God’s Ways vs. Man’s Ways – Episode 2
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When you condemn people’s sin, apart from god’s work of grace, apart from god’s work of mercy, It leaves a feeling of what self righteousness, a holier than thou attitude, and those people who feel like they’re reformed.
That always amazes me how somebody can take the time to really condemn somebody else’s stuff When they stuff are y’all listening to me?
They’re condemning somebody else’s stuff, when their stuff is not really together, can I get a witness?
And we gotta stop doing that.
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Under Grace got first reminds us of what he has done in grace.
And then on the basis of that, He he he appeals for a life of of godliness with that in mind.
In other words, god God has this work of grace.
He reminds of of his grace, and he reminds us of his mercy.
And then he makes an appeal for us to live godly, but not without us understanding his work of grace?
Let let let me show you the the phrase that god gave me to to pull all this together.
It may help you. I wrote it down. I was so excited about it.
I signed my name just in case I leave it back in 100 years later, so nobody else won’t have to struggle with what I’m getting ready to to preach, and it’s no longer struggle, but here’s what he said.
God will not make an appeal when I when I use the word appeal, he won’t appeal to you to to to say, alright.
You need to live godly. Or or or, alright, you need to present your body, uh, uh, as a living sacrifice, holy, and acceptable under god.
Alright. You need to treat everybody. That that’s what I refer to as an appeal.
So I I’m gonna use the word appeal this morning, the appeals that god make.
He appeals to you, to live wholly, appeals to you, to do right, appeals to you to do that.
But, but he, he never appeals to you. Here’s what he says.
God will not make an appeal without first providing mercy and grace for our failures.
Oh, boy.
So so what what what he’s what he means there is I’m not asking you to live right until I, first of all, have a work of mercy and grace for when you don’t live right that day.
So now all of a sudden, you’re not too afraid to accept that appeal Because the threat of me not being able to do it has been taken away because he said before I ask you to live godly, notice my mercy and grace is at every beginning of every appeal that I have asked you.
So I went and checked that out. I said, oh, yeah. And I started seeing it.
I saw how we skipped. We skipped the mercy and grace part and went straight to the appeal.
Live godly, but god says, no, no, no.
I won’t ever request for you to do anything without first of all, recognizing my work of grace and being able to ask you to live this way.
So don’t be afraid that you can’t live
this way because I’ve already worked this thing out for your bad days. No.
Yeah.
I know. I know. I got my hankets. I only got my hankets of hit. It ain’t it ain’t time.
We’re gonna cry in a minute, babe. I got I got one for you.
Right now, why’s this now? But man’s ways are not god’s ways.
In general, man clings to the idea that benefits always come because of good conduct And man’s ways are that losses come because of bad conduct.
So man’s ways are, alright, these good things showed up because we did something good.
Uh, this bad thing showed up because we did something bad. That’s man’s way.
Losses and rewards based on our conduct, with no consideration of the grace and mercy that has been put in this place.
Natural man always feels that he must contribute something to earn god’s favor.
That’s what church has been like for some of you for the last 10, 20, 30 years.
Natural man natural man saying, and based on church, and based on pulpit, and based on sermons, natural man says I got to contribute something in order to get god’s favor.
And if I don’t contribute something, I can’t get god’s favor.
And and and and the poor pits of the world.
This is what you have to contribute to get god’s favor, but you have to understand you did not contribute anything at the beginning of god’s favor.
God’s favor was god’s idea, not mine, not yours.
Think about this.
Think about always thinking I’ve got to contribute something. I gotta go.
I think it it it’s it’s it this whole contradicts everything.
If you have to contribute something to get god’s favor, it’s not a favor.
How is it a favor if you had something to do with getting it?
It’s wrapped.
I I contributed nothing to get born again, except I believed. I believe this way.
A lot of gifts that you’re walking in now, you keep trying to find where your contribution made this happen.
That is not god’s way. Its man’s way.
God’s method under grace is seen in Jesus, dealing with that woman taken in adultery.
Let’s look at that. John chapter 8 versus 3 through 11.
And the scribes and pharisees brought on to him a woman taken in adultery.
I mean, in the very act of adultery, they bought the woman sheets and all.
Ain’t no. We think she in adultery.
And when they had set her in the mist, They say unto him, Jesus, master, this woman was taken in adultery.
