02/23/20 SIN IS INESCAPABLE, EXCEPT THROUGH CHRIST

02/23/20 SIN IS INESCAPABLE, EXCEPT THROUGH CHRIST
 
You can quit sins of the flesh, (drugging, adultery, killing), if you remove the opportunity.
Sins of the heart are inescapable.

My argument is that the druggies, the adulterers, the murderers, the thieves, when isolated or physically incapacitated or situationally unable, do not commit those sins. But we are constantly told how hard life is for them. (this does not diminish or belittle the terrible bondage that grips the people who are slaves to those sins, because it is real).

However, Christians, real Christians, truly saved, born again, transformed followers of Christ, have not only stopped doing those ACTS of sin, they have stopped seeking the high that comes through drugs, stopped lusting, stopped hating, stopped coveting.

We hear very little about people being delivered from sin (outwardly or inwardly) and we are being led to believe that sinning is an acceptable response to temptation, difficulty, hardship. We are being led to believe that there is no deliverance from sin. This is because salvation from sin is not proclaimed by preachers, or because it is not sought by sinners.

YES, temptation is real, in the spirit and in the flesh.
YES, those who are slaves of sin suffer greatly.
And NO, there is no deliverance from any sin except through Christ.

It is time that Christians showed this truth by the way we live; that we declare this truth in our testimonies; that preachers proclaim this truth to their congregations. If a preacher cannot preach salvation from sin, he should get out of the pulpit and fall at the altar, seeking God with his whole heart.

As long as sin has power in our lives and hearts, we will have no power with God.