Bill Sullivan
BEING LIKE ALL SINNERS
THE I AM A SINNER LIKE ALL MEN IDEA
You know the idea that everyone is the same whether Christian or not. They all
have their faults and so no one has a right to judge.
I
don't think most intentionally mean it in a bad way. It is the typical way we
speak today to help others not feel alone in their struggle to overcome. However
I have seen an effect that is most often unintentional. It causes some to feel
more comfortable in their sins. It goes something like this:
1. I got sins
2. You got sins
3. All of Gods
children got sin.
4. Everyone else got
sin
So let no one make
Judgments.. And all just love and be happy.... well my friends that is a trick
of Satan.
I will never forget
as a kid a man from China, who was a friend of the family told me that he was
being recruited to be a member of a local Church.. He said, they told him.. "The
difference between us and you is we commit the same sins, we are just forgiven."
They did not know that made no sense to the man... HE WAS RIGHT.. They were
wrong.
God paid the Penalty
for us to receive the Spirit NOT to be sinners who continue to sin.. But to be
righteous people free from sin.. and if we make errors, that they become fewer
and farther in between because we grow. If this is not what is happening to us
and if there is a sin we CANNOT overcome, we are in bondage and need
deliverance. That deliverance DOES NOT COME by calling God a lie. Because as a
Christian, God has made PROMISES like: Sin SHALL not have dominion over you. AND
NEVER ONCE will you NOT have power to over come any sin. We need to know this.
We don’t need to SAY
or THINK things different from this and assume you will receive anything from
God... Because if we say that in our minds, we will be actually calling him a
LIAR: IT IS BY his promises THAT WE BECOME PARTAKER of his DIVINE NATURE. That
is faith.. Otherwise we only have a form of Godliness and deny the power of it.
My Dad use to say, if you fall don’t wallow! Get up with the attitude
that you CAN and WILL get it done next time; knowing that the power is always
with us. Just understand that God wants you to struggle to overcome. He wants
you to have to put some effort in it. If he did not allow it to be difficult,
there would be no character building.
The Apostle Paul upon asking the Messiah to remove a messenger of Satan that was allowed to buffet him was told by Yeshua (Jesus) MY GRACE IS ENOUGH FOR YOU… That is he always gives enough of whatever is needed to overcome. If you feel sufficient and are able yourself, then Yeshua (Jesus) knows and expects you to do what you are able. Yes we have little power as humans but there are some things we hate or love and find easy. But as the Apostle Paul found out, it is when things are stronger than you are able; when they are 2 times or a 100 times or more greater than you are able that YESHUA uses his power to step in. Thus it is when you are WEAKEST that you actually are STRONGEST… We need to start knowing this is a certainty. And God has NEVER FAILED not even ONCE to fulfill this. That part he has OBLIGATED to himself. That means a Christian is a different kind of being. He is a human with the Spirit of God manifested in his or her life. That is not true of none Christians. God expects more out of you than out of them.
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