It has been 21 years now that I have read my Bible daily. It always encourages me, challenges me, and gives me peace. Like most, I leaned on what other peole told me as sound doctrine only to find out that this doctrine wasn't Biblically correct. I shiver today when people share with people others that Christianity and Christ is a journey, or process. They quickly tell them that they will always be sinners, and that they cannot ive up everything at once, just work on a few at a time. Really? This doctrine truly deletes the power of the cross and Christ. These folks who quote the following scriptures actually are leading others astray. They quote to these people before they ask them to say a prayer "Greater is He thats in you than he thats of the world. We can do all things through Him who gives us strength, and With God all things are possible." If they truly believe these scriptures yet tell others that it is a process or journey, then they will take their sweet time in dealing with sin in their lives, and if they die in their sin they die seperated from God throughout eternity.
The Journey and the Process has nothing to do with sin. Sin becomes the stumbling block 'If' one does not deal with any sin in their lives. Jesus and the apostles always preached and taught 'Repentance.' This is crucial to 'true' change and being born again of the Spirit. All sin must be dealt with at conversion. One becomes new because their is no old left in them. If people are told to give up only a few sins today and work on the others, then they are not and cannot be truly new. Sin is dealt with and now the Journey begins in our devotion, love and service to Christ. Every day and every year after conversion will be overcoming of sin and living for Christ. It will be a purging of self (not sin) so that we can be truly dedicated to the Lordship of Christ in everything. The journey for me in 1992 began and sin wasn't the issue. I dealt with the sin I knew of and if I became aware of any other sin in my life, I would immediately repent and take care of it. The Journey and process is being more and more Christ like daily, and receiving the joy in our lives because of the righteousness we are living through Him. We serve and love more because the journey has led us to joy that only a life in Him can bring.
Finally..... when we totaly surrender to Christ's Lordship then they will desire to be pure, holy and righteous. We will not want anything in our lives that would lead another astray. Do not buy into the same lie that the journey has nothing to do with sin. Believe in the power of the cross and Jesus because this alone will provide us all the life of victory and overcomers. The same power that raised Jesus from the dead can be had by all. We just have to believe. Deal with sin because the scripture says it will seperate us from God. we have the power through Christ and the cross to do it. Then, the Journey and process will be the one we were meant to be on~
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