Thread: deviled ham spread made me do it-------but who's counting calories ?
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deviled ham spread made me do it-------but who's counting calories ?
Posted : 23 Jan, 2021 12:52 PM
it may sound harsh to tell someone that the problem is himself and his own choices. But it’s no harsher than a doctor telling a patient to quit smoking and that the tobacco company is not to blame for his poor health. To find a cure, you have to start with a correct diagnosis and then move to the correct treatment. The correct diagnosis is sin. The treatment is to submit to God and obey His Word. God can enable us to achieve victory over sin (Romans 7:24-25; 1 John 5:3-5).
If you are a Christian and you commit a sin, the devil did not make you do it. He may have tempted you to do it. He may have even influenced you to do it. But he did not make you do it. You still had a choice. God never allows you to be tempted beyond your ability to withstand, and He always provides a way of escape (1 Corinthians 10:13). A Christian saying “the devil made me do it” is denying the truth of 1 John 4:4, “Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.”
deviled ham spread made me do it-------but who's counting calories ?
Posted : 24 Jan, 2021 01:25 AM
Anyone get the feeling that the way to the truth is obscured in this little attempt ?
Romans 7:24-25 speaks about the delivery from the death of sin. Then continues the thankfulness of Christ, and how we ourselves serve sin anyway. That's why we have a Romans 8, to clear that up nicely...
Romans 7:24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
Then the advise from the person is to submit to God, and they quote 1 John 5:3-5 for this. In 1 John Gods word is highlighting how those who believe Jesus is the Son of God, overcame this world. Clearly from this tiny writing, the person cannot show belief in God for anyone else nor to themselves, and we can't submit to what we have not heard about( had ears opened by the Lord to hear HIM)...
1 John 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
5 Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
This is why in 1 John 4, the spirits do not confess that Christ is come in the flesh, (because they are not given by God to make true confession in a new heat given)
This is why, you can spot immediately who is of the world and pretends to believe in God even though they are of the world and speak of the world to entice those of the world. They also are antichrist as told here, so they take up Jesus' words to deceive the whole world too..
1 John 4:3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
5 They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.
6 We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
The last and easiest proof this is deceiving.
It talks of temptation, as if the devil tempting man is a bad thing ?
Jesus Christ our High Priest long suffered and endured the same, and God has already exhorted us truly, to come boldly to His throne of grace to overcome every time..
Hebrews 4:15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
