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Pastor John,
This is some kind of statement from your BLOG. It stood out to me when I was reading it the other day:
“If we are not free to choose disobedience and rebellion, then we are not free to choose love and faithfulness.”
Amy P.
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Hi Amy:
Freedom can be the greatest blessing or the greatest curse we ever receive from God, depending on how we use it. May God grant us the kind of heart that makes our liberty in Christ a blessing, not a curse.
Pastor John
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Yes, that is is the statement that stood out to me too…I wrote an email on it. We must be free, if we are ever going to chose the good. The good can not be done by people who are not allowed to do the bad, if they wish too. The good can only be done by those who are free enough to choose the bad if they wanted to but didn’t WANT to. They loved the good more. That’s powerful.
te.
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Yes, you got it. What is truly good in God’s sight can only be done by those who have the choice to do either. Before we are converted and receive the power of the Spirit, we have no choice. We are bound to sin.
jdc