Comments on: We’re At War

By: Nathan Copeland

Nathan Copeland — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 19:41:12 +0000

Amen and Amen. A sober and timely reminder. Would love to read another post on the subtle deceptiveness of sin. Like cancer, it often eats away slowly, undetected. Sick! Lord, help us.

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 11:25:21 +0000

Thanks for the insights of truth. I sat and read and thought of how I too at times treat sin “not-so-serious.” I loved the thought … Sin is not just a case of the common cold. We cannot take a few Bible verses like an antibiotic and be on our way.

In many cases we “1 John 1:9-it” … commit it, confess it, forget it. How lightly see our sin, the depths of it forgetting the cost of it.

Keep sharing the truth.

By: Bryan Riley

Bryan Riley — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 20:17:47 +0000

Amen. But as we wake up to this reality we must be prepared to wear our armor and let God rule completely in our lives because it will draw out the enemy. When we are asleep to this reality, Satan can focus on other fronts.

By: Amber

Amber — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 18:44:51 +0000

I totally agree with this post. It’s something that we tend to just read straight through and not really let it permeate our hearts. I think our initial reaction is to read through “abstain from the passions of the flesh” and just think of the really bad things. Okay, passions of the flesh,…murder, lust, adultery, hate,…check, check, check, check — okay, I’m good. Next. We don’t really want to take the time to think “What are MY personal ‘passions of the flesh’ that are areas of sin for me?” We don’t often let it get as personal as: anger/temper, over-eating, idolatry of our children/tv/spouse/cellphone, etc. But if we truly did, each of these “little” things would become serious issues. We would take Mark 9:34-37 seriously and we would live it out — daily. We would see each other “individualizing,” for lack of a better word, those passages for their own lives and cutting out whatever it is that causes them to sin. And that pruning process would be different for each person, not a cookie cutter formula of “abstain from this list and you’ll be fine.” But as you said, “killing our sin seems foreign to many of us because we don�t believe that sin is really all that serious.” And also, “Scripture, and God take sin seriously. When we minimize the seriousness of sin, we are also minimizing the holiness of God.” Minimize God? How many people think of it like that? That certainly is the biggest grievance of all, is it not?

By: Kevin Leggett

Kevin Leggett — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 16:39:19 +0000

Prior to my position in retail, I once believed that people were generally good. Not in the sense that they could get salvation from their good works, but that people generally meant well. Now having worked as a manager at Hastings, I have found a whole new side of humanity. The “cancerous” state of everyone around me. People are generally lazy and decietful because of the illness so deeply embedded in their nature.

Makes me appreciate salvation even more. Not that I am guiltless of committing sin, but that I have found the greatest love of all as the ultimate escape from the bondage of sin. That is Christ, our Lord.