Monthly Archives: December 2009
Making Friends With Sinners
Jesus was a friend to many sinners. He insisted that He came to save sinners and not the righteous. So how are we to relate to sinners? One way is to make friends based on your terms as found in the Bible and not giving in to their terms. Jesus never adopted any behavior of the tax collectors and publicans to win their friendship. It was always on His terms whether they liked it or not. And most of them did like it. They liked to be friends with a godly man and change their own ways.
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Closing Our Hearts To Sin
Taking sin too casually is a cause of much sin in our life.There has to come a time in our life when we say it is enough and close our hearts to sin. We don’t do this in our own strength but in the power of God through the Holy Spirit. Closing our hearts to sin is a blessed experience.
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Fighting From A Position of Rest
If we are full of turmoil and stress and tension inside of us then there must be something wrong in our belief system. As Christians we are not supposed to live like that. In the temptation of Jesus we see that He fought with the enemy but it was from a position of rest. He could always maintain His composure when fighting calmly with the devil. He was deriving strength from the inner man through the Holy Spirit. This is fighting from a position of rest and victory. We don’t fight to win but we fight from a position of victory that Christ has won for us.