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I'm confused!

Was wondering if anyone could help?

Over the past few days i have been listening to a friend talk on the topic of being a new creation, and I have been listening to sermons that contain information that seems to contradict my friend n I'm confused between the two arguments.

I thought perhaps if I shared them someone might give feedback!

I might be being really dim but it is conflicting in my head n i thought this was the best way to ask.

Argument one:

We are sinners saved by grace!

Despite our salvation we are still sinners and innately sinful and challenged by human weakness.

That we have to pray for the continued transformation into the likeness and that being washed in his blood and clothed in his righteousness we can come before him and ask for forgiveness and guidance despite our human weakness.

Argument two:

We were sinners but are redeemed by grace!

That in being born again as a new creation we are no longer in need of transformation nor innately sinful. That in our new form we are completely redeemed and need to live in that redemption and to pray to be transformed into the likeness of Christ is to deny what he did for us on the cross.

I don't know if anyone has any opinions?

Im feeling a little like a confused meerkat but God is good and his truth will stand firm it may be a combination of the two but as it is I am lost and hope someone would be able to shed some lite on it for me.

Thank you.

God bless x

Consequences..

The consequence of sin is death!!
... basic Christian principle.

Dieing to self and living for Christ..
... = Eternal Life!!!!

Eternity...

Revelation 20v ..
¹¹Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. Earth and sky fled from his presence, and there was no place for them. ¹²And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books. ¹³The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what he had done. ¹⁴Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. ¹⁵If anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

Second death = eternity in torment

Death to self n life in christ = one death to self, no second death, = name in lambs book of life!

If this is the consequences why are we so careless with the souls of others?

Why arn't we fighting to share the lord in every way we can, with everyone we can, in any way we can????

How selfish are we really that we can know Christ and the consequences of our sin and what we have been saved from and not care about sharing the gift with others?????

Even if he hadn't commanded us to go out into all the world and preach the gospel, shouldnt we want to share what he has given enough to do it out of our joy??

As he asks us to go out n preach his word shouldn't that just give us more of a incentive???

I pray that in obedience we would all seek to share him with those we encounter in our daily lives that we would be a living example of his love and grace not that we are proud or perfect but that all that we are is made right in him and that we would love him and share him with thouse around us by his grace through his love and peace. Amen.

Hidden Truthes

In April before i went to India i was staying at my friends house and i felt like God was really speaking to me through the lyrics of a secular song. It might not seem that much of a biggy but at the time it really hit me about how we get so caught up in the romantic notions of our heads that we miss that the Greatest love story ever told is that of Jesus and his love for his bride the church which we are a part of!

The Turtles - Happy Together ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnNIx-NRdoI&feature=related )
Might sound like a funny song to think wow that's Gods affection for me but it really hit me how depending on the Lord is such a gift of his love and if we depend on him the way he wants us to in his love that it is all worth it.

When lookin for a link with the words i found this ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDQ5kt4BYnI&feature=related ) which is a flobot version which really amused me because its like from the simplicity about a song that is jus about how a love was predestined and just untimely and right to over complicating it and making it so much more complicated than God intended it to be.

It encourages us to indulge in our sinful hearts, reenforcing that are adulterous and make us think that what we feel can lead our lifes when in God we have to know that somethings are true despite our feelings, and that despite the fluctuations of our affections, Gods love is all we need to hold on to and that when we have lost that that is when we truely have nothing.

The Hoosiers - Clinging on for Life (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzLKMuyonqw )
When i have listened to this song ive always loved how meldious it is. Then last night i was getting ready for bed n i literally couldnt get it out of my head.
It really hit me when i was listening to it and looking at the lyrics that in our lives it can so easily be about how we are with God and with him as love.

When it speaks of Love - "I need you to reach me, teach me, how to love" God is love we cant learn about him if we dont draw close to him. and we cant truely love people without his love in our lives.

I also feel like the reason we need to "cling on for life" is because in our lives it is so easily to get distracted by other things that take our attention off God things that we need to cling on to his love to live the lives he intended for us.

Then when it says about how "made enough mistakes between the two of us to sink this thing" despite it being in the plural giving shared blame i think we can often miss that it is our own faults, like now im realising yes i have screwed up majourly yet again but at the same time the Lord has given me the strength and the faith to cling on for life that i would truly depend on him and know that despite everything he still loves me and i can still draw close to him.

I think its awesome how vast the Love of God is and how despite everything we can see snippits of his love in things all around us even in secular song lyrics.

Praise the lord oh my soul, may i praise the name of the lord all the days of my life and rejoice in his blessings and grace through every trial, that i may grow in faith and dependance on him and his awesome love amen.

Im done..

Kinda found the end of myself which is good.
Having spent months being in a messed up friendship that resembled a relationship..
It is Finished!
It might sound strange but i have been waiting for him to find someone who he actively wants to pursue n i hope the lord would show him the true desire to pursue somebody that is worth everything to them, the love Christ has for his church and a man should have for his wife.

Despite not being in a relationship it was a awkward middle ground of false promises and half commitments that where never fulfilled which left him frustrated with me for my emotional attachment and me frustrated with him for his lac of consistency.

Now having heard he is pursuing someone i feel sad at the lac of worth it gives me..
At the same time Im Happy that i have..
.. no reason to hold on...
... no reason to hope...
... no reason to let anything distract me from the lord and his purpose for my life.
I know the Lord is my strength.
I know that one day the lord will put me on somebodies heart that they would find me worthy of pursuing.
I know that one day the lord will have drawn me so close to his heart that he will want to show me the man who's heart will be made one with my own in covenant.

Having prayed for desperation i think i may be at the beginnings which after a pretty stressful month where i found my own limits so often the lord is guiding me into his courts and beckoning me into his presence that i know that Jesus love is sufficient. I am in his church, his bride that he pursues, that the only man the lord has for me will demonstrate that christ like love of sacrifice.

Thinking of the story of Ruth i feel confident in the knowledge that the lord has somebody out there to be my Boaz to take the challenge for my heart and that will love me as their ruth that despite being broken, having left the home n gods of my parents pagan faith that i might be worth the love of a redemptive man of God, and that as a part of that love he would persue me and win me as his bride.

It may be heavy, but this is about the Lord in my life n this is what he is doing so i will share it honestly n pray that you would find the same peace of the Lord as your home and that knowing me the sinner with what the lord is teaching me would be an encouragement.

May the God of Abraham be Glorified.
The Lord Jesus our Saviour be lifted high.
And may the courts of our king be our home.
Life is just practice, heavens the Goal.

Praise the Lord, Hallelujah!!

God High Forcast!!

Hi this might sound a bit funny but I'm forecasting a God High.

Justification...

... normally when life is really crap n things feel like they are falling to pieces God uses it to draw us closer to him and into the fellowship of his love and truth.

... as i currently feel really crappy in a whats the point kinda way i feel like God must have something that he is preparing for me in this trial if that makes sense.

... as his word says that he "uses everything for the good of those that love him and are called according to his purpose" there has to be something good to come out of my current feelings of stress and lowness.

... and as he uses these trials to build character im sure he will show me something about myself which i am needing to develop and improve on! which though humbling is really important.

... kinda prayed for a desperation for him last week!!

... despite being fully aware that to be desperate to see more of him things tend to have to get really crappy i really want to see more of him and feel him more tangibly in my life, not that i dont see him working but that i want to see what he is doing now and what he wants me to do to further his kingdom and to share his love and grace with those who have yet to meet him.

So in the near future the is a God high forcast :D

(hope this is a more coherent ramble than my last God bless x)