The purpose of the law was never to justify, make righteous nor make holy. The Law was made to make sin known (Gal 3v19). It was made for you and I to know how grievous are the sins we commit. It purpose was for you to realize how helpless you're to make yourself holy by observing them and to make you realize the need for a Saviour (Gal 3v24-27). But the problem has always been that, some christians do not understand this and they try leaving sin but keep falling. Until you realized how helpless you're in forsaking all sins (because keeping one and forsaking others is being guilty of all (Gal 3v10), you'll never see the need for a Saviour. Morever, the law (working your own righteousness by your own efforts) is a shadow of the good things to come, the REAL thing is CHRIST (Heb 10v1). Christ Sacrifice is the Ultimate! The question now is, do you want to follow after 'shadows' or accept the REAL thing to purge all of your sins?? The ball is definetly in your court!.... jiggaz, thanks for this.

The greatest deception ever is, believing in your righteousness (I call it futile works). God is consistent and perfect and so He expect nothing other than consistency and perfection from your self acclaimed righteousness. The BIG question is, can you be consistent and perfect in your so called righteouness? The simple answer is, NO! As humans we keep falling but the Good news is, God that knows all our perfect imperfections can't justify nor make us righteous has once and for all offer His Perfect Perfection and Righteousness. The BIGGER question is, do you want to bargain for less by your acclaimed self righteousness (futile works) Jiggaz, Thanks for sharing this righteous piece. Remain Graced.

Thanks so much for all the shared posts. I hope to share them with him. Remain Graced.

Awesome!

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Awesome Piece you have there. Remain Blessed.

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Right... he makes a good point.

OK... The problem with most Christians is that they think that becoming a Christian and following God means no more problems, no more issues. everything is OK.

Well, the early Christians did not have that luxury .A good number of them died for believing in God..... despite all the promises of blessings.

But why does God allow bad things happen to good people?

Recently on BBC, the daughter of a missionaries told her parents story. Her father was a missionary and a good man who died in the course of the job....killed by the idol worshippers he was trying to reach (no offense to my pagan brothers and sisters). What did his wife do? His wife went and took his place.... ministering to the people who killed her husband along with another widow..... and many were converted.... Including the men who killed her husband.

Now... If the woman had given up on the faith, and said that Jesus is a failure for not protecting her husband, would the souls of her husband's killers be saved.

Jesus said that we are the light of the world. Sometimes that means shining when we don't feel like it, when all hope is lost, when we are personally hurt. But we have to shine..... because somewhere among the people who hurt us is a Saul who will bring light to more millions.

Let us talk about saul/paul. He persecuted Christians. He took part in the death of a good man called Stephen. But Saul was converted by Jesus on the road to Damascus. The job was completed by Ananias and Barnabas..... members of the same church that he was prosecuting.Now what if Ananias had said that Jesus failed...since he could not protect Stephen.? What if Barnabas had left the faith? Where would Paul be?

Jesus gave you a mission as Christians.... gave us a mission.... to be a little light in a dark world. It is not comfortable business being a light. You may have to forgive, have to love, have to forget hurts done to you. Because you have a mission as a Christian... to help reconcile an evil world to the Lord. Not to sit back and expect your blessing for doing God a favour by following him.

The problem with the ex Christian the OP quoted is that he was following God for favors. That is not the kind of follower God wants.

Awesome! You're just on point. Bless you bro

James' Books are Baes. Damn!