Why even try?
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We have been looking at the topic of perfection with our students.
I will attempt to summarize hours of teaching, study and discussion here...
Nobody's Perfect...
God is the only one ever to be perfect and each of His attributes are perfect.
God calls us to be perfect. On our best days, we can attain perfection for say... 30 minutes...
God came to earth and took our whipping so we could get His perfection.
I want to dwell for a minute on the fact that on our best days, we cannot attain what God requires.
It is so easy to not even try to live holy, to just give up and fall into sin simply because that is what we are - sinners. As a side note, I don't see in the word where we are to embrace the sinner tag as our primary attribute. I see continually that followers of Jesus are called saints... people of the way. We fall, but our identity is not in the fall, our identity needs to be in how we get up after the fall.
I was at a hip-hop show a year ago. The rapper's name is Pro. There were maybe 150 people at the show, and a pastor sat Pro down and interviewed him. The question was asked: "What can you share with these people about the struggle with sin?"
His response was very profound. I will not quote him as it was a while ago, but the essence of his words have stuck. The struggle with sin is unique to the Christian. As a Christian there should be a struggle with sin. If there is no struggle, we have to check and see if we really belong to Him.
I am reminded of Paul in Romans 7. He struggled with sin. It was a daily battle with Him.
Are you struggling with sin? Do you just sin without a struggle?
I will attempt to summarize hours of teaching, study and discussion here...
Nobody's Perfect...
God is the only one ever to be perfect and each of His attributes are perfect.
God calls us to be perfect. On our best days, we can attain perfection for say... 30 minutes...
God came to earth and took our whipping so we could get His perfection.
I want to dwell for a minute on the fact that on our best days, we cannot attain what God requires.
It is so easy to not even try to live holy, to just give up and fall into sin simply because that is what we are - sinners. As a side note, I don't see in the word where we are to embrace the sinner tag as our primary attribute. I see continually that followers of Jesus are called saints... people of the way. We fall, but our identity is not in the fall, our identity needs to be in how we get up after the fall.
I was at a hip-hop show a year ago. The rapper's name is Pro. There were maybe 150 people at the show, and a pastor sat Pro down and interviewed him. The question was asked: "What can you share with these people about the struggle with sin?"
His response was very profound. I will not quote him as it was a while ago, but the essence of his words have stuck. The struggle with sin is unique to the Christian. As a Christian there should be a struggle with sin. If there is no struggle, we have to check and see if we really belong to Him.
I am reminded of Paul in Romans 7. He struggled with sin. It was a daily battle with Him.
Are you struggling with sin? Do you just sin without a struggle?
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