Hi Vinny,

Very well said. A lot to think about.

I often ask God for ForGiveness several times for a sin. I'm always 
sincere when I ask God to forgive me, but I some times feel the need 
to make sure that He knows I really mean it when I ask for Forgiveness.

Love,
Pat Ferguson

At 10:14 AM 12/12/2006, you wrote:
>Hi Every one,
>    I've been thinking about these statements which has kind of lead 
> me in the direction of asking, "What Is Sin anyway
>    It is a greater issue than most of us want to tackle.  I can't 
> find the exact wording of a scripture which says that sin is the 
> transgression of the law.  .  Sounds like Romans..  Anyway, I 
> believe that sin is more than transgressing the ten 
> commandments--at least in my life.  Sin is disobeying the Word that 
> The Lord has spoken directly to me.  Most of the church is not 
> teaching accountability these days, that is, accountability to 
> others, and to God.
>    In my little experiences with teaching of some ministries, sin 
> gets to be kind of like a credit card statement.  Yeah, Jesus paid 
> it all, so I don't have anything to do about it.  Well, if I sin, 
> I'm only human anyway, so what's the big deal?  Right?  Wrong.
>Sometimes, at least in my experience, we are not walking closely 
>enough withthe Lord to allow Him to convict us, and we just go on 
>our merry little way, without fellowship with the Lord, smug and 
>satisfied with our doctorine,thinking  we are just fine, thank you.
>
>    I know in my life there are certain areas which God has 
> commanded me not to touch, so if I fskirt these issues, and flirt 
> with these areas, it may not be sin for you, but between the Lord 
> and I, it is sin.  If I don't repent, can I just expect the full 
> measure of his presence in my life and walk?  True, he says that he 
> will not leave us, nor forsake us, but if we are going to walk with 
> him, it has to be on his terms, not our terms.
>    As far as judging others is concerned, there is a difference 
> between judging as far is discernment is concerned, and judging 
> unto condenmation. Before we fling the don't judge scripture around 
> at one another,  find out what you're judging. Do a word study and 
> judging according to condemnaation, or according to God's 
> principles. you judging teachings according to the scriptuere and 
> asking the Lord to show what is right or wrong?  or are we judging 
> to condemn.  We do have to warn others about those who lead others 
> away, but our spirit must be right in doing so, we must do that 
> with grieving, not with gloating.
>  The big watch word out there today is tollerance.  We are supposed 
> to tollerate all behaviors today, and if we don't we are 
> intollerant.  Yet, What a mess.
>
>Ok, I'll get down of my soap box.
>
>Vinny