question about sinning

Posted by admin on August 21st, 2008 filed in Faith, Repentance

The other night I was online visiting a chat room. Someone had brought up a scripture and I believe was trying to argue that no one could be children of G-d because we have sin. I disagree with his theory. I know that sometimes believer fall short of the mark. G-d has given us free well so sometimes we make bad chooses. We have to listen to the Holy Spirit because he not just going to control us like we are puppets on strings. He will convict us and there will be that still small voice of maybe this isn’t a good idea or maybe I shouldn’t do this. This little voice I have ignored many times, and many times I have learned to not head to that voice sometimes it G-d speaking to me, redirecting me. Sometimes not listening to that still small voice has gotten me some serious hurts and wounds. I am not saying G-d enjoyed what happened because I know he wouldn’t, if he did well that wouldn’t be the G-d I know but he does allow our choices to determine sometimes the outcome, and sometimes he is gracious enough not to let us reap the benefits that could be horrible.
Is it a sin not to listen to the Holy Spirit when you know he is guiding you, or when you know G-d has placed something on your heart but you ignore it. Yes I believe that would be sin, Sin is anything displeasing to G-d. The scripture this chatter brought up was 1 John 3:9 No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.
Okay, so we are told that no one born of G-d can continue sinning. I believe if we where to totally allow G-d to be G-d in our lives and where open to him, and listen then we would all be without sin. But now G-d gave us free well, and we will have to answer for our actions. Yeshua has told us how we aught to act. G-d has given us many laws of how to act in the Old Testament. If you sit down and really look at some of the laws G-d gave, we would see that a good number of them is about how to treat your neighbor, what our behavior aught to be.
The verse I brought up was Roman 3 22This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference, 23for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.
This verse isn’t a ticket to go on sinning, but it’s a verse which clearly states that we all fall short. Yeshua in Luke 17:3 So watch yourselves. “If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him.
Why would Yeshua tell us that if our brother sin, rebuke him. Because Yeshua knows we sometimes don’t get it right away and need some form of correction. There are quiet a few places which talk about what to do when a brother sins against you, and correcting undesirable behavior.
When I started sharing the person lift fairly quickly but I also compared Christians to the Jewish people of Mount Sinai when G-d wanted to speak to them. I know many believers if G-d where to start talking to us very few would have the response Moshe had to him.
It kind of like a customer of a promotional products, they have to decide to act on that product and determine what they think about it.

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