Saturday, July 11, 2009

Something about sin- Reinhard Bonnke

The purpose of power is witness, but the purpose of holiness is holiness. The purpose of spirituality is personal - to be like God and so fulfill the ultimate purpose of God, His supreme and original reason for making man, as stated right from the beginning: "Let us make man in our image" (Gen. 1:26). God has business with each of us personally, not merely as His servants or instruments. He loves us, but not because we are useful to Him. You and I don't have relationships with our hammers and chisels. Neither does God have a relationship with us as His tools. Being used by God is simply one of the benefits, a privilege of knowing Christ.The failure of believers under the attacks of Satan is common. Some people sin openly and conceal their goodness. Others sin secretly while maintaining an appearing of goodness. Paul wrote, "Judge nothing before the appointed time" (1 Cor. 4:5). We are not qualified to preempt the judgment of the all-wise, all-knowing God. Some sins are the wounds of awful battles in which victories were won. Some men fight more temptation in a day than others do in a month. And big men can sin in a big way, a small fault becoming magnified through the lens of fame.God used David because he had extraordinary faith. Even when he murdered a man, the Holy Spirit inspired him to write one of the greatest psalms of contrition ever penned, Psalm 51. His murderous sin opened his eyes to divine greatness and graciousness. He truly repented and experienced full restoration. Romans 6:1-2 declares "What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?"

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