In the very act. Now because they’re trying to they’re trying to trick Jesus.
Because Jesus is supposed to be there fulfilling the law.
And according to the law, This should be this woman’s last day.
Now Moses in the law commanded us that such should be stoned But what do you say?
They’re trying to trip Jesus up. Watching. This is why he might came.
This, they say it tempting him, that they might have to accuse him.
But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger, wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not, he was eking them.
You understand what I’m saying? I ain’t got time for this Tom Foolery.
So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself and said under them.
Okay? And I liked this because he can’t go against the law because he had come to deliver people from the law, and he couldn’t deliver them from the law unless he operated and fulfill all the law.
So what do you say?
So he didn’t say Don Stoner, Here’s what he said.
He lifted up himself and said under him.
He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
And he again stooped down and rode on the ground.
Somebody said, do you know what he was writing? No. I don’t know what he was writing.
And you don’t either. So don’t get don’t get him and get a pre go.
Don’t get a prequel sermon talking about what Jesus was writing, you know, the day that he would return. No.
You don’t know. He was he might have been doodling.
Because that’s what you do when people talk in Tom Fuller.
You’re just like, He says, alright. Fine. I’m not telling you not the stoner.
Here’s all I’m saying. Anybody, any any one of you who don’t have sin in your life, Go ahead.
And the Bible says the older people left first because they knew they had a whole bunch going on.
The older people just got on out of their life. Man, let me let me go.
The younger people thought they had hope, but they eventually left to And they, which hurt it, being convicted by their own conscience, they went out 1 by 1.
Beginning at the eldest, even until the last. And Jesus left her alone.
And the woman standing in his mess when Jesus had left lifted up himself and saw none but the woman He said unto her, woman, where are those dying accusers?
Had no man condemned me?
She said, No man, lord. Jesus say it under her.
Watch this. Neither do I condemn the.
This sin of adultery will not condemn you.
What you did deserved death and condemnation, you should have been condemned to death because you broke the law, and the law said you should be condemned to death.
But in a sense, he said, but mercy it has come before you today.
Jesus full of grace and truth.
And I forgive you Now take this mercy and this grace that you’ve received today and go and send no more because grace has come on to you.
Now it’s possible for her to actually walk without sitting and doing this again because before there was no mercy and grace, there was just the threat of death.
And people telling you you’re going to hell for this. And you’re going to hell for that.
But now I see mercy, I see grace, I see Jesus.
I see that I can do what I didn’t think I was able to do before because his way showed up, and he reversed what was supposed to happen under the law.
Oh, and that same thing going on today.
We still trying to send folks to hell when we catch them in stuff.
But when Jesus Ask you to live a godly life, he will never do so with our first of all, making sure that there’s an act of grace and mercy available for your bad day Alright.
Let’s go through this. Jesus first freely forgave her of sin, for which under the law she was worthy of death.
Then secondly, he admonished her to live a life free from sin.
And it’s important to recognize that under the law, god’s order was reversed.
Under the law, god promised blessings only on the conditions of obedience And he threatened curse if every part of it was not fulfilled.
Dude running me 28, one through 2. I’ll bless you. Uh, you know, if you obey, I’ll bless you.
And then in verse 15 of deuteronomy, he says, I’ll curse you if you don’t.
That was the law of mercy. That was, uh, that was great showing up.
See, for every Christian that’s still trying to live by the law, why did Jesus reverse it here?
Why did he reverse it?
Why did this woman walk away? And Jesus said, I don’t condemn you.
And you remember, scripture, he says, I didn’t come to condemn the world but that the world through me, through grace, through mercy might be saved.
So it is imperative that god’s orders under grace that those orders are not confused with that the orders of the law.
And and to to be honest with you, it’s it is often confused.
We live this Christian life, confusing the orders under grace with the orders under the law.
And the problem with that, is you you have to be careful because self righteousness is trying to get in.
A holier than that attitude tries to get in.
Somehow, if you think you’re able to keep doing that with people, you’re kinda saying that you ain’t got no problems nowhere.
And the next thing we look, we we got that next thing, you know, you’re gonna around, and we got we got a Holy Police Department developing in the church.
As god’s basis of mercy and grace, his works of grace for an peel are re are disregarded.
The service that follows is often done in dependence upon self.
If you disregard the mercy and the grace and the works of grace.
