This post is in response to questions I was asked relating to my post from yesterday and I thought it would futher help you guys understand what am driving at.
Let's go back to the beginning. Genesis we would say, refers to beginnings in the bible.
It started with Adam eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and suddenly he and eve realises/becomes conscious, that they where naked, why? Because they ate of the tree that opens their eye and make them know what's good and what's bad. God never wanted that, so he placed an angel with a flaming sword in front of the garden with plans to totally rectify the situation much later by sending Jesus.
Satan saw a means to bring sin into the world and he took it using eve. Today Satan uses the same trick, God's own people, eve-esque believers, to keep the consciousness of sin in the world. Now you know there was sin in the world before Adam actually did take it upon himself to make it so reflective on man. "Thru one man, 'Sin' or better put 'the knowledge of sin' came into the world. Man was now born a sinner because of Adam involuntary.
Now, let's assume our loving daddy God didn't send Jesus, but left us in that horrible, impossible situation where we had to live apart from sin by keeping every single law, in order to be righteous, every single man after Adam would be mince meat by now.
The law is good, very good infact, but its no longer given to me to keep, not anymore.
Romans 3:20 says:
Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
James 2:10 also says:
For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles in one {point,} he has become guilty of all.
When you keep insisting on the law that's when you know what Sin is, the knowledge of Sin creeps, putting you in a place where you have to work hopelessly to earn righteousness. Jesus had this to say to the pharisees in John 9:40-41
"Some Pharisees who were with him
heard him say this and asked “What? Are we blind too?” Jesus said, “If you were blind, you
would not be guilty of sin; but now
that you claim you can see, your guilt remains."
Isn't it clear that God doesn't want us to know what sin is? You knowing what Sin is firstly is because the law said to you "hey man, that is SIN, don't!" But where you do not have a law to tell you "don't", sin is absent. There's a popular saying "where there is no law, there is no sin. God prefers it that way".
So how then do we go about serving God rightly? Preach "the love" of Christ to all men.
To those who are not yet believers in Christ, tell them they are in sin, not because of what you see them do, but because they came into the world as sinners, but now they can be free from that involuntary title by believing and confessing that Jesus is lord. You don't need to wait till you see them sob. It's not important. Like Joseph Prince said, a wonderful salvation message can be going on at the pulpit and someone can be experiencing a mind change with no physical emotions whatsoever. Crying and sobbing most times are just religious antics. God doesn't need that. If its genuine though, no problem.
Once the mind is changed and they believe in their hearts that God loves them passionately, the good stuffs will start flowing out. Even when you do not see the good stuff as defined by you or as you might want to show me in the bible, the fact is, they have confessed Christ as their lord and are still saved. Stop telling believers they are in sin, when God has called them righteous. It only breeds fear of condemnation, something they are freed from. Besides it defeats the purpose of perfect love. 1John 4:8 "There is no fear in love. But perfect love
drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love."
If they do something you feel is wrong (see I said wrong, not sin), that maybe directly affects you or affects their relationship with man in general, correct them, but what you should not be telling them is, they have sinned, see what and what the bible said about what you just did, because then, you bring up the knowledge of sin by showing them laws and of course you have let the devil use you as his instrument to spread sin again just like Eve.
Remember I stressed earlier that THRU THE LAW IS THE KNOWLEDGE OF SIN, i'll also add that, 1cor 15:58 said THE STRENGTH OF SIN IS THE LAW, so why do we as believers in Christ keep insisting on strengthing the law by reminding believers that they are sinners when they are not?
It's devilish.
So what did our loving father do to help us out? He sent Jesus Christ, the one who cannot sin and has never sinned to bring us back to the days before Adam sinned. But then, the sinner must be purnished, they cannot go unpurnished. So Jesus took upon himself the sins of the whole world, so that we can be free, he was forsaken so we would not be forsaken. God turned his back on his "beloved son" on the cross all for our sakes.
We read Rom 3:23, "for all have sinned and fall short of
the glory of God," and most Christians are filled with fear, when we are meant to be excited. Why is that? Reason is they forget to read verse 22 and that after verse 23 there is a comma before verse 24, which means its a sentence and it continues into the next verse that reads "and all are justified FREELY by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus".
For all have sinned, how did all sin? Romans 5:12 tells us how "Therefore, just as sin entered the
world through one man, and death
through sin, and in this way death
came to all people, because all sinned ". Through Adam.
But now all are justified FREELY by his GRACE through whom? The second Adam - Jesus!
What we do or did, or have been doing, didn't make us sinners, but we were sinners anyway because Adam was, so also, what we do or did, or have been doing, didn't make us righteous, but we've been made righteous because of Christ and his obedience to the cross. Lastly, believers seem to automatically convert their dislike for something or actions into sin. Your distaste for stuffs does not make those things sin.
A female minister I respect so much from South Africa, her hussy a great great man of God who is now dead has children who operate in the spirit just like their dad, miracles, healing and stuff. Guess what they also loved, Tatoos! I heard her say this, "personally I do not love tatoos and earrings on guys, but my children love it, I can't go around telling them its a sin, just coz I don't love it."
Their father died, the eldest son became the pastor, performing miracles and wonders, but after watching him for a while, I noticed he had become uneasy with all the tatoos tingy. He began covering it up with his dressing, suits, buttoned up shirt and all. If that was the case, it was personal, not because he felt all the while he had been sinning.
Our new rule set should be whatever the spirit tells us. If he specifically tells you, "stop doing tatoos, among any other things, you must stop."
I think I've said enough, maybe even too much...
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