Posted on 12/16/2008 2:38:51 PM PST by RaceBannon
Tuesday, December 16, 2008 SAFE SIN
How Safe is Sin?
Consider today’s message: "It is all right to sin as long as you practice SAFE SIN. Drunkenness is OK as long as someone sober drives you home. Narcotics are OK as long as you use clean needles. Sexual deviation is OK since it exists and so it should be approved.
Promiscuity is OK as long as you take safe precautions. It is all right to sin, but please, play it SAFE!" The Bible gives the true perspective: "Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death . . . For THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH" (James 1:15; Rom. 6:23).
God’s Purpose and Plan "Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but fornicators and adulterers God will judge" (Heb. 13:4). What God has designed for a husband and wife is something very precious (see Gen. 2:20-25). It is not only SAFE, but it is also to be held in honor, unpolluted, unsoiled, pleasurable and satisfying. The problem is that people have DEVIATED from the healthy relationships which God intended: "Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate (sodomy), nor abusers of themselves with mankind (one who abuses himself with a male), nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God" (1 Cor. 6:9-10).
Is There Safety For Sinners? God has good news for those "whosoevers" (John 3:16) that recognize their need for God's righteousness: "And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified (declared righteous) in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God" (1 Cor. 6:11). "For He (God) hath made Him (Christ) to be sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him" (2 Cor. 5:21). There is great safety found in God’s only SAVIOUR: "There is now therefore no condemnation to them that are IN CHRIST JESUS" (Rom. 8:1). He is ABLE, WILLING and READY to save any person who believes on the Lord Jesus Christ: "For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved" (Rom. 10:13). "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on Me (the Lord Jesus) hath everlasting life" (John 6:47). Don’t be charmed and deceived by the allurements of so-called "safe sin"! Put your trust in the risen Christ who is the only One who can safely save (John 3:16; John 1:12)!
MBC
http://www.middletownbiblechurch.org
Printed with permission.
Good post. This is exactly the difference b/t man and God. God is completely honest about what sin does to us in both body and mind. Man is dishonest about it; so much psychological damage is done by sin.
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It’s also okay to find your own path to God. God doesn’t care how you get there (never mind what the Bible says...)... LOL..
>It is all right to sin as long as you practice SAFE SIN.<
Wow, that is a mind-blowing thought to those who do not grasp the essence of sin.
Matthew 7:14
Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Amen to that, and that’s part of the Gospel message that everyone needs to hear (along with the salvation that is in Jesus Christ...).
Yes God IS completely honest — and doesn’t engage in “political correctness” or this week’s cause demanding “tolerance.”
“It’s also okay to find your own path to God. God doesn’t care how you get there (never mind what the Bible says...)... LOL..”
Ummm... no. Man’s “own path” would lead to hell, which actually is the default. Prov. 14:12 says “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.”
LOL... read my home page... :-)
Matthew 6:5-8...
“Jesus said Keep it to your damn self”.
it looked like you were mocking... :)
Great Post.
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