And then god tells you to live godly, then what happens is if you disregard this grace, you’re gonna often end up doing things depending upon yourself instead of dependent upon him.
And that’s what’s happened in church. We disregard the work of grace. We disregard the mercy of god.
And so we look at the appeal, live godly. And so what are we gonna do?
We we we’re saying, I I I not gotta do I gotta depend on myself to be able to do that.
I gotta discipline myself to be able to do that. I gotta work hard to be able to do that.
And what god is saying, I
I don’t want you to
do it like that. I want you, oh, to be so into my unrestricted love for you that you find yourself doing it, not out of duty and responsibility, but as a response to the love that I have to you, that I I don’t want you to
do it because you think it’s your duty.
I want you to do it because you’ve been blown away but his unrestricted, unrestrained love, that he loved you enough
not to condemn you. And you say I got to be, I got to do this now.
Because I want to because I’ve never encountered nobody like this. I wanna live right.
I wanna live godly I wanna say no to that and no to this.
Now, I’ve been calls of of the consequences of hell or condemnation or shame, but I wanna do it because he loved me so much.
He wouldn’t dare make an appeal without first of all showing me there’s mercy and there’s grace.
And I won’t condemn you, but I’ll get you to wanna do it because you wanna do it because you’ve encountered my love.
That’s why I had to wear tennis shoes this morning.
Because you can’t tell me I’m gonna go to hell because you’re a preacher, dressing the way you dress.
But I can dress this way because there’s mercy and grace for the way I dress.
When the appeal is based on god’s work of grace, the resultant conduct will be in dependence upon him.
And for his glory. So when I when god asked me to live godly, okay, I’m dependent on you.
I need you to do this.
You your appeal is for me to present my body as a living sacrifice. Alright.
So you know, I’m a need your mercy and your grace to be able to do this The eloquence and the persuasive powers of a speaker for the enthusiasm of an occasion may move some people to action, but it will probably be lacking depth And it probably won’t be centered on god.
Motivational speak is what I’m saying. That yellow, it’ll move you to action for a minute.
I’m motivated. My emotions are high. You can do it. We can do it. We can do it.
And I’m not against motivation, but it if it if it’s not dependent on god, it has an expiration.
That just one day you’re gonna wake up and you don’t feel motivated.
But under god’s way, I can wake up every morning knowing his grace and his mercy is from everlasting to everlasting from grace to grace.
And when you have a bad day, you don’t stay stuck on your evil day, your bad day, You realize it’s a journey, and you realize you have mercy and grace, and you simply get up, wipe yourself off and keep going on the journey.
Sometimes, would it took you 5 minutes to commit, it takes you 20 years to get over.
The children of Israel, the actual journey time from them getting to where there was was about 11 days or so?
Possibly. Mhmm. And it went from 11 days to 40 some 40 something years.
That’s basically what we got here.
We got a few time on the grace that we can get something done, and we’re taking 40 years to do something that should take about a day or 2 to do.
Because we’re dependent on us and not on him.
God’s appeal for godly conduct are valid only when it’s based on his works of grace and his works of Christ.
And so the more that is made of the works of Christ and of the fullness of god’s work of grace, the stronger will be the appeal for godly living.
But by omitting god’s work of grace, by omitting god’s work of mercy, standards for godly living are brought down from the divine plane to the level of human concept.
Now all of a sudden, God is asking me to live godly, but I bring it down on the divine plane.
Now I’m depending on me. It’s often necessary to correct the sins of believers.
And this should always be related to god’s work of grace for them.
Sin should be shown as being of the old man and should be part should be put off as being inconsistent with the believer’s position before god.
However, condemnation of sins. Condimations evices apart from god’s work of grace When you condemn people sin, apart from god’s work of grace, apart from god’s work of mercy, it leaves a feeling of what self righteousness, a holier than thou attitude in those people who feel like they’re reformed.
That always amazes me how somebody can take the time to really condemn somebody else’s stuff.
When they stuff, Are y’all listening to me?
They’re condemning somebody else’s stuff when their stuff is not really together. Can I get a witness?
And we gotta stop doing that.
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When you condemn people’s sin, apart from god’s work of grace, apart from god’s work of mercy, It leaves a feeling of what self righteousness, a holier than thou attitude, and those people who feel like they’re reformed.
