{"id":1149,"date":"2017-06-22T09:47:37","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T14:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/?p=1149"},"modified":"2017-06-22T10:12:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T15:12:41","slug":"saved-sinners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/22\/saved-sinners\/","title":{"rendered":"Saved Sinners"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Well today, as many days, I wake up in the early hours of the morning and the Holy Spirit begins speaking to me in that soft, muted voice to my spirit not audibly more like a perception\u2026and these thoughts I will share with you. You can believe, or, not believe, but I know if you are a child of God you will know it was Him speaking to me.<\/h6>\n
God: I want you to talk to sinners.<\/em><\/h6>\n
Me: But what about Christians?<\/em><\/h6>\n
God: Yes, well that\u2019s what I want you to write about; the \u201cChristians\u201d they are acting just like the sinners.<\/em><\/h6>\n
Me: What about in your word where you say, for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God? (FYI\u2026I didn\u2019t quote him the book or chapter and verse.) Romans 3:23<\/em><\/h6>\n
Me: I\u2019m a sinner, saved by grace. Isn\u2019t that right? Of course I am.<\/em><\/h6>\n
God: Silence.<\/h6>\n
So I get up to have coffee and breakfast and these thoughts keep nagging at me.<\/h6>\n
WOW\u2026this is a difficult assignment\u2026.<\/h6>\n
So I\u2019m going to write, and I hope you will understand I do not want to condemn but to obey what I believe is God\u2019s assignment for me today. And if it convicts anyone please go to Jesus about it and pray. I\u2019m only delivering the message\u2026thanks in advance for your love and understanding. This is between you and the LORD\u2026<\/h6>\n
So, I\u2019m going to talk to the sinner today\u2026because after all we are all sinners\u2026some are saved by grace through faith, and some are not saved. But the saved sinner<\/em> is who I\u2019m going to address. You will simply be addressed as the Saved Sinner,<\/em> not, Christian,<\/em> for the sake of this message.<\/h6>\n
If you are a brand new saved sinner, <\/em>everything is fresh and exciting, you probably don\u2019t know the books of the Bible yet or the protocol for \u201cSaved Sinner life\u201d yet. The Saved Sinner has their own language and set of dos and don\u2019ts. It\u2019s a totally different world now for us saved sinners. We are in this world but not to be of it. Although we may dress the same and eat the same foods and drink the same drinks and watch the same television shows and go to the same amusement parks and enjoy the same entertainers, movie stars etc. We may cheer for the same sport-stars and befriend the same Facebook friends\u2026we may even speak the same language and use the same familiar words we hear everyone else use. After all, we are saved now.<\/h6>\n
If you\u2019re an old Saved Sinner<\/em> which means you\u2019ve been around many years and can quote scripture, you know all the famous stories in the Bible, and you sing all the church songs, go to church often and give your tithe and be at every function the church offers\u2026shake hands and hug people and raise your hands to give praises to the Lord in Church\u2026you may be on this team and that team and others look up to you as the pillar in the Church\u2026You may even know the preachers personally\u2026<\/h6>\n
All of that is not going to save you.<\/h6>\n
I think what God\u2019s message is to us Saved Sinners, is this\u2026<\/h6>\n
We\u2019ve forgotten our first love\u2026Oh we talk a good talk about him\u2026we pray and sing and read his word\u2026<\/h6>\n
But if we stood before God today, face to face, would He know us as his child? Would he see the blood of his son upon our hearts and lives\u2026?<\/h6>\n
Would we be different from those who don\u2019t know Him, the unsaved sinner?<\/h6>\n
Does our life reflect who He is? Do the places we frequent show that Jesus lives in our hearts so that the unsaved sinner would clearly see there goes one of the saved\u2026?<\/h6>\n
Do the words we speak edify Him and others\u2026or do we sound just like the unsaved sinner\u2026words that hurt and pervert\u2026?<\/h6>\n
Is our dress modest, does it cover all the places that would cause someone to lust\u2026? I\u2019m not talking about legalism\u2026I\u2019m talking about being modest, clean, appropriate. Someone God would be honored by.<\/h6>\n
Are we truly transformed from who we used to be?<\/h6>\n
Yes we all sin\u2026but for the saved sinner<\/em>, we are forgiven\u2026but there should be a change things should be different.<\/h6>\n
Yes it\u2019s important to know the word of God but not so we become prideful and a know it all\u2026we should know it because it\u2019s Him, His words to help us live better, speak with love and not judgment and so we won\u2019t be deceived by false teachers. We should go to church because we need fellowship with other believers, to bless and to be a blessing not for show\u2026and yes we should always pray\u2026<\/h6>\n
Not to be heard for our wonderful prayers\u2026but to communicate with our loving heavenly father from our heart a heart that is truth and obedient to Him. He longs to communicate with us. And not to be known as some great spiritual authority but so that we humble ourselves before Him knowing we are nothing without Him.<\/h6>\n
The Saved Sinner, saved by grace, through faith\u2026should be an example, a reflection of Jesus and His love\u2026<\/em><\/h6>\n
We sin, but when we sin, we have an advocate, Jesus to whom we confess our sins and to know that He is faithful and just to forgive us of our sin and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (1 John 1:9)<\/h6>\n
Not self-righteousness\u2026but God-righteousness\u2026what He says is right!<\/h6>\n
Me: God, I hope you are pleased with this assignment. I gave all that I believe would be pleasing to you. Not for me LORD, for I am nothing\u2026I am a sinner, saved by grace. You are my Father God\u2026and I love you, because you first loved me.<\/em><\/h6>\n
God: Smiles\u2026<\/h6>\n
~Marla Shaw O\u2019Neill June 22, 2017<\/h6>\n
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9 New King James Version (NKJV)<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,<\/em> because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death. For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.<\/em><\/h6>\n
Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires.<\/em> Romans 8:1-5 New International Version (NIV) Life through the Spirit<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/h6>\n
Don\u2019t become partners with those who reject God. How can you make a partnership out of right and wrong? That\u2019s not partnership; that\u2019s war. Is light best friends with dark? Does Christ go strolling with the Devil? Do trust and mistrust hold hands? Who would think of setting up pagan idols in God\u2019s holy Temple? But that is exactly what we are, each of us a temple in whom God lives. God himself put it this way:<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/h6>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll live in them, move into them;<\/em> I\u2019ll be their God and they\u2019ll be my people.<\/em> So leave the corruption and compromise;<\/em> leave it for good,\u201d says God.<\/em> \u201cDon\u2019t link up with those who will pollute you.<\/em> I want you all for myself.<\/em> I\u2019ll be a Father to you;<\/em> you\u2019ll be sons and daughters to me.\u201d<\/em> The Word of the Master, God. <\/em>2 Corinthians 6:15-18<\/em>The Message (MSG<\/em><\/strong>)<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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