Hi Karl, we missed you brother...God has no problem with sin, in fact He has no problems, we are the one who have the problem and we need Him to solve them.Sin has been dealt with on the cross, it's not an issue anymore in the eyes of God. When we sin we have an advocate with the Father, Christ Jesus the righteous.1Ti 5:20 Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.1Co 15:56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. Rom 7:23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. Rom 8:3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: Rom 8:4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. I believe it is still a great issue in the eyes of God and think this way of characterising it sounds good but is misleading and makes God say something He hasn't said.If ...it's not an issue anymore in the eyes of God. as you put it and then quickly use When we sin we have an advocate with the Father, Christ Jesus the righteous. You are both difussing the argument and giving licsense though I am sure you would deny that. Heb 10:22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. Heb 10:23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;) Heb 10:24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: Heb 10:25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. Heb 10:26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, Heb 10:27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. I know we have been over this whole area of a "Angry God" before, but there is something disheartening in not taking sin seriously. Most assuredly that which you bring forth is true in one sense, that there is forgiveness of sins and that He came to save us from them.But it is perhaps precisely here that many stumble and do stumble. If we do not grasp the totality of what our sins caused in the first place, neglect what repentance means and attempt to codify into a quick sentence a free pass as it were ... is it any wonder that there is such little depth to our Chrisitian experience? Is this not exactely the easy-believism of our day? Say a glib prayer, one that one has no true grasp of yet understanding and whalla, "congratualtions"? Heb 10:28 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: Heb 10:29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace? Heb 10:30 For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people. Heb 10:31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.Seems He does indeed still have a problem with it. The great revivalist in our past have gone thru all that they have gone thru with weeping and crying NOT because they have sinned some particular sin, but because of neglecting the one true God, Jesus Christ. Really? Seems kind of a sweeping generalisation there. From what I recall revivals started for any number of reasons, including personal sin as well as in a corporate sense. Strange that the first fruits of revival were of confessing of sins and repentance. Many cried out for revival due to the state of the Church and because of the lost... Something seems just a bit to easy in all these oneliners brother.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"One of the things I remember during the Welsh Revival was the unspeakable presence of God. It was unlike anything I had ever felt before. You could feel the presence of God in the very atmosphere, and tell the districts where it was and where it was not, and I remember coming to the conclusion that if a martyr felt the marvel of that Presence he would not feel the pain. Another thing that struck me was that while many were getting right with God, others were content with the enthusiasm of the presence of God and bringing forth no “fruits meet for repentance.” When shall we understand that God’s method is repentance first and then the reviving life of God? If revival does not bring forth fruits meet for repentance it will end in riot and ultimately in ruin."Oswald ChambersThe servant as His Lord.