That always amazes me how somebody can take the time to really condemn somebody else’s stuff When they stuff are y’all listening to me?
They’re condemning somebody else’s stuff, when their stuff is not really together, can I get a witness?
And we gotta stop doing that.
Your story is just beginning.
The 2024 change experience tour is where you need to be.
Meet creflo dollar on Friday, April 26th at the Centennial Memorial Temple in New York, New York to renewed by the word and reminded that you are made new in Christ.
Your story isn’t over RSVP today. Text change 2024 took 51555.
Visit creflodollarministries.org or scan the QR code on your screen.
This is your world. Solis vowed to make it a better place.
Let every heart today.
Under Grace got first reminds us of what he has done in grace.
And then on the basis of that, He he he appeals for a life of of godliness with that in mind.
In other words, god God has this work of grace.
He reminds of of his grace, and he reminds us of his mercy.
And then he makes an appeal for us to live godly, but not without us understanding his work of grace?
Let let let me show you the the phrase that god gave me to to pull all this together.
It may help you. I wrote it down. I was so excited about it.
I signed my name just in case I leave it back in 100 years later, so nobody else won’t have to struggle with what I’m getting ready to to preach, and it’s no longer struggle, but here’s what he said.
God will not make an appeal when I when I use the word appeal, he won’t appeal to you to to to say, alright.
You need to live godly. Or or or, alright, you need to present your body, uh, uh, as a living sacrifice, holy, and acceptable under god.
Alright. You need to treat everybody. That that’s what I refer to as an appeal.
So I I’m gonna use the word appeal this morning, the appeals that god make.
He appeals to you, to live wholly, appeals to you, to do right, appeals to you to do that.
But, but he, he never appeals to you. Here’s what he says.
God will not make an appeal without first providing mercy and grace for our failures.
Oh, boy.
So so what what what he’s what he means there is I’m not asking you to live right until I, first of all, have a work of mercy and grace for when you don’t live right that day.
So now all of a sudden, you’re not too afraid to accept that appeal Because the threat of me not being able to do it has been taken away because he said before I ask you to live godly, notice my mercy and grace is at every beginning of every appeal that I have asked you.
So I went and checked that out. I said, oh, yeah. And I started seeing it.
I saw how we skipped. We skipped the mercy and grace part and went straight to the appeal.
Live godly, but god says, no, no, no.
I won’t ever request for you to do anything without first of all, recognizing my work of grace and being able to ask you to live this way.
So don’t be afraid that you can’t live
this way because I’ve already worked this thing out for your bad days. No.
Yeah.
I know. I know. I got my hankets. I only got my hankets of hit. It ain’t it ain’t time.
We’re gonna cry in a minute, babe. I got I got one for you.
Right now, why’s this now? But man’s ways are not god’s ways.
In general, man clings to the idea that benefits always come because of good conduct And man’s ways are that losses come because of bad conduct.
So man’s ways are, alright, these good things showed up because we did something good.
Uh, this bad thing showed up because we did something bad. That’s man’s way.
Losses and rewards based on our conduct, with no consideration of the grace and mercy that has been put in this place.
Natural man always feels that he must contribute something to earn god’s favor.
That’s what church has been like for some of you for the last 10, 20, 30 years.
Natural man natural man saying, and based on church, and based on pulpit, and based on sermons, natural man says I got to contribute something in order to get god’s favor.
And if I don’t contribute something, I can’t get god’s favor.
And and and and the poor pits of the world.
This is what you have to contribute to get god’s favor, but you have to understand you did not contribute anything at the beginning of god’s favor.
God’s favor was god’s idea, not mine, not yours.
Think about this.
Think about always thinking I’ve got to contribute something. I gotta go.
I think it it it’s it’s it this whole contradicts everything.
If you have to contribute something to get god’s favor, it’s not a favor.
How is it a favor if you had something to do with getting it?
It’s wrapped.
I I contributed nothing to get born again, except I believed. I believe this way.
A lot of gifts that you’re walking in now, you keep trying to find where your contribution made this happen.
That is not god’s way. Its man’s way.
God’s method under grace is seen in Jesus, dealing with that woman taken in adultery.
Let’s look at that. John chapter 8 versus 3 through 11.
And the scribes and pharisees brought on to him a woman taken in adultery.
