Using I'm Human as an Excuse Sin

 People say, "God knows I'm human" as an excuse to continue sinning,

but the Bible says in Romans 6.....

1 - What shall we say then?
SHALL WE CONTINUE IN SIN,
that grace may abound?
2 - GOD FORBID!
How shall WE,
that ARE DEAD TO SIN,
live any longer therein?

SHALL WE CONTINUE IN SIN?
GOD FORBID!

When we become NEW CREATURES in Christ,  we ARE DEAD TO SIN.

Dead to sin!
That means sin no longer has a hold of you.

The only way sin revives and once again gains hold of a person:
* is not praying or reading their Bible much if at all.
* They become more carnal than spiritual.
* They are walking after the flesh rather than walking in the Spirit. (Romans 8:5)

We cannot use grace as an excuse to continue sinning, because...
* The carnal mind (the carnal way of thinking and living) is enmity (hatred/hostility) and is against God. (Rom 8:7)
*we are to be dead to sin.
* We cannot continue in sin and please God.

Romans 8:1 and again in verse 4 admonishes us to...
Walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

For to be carnally minded is death;
but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. (Vs 6)

If you mess up, don't give up!

The Bible doesn't say, "IF I fall.." 

It says, "WHEN I fall..."

WHEN you fail, falter, and get of coarse with Jesus, repent, get back up, and keep living for Him.

Micah 7:8 KJV — Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me.

The Cross

The Cross

People wear it around their necks on a chain
They display it on their door
But do they ever stop to realize the weight of the Cross
And its true meaning?

The cross was heavy
It was difficult to carry
The weight becoming more burdensome with every step and every mile.
It was a place of torture, agony, and shame.
It is symbolic of death

Jesus said we are to take up our Cross
In order to follow Him.

The cross we like to take up is:
Lightweight
Easy to carry
Carried with pride

But....that is not the same Cross Jesus instructed us to take up.

His followers are to be like Him.
He was despised and rejected. (Is 53:3)
Jesus said the world hated Him, therefore they will hate us. (Jn 15:18)

The Cross was a place of shame for Jesus.
They stripped and hung Him naked, for all the world to see.
Yet, many are embracing the opposite - ashamed to dress Holy and modest while walking proudly around immodest and half clothed, striving to blend in rather than stand out and be separate. 

The Cross was a place of suffering for Jesus.
Yet, many today avoid suffering as they try to "live their best life."
The best life is not in the here and now, but in the one to come.

The Cross was a place of death for Jesus.
Are you dying to self and sin?

What Cross are you truly carrying?
The modern one that is light and easy?
Or the rugged Cross that Jesus said we must bare in order to follow Him?
What Cross are you truly carrying?