Many find it hard to stop sinning

Many find it hard to stop sinning

A Chapter by stranger-n-life
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... why does God not help them yet?

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Many find it hard to stop sinning , why does God not help them yet?


The scripture could hardly be clearer, yet most people find it hard to admit that they are sinners and thus cannot follow Jesus until they stop sinning , let us explore then how Jesus proposes to save all sinners in God's perfect plan of salvation of His creation :-

He that committeth sin is of the devil:
[1 John 3:8]

Sin is breaking God's law of love , so all those who sin are disobeying Jesus and not doing what is deepest within us, the desire to love and be loved , sin is thus any unlovingness and by doing it one is not following Jesus, but following Satan, the adversary of God [pity him that role, opposing God is neither easy, nor going to lead anywhere for long ]

2 Timothy 2:19 Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.

Note what the saint teaches: the task of every person following Christ is to stop sinning ... this is SURE , it is the very foundation on which belief in Christ rests , without stopping sinning one is not sealed ...

Then who are sealed , and why so few, and what about the rest ? :

Matthew 7:14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

Most people know how strait and hard is the way of ceasing sin, but very few seem to realise the implications [and many follow the hugest sects in divided Christianity which simply could not be described as few and are often freely admitting that they are sinners, thus not yet following Christ]

How few does Jesus say are the few sealed and who are they :-

Rev 7:4 And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.

From the sealing of the saints at the first Feast of Weeks ['Pentecost'] after Jesus' death , to his return, just 144,000 saints have given up sin... about two thousand alive at any one time on average ...

It is clear why religion is divided then, unlike the sealed saints, there are hundreds of thousands teaching doctrines which do not agree with all that the saints have taught ... clearly sinners are teaching inplace of the servants of God, and we know from the saints that sinners follow Satan, not Christ.

We can thus see why most religion is controlled by satan, not Christ, there are far more sinners teaching in this world and not following the teachings of the saints than there are saints teaching God's truth in line with all scripture ...hence both division and the scarcity of the truth of God now.

It would make sense then to study and understand the whole scripture as one self-explanatory truth BEFORE deciding what to believe , but even the few scriptures above show how foolish it is to follow sinners who are led by the devil , in place of all the saints' and prophes' writings inspired by God:-

2 Timothy 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

2 Peter 1:20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.

We know that religion is of private interpretation because it is divided and because it disagrees with so much of scripture , thus use the scripture to reprove religion to the one truth of God, and do so without listening to interpretations, seek the answers from the saints, not from sinners under Satan.

Why are so few sealed first then , why not many ?:

Revelation 5:10 And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.

But not THIS earth :-

John 18:36 Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world

Jesus as the Christ, king of kings and high priest rules in the heartss and minds only of the saints in this earth, but the kingdom is is explicit for the masses only in the new earth , which thius is a righteous place where love is the law and the norm of behaviour :-

2 Peter 3:13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

How many does God require as kings and priests to set up the kingdom in the new earth, just 144,000 then ... Rather obviously not everyone is required as king or priest , most have to be rued by love and ministered to by love in God's kingdom come at last .

Thus it is hardly surprising that, as Jesus says, countless many [who went by the broad way of the many through destruction of this earth, Matt 7:13] are saved after the mere few saved at Jesus return to be the kings and priests :-

Isaiah 65:17 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.

Rev 7:9 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;
10 And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.

So we see that those not sealed in this life , who are sinners to death, are simply waiting for the kingdom to be set up in order that they get their chance to be righteous saints in the kingdom of God , ALL are resurrected form hell and all those later saved are judged by their works in the righteous kingdom of God , not by their sin in this life IF the turn to righteousness later :-

Revelation 20:13 ...and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.

Ezek 18:21 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
22 All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live.




© 2010 stranger-n-life


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