02/17/18 EVERYBODY CAN BE A WINNER
YOU AIN'T BAD ENOUGH, and THERE AIN'T NO EXCUSE FOR SIN
(Don't trip over the grammar, the theology is the real focus.)
I preach and teach and testify to the victorious life in Christ. I am sure some folks think I am either deluded, proud or have an easy life. Actually, I am just as vulnerable as everyone else, and maybe more so than you. I acknowledge my own desperate need for God and realize that without Christ I am of all men, most miserable. BUT MY VICTORY, MY FAITH, is the work God does in this needy recipient.
It would not take any of the presence of God to wallow in weakness, to falter in failure, to doubt in disbelief, to succumb to sin. BUT GOD HAS GIVEN US HIS SON, HIS HOLY SPIRIT, HIS WORD and His people to lead us in triumph and righteousness. In fact, He has given us everything necessary for life and godliness.
Groveling in the dirt is for the snakes and worms of the earth, soaring to new heights is for the eagles of God. As long as we choose to hold onto the things of this world we will remain bound by the tainted, and ensnared by the temporal.
It does not matter how deep we have sunk in sin, or how far we have strayed in darkness: God and His salvation is greater than all of our corruption. The only regret that anyone ever has, in coming to salvation from sin through Christ, is that they did not come sooner.
COME ON IN, YOU WILL BE GLAD YOU DID.
WOW, THIS IS AWESOME
2 Peter 1:3-11
3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
11 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
