GOD’S WORD FOR  MARCH 30

We are reading from a daily devotional  called “Running To Win” written by Erwin Lutzer  and the late, great D.L. Moody.   Erwin Lutzer is a light in our day as D.L. Moody was in his.  Besides his many ministries, and many books, Pastor Lutzer was Senior Pastor at Moody Church in Chicago for 36 years and now serves as Pastor Emeritus there.  He is  Chancelor and a former professor at Moody Bible Institute, where he taught Theology and Ministry, and now has numerous radio teachings.

A DEAD SINNER OR A LIVING CHRISTIAN

John 8:21

“So He said to them again, “I am going away, and you will seek Me, and you will die in your sin.  Where I am going, you cannot come.”

D.L. MOODY

One sentence from the lips of the Son of God in regard to the future state of unbeliever has forever settled it in my mind.  You “shall die in your sins; where I go, you cannot come.”  If a man has not given up his drunkenness, his profanity, his licentiousness, his covetousness, heaven would be hell to him.  Heaven is a prepared place for prepared people.  What would a man do in heaven who cannot bear to be in the society of the pure and holy down here?

ERWIN LUTZER

Perhaps you have noticed the word “sin” has basically dropped from our culture’s vocabulary.  But if you have a wrong view of sin, you will be wrong about everything in the world that really matters.  Your understanding of sin determines who you are as a person and your understanding of God’s grace.  Without understanding “the sinfulness of sin” we will trivialize our sin.

When sin is exposed, our first tendency as humans is to deny it, then we minimize it, and finally, we compare our sin to someone else who we think is worse than we are.  So, we go our way through life managing our sin, doing the best we can.  We who love evil cannot begin to love good.  We need God’s intervention.  Through Christ’s work on the cross, God opens our hearts to believe in Him and then we begin to hate sin. 

Apart from God, we remain dead in our sins and eternally separated from Him.

PRAYER

Lord, please show me the enormity of y sin so that I might rejoice in the enormity of Your grace.

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 Proverbs 28:13

 “Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper, but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy.”

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Isaiah 59:2

    “But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.”

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Romans 3:23

    “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”

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James 4:17

    “If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.” –

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1 John 1:8

    “If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.”

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Galatians 6:7

    “Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.”

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Romans 6:23

    “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

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Proverbs 14:12

    “There is a way that appears to be right, but in the end, it leads to death.”

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Acts 3:19

    “Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord.”

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Luke 5:32

    “I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

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