If you are still in love with a besetting sin; if you are still on the side-lines flirting with the notion, idea or possibility of being free from it, be warned: EVERY time you are tempted to indulge in this particular sin...you WILL fall prey to it. You mustnt tip toe around the tulips with God. You mustnt tinker around with the mere thought of going all in for God. If you continue to do this, dont act surprised or play the victim when you fall (walk) headlong into the very thing you have merely toyed around with letting go. The things we toy around with will end up toying around with us if we keep toying and tinkering around with them. There is no such thing as a part time disciple. Make up your mind in regard to that one thing. Reading these words you know exactly what that is. You know; that leftover sin from before you met the Lord-----that little besetting sin that youve tucked away for a rainy day and are pretending that God doesnt notice----THAT ONE. Get rid of it now. I know, these are strong words....but time is short...we no longer have the luxury of time to be tinkering around with besetting sins. May we all surrender to Him that ONE THING... that nailed Him to the cross. IT...that rainy day sin that cost Him his life that you still have not put to death...kill it. It killed Him...it cost Him His life. And it will cost us no less than what it cost Him. Die to yourself. Go through the pain and agony of bearing your cross. This is the pathway to authenticity and genuineness in Christ. No more flirting with the idea of dying to the things that caused Him to die. This world is FILLED to overflowing with nominal, Christian in name only church-goers. That is the status-quo in the midst of this apostasy. REFUSE TO BE THE STATUS-QUO. Accept NOTHING less than true, Spirit-Born authenticity---------ANYBODY can be fake--------ANYBODY can be a phony, fraudulent church-goer-------BUT ONLY THOSE WHO WALK AFTER THE SPIRIT AND BEAR THEIR CROSS CAN BE THE REAL DEAL. Be authentic. Be a disciple. Embrace your cross. Kill sin. Welcome to the battle. Be killing sin...or itll be killing you. -John Owen- Walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. Galatians 5:16 Walking after the Spirit is best experienced and profoundly realized when you have no inner longing to EVER return to any particular sin...EVER. Make up your mind, that THAT particular sin is NO LONGER AN OPTION. If its left to be an option to be taken, be assured of this: that option WILL TAKE YOU...and it will run you ragged to the very end of your life-----to the point and place where you no longer have any options, except to take whatever option it is that Christ gives you at the Judgment Seat. If that one sin is still an option...still a backdoor...still a feasible possibility for you to return to: it WILL return over and over and OVER AGAIN until you say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH or until you physically die and are left without a body to use as an instrument of sin. Then its all over my friend: the way you are when you die is the EXACT state in which you will be judged. Does that make you feel comfortable? Are you okay with that? Here is a diagnostic question to diagnose your current standing before the Lord: Does the idea of Him returning right NOW... with you exactly how you are RIGHT NOW... cause you to mentally shrink back in shame...or does it cause you great peace and joy? 1 John 2:28 Go ALL IN and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. Luke 9:23
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