tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10734171.post1887765692011882923..comments2023-09-04T04:55:25.547-07:00Comments on The Smith Home: Food for thought: Immortal Sin ConversationRyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03454288003881075328noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10734171.post-24374736549245744212007-11-02T08:07:00.000-07:002007-11-02T08:07:00.000-07:00I listened to the story on the drive into work tod...I listened to the story on the drive into work today.<BR/><BR/>For starters, the reader's perfect pronunciation of every single word is most distracting and unnatural. <BR/><BR/>The thing i thought of was that when you give lordship to God, and truly are repentant and accept consequences, God desires to free you from your sin, which allows you to live better. "I have come that you may have live, and have it in abundance." Or something like that. When you live like this guy, you are NOT free from that sin - it owns you until you deal with it.<BR/><BR/>When you think you have God defeated on some technicality, and you think you are forcing God to forgive you because you confess without repentance or accepting consequences, what you are really doing is defeating yourself, and cheating yourself out of the fullness of life and God's desires for you.<BR/><BR/>The doctor in this story is an extreme example of how many of us - or perhaps all of us to a certain degree - cheat ourselves out of truly living by playing legalistic games with God. This man lost this life, and will still lose eternity. Perhaps many of us will too?jeremyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10560432702594017663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10734171.post-16847500272877905862007-11-01T15:42:00.000-07:002007-11-01T15:42:00.000-07:00he reminds me of christian "extra biblical" laws w...he reminds me of christian "extra biblical" laws we create to help keep us pure/undefiled from our world.<BR/><BR/>it really is a sad, self-destructive, tiring way to live.<BR/><BR/>that's what i've been thinking about as i've read some people's blogs lately... they sound "tired" from fighting "the evils of halloween"...<BR/><BR/>i don't know.<BR/><BR/>ok. back to SS lesson at hand.<BR/><BR/>thanks for sharing..justinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15958805042604783967noreply@blogger.com