Sin is a moral disease!

The first step to becoming a follower of our Savior Jesus Christ is to understand we are morally diseased and that disease is sin. We must understand we are sinners and we need to be saved from sin! Until one discovers he is a terrible sinner in the eyes of God and he is in a terrible condition, he will not understand the need for Jesus to save his soul!

JC Ryle said this: “Sin is a disease which pervades and runs through every part of our moral constitution, and every faculty of our minds.”

Most people think they are pretty good compared to someone else and this keeps them from coming to Jesus for salvation. One must realize there is no good in any of us outside Jesus. Look at these verses:

Isaiah 64:6 But we are all like an unclean thing, And all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags; We all fade as a leaf, And our iniquities, like the wind, Have taken us away.

Romans 3:12 They have all turned aside; They have together become unprofitable; There is none who does good, no, not one.”

Romans 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Genesis 6:5 Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Jeremiah 17:9 “The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it?”

I hate to burst your bubble this morning but your a sinner, a bit time sinner before a Holy and Righteous God! You are sin diseased! So am I! The key is are you a forgiven sinner by the blood of Jesus Christ or are you unforgiven? The good news is you can be!!! Call upon Jesus today and follow Him the rest of your days!

Romans 10:13 For “whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”

Tom

We are naturally sinners.

Ever since the fall of man to sin that Adam and Eve fell to in the garden of Eden, we have naturally been born sinners. The bible tells us that:

Ephesians 2:3 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.

Psalm 51:5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.

No one has to teach us to sin as babies we do it automatically...think about “mine”, hitting when upset, temper tantrums, lying, ect. It comes natural! 

I got a little chuckle out of this quote from JC Ryle: “The fairest child, who has entered life this year and become the sunbeam of a family, is not, as his mother perhaps fondly calls him, a little “angel” or a little “innocent”---but a little “sinner”. 

But thank be to God, He knew this about us and had a plan to save us! Jesus Christ! He sent His now Son to die for us sinners! Take the wrath of God against sin off of us and upon Jesus! Think about that for a while! Praise be to Jesus!

1 Timothy 1:15 Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners—of whom I am the worst.

As parents we have a mighty big responsibility to raise our children up in the training of the Lord to give them the best chance of giving their lives to Jesus! May we make sure first we have given our lives to Jesus ourselves for we are born in sin!

Tom

Why we need to be saved!

God is Holy and desires for us to be Holy as well. (1 Peter 1:15 but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, Because He is Holy.) He can not tolerate sin. Since we are sinners we must be saved from sin,(Romans 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God), and that is what Jesus did on the cross for those who are willing to believe and follow Him.

Let us be reminded what sin is from JC Ryle: “”a sin” consists in doing, saying, thinking, or imagining anything that is not in perfect conformity with the mind and law of God.”

1 John 3:4 Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.

To understand sin we must recognize sin thus we need to know God’s Word. Also to be saved we need to know that we need to know what we need to be saved from which is sin which leads to hell.

We need to be saved and thank God He has provided the bridge through Jesus Christ the Savior of the world!

Tom

Weak but powerful! 8-2-16

How well do you know the bible?

This is a subject for the follower of Christ we must often come back to in my opinion. For a moment think about how much you know in other areas of life....your job, your hobby, parenting, how to operate a cell phone, computers, and you fill in the blank with something you know much about. Now compare that with your knowledge of the God’s Word. How dod you do? I hope great but for the majority we would fail miserably!

Does that make sense to you? God has given us the very guide book of life but we don’t have the want to or the desire to learn it to the very best of our ability. Does it say something of our love for God? Read what JC Ryle had to say in the late 1800’s:

“There is an amazing ignorance of Scriptures among many, and a consequent lack of established, solid religion. In no other way can I account for the ease with which people are, like children, “tossed to and fro, and carried about by every wind of doctrine.” (Ephesians 4:14)

Lack of biblical knowledge opens the door for so much false teaching because we don’t know any better. It also opens the door for living our lives like the world which we are clearly taught not to do in the bible but again if we don’t know the bible how are we to avoid that??

So how much of the bible do you know? It is of the highest importance that you learn it to the best of your ability and do it starting now!!!

Think about this today! I pray God puts a burden in every one of us to learn the Word of God and have a love for the Word!

Tom

You are Great God!

Praise God on this Monday for whom He Is! Great are you Lord!

God is everywhere but...

Let’s be reminded that God in three persons and each has a function.

God the of course is ruling all out of Heaven.

Psalm 115:3 Our God is in the heavens; he does all that he pleases.

Matthew 23:9 Do not call anyone on earth your father; for One is your Father, He who is in heaven.

Jesus its as the right hand of the Father making intercession for all His followers.

Mark 16:19 So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.

Romans 8:34 Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.

The Holy Spirit whom Jesus sent dwells in each follower of Jesus to guide, comfort, and help us.

John 15:26 “But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me.

1 Corinthians 3:16 Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?

Each person of God has a job and we are the beneficiaries of their work! We are blessed and so unworthy but yet so grateful to our loving God for His mercy and grace poured out upon us! What a privilege it is to follow and serve God!

Tom