Tuesday, July 12, 2022
So who are YOU...THAT judges?
So..if you are born again, I'm sure you're aware that anytime you express your dislike of sin in people's lives, the first thing they do is accuse you of being the judge. But actually you're not. Look at how the apostle Paul was speaking in Rome. Look at the book of Romans chapter 7 you can read the entire book but I'd like to point out for this short blog how the apostle Paul was feeling throughout that entire chapter but especially beginning with versus 15 all the way down to verse 20. This my friend is an explanation for the flesh that lives among all of us including those of us born from above. Paul said quote, for I do not understand my own actions he said I am baffled bewildered I do not practice or accomplish what I wish but I do the very thing that I love which my moral instinct condemns that was verse 15. Beginning at verse 16 Paul said now if I do meaning habitually do what is contrary to my desire that means that I acknowledge and agree that the law is good morally excellent and that I take sides with it. However it is no longer I who do the deed but the sin which is at home in me and has possession of me. Paul said in verse 18 for I know that nothing good dwells within me that is in my flesh I can will what is right but I cannot perform it I have the intention and urge to do what is right but no power to carry it out verse 19 for I fail to practice the Good deeds I desire to do but the evil deeds that I do not desire to do or what I am ever doing. And then Paul explains in verse 20 now if I do what I do not desire to do it is no longer I doing it meaning it is his self that acts but the sin principle which dwells within me fixed and operating in my soul. To sum it up I don't care who you are or who I am as long as it is we're in this body of flesh there's going to be the same war that even the great apostle Paul experienced. So when you're accused of judging others just understand that none of us has the power to do that. Agreeing with God and the things that he hates does not make you a judge. In this particular case the apostle Paul is judging himself or should I say judging his fleshly instincts. We must all do that look inward and before we get too excited about what others are doing verbally, search your own soul your own sin and repent. Pray earnestly for those lost without Christ. There are millions of them. We have to love them. Only the Holy Ghost can do that for us. All the English that I have within my inner self concerning many people I know, I have to pray earnestly to my Lord concerning their salvation, and for all the things that the Lord knows they are in need of. One day I shall leave this earth and face my Lord and give an account for all the deeds I have done in this body. So will everyone of you. I want to love the Lord more than anyone or anything in this life. I rely totally on the holy spirit of God to direct me the direction that I have to go. I pray for those who are not saved from the wrath of God, that the spirit of God will convict them of their sin and they will realize their lost and on their way to hell if they do not search earnestly. Probably end this short blog from early this morning. I know I'm saved because the holy spirit of God reveals that to me. When I hear the words of God I earnestly desire to start praying to him talking to him as my heavenly father. People when Jesus comes back to this earth he is not coming as a babe in a manger, he's coming back as the judge. Amen
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