04-28-2008, 03:49 PM
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Message #57
TWO TYPES OF SINFULNESS
Here are two major ways in which we can sin:
FIRST, there's the temptation-type sins that I'm sure we ALL know about. We get tempted in our mind by the world, the flesh or the devil - and either we resist in God's power and do not sin, or we lose the plot and end up sinning (then usually feel terrible, right!)
In Fluffy's Coffee House I said in a post how I used to fail a lot like this, but added in gratefulness to the Lord:
"However today I have victory nearly all the time." When He reminded me this morning that I said this, I got awfully worried people may think I was boasting... Which led to this Message, cos though what I said was true and God surely gets ALL the glory for it, let's continue on to THIS shocking sin type:
SECOND, there's the missed-the-boat type sins that you may not be so familiar with. This is where we fall short, falling short of God's glory, of His perfection! We don't make the grade, we miss the mark, we don't come anywhere near up to scratch, we fail to live up to His standard and expectations. Youch!
On these sins I certainly can NOT say I have victory most of the time!! Here we all have to admit that we are simply not managing to totally please and obey Him. Often we're not even AWARE of the sin that we're falling short on!! (And if God revealed them all to us at once, likely this would kill us and we'd fall down stone-dead.)
SUMMARY: So these two types of sin are sometimes expressed in these terms: the first are the sins of "commission", the ones we (deliberately) commit. The second are the sins of "omission", the ones we miss and fail to live up to God's standard on.
Obviously both types are BAD. We have to agree with God when he calls us hopelessly sinful! BUT, by His grace, ALL your sins were forgiven for you at Calvary!! And that's surely GREAT NEWS!!!
- BM, with his Love 
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