Saturday, August 16, 2008

W.E.A.K dudes or WEAK dudes?

I was planning to write a commentary on my experiences the last couple of days and realised whatever i wanted to write was already DONE.

Paul Writes it in his letter to the Romans Chapter 5.
Please read this as I get my thought together.

Results of Justification
1 For which reason, because we have righteousness through faith, let us be at peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;
2 Through whom, in the same way, we have been able by faith to come to this grace in which we now are; and let us have joy in hope of the glory of God.
3 And not only so, but let us have joy in our troubles: in the knowledge that trouble gives us the power of waiting;
4 And waiting gives experience; and experience, hope: 5 And hope does not put to shame; because our hearts are full of the love of God through the Holy Spirit which is given to us.

6 For when we were still without strength, at the right time Christ gave his life for evil-doers.
7 Now it is hard for anyone to give his life even for an upright man, though it might be that for a good man someone would give his life.
8 But God has made clear his love to us, in that, when we were still sinners, Christ gave his life for us.
9 Much more, if we now have righteousness by his blood, will salvation from the wrath of God come to us through him.
10 For if, when we were haters of God, the death of his Son made us at peace with him, much more, now that we are his friends, will we have salvation through his life;
11 And not only so, but we have joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we are now at peace with God.
12 For this reason, as through one man sin came into the world, and death because of sin, and so death came to all men, because all have done evil:
13 Because, till the law came, sin was in existence, but sin is not put to the account of anyone when there is no law to be broken.
14 But still death had power from Adam till Moses, even over those who had not done wrong like Adam, who is a picture of him who was to come.
15 But the free giving of God is not like the wrongdoing of man. For if, by the wrongdoing of one man death came to numbers of men, much more did the grace of God, and the free giving by the grace of one man, Jesus Christ, come to men.
16 And the free giving has not the same effect as the sin of one: for the effect of one man's sin was punishment by the decision of God, but the free giving had power to give righteousness to wrongdoers in great number.
17 For, if by the wrongdoing of one, death was ruling through the one, much more will those to whom has come the wealth of grace and the giving of righteousness, be ruling in life through the one, even Jesus Christ.
18 So then, as the effect of one act of wrongdoing was that punishment came on all men, even so the effect of one act of righteousness was righteousness of life for all men.
19 Because, as numbers of men became sinners through the wrongdoing of one man, even so will great numbers get righteousness through the keeping of the word of God by one man.
20 And the law came in addition, to make wrongdoing worse; but where there was much sin, there was much more grace: 21 That, as sin had power in death, so grace might have power through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.


God bless
Ak

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

been to W.E.A.K dudes before, cant wait to read the stuff you are going to say about that, i mean it can only go two ways. right?
oh, and before i move from this, this is my disclaimer concerning the W.E.A.K dudes, i dont entirely get the emrys facination with the idea of passing wind, :D but i find his posts otherwise hilarious,

now for serious stuff

Thanks for the post, deep stuff, but i have a question, one which it seems, every time i raise, i seem to get different reactions

yes sin came to mankind by one man, and so does righteousness, here is my question though,

CAN A CHRISTIAN GO TO HELL?

I have noticed, and sadly that there is a belief that once we get 'saved' we are immune to hell that no matter what happens then we are as it were, blameless.

Make no mistake, i believe with every bone in my body, that in Christ dying on the cross, we have been made righteous. I do not believe however that if we choose to keep on sinning that we will not be held accountable.

So i have been left with the question, can a Christian go to hell?

here is sort of my take, the Question is not whether i am a Christian who is sinning but rather Am i Christian?

I believe that in being christians, we have been redeemed, set free, sin should NOT have a place in our lives AT ALL.

I have heard the statement 'yes am a christian, but you know am not perfect, sometimes i fall..blah....sigh... blah' i hear this alot.

IT IS WRONG!

We must not make excuses for sinful behavior we should be above that, we are called to be perfect even as He is perfect. And that is what i think being a Christian is about, being CHRIST-LIKE.

People, friends, lets stop making excuses for sin. it is certainly not making them for us.

K.

Anonymous said...

Found this through Google, left me infinitely curious as to what this meant:

"been to W.E.A.K dudes before, cant wait to read the stuff you are going to say about that, i mean it can only go two ways. right?"

otherwise, nice stuff, will drop by more often.