Sell your birthright to the world, the flesh and the Devil and your future will be dust. But find the place God wants you to discover and a door will be open to you -- your DOORWAY OF DESTINY!
Sin is NEVER natural. It is horribly UN-natural. Sin is NEVER "human." It is horribly IN-human. Sin creates remorse, guilt and shame; every time a person feels these three witnesses in his soul, they tell him sin is NOT natural. Even the simple lie-detector can tell us this. The whole body reacts adversely when a person sins. Sin is in fact, a kind of insanity. (Ecclesiastes 9:3)
Which of God's laws are we actually UNABLE to keep -- if we love the Lawgiver? Do we have to relegate God to some other position than King of our lives and put something else in His place? Do we have to take His name in vain? Must we steal, What man has ever been born that could not help BUT murder? Do we have no choice but to commit adultery, to lie, to covet, to dishonor parents and refuse to honour God on a special day of rest? God says "His commandments are NOT grievous." Do WE say they are not only grievous but impossible? The Lord Jesus said -- "My yoke is easy and My burden is light." Do WE say His yoke is not only HEAVY, but completely unbearable for any human being?
How do you get them out? Memory is highly efficient in remembering wrong. Although it forgets unpleasant and worthless things (like the last time you tripped or missed what you were aiming for) it NEVER forgets unrighted sin. Much mental illness today can be traced to guilt never wiped from the mind by confession, restitution and forgiveness. Shock, drugs and other medical and psychiatric treatment tries to take such guild memories from the mind, but God's method is the only really effective one -- FACE each wrong with its full load of guilt -- but don't HOLD it! Bring it out into the open before the Lord Jesus, confess it to Him and to those "others" involved -- then receive healing forgiveness.
"The hardest death to die is death to self. The most difficult thing to do is to admit wrong and get the past cleaned up. ...God has given us two deeply powerful principles to overcome it. They are the moral forces of confession, to bring self-honesty and forgiveness, and restitution, to right wherever possible the harm that has been done by selfishness."
"It is a strange thing, but selfishness has never been admired. No creed or religion in history has thought well of the man who betrayed those who loved and helped him the most, or became a coward to save his own neck. Even dedicated Marxists have annual twinges of conscience. This rule God gave us -- the rule of fairness -- is known by all races, regardless of language, religion or training. Both 'civilized' and 'savage' know this inwritten law of happiness. As long as a person can function as a moral being, it will throw light on their conduct."
Sin is NEVER natural. It is horribly UN-natural. Sin is NEVER "human." It is horribly IN-human. Sin creates remorse, guilt and shame; every time a person feels these three witnesses in his soul, they tell him sin is NOT natural. Even the simple lie-detector can tell us this. The whole body reacts adversely when a person sins. Sin is in fact, a kind of insanity. (Ecclesiastes 9:3)
Which of God's laws are we actually UNABLE to keep -- if we love the Lawgiver? Do we have to relegate God to some other position than King of our lives and put something else in His place? Do we have to take His name in vain? Must we steal, What man has ever been born that could not help BUT murder? Do we have no choice but to commit adultery, to lie, to covet, to dishonor parents and refuse to honour God on a special day of rest? God says "His commandments are NOT grievous." Do WE say they are not only grievous but impossible? The Lord Jesus said -- "My yoke is easy and My burden is light." Do WE say His yoke is not only HEAVY, but completely unbearable for any human being?
"It is a strange thing, but selfishness has never been admired. No creed or religion in history has thought well of the man who betrayed those who loved and helped him the most, or became a coward to save his own neck. Even dedicated Marxists have annual twinges of conscience. This rule God gave us -- the rule of fairness -- is known by all races, regardless of language, religion or training. Both 'civilized' and 'savage' know this inwritten law of happiness. As long as a person can function as a moral being, it will throw light on their conduct."