The Perils of Willful Sin

There is and has always been considerable debate over salvation for the Christian believer, and cannot be solved in a blog entry such as this, but I would like for us to ponder this point. Whatever the final state, can a Christian really seriously debate the merits of such a thing as how much sin one can commit and be saved? Is that pleasing the Lord? I hope we, as Christians, don't consider living apart from pleasing the Lord because we think we have license to do so. This is a perilous circumstance. If you scoop up the red embers of a fireplace and hold them to your bosom, you will of a certainty, get burned. How badly is contingent upon how long you hold the coals and how tightly. If you want to play with a little sin, do it at your peril. If you want to live in righteousness, do it with the pleasure of our Lord. It comes down to the heart's desire, you will do what you want to do in one degree or another. Most of today's Christian wants to be relevant to the world and it's systems. We really don't want to totally sell out to the ways of righteousness, even if we proclaim that we do with all the fervor and emotion of  a Jeremiah. We just simply don't have the same love for Christ that we do for that other thing ( football, computers, fishing, hunting, buying, selling, whatever it is) we fall so short of the goal of serving Him with our total dedication, I too, am disappointed in my state, upon occasion. I am learning to serve Jesus with all of my heart, as surely as I live each day in His presence, and that is the key. No relationship is carried out without each party giving of themselves. We know what our Savior did for us, what are we willing to do in return? The only thing that we are required to give is ourselves( a dead body of corruption exchanged for a life of incorruption). Live as if your body was the very Temple of the Holy Spirit, as if you contained within you the promise of eternity. A life that must be molded to the image of  Christ Jesus.

When are we going to start to grow up and walk in the maturity of Yahweh God. Is it too late? Are we past renewal? Certainly not! Yet, there is an urgency, time is running out on this age, and we have so much work that needs to be done. This world must hear from a mature follower of Christ, making no apologies for the Holy Bible, no exceptions for ungodliness, yet no limit to extending mercy and grace. Working as one saved from certain destruction and death, humble in the presence of our Father. There is no place for sin in the Christian's life, it just must be put away from us as soon as we recognize it within us or in our midst. Leaven will spread within dough, causing irreversible changes overnight, so likewise will sin tolerated within the midst of believers. If we are not pure and holy, we are contaminated and sinful. Let us be found to be holy and pure, undefiled in our hearts. Let us be men and women of God, not impetuous children of destruction.

I will close with these verses from 1 Peter: 
 
¹³ Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; ¹⁴ as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts, as in your ignorance; ¹⁵ but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, ¹⁶ because it is written, “Be holy, for I am holy.”
¹⁷ And if you call on the Father, who without partiality judges according to each one’s work, conduct yourselves throughout the time of your stay here in fear; ¹⁸ knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, ¹⁹ but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. ²⁰ He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you ²¹ who through Him believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.