short!
I create stumblingblocks for my own path to Him, by not choosing in every instance the way God provides for our escape from a particular sin. (He gives more grace)
For instance, a wandering lustful eye, wars against the purity and holiness
God wants for communion with Him. ( Forgive me Lord.)
A proud attitude really gets in the way. ( A broken and contrite heart He will not despise.)
It would be far better to come to the throne of grace BEFORE doing something I detest, against His will, that interferes with fellowship than to give in and then seek the grace to be forgiven. (He gives more grace.)
Anything other than an attitude of prayer gets me in trouble.
( Pray without ceasing )
Help me, LORD I pray, that I might walk with Your Son each and every day. He is our righteousness. ( The gospel of forgiveness of sins is the truth that creates a clean heart, right spirit, and renews the mind to face
each new day.)
THANKS to the person who started this thread. 
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RE: What is your motivation for resisting temptation to... - 11/18/2008 6:21:46 PM
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Are you motivated to resist temptation by a fear of hell or are you motivated by a fear of being put to open shame or is it because you are miserable when you sin or is it because you want to please God or is it something else or a combination? Also, how long have you been in the faith? Look in your heart and be honest...
For me it is an evolving combination of all. Mostly it is because I am tired of being miserable, I have learned that God isn't going to disown me, so i'm not afraid of hell anymore... getting past fear of rejection by God brought me to the point of dealing with pleasing God and having either joy and peace or being miserable all the time.
I cannot say it is because I don't want to sin because, obviously, if I didn't want to sin there would be no battle, nothing to overcome. Yes, on one level, in the Spirit I don't want to sin but on another, in the flesh, it's all I want to do. So, I have to live by faith understanding grace and stay close to my Lord to have victory but what is your motivation right now? Where are you in your walk with the Lord?
What motivates you to resist sin?
Julien
I haven't read any other posts but my answer is:
JESUS
His life in me.
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RE: What is your motivation for resisting temptation to... - 11/20/2008 6:42:16 AM
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ORIGINAL: rcjames
There is a little verse in Luke where Jesus says;
(Luk 6:46) And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?
And it pretty well drscribes my motivations for resistaing temptation.
Shortly after I believed in Christ as my Savior, I made Him Lord over my life; so in my life, obedience to His Word is absolutely necessary if He is to be my Lord.
Thanks
RC
This has consistently become a bigger and bigger reason in my life (mostly because rcjames posts it so often so it's on my mind haha.) but another reason is because I really don't want to have to confess it out or bring it up because if I don't, I will just be miserable, and I don't want to be miserable. I don't want to let down my Heavenly Father or the man I call my spiritual father.
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RE: What is your motivation for resisting temptation to... - 11/21/2008 11:39:43 PM
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Let me go down the line,
1) Don't want to give the devil grounds to make my life miserable.
(Through grace, I have learned sins wages)
2) Don't want to put any stumblingblocks out there for others on their
path to finding the Messiah (Sin does hurt God, I believe it hurts others too)
3) I cannot claim responsibility for the motivation not to sin. I know now
especially today, it is not me. "It" is something within that makes me aware of "something" outside myself that keeps me from hateful actions.
(Looking unto Jesus, without Christ I can do nothing.)
Holy Spirit (recognition of temptation)> Christ Jesus (do the right thing, against my will)> God (well done my faithful servant)
I have to, at this point say, "God is Love". Love does not motivate hateful thoughtless or careless activities.
I would also add, the scriptures testify to the battle for your mind, will and emotions. Even Christ quoted the scriptures, (Thank God!) when tempted of satan. Write God's word on your heart, and let it be your answer when satan comes to call!
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RE: What is your motivation for resisting temptation to... - 11/22/2008 6:21:50 PM
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It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the Living God.
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I cannot claim responsibility for the motivation not to sin. I know now
especially today, it is not me. "It" is something within that makes me aware of "something" outside myself that keeps me from hateful actions.
(Looking unto Jesus, without Christ I can do nothing.)
Big difference between sinning wilfully and sinning unwilfully.
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RE: What is your motivation for resisting temptation to... - 11/23/2008 2:22:42 PM
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Another reason to resist temptation is the cost of our forgivness.
We easily say we are forgiven, and we are forgiven. But we also easily forget that in a real sense God does NOT forgive sin.
The justice of God demands that He not forgive sin. He cannot forgive sin and remain just.
Think of how Pilate released Barrabas with no punishment... was that just? Was justice served? No.
Was justice done for the family of Barrabas' victim or victims?? No it wasn't, but Pilate was a flawed man and flawed men do flawed things. God is perfect and His justice is perfect. So, there is a problem with God remaining just if He forgives sin. He cannot forgive sin and remain just...
So, what to do? Every sin, all sin, every little sin and every big sin. Every willful sin and every iniquity. Every sin of ommission and every sin of commission. Every sin requires justice and draws the wrath of God.
Since God cannot forgive sin He laid all of sin and all sins on His son, Jesus... and Jesus drank the full cup of the wrath of God that every sin demands.
So, while we do have forgivness it is not an arbitrary decision to forgive and forget. The price of our forgivness is a reason to resist temptation. Every time we sin we are doing what the Lord laid down His life to pay for. We do not crucify Him again or add to His suffering when we sin but the forgivness we seek and receive when we sin is not free. It is free to us but it cost the Lord dearly... It is a free gift to us but it had to be purchased by Him before He could give it to us...
God's justice has been satisfied and I am so thankful for that. I don't want to be involved any longer with sin because of the seriousness of the matter. It cost Jesus His life... for you and I to be free from sin.
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RE: What is your motivation for resisting temptation to... - 11/23/2008 8:13:46 PM
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ORIGINAL: Giulia
It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the Living God.
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I cannot claim responsibility for the motivation not to sin. I know now
especially today, it is not me. "It" is something within that makes me aware of "something" outside myself that keeps me from hateful actions.
(Looking unto Jesus, without Christ I can do nothing.)
Big difference between sinning wilfully and sinning unwilfully.
Sin is sin. Christ's (love) blood covers it all... (if you believe). If you take it back to the grass roots level... David said, who can understand his errors...?
cleanse me, (to the Lord) from secret faults. I am not trying to distinguish between whether my sins (or yours) are "premeditated".
There is a difference that is more easily seen in the lives of Christians...
The sin nature... flesh nature...in which dwells the law, that condemns...
is dying, and the practicing... or habitual practicing of sin, (when we are not giving the Holy Spirit rule in our heart), is dying along with it.
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RE: What is your motivation for resisting temptation to... - 11/23/2008 8:30:33 PM
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The law is good- it does it's job. It condemns sin and kills my flesh. I can resist temptation better if my flesh is dead, and my spirit is alive and joined unto Christ.
What does sin satisfy?
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RE: What is your motivation for resisting temptation to... - 11/23/2008 10:53:55 PM
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Sin- failing to meet the standard of character God has applied to himself.
Jesus said:
John.11
[26] And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?
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RE: What is your motivation for resisting temptation to... - 11/24/2008 12:34:46 AM
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