Saturday // 18th January 2025
Do not remain a sinner !
Run as fast as you can from all the ambitions and lusts of youth; and chase after all that is pure. Whatever builds up your faith and deepens your love must become your holy pursuit. And live in peace with all those who worship our Lord Jesus with pure hearts. 2 Timothy 2:22 TPT
IT’S NOT YOUR FAULT YOU ARE A SINNER, BUT IT IS IF YOU DONT DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. Think of being a sinner. When you disobey God, you have sinned. Disobeying and being sorry for it so that you ask forgiveness and begin anew with determination to joyously obey God is one thing; to disobey and keep on disobeying that is not only sin, it makes you a sinner.
The Bible teaches that you are born with this ability and desire to sin. Through your power of choice you very early began a series of rebellions against God. A sinner reaches the point in his choice of the kind of life he will live, that he is going to live his way, do his thing, without calling on God and without looking to God as his Source. He goes a step further by deciding he is going to do this in his life and carry it with him into death. From God’s viewpoint, he has hardened his heart.’
A SINNER HAS TWO CHOICES. One, he can realize the Bible’s way to salvation, “Now is the day of salvation” (2 Corinthians 6:2), so “harden not your hearts” (Hebrews 3:8). Two, he can continue keeping his spirit down by living only in his intellect and physical senses, which is in direct disobedience and opposition to the way God created man.
If someone chooses the second step which is to continue in sin until his heart is hardened, then He will have NO SOURCE for his life on earth. He will be like the man whose marriage was in trouble, also his morals, and in asking for help, heard someone tell him about Jesus being able to work out his problems. But he said, “What does this person Jesus have to do with it anyway?”
My dear brothers and sisters, “Jesus has everything to do with it!” Because He is your Savior AND YOUR SOURCE. Without Him in your life, and without your looking to Him as the Source of your total supply, you have cut yourself off from God like a limb is cut off from the tree.
Your brother in Christ,
Apostle Ashok Martin