6964	Forums / Theology Forum / Re: Pet sins	on: November 22, 2007, 12:47:24 PM
This is a growth question, because these sins that so easily beset are life long struggles. Because sin is much deeper than the ones that people can see, such as drunkenness, homosexuality, sex problems, and the like are all tied to other deeper sins of the heart. These outward sins just show the inability of man to deal with having a divided elegance to sin.  When we come to Christ we come as we are, with all of our addictions to sinning, our condition of rebellion, and our unsavory addiction to the law having the old relationship as our school master. We are granted full acceptance as saints ,being given a righteousness that is not earned, and being completely made whole by Christ work on our behalf. We die to our old way of viewing ourselves as slaves to sin, and we live in the gospel paradigm doing the will of God from the heart. We begin in evangelical obedience. Our working comes out of grace by being granted forgiveness for sin , and looking to Christ alone for our acceptance. We live in praise and adoration to Christ. We live as a friend of God, having a salvation that comes to us in unfailing love, for His name, so that we will be confident on the day of trial that God will cause us to persevere to the end.  We are obligated to live as tho we were not our own, but we were bought with a price. The nature of our obligation is to find pleasure in God alone, by being in the use of the means of grace. When we understand that salvation is of God, we will begin to have a joy knowing that we stand as sinners bringing nothing to the relationship but our doubts, fears, sins, fickleness, and hardness of heart. We come obligated to bring God all of these struggles, pouring our hearts out to Him from an unfeigned love in our relationship with the purpose to constantly viewing Him as our sovereign Lord, always with our eyes fixed on Him, and then receiving from Him, trust, confidence, joy, peace, and love of the Holy Spirit. I do believe that He will give us the Holy Spirit in a special way at seasons in our lives if we stay on Him in persevering prayer being taken up with His bigness.  When we see that our sin is so deep, a constant irritation to our enjoying God, then we will begin to desire after Him. The pleasure in being swept ed up to being raise to God will be experienced in the height of His love, kindness, faithfulness, and His absolute sovereign rule in the universe where His design is the beauty of His being please with all things and surrounding us with that pleasure in His being pleased to use us as His trophies of love. This is being lifted up in His pleasure in His created order. When we begin to have this joy unspeakable then we will begin to see that there is nothing in this world that has that kind of draw. Struggling with sin, will be a drag rather than a love of ours. Get out of that accountable relationship to the law, it will only lead you to self deception. We are to glorify God by enjoying Him forever. We live with Him being our all in all, at all times, with all kinds of praise!