Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Are you a sort of?

John 8: 11
"No one, sir," she said. "Then neither do I condemn you," Jesus declared. "Go now and leave your life of sin."
Jesus said… “Go now and leave your life of sin.” Another translation says… “Go and sin no more.”
Isn’t that the summation of the Christian life?
Because of what Jesus did for us, shouldn’t we actually do, what He tells us to do?
We’re not sort of a Christian, are we?
We’re not kind of a Christian.
When we obeyed the words of Jesus’ teaching, to walk away from our sinful lives, we became a true, died in the wool Christian.
To accept anything less, would be like saying, we sort of sin—or we kind of sin.
So do we sort of sleep with our girlfriend/boyfriend before we’re to be married?
Or do we only shoplift or steal, in moderation?
I think Jesus is pretty direct in what He expects from His followers.
I think Jesus is going to be pretty direct one day, to those people who were just kind of followers.
You know, the luke warm one’s He spoke about in Revelation chapter 3. And these words are not condemning—there honest.
I can tell you what my wife would say, if I was sort of faithful to her.
It’s the same way for the person that says… “Well, I go to church half of the Sunday’s in a year.
Call me crazy, but I take the words of Jesus pretty seriously—especially the ones, that call me to die to self…

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