uncletbuddy:
I am a Christian and wish to live a righteous life. However my days in the university has dampened my Christian life, so bad that I feel I won't remain the same again. At the moment I am addicted to gambling. I have always believed that gambling is wrong but the new fashion it has taken makes me think otherwise. I sometimes feel guilty going in there to play but I still feel its like every other business, u take risks to get what you want.
Pls I need the advice of Christians.

promisechuks:


Your fundamental problem is WRONG BELIEVING.

Pleas read the below, my prayer for you is; may God open your spiritual eyes so you can see the grace of God.
you can quote me if you aren't satisfied.

Beloved, if you believe that christ died for your sins, then why still being conscious of it, condemning yourself, seeing yourself as a sinner before God while you can be righteous before God by FAITH through christ, that's why it is called grace- unmerited favour/what we do not deserve. If you will still be punished for your sins, then it means that christ was not sacrificed but murdered by God.

A sinner will not go to hell because of the fact that the person committed sin but because the person is misbelieving his(christ)death by thinking that there is another more work required of him to be saved or that the person refused the man who took the consequence of the sins of the world(including his or hers), the wages of everyman's sin which is DEATH to himself by dying on the cross, and the man is JESUS CHRIST

THERE IS NO WORK REQUIRED FOR YOUR SALVATION, BUT ONLY TO CALL UPON THE NAME OF JESU AND YOU SHALL BE SAVED.
Jesus said; whosoever that shall call upon me shall be saved.

There is no amount of right living you will live for you to please GOD that's why the bible says "our righteousness is as a filthy rag before God" that's why Jesus has to come and die for us so that our lost relationship will be restored with God(with sin or no sin)

The first problem with many of us is that we hardly forgive ourselves even after accepting christ.
Secondly, the problem of wrong believing.
Thirdly, we are too sin-concious instead of love and grace-concious.

But why would someone enjoy intentionally committing sin after seeing such a great love and grace from God through christ?

As for me, each time I see sin before me and I remember God's love and grace, I will just melt or possibly burst in tears of joy(simply because I don't worth such love because in my holiest form I AM A BEAST before God) and overcome the sin without stress or even unknowingly, though even if I commit it, I know that I will not suffer for it because christ has suffered the consequences for me.

I don't even know when last I committed sin, but still when I look at my works(which is 100% right living) and look at the grace of God, I will simply call myself A BEAST, but in christ I AM A HOLY NATION, A ROYAL PRIESTHOOD, RIGHTEOUS KING, A CHOSEN ONE, CHILD OF YAWEH(as christ is, so are we in faith)because I can't compare my works with the grace and love of God through christ.

SEE THE SOLUTION FOR LIVING RIGHTLY;
1. Forgive yourself and forget your former sins, and try your best to see yourself as HOLY, LOVELY, RIGHTEOUS before God, under all cost, no matter what you did, doing and will do. STOP FEELING GUILTY ALL THE TIME!!!
2. Start being GOD'S GRACE & LOVE-CONCIOUS instead of SIN-CONCIOUS.(It will make you to always thinks about how kind, lovely and graceful God is throughout your life). Constant looking up to Jesus the author and the finisher of our faith.
3. Start believing rightly, ask the holyspirit to help you understand before reading the bible and to give you the revelations that are behind the letters.

No.3 solution is the problem with many christians who misunderstood Mathew 5: 17-18 and Romans 6:1. It is a very big problem to them that makes them to ignorantly reject grace and stick to law without even knowing.

1.While in Mathew 5: 17-18, jesus said"17. Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets; I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. 18. For verily I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one title shall in no wise pass from the law, TILL ALL BE FULLFILLED."

It simply means UNTIL ALL IS FULFILLED the law will not be abolished.

So Question; UNTIL WHEN WAS ALL FULFILLED?
Answer; AT THE CROSS, at the point he said "IT IS FINISHED!!!" And gave up the ghost, the law became abolished.
Now we are not saved by work(law)but by faith(grace) we have in christ.

2. In Romans 6:1;"what shall we say then? Shall we continue IN sin, that grace may abound?"

The problem with believers and this chapter is that they combine sin, as in, nature and act as act.

Sin are in two aspect BY NATURE AND BY ACTION.

Of which every single soul in this life is sinful by nature, even if a new born baby, but in the case of a new born baby he will go to heaven(if I should say) because the baby has not reached an age of accountability and of course, didn't reject accepting Jesus.

So, when you see or hear "IN" it is talking about nature and when you see "TO" it is talking about action.
The word "IN" in that verse means NATURE and not action.

