Romans 8:1-3

"There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are now in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit."

When we join the body of Christ, we are no longer hell bound. When we accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior we are absolved from all our past, present and future sins. I think I can forget just how much that means. When we are saved, the Holy Spirit moves through us and in us and we no longer obey our flesh as our god, but Jesus as our God. We don't have to do these sins we do, there is a way out, we should not even sin when we think it's a good idea (Romans 6:1-2). We can live a sin free life, and sometimes I feel trapped by myself. Like there's only one way out, only one way to complete my day and thats to commit a sin. No sin in particular, but sometimes I will feel like I need something and will do whatever it takes to get it. I'll use our laundry money to buy a Coke, or even lie to my grandparents to watch another epidsode of arrested development. That is not "walking according to the Spirit," now is it?

"For the Law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the Law of Sin and Death."

Death. Theres something no one wants to think about. The good news though is that Jesus gave us eternal life. "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son, that whoever beleives in Him shall not perish but shall have eternal life." I had this vision one day... of what eternity would be like... it was so beautiful I couldn't stand it and I begun to cry right on to Roni's shoulder. There was not a part of it that wasn't God's glory. Revelation 21: 4; "[And]God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away." A place so glorious that God will literally take away our pain... Where we will live for an unfathomoble eternity. Living forever with God.

"For what the Law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned Sin in the flesh."

Our hearts and minds are corrupt, (Mark 7:21-22 "For from within, out of the Heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adultries, fornications, murders etc...) and because of this we corrupted the Law of God. God condemns the corruption, and builds us new again (John 3:3) and we must become born again.

It's thoughts like this that really push my convictions as a member of Christ's body. I thought I'd just bring it out. My first bigger post is in the works, and will be done soon.

My new Blog and Why

Today was minister Bobby Blakey's last sunday teaching in Sunday School class. His message was the best message he ever gave. It really dug into me. I'm wirtting this blog in order to get more christian thoughts out with a better blog name, ha!

The past few weeks I have been self centered and not God centered. And even though I can see the fruits of the Spirit still coming out; I realized that this is not the kind of Christian I have tried to become for these past three years. There is no way to repair my relationship with God but to repent of my sins and move into being God's new creature and stomp out the habitual and nei-cognative sins in my life. This means I have to appologize to a very very close friend, and bring up something that I do not want to bring up, something embarrasing and retarded.

Things that are hard to say are often just not said I think, and thats not good. Jesus said a lot of things that might not have been the most comfortable thing to say, like in John 4, when he confronts the woman at the Well about her sin. Obviously we shouldn't wait out at the gallon store and tackle sinners like that, we don't have that kind of authority I don't think, or at least none that will be respected, but when you are taking to a friend you can use or gain the authority you have in your relationship. And greatfully, I have no authority in my relationship with God. God has moved my heart to repent in this awkwardly uncomfortable fashion, but I look at it this way: if repentance is turing around, then when you turn around you have to go back up roads that you have taken, like taking a U-turn at a stop sign , and back the way you came almost (without the sin this time). I feel in order to repent, I need to go the rough road.