I mean, in the very act of adultery, they bought the woman sheets and all.
Ain’t no. We think she in adultery.
And when they had set her in the mist, They say unto him, Jesus, master, this woman was taken in adultery.
In the very act. Now because they’re trying to they’re trying to trick Jesus.
Because Jesus is supposed to be there fulfilling the law.
And according to the law, This should be this woman’s last day.
Now Moses in the law commanded us that such should be stoned But what do you say?
They’re trying to trip Jesus up. Watching. This is why he might came.
This, they say it tempting him, that they might have to accuse him.
But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger, wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not, he was eking them.
You understand what I’m saying? I ain’t got time for this Tom Foolery.
So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself and said under them.
Okay? And I liked this because he can’t go against the law because he had come to deliver people from the law, and he couldn’t deliver them from the law unless he operated and fulfill all the law.
So what do you say?
So he didn’t say Don Stoner, Here’s what he said.
He lifted up himself and said under him.
He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
And he again stooped down and rode on the ground.
Somebody said, do you know what he was writing? No. I don’t know what he was writing.
And you don’t either. So don’t get don’t get him and get a pre go.
Don’t get a prequel sermon talking about what Jesus was writing, you know, the day that he would return. No.
You don’t know. He was he might have been doodling.
Because that’s what you do when people talk in Tom Fuller.
You’re just like, He says, alright. Fine. I’m not telling you not the stoner.
Here’s all I’m saying. Anybody, any any one of you who don’t have sin in your life, Go ahead.
And the Bible says the older people left first because they knew they had a whole bunch going on.
The older people just got on out of their life. Man, let me let me go.
The younger people thought they had hope, but they eventually left to And they, which hurt it, being convicted by their own conscience, they went out 1 by 1.
Beginning at the eldest, even until the last. And Jesus left her alone.
And the woman standing in his mess when Jesus had left lifted up himself and saw none but the woman He said unto her, woman, where are those dying accusers?
Had no man condemned me?
She said, No man, lord. Jesus say it under her.
Watch this. Neither do I condemn the.
This sin of adultery will not condemn you.
What you did deserved death and condemnation, you should have been condemned to death because you broke the law, and the law said you should be condemned to death.
But in a sense, he said, but mercy it has come before you today.
Jesus full of grace and truth.
And I forgive you Now take this mercy and this grace that you’ve received today and go and send no more because grace has come on to you.
Now it’s possible for her to actually walk without sitting and doing this again because before there was no mercy and grace, there was just the threat of death.
And people telling you you’re going to hell for this. And you’re going to hell for that.
But now I see mercy, I see grace, I see Jesus.
I see that I can do what I didn’t think I was able to do before because his way showed up, and he reversed what was supposed to happen under the law.
Oh, and that same thing going on today.
We still trying to send folks to hell when we catch them in stuff.
But when Jesus Ask you to live a godly life, he will never do so with our first of all, making sure that there’s an act of grace and mercy available for your bad day Alright.
Let’s go through this. Jesus first freely forgave her of sin, for which under the law she was worthy of death.
Then secondly, he admonished her to live a life free from sin.
And it’s important to recognize that under the law, god’s order was reversed.
Under the law, god promised blessings only on the conditions of obedience And he threatened curse if every part of it was not fulfilled.
Dude running me 28, one through 2. I’ll bless you. Uh, you know, if you obey, I’ll bless you.
And then in verse 15 of deuteronomy, he says, I’ll curse you if you don’t.
That was the law of mercy. That was, uh, that was great showing up.
See, for every Christian that’s still trying to live by the law, why did Jesus reverse it here?
Why did he reverse it?
Why did this woman walk away? And Jesus said, I don’t condemn you.
And you remember, scripture, he says, I didn’t come to condemn the world but that the world through me, through grace, through mercy might be saved.
So it is imperative that god’s orders under grace that those orders are not confused with that the orders of the law.
And and to to be honest with you, it’s it is often confused.
We live this Christian life, confusing the orders under grace with the orders under the law.
And the problem with that, is you you have to be careful because self righteousness is trying to get in.
A holier than that attitude tries to get in.
Somehow, if you think you’re able to keep doing that with people, you’re kinda saying that you ain’t got no problems nowhere.
And the next thing we look, we we got that next thing, you know, you’re gonna around, and we got we got a Holy Police Department developing in the church.