See the difference; "shall we continue IN(nature) sin" and "shall we continue TO(action) sin"

That's why he went to the next 2 verses to say;"2. GOD FORBID, how shall we that are dead to sin, live any longer thereIN(nature of sin). 3. Know ye not, that so many of us as baptized INto(nature of christ) jesus christ were baptized into his death"

I pray that anyone who is not sure of his salvation will be very and certainly sure about his or her salvation in Jesus' name, say AMEEN.

promisechuks:

Heresy at its best
Your fundamental problem is WRONG BELIEVING.

Pleas read the below, my prayer for you is; may God open your spiritual eyes so you can see the grace of God.
you can quote me if you aren't satisfied.

Beloved, if you believe that christ died for your sins, then why still being conscious of it, condemning yourself, seeing yourself as a sinner before God while you can be righteous before God by FAITH through christ, that's why it is called grace- unmerited favour/what we do not deserve. If you will still be punished for your sins, then it means that christ was not sacrificed but murdered by God.

A sinner will not go to hell because of the fact that the person committed sin but because the person is misbelieving his(christ)death by thinking that there is another more work required of him to be saved or that the person refused the man who took the consequence of the sins of the world(including his or hers), the wages of everyman's sin which is DEATH to himself by dying on the cross, and the man is JESUS CHRIST

THERE IS NO WORK REQUIRED FOR YOUR SALVATION, BUT ONLY TO CALL UPON THE NAME OF JESU AND YOU SHALL BE SAVED.
Jesus said; whosoever that shall call upon me shall be saved.

There is no amount of right living you will live for you to please GOD that's why the bible says "our righteousness is as a filthy rag before God" that's why Jesus has to come and die for us so that our lost relationship will be restored with God(with sin or no sin)

The first problem with many of us is that we hardly forgive ourselves even after accepting christ.
Secondly, the problem of wrong believing.
Thirdly, we are too sin-concious instead of love and grace-concious.

But why would someone enjoy intentionally committing sin after seeing such a great love and grace from God through christ?

As for me, each time I see sin before me and I remember God's love and grace, I will just melt or possibly burst in tears of joy(simply because I don't worth such love because in my holiest form I AM A BEAST before God) and overcome the sin without stress or even unknowingly, though even if I commit it, I know that I will not suffer for it because christ has suffered the consequences for me.

I don't even know when last I committed sin, but still when I look at my works(which is 100% right living) and look at the grace of God, I will simply call myself A BEAST, but in christ I AM A HOLY NATION, A ROYAL PRIESTHOOD, RIGHTEOUS KING, A CHOSEN ONE, CHILD OF YAWEH(as christ is, so are we in faith)because I can't compare my works with the grace and love of God through christ.

SEE THE SOLUTION FOR LIVING RIGHTLY;
1. Forgive yourself and forget your former sins, and try your best to see yourself as HOLY, LOVELY, RIGHTEOUS before God, under all cost, no matter what you did, doing and will do. STOP FEELING GUILTY ALL THE TIME!!!
2. Start being GOD'S GRACE & LOVE-CONCIOUS instead of SIN-CONCIOUS.(It will make you to always thinks about how kind, lovely and graceful God is throughout your life). Constant looking up to Jesus the author and the finisher of our faith.
3. Start believing rightly, ask the holyspirit to help you understand before reading the bible and to give you the revelations that are behind the letters.

No.3 solution is the problem with many christians who misunderstood Mathew 5: 17-18 and Romans 6:1. It is a very big problem to them that makes them to ignorantly reject grace and stick to law without even knowing.

1.While in Mathew 5: 17-18, jesus said"17. Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets; I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. 18. For verily I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one title shall in no wise pass from the law, TILL ALL BE FULLFILLED."

It simply means UNTIL ALL IS FULFILLED the law will not be abolished.

So Question; UNTIL WHEN WAS ALL FULFILLED?
Answer; AT THE CROSS, at the point he said "IT IS FINISHED!!!" And gave up the ghost, the law became abolished.
Now we are not saved by work(law)but by faith(grace) we have in christ.

2. In Romans 6:1;"what shall we say then? Shall we continue IN sin, that grace may abound?"

The problem with believers and this chapter is that they combine sin, as in, nature and act as act.

Sin are in two aspect BY NATURE AND BY ACTION.

Of which every single soul in this life is sinful by nature, even if a new born baby, but in the case of a new born baby he will go to heaven(if I should say) because the baby has not reached an age of accountability and of course, didn't reject accepting Jesus.

So, when you see or hear "IN" it is talking about nature and when you see "TO" it is talking about action.
The word "IN" in that verse means NATURE and not action.

See the difference; "shall we continue IN(nature) sin" and "shall we continue TO(action) sin"

That's why he went to the next 2 verses to say;"2. GOD FORBID, how shall we that are dead to sin, live any longer thereIN(nature of sin). 3. Know ye not, that so many of us as baptized INto(nature of christ) jesus christ were baptized into his death"

I pray that anyone who is not sure of his salvation will be very and certainly sure about his or her salvation in Jesus' name, say AMEEN.