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Posted by David (Member # 1) on :
 
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. Titus 3:3

Two women from Southern California were about to cross the Mexican border to return to the U.S. when they saw what looked like a very small, sick animal in the ditch beside their car. As they examined it in the darkness of the night, they saw that it was a tiny Chihuahua. There they decided to take it home with them and nurse it back to health. However, because they were afraid that they were breaking the law, they put it in the trunk of their car, and drove across the border. Once they were in the U.S., they retrieved the animal and nursed it until they arrived home.

One of the women was so concerned for the ailing dog that she actually took it to bed with her, and reached out several times during the night to touch the tiny animal and reassure it that she was still present.

The dog was so sick the next morning, she decided to take it to the veterinarian. That’s when she found out that the animal wasn’t a tiny sick dog. It was a Mexican water rat, dying of rabies. The world, in the blackness of its ignorance, thinks that sin is a puppy to be played with. It is the light of God’s Law that enlightens the sinner to the fact that he is in bed with a deadly rat.

We were once “deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures,” but now, if we are truly converted, our eyes have been opened. We see sin for the sugar-coated venom that it is.

From: The Evidence Bible - Ray Comfort
http://www.wayofthemaster.com/


 

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Posted by HisGrace (Member # 3438) on :
 
What a profound reminder - every Christian should post this one on their refrigerator door.
 

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Posted by Caretaker (Member # 36) on :
 
A truly powerful message, and deeply appreciated.

Father help us to have discernment, and allow us to be open and yeilded to Your perfect will and eternal love. Burn-out the wood and stubble and purify us in the flame of Your Spirit, that we would be more and more conformed to the image and heart of our Lord Jesus Christ, in whose name we pray.
 

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Posted by HisGrace (Member # 3438) on :
 
One of the most deceitful and insidious sins that a Christian can get caught up in is self-righteous pride. Examine our motives Dear Lord.
 

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Posted by HisGrace (Member # 3438) on :
 

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Originally posted by David:
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. Titus 3:3

Two women from Southern California were about to cross the Mexican border to return to the U.S. when they saw what looked like a very small, sick animal in the ditch beside their car. As they examined it in the darkness of the night, they saw that it was a tiny Chihuahua. There they decided to take it home with them and nurse it back to health. However, because they were afraid that they were breaking the law, they put it in the trunk of their car, and drove across the border. Once they were in the U.S., they retrieved the animal and nursed it until they arrived home.

One of the women was so concerned for the ailing dog that she actually took it to bed with her, and reached out several times during the night to touch the tiny animal and reassure it that she was still present.

The dog was so sick the next morning, she decided to take it to the veterinarian. That’s when she found out that the animal wasn’t a tiny sick dog. It was a Mexican water rat, dying of rabies. The world, in the blackness of its ignorance, thinks that sin is a puppy to be played with. It is the light of God’s Law that enlightens the sinner to the fact that he is in bed with a deadly rat.

We were once “deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures,” but now, if we are truly converted, our eyes have been opened. We see sin for the sugar-coated venom that it is.

From: The Evidence Bible - Ray Comfort
http://www.wayofthemaster.com/

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