1Jn 5:17 All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.
We talked yesterday a bit about there being a sin that is NOT unto death and today we're going to talk a bit more about it.
All UNRIGHTEOUSNESS is sin.
Righteousness is our Savior. It is HIS righteousness, His sinless-ness, His love that saves us. It's because HE is righteous we have hope. Anything that is unrighteous is sin, anything that is NOT done out of the love we have for our Savior, for God, for each other becomes sin because it's contaminated by our selfishness that leads us to sin.
Our Savior came and lived a life of serving. Our Savior TOLD us explicitly to be SERVANTS. Why would He do that if we are NOT to be servants, if we are NOT to live a life of servitude?
Mat 4:10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou SERVE.
Joh 12:26 If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.
We are to SERVE the LORD our GOD. When we serve the LORD our God we serve others because He wants us to serve others, He wants us to LOVE others. When we love- we serve.
We've taken the meaning of being a servant to be something repulsive, something to abhor. We want to be served ourselves rather than serve others. We call this a normal desire and maybe to some extent it is, because there are masters and servants upon earth. What people don't realize is that every master is accountable to be very, very loving and fair to all his servants. The reason why people have grown to long to be masters rather than servants is because so many masters are abusive to their servants that being a servant has become synonymous with being abused, and not many people - in fact none I know- desire to be abused.
Being a servant is an honorable thing, honorable. To serve loyally, sincerely, with love is a gift from God. To serve with a heart devoted to God, is a good thing.
Also, we are to serve with love even when those we are serving unfortunately abuse us.
If you are a master with servants under your control- then you must love those servants even if those servants are abusive. Seriously, you cannot abuse them in return, but love them and discipline them out of love, not hatred for their abuse.
All unrighteousness is sin, and all unrighteousness is selfish, self-serving.
But there is a sin- an unrighteousness that is NOT unto death.
1Jn 5:18 We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.
When we are born of God- we don't sin because we are completely trusting in HIM, in HIS righteousness.
We are BEGOTTEN of God- and that keeps us HIS.
Born of God- begotten of God- sinning not- and Satan cannot have us who give ourselves to God to be born of Him, to be begotten of Him- sinning not through HIM.
We seek forgiveness in our SAVIOR.
We have a SAVIOR and that SAVIOR is NOT US!
We have to realize this- we do NOT save ourselves, our Savior, our God saves us!
We seek forgiveness for our sins and are forgiven, those sins are not sinned unto death because we've truly sought forgiveness and we truly repent- seventy times seven if need be.
Our Savior SAVES us!
The sins that are sinned unto death surely are those that are NOT repented of, those where NO forgiveness is asked, no Savior sought, no Savior asked to save, to cover our filthy sins with HIS righteousness!
All by the grace of our LORD! All by HIS MERCY! His LOVE, His RIGHTEOUSNESS, His FORGIVENESS forever!
We talked yesterday a bit about there being a sin that is NOT unto death and today we're going to talk a bit more about it.
All UNRIGHTEOUSNESS is sin.
Righteousness is our Savior. It is HIS righteousness, His sinless-ness, His love that saves us. It's because HE is righteous we have hope. Anything that is unrighteous is sin, anything that is NOT done out of the love we have for our Savior, for God, for each other becomes sin because it's contaminated by our selfishness that leads us to sin.
Our Savior came and lived a life of serving. Our Savior TOLD us explicitly to be SERVANTS. Why would He do that if we are NOT to be servants, if we are NOT to live a life of servitude?
Mat 4:10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou SERVE.
Joh 12:26 If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.
We are to SERVE the LORD our GOD. When we serve the LORD our God we serve others because He wants us to serve others, He wants us to LOVE others. When we love- we serve.
We've taken the meaning of being a servant to be something repulsive, something to abhor. We want to be served ourselves rather than serve others. We call this a normal desire and maybe to some extent it is, because there are masters and servants upon earth. What people don't realize is that every master is accountable to be very, very loving and fair to all his servants. The reason why people have grown to long to be masters rather than servants is because so many masters are abusive to their servants that being a servant has become synonymous with being abused, and not many people - in fact none I know- desire to be abused.
Being a servant is an honorable thing, honorable. To serve loyally, sincerely, with love is a gift from God. To serve with a heart devoted to God, is a good thing.
Also, we are to serve with love even when those we are serving unfortunately abuse us.
If you are a master with servants under your control- then you must love those servants even if those servants are abusive. Seriously, you cannot abuse them in return, but love them and discipline them out of love, not hatred for their abuse.
All unrighteousness is sin, and all unrighteousness is selfish, self-serving.
But there is a sin- an unrighteousness that is NOT unto death.
1Jn 5:18 We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.
When we are born of God- we don't sin because we are completely trusting in HIM, in HIS righteousness.
We are BEGOTTEN of God- and that keeps us HIS.
Born of God- begotten of God- sinning not- and Satan cannot have us who give ourselves to God to be born of Him, to be begotten of Him- sinning not through HIM.
We seek forgiveness in our SAVIOR.
We have a SAVIOR and that SAVIOR is NOT US!
We have to realize this- we do NOT save ourselves, our Savior, our God saves us!
We seek forgiveness for our sins and are forgiven, those sins are not sinned unto death because we've truly sought forgiveness and we truly repent- seventy times seven if need be.
Our Savior SAVES us!
The sins that are sinned unto death surely are those that are NOT repented of, those where NO forgiveness is asked, no Savior sought, no Savior asked to save, to cover our filthy sins with HIS righteousness!
All by the grace of our LORD! All by HIS MERCY! His LOVE, His RIGHTEOUSNESS, His FORGIVENESS forever!
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