God's Law, Reading the Bible, and False Teachers

Romans 7:7-12

"What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed I would not have known what sin was except through the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, 'Do not covet'. But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from the law, sin is dead."

How do you know sin is sin? Because the Bible says so, if we ignore what the Bible says we are sinning. So many people in our culture over look many sins, coveting in general. We think it is okay to 'really, really' want something. But according to God, this is very wrong. God hates covetousness, "Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the covetous, nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swinders will inherit the kingdom of God." (1 Cor. 6:9-10) But now people in our culture seems to ignore these verses. 'Christians' get drunk, are sexually immoral, are 'swindlers' and covet (plus other sins). They will not inherit the kingdom of God if they continue in sin! God is so clear on this point, why then, do people not obey it? I believe because they are either, 1. totally ignorant of it and need to be 'enlightened' so to speak, or 2. they are willingly going against what God says and putting their desires before His--which of course, is even more sin to begin with. But I believe, if we can, we should tell these lost people that they are sinning, it is our responsibility to "preach the word" to these people: "Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage--with great patience and careful instruction." (2 Tim. 4:2) Correct, rebuke and encourage, not look down on or chastise for being not like you. We are to pray for them and to remember to "Take the plank from our own eye before we remove the speck from there's". Please understand me, I hate it when I look down on people, I simply (well, not so simply) am stating that people who say they are Christians and do not follow God's law--by faith--are not really Christians. And if you do sin, don't wallow in it!! Pick yourself up, dust off, ask for forgiveness and keep climbing higher and higher up the mountain. What ever you do, don't get up and trip over the same rock again, eventually you'll end up picking up the rock and rolling down the hill, * and if you're not going up toward heaven...where are you going...? (I expect you know the answer)
Apart from the law-God's Word- we do not understand sin. This is such a convicting reason to read our Bibles. If we don't read our Bibles, how are we to know what God says? We wouldn't. And that is the problem with our society, we have stopped reading our Bibles and take what we are taught from others for granted. This should not be! We shouldn't believe what ever we hear, we have to take it back to the Bible, look it up, measure it up, and see if it's true. We should only believe the Bible, many, many preachers believe things which aren't true and preach it over a pulpit (or not over one). Be weary of these people! Peter calls them, "...springs without water and mists driven by a storm." and also that "Blackest darkness is reserved for them." (2 Peter 2:17) Remember, compare all things people say to God's Word, go look up what I say before you agree with me!

So to wrap up my lovely little rant, don't sin, God says what sin is, don't do it, read your Bible, don't believe what anybody says, read your Bible, and...don't sin... :)

* Hill analogy from Daniel and Mom.

The Difference Whether We Are Created or Evolved

Here is a paper I wrote some time ago, I truly hope to post a new thought about a few chapters in Romans, but seeing that I don't have time at the moment, it will have to wait.

Tell me what you think and what you believe could change.

Being created or evolved is an on going battle in our modern world and one we cannot get away from. Evolutionists believe that we have evolved over millions of years starting from tiny unrecognizable forms to apes and humans as by random processes. Is this actually scientific? Do these people and scientists who claim this have logical proof that has been proven by the scientific process? Or is their beliefs based upon their own emotional assumptions?  Our entire outlook on life and the lives we live completely change on that one fact: are we created or evolved?

            According to the scientific evidence around the world there must have been a massive flood that was very destructive. Layers are laid down all over the earth with hundreds of fossils buried in them. Obviously water ripped up these rocks, broke down more rock as it traveled then deposited it in another area in layers. Burying the animals it had taken with it beneath the rock layers and fossilizing them rapidly. These layers of fossils are found covering the globe, from mountaintops to valleys, all pointing to a global flood of some kind. But does not the Bible say the earth had a worldwide flood that covered the earth for a little over a year? Indeed, it does, and the proof we find is inevitable. Evolutionists believe that there was no global flood but millions of years of local floods; as stated above, the facts do not support this.

            Our bodies as well as the things around us could not possibly have come by chance. How could such a complex creation happen by random happenings? Even if the parts to all of life and objects were present they could not have come together without some kind of creator. Modern day scientists have not the slightest idea of how everything stays together and lives. Life itself was given to us by God.  

            If we evolved then there is no right or wrong, and it is random chance that we are on earth. Our lives are virtually hopeless and pointless. But if there is a God (as the earth, science, math, history, and all other things point to) then we have a sense of right and wrong, we were specially and carefully created, put on earth to be good stewards of the land and, most of all, to serve God with our whole being and to give glory and honor to Him in everything we do. If we are created we have something to live for, and our lives are full of hope and promise that God gives us. God is merciful, but if we continue to live for ourselves denying His existence, we will get our just punishment of the fire of hell. All humans deserve this punishment but God mercifully sent His Son to earth to die for our sins, that we committed, so that we may live eternally, if we have faith in Him, serve Him with our entire minds, and do not love the wicked world we are in; then we may live forever with Him in paradise.

            All of our very existence comes down to if we were created by an ever-lasting God, or if we came about by random chance and are on earth for virtually nothing.

 I choose life.    

The New Blog

This is my new blog, it shall be most likely like a Bible study with a few other posts hear and there. I hope you enjoy it and become a follower :)
I shall post as soon as possible.