As god’s basis of mercy and grace, his works of grace for an peel are re are disregarded.
The service that follows is often done in dependence upon self.
If you disregard the mercy and the grace and the works of grace.
And then god tells you to live godly, then what happens is if you disregard this grace, you’re gonna often end up doing things depending upon yourself instead of dependent upon him.
And that’s what’s happened in church. We disregard the work of grace. We disregard the mercy of god.
And so we look at the appeal, live godly. And so what are we gonna do?
We we we’re saying, I I I not gotta do I gotta depend on myself to be able to do that.
I gotta discipline myself to be able to do that. I gotta work hard to be able to do that.
And what god is saying, I
I don’t want you to
do it like that. I want you, oh, to be so into my unrestricted love for you that you find yourself doing it, not out of duty and responsibility, but as a response to the love that I have to you, that I I don’t want you to
do it because you think it’s your duty.
I want you to do it because you’ve been blown away but his unrestricted, unrestrained love, that he loved you enough
not to condemn you. And you say I got to be, I got to do this now.
Because I want to because I’ve never encountered nobody like this. I wanna live right.
I wanna live godly I wanna say no to that and no to this.
Now, I’ve been calls of of the consequences of hell or condemnation or shame, but I wanna do it because he loved me so much.
He wouldn’t dare make an appeal without first of all showing me there’s mercy and there’s grace.
And I won’t condemn you, but I’ll get you to wanna do it because you wanna do it because you’ve encountered my love.
That’s why I had to wear tennis shoes this morning.
Because you can’t tell me I’m gonna go to hell because you’re a preacher, dressing the way you dress.
But I can dress this way because there’s mercy and grace for the way I dress.
When the appeal is based on god’s work of grace, the resultant conduct will be in dependence upon him.
And for his glory. So when I when god asked me to live godly, okay, I’m dependent on you.
I need you to do this.
You your appeal is for me to present my body as a living sacrifice. Alright.
So you know, I’m a need your mercy and your grace to be able to do this The eloquence and the persuasive powers of a speaker for the enthusiasm of an occasion may move some people to action, but it will probably be lacking depth And it probably won’t be centered on god.
Motivational speak is what I’m saying. That yellow, it’ll move you to action for a minute.
I’m motivated. My emotions are high. You can do it. We can do it. We can do it.
And I’m not against motivation, but it if it if it’s not dependent on god, it has an expiration.
That just one day you’re gonna wake up and you don’t feel motivated.
But under god’s way, I can wake up every morning knowing his grace and his mercy is from everlasting to everlasting from grace to grace.
And when you have a bad day, you don’t stay stuck on your evil day, your bad day, You realize it’s a journey, and you realize you have mercy and grace, and you simply get up, wipe yourself off and keep going on the journey.
Sometimes, would it took you 5 minutes to commit, it takes you 20 years to get over.
The children of Israel, the actual journey time from them getting to where there was was about 11 days or so?
Possibly. Mhmm. And it went from 11 days to 40 some 40 something years.
That’s basically what we got here.
We got a few time on the grace that we can get something done, and we’re taking 40 years to do something that should take about a day or 2 to do.
Because we’re dependent on us and not on him.
God’s appeal for godly conduct are valid only when it’s based on his works of grace and his works of Christ.
And so the more that is made of the works of Christ and of the fullness of god’s work of grace, the stronger will be the appeal for godly living.
But by omitting god’s work of grace, by omitting god’s work of mercy, standards for godly living are brought down from the divine plane to the level of human concept.
Now all of a sudden, God is asking me to live godly, but I bring it down on the divine plane.
Now I’m depending on me. It’s often necessary to correct the sins of believers.
And this should always be related to god’s work of grace for them.
Sin should be shown as being of the old man and should be part should be put off as being inconsistent with the believer’s position before god.
However, condemnation of sins. Condimations evices apart from god’s work of grace When you condemn people sin, apart from god’s work of grace, apart from god’s work of mercy, it leaves a feeling of what self righteousness, a holier than thou attitude in those people who feel like they’re reformed.
That always amazes me how somebody can take the time to really condemn somebody else’s stuff.
When they stuff, Are y’all listening to me?
They’re condemning somebody else’s stuff when their stuff is not really together. Can I get a witness?
And we gotta stop doing that.
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