“Weak definitions of sin will produce weak doctrines concerning the Savior of sin.”
Samuel Moffett
My Pondering
Worse yet, weak doctrines regarding the Christian’s duty to sin less; to trust & obey, will inevitably produce all too many weak, lukewarm, vomited out pseudo saints. The best case scenario will produce believers who make into Heaven by their awkward back-sliding into home.
In my flesh, I will never be sinless
Kirk A. Booher
but I should always strive to sin less.
Revelation 3:15-17
“15 I know your deeds; you are neither cold nor hot. How I wish you were one or the other!
16 So because you are lukewarm— neither hot nor cold— I am about to vomit you out of My mouth!
17 You say, ‘I am rich; I have grown wealthy and need nothing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked”
I can’t help but notice this startling vomit verse from Revelation 3:16 is like the opposite of John 3:16.
Wow, that is a STARK warning to us here in the U.S., we by default we are among the richest people in all of history.
Let’s take head of Paul’s admonition from his letter to the Philippians 2:12-13:
“12 Therefore, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now even more in my absence, continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling.
13 For it is God who works in you to will and to act on behalf of His good purpose.”
It’s good to have an awe-inspiring, holy respectful fear of the Lord as the wisest man in all of history began in Proverbs 1:7 “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge”…and then warns of the enticement of sin.
Until we take God seriously,
R.C. Sproul
we will never take sin seriously.
Solomon would know and history declares that he should have taken more of his own advice. So wisdom alone is insufficient, we need to heed and abide with the Holy Spirit.