Free from sins

"For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith - and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God - not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." Ephesian 2,8-10

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“Before we can speak God’s message, we must learn to listen. The opened ear comes before the opened mouth.” A. B. Simpson

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There are no shortcuts

There are no shortcuts to life sanctification. There is no easy way to get the self underneath. Christian character is a matter of growth, not of gimmicks or formulas. Growth takes time. It also requires regular prayer, constant study, regular self-examination, constant openness to the witness of the Holy Spirit, and obedience to the utmost. We live in a world of instant coffee and ready-made food, But there is no ready-made solution to the sin of self. It must always begin with a new awareness of our sin, a daily re-confessed gratitude for the infinite grace of God, and the knowledge of being constantly liberated to live a holy life.

— John White, Flirting with the world.

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“Be faithful. Do what God wants and you will receive what he has promised.”

‭‭Hebrews‬ ‭10:36‬

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I’ve been thinking quite a bit about statues over the last few days. It has reminded me of the time I visited the statue of my Great Grandad - August Maramaa. He is commemorated in his home town of...

“Contemporary Critical Theory is a school of thought that has massively influenced our societies current thinking on issues like race, gender and sexuality. One of its key ideas is the concept of a social binary. What is meant by that is that we can split the world into two camps – the oppressed and the oppressor. […]  But what happens when we discover that the oppressed can also be the oppressor? […] 

It becomes clear that humanity is not divided into two groups - the oppressed and oppressor. Rather, each of us can be both oppressed and oppressor. “

“[by Solzhenitsyn:] If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? […] During the life of any heart this line keeps changing place; sometimes it is squeezed one way by exuberant evil and sometimes it shifts to allow enough space for good to flourish. One and the same human being is, at various ages, under various circumstances, a totally different human being. At times he is close to being a devil, at times to sainthood. But his name doesn’t change, and to that name we ascribe the whole lot, good and evil.”

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If you read further: 

“Jesus shows that the heart of the problem is the problem of the human heart (Mark 7:21-23) – yours and mine included. Yet the good news is that Jesus didn’t come to condemn us – but to rescue us.

At the heart of the Christian faith stands a cross – a symbol of horrific injustice and oppression. Jesus himself was oppressed. He suffered and died. When we are the victims of oppression and injustice we can look to the cross and see that God knows what it is like. He suffers with us. But when we face up to the fact that sometimes we have been also been the oppressor and caused hurt to others we also need to look at the cross and there see that Jesus not only suffered with us but also for us. He took what I deserve. He makes it possible for me to be forgiven.

The Christian faith leaves no place for self-righteousness. ...”  

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“We forget that God’s primary goal is not changing our situations or relationships so that we can be happy, but changing us through our situations and relationships so that we will be holy.”

— Paul David Tripp (via thesovereignword)

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The bigger love will bow down in front of the smaller one.

"Leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift." Matthew 5:24 ESV

Reconcile and forgive regardless of who was at fault, and whether they apologised. Show bigger compression - as you have been shown before:

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life." John 3:16 ESV

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