ROADBLOCK TO BELIEF

What prevents man from believing in the, Lord Jesus Christ? The simple answer is Sin;The bible tells us that Gods arm is not too short that He cannot save us nor is there deafness in His hearing that He cannot hear us, but it is our sin that separates from our God and it is because of sin that God will not hear us. The removal of sin is by far man's greatest need,and that is why you will often find Jesus saying, son or daughter your sins are forgiven you, even before our Lord would ever perform a miracle that would lead to physical healing. Which leads me to my next point and that is this: many are looking for the removal of financial debt, but how many are looking for removal of sins? Many are looking for removal of disease but how many are looking for removal of sin? The Apostle spoke truth when he said "There is none good, no, not one; none seeks after God" Many seek after what God can give them, but how many seek after Christ Himself? Many desire the bread from the Master's table but how many desire the Master? With the removal of sin from the heart comes the removal of the dark cloud of God's wrath which hovers over every soul that comes into this world! Do not be deceived God will not be mocked, what a man sows he shall reap!

SEEING THE INVISIBLE

the people of faith, the people of the day, the people of the light, the people of Christ do not stumble, they are not caught off guard by the trappings, distractions and concerns of this world because they are focused upon Christ! They are intent, determined, and committed to knowing Christ; they strive in the furthering their experience of Christ’s love towards themselves, they are desirous of having their faith in Christ matured to perfection! That is what it is to see the light of Christ! to have your attention so captivated by Him that you don’t have time to be concerned with stumbling blocks of this crooked and perverse world.

GOD HATES NOT ONLY SIN: PSALM 5:5-6

5 The zboastful shall not astand before your eyes;  you bhate all evildoers.  6 You destroy those who
    speak clies; the Lord abhors dthe bloodthirsty and deceitful man. 

It has been a popular and excepted view to say that: "God hates sin but loves sinners" I

myself have been guilty of falling for such a comfortable but inacurate view of God. But

the scriptures do not allow us the freedom to make God into the type of God that we think

He ought to be. The above passage allows no wiggle room. It says that He hates those who

do evil; that by the way is every unsaved, unregenerate soul.

Unlike humans God does not make a distincton between the person and the actions of that
person; if they lie then they are liars, if they steal they are thieves, if they harbor hatred
then they are murder's, if they lust in their hearts then they are adulterer's_Matthew 5_2
-28. And although God is love He is also just, therefore sin must either be dealt with
through faith in Christ or it will be dealt with by the fierce and unrelenting wrath of God
in hell! And so when one compares God's love towards His saints with that of the sinners,
the love experienced by sinners will seem like hatred rather than love.

The sinless life of Christ is applied to the lives of those who have faith in Christ and so
now God is able to love them perfectly because He no longer associates them with their
actions, rather they have been given the life associated with Christ. That being said if they
have experienced true conversion their lives will naturally begin to emulate that of their
Lord's; on the other hand if their is no change, it proves that they have not experienced
genuine and saving faith. God is holy and therefore cannot tollerate sin, God is just and
therefore He must punish sin. God's character requires that He be intensely disturbed and
agrivated by sin and everyone associated with sin. This goes against what we would like to
belllieve about God, and yet it is perfectly in line with scripture.