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2000 years ago, a newscaster that we know of as Jesus Christ warned us about false Christianity. The warning was not against the devil but against false Christianity…about people who come in His name and deceive many.
There’s a line in an old country and western song from the 1960s that goes like this…
…the Lord knows I’m sinning and sinning ain’t right but me and the good Lord gonna have us a good talk later tonight…
Well, that is the same idea that too many Americans really have to think about in regard to their faith in God. The idea is that they can continue to go on sinning but as long as they have a good talk with the Lord that night everything is forgotten, and they can go on their way and keep on sinning.
Hi this is Bob Barney with the Plain Truth Today short video that is 7 minutes and 11 seconds long at 7:11 in the morning and I want to thank anyone who’s listening.
I want to get into this idea that God is this all-loving effeminate type of a God that just allows you to go on sinning and do what you want to do and there are going to be no repercussions from the sinning. Well, I have news for you, that’s what the people in Southern California are finding out right now…that there are problems when you do not follow God’s laws, and you act like people from Sodom and Gomorrah.
Do you think Sodom and Gomorrah were people who thought that they were going to die in a hailstorm of fire and brimstone from heaven? Do you think that many of them talked to their lord, a false God at that, and decided that they too are going to go their own way and just talk to the Lord that night and be forgiven?
Well, it didn’t happen like that, did it?
This is what Jesus said, and you can find this in Luke chapter 13. It starts with a verse 1. There were present at the time some who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. And Jesus answered and said unto them, do you suppose that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans because they suffered such things? I tell you no, but unless you repent likewise you shall perish. Or those 18 on whom the tower of Siloam fell and killed them, do you think that they were worse sinners than all the other men who dwelt in Jerusalem at the time? I tell you no, but unless you repent you will all likewise perish. That is Jesus speaking in first-person in the red-letter text of you Bible where He is speaking about sin.
All of us are sinners.
Now there is something that we must do.
First of all, it’s like an alcoholic.
You got to admit you’re a sinner and once you admit you’re a sinner then you start your road to recovery.
Now I’m going to tell you right now as a practicing sinner, as I have been my whole life and so have you, I guarantee you right now, it’s very hard to not sin. So, once you realize what sin is and that’s breaking out of God’s law, the law has not been done away with. Once you realize what sinning is then the next step you have to do is try to identify whenever you sin, go to God like that guy in that song and ask for forgiveness. However, you can’t expect to continue doing the same sins over and over and over again and continually be forgiven because after a while God is going to say, you know, these people are going to be like the people that the tower of Siloam fell on. I’m going to destroy them and I’m not going to listen to their prayers.
You know there are places in the Bible where God says do not pray for these people because I will not listen to those prayers.
Do you know there are places where God absolutely says there’s a time when He will not listen to people praying to Him? You could be in that situation if you continue to sin and if you continue thinking that God is always going to look the other way because you are a good Sunday-keeping Christian who forgives everything.
You forgive people who sin against you like you’re supposed to, right? But you are really allowing people to be like bratty children when you do not show discipline.
Following the law is a form of discipline from God.
It gives our minds a discipline in order to set us straight with God and with ourselves and with fellow man. Remember half of the Ten Commandments, actually 40 percent of the Ten Commandments have to do with us dealing with God but 60 percent, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and ten of the Ten Commandments has to do with our relationship with other people. So, when we are sinning, we are not only maybe offending God, but we are also sinning against our neighbor. That is what this show is about today. That we have to have a whole different idea about how we are going to live our lives if we are planning for God to listen to our prayers.
Like I said, you can do some research on your own. I’m not going to show you this in this short audio broadcast, but God in many places says, I’m not going to listen to your prayers because your prayers are not sincere. You have to stop sinning. You have to care about not sinning. When Jesus confronted the woman who was brought to him for her sins of adultery, and they asked him if she should be stoned because that’s what the law of Moses requires. He said, those without sin, let them cast the first stone. And of course, everybody there were sinners, and they all walked away and didn’t say anything, right? But what did He say to the woman? Well, He said, is there no one here to accuse you? And she says, no. Jesus replies to her, well, neither do I accuse you.
But how did He finish that line? Do you remember? He says to her, go and sin no more. He didn’t say go and keep on being a prostitute…keep on committing adultery because all you have to do is, you know, after you have your beers in the bar, come see Me that night and have a good talk and I’m going to forgive it all. It’s not what He said. Go and sin no more.
America, it is time that we open up our Bibles that people died to bring us in the English version. Go open up our Bibles to start reading what God wants you to do. If you do so, you might be able to save this country from what’s going to happen to it. But if you can’t, you’re at least going to save yourself and your family if they listen to you.
That’s all I have to say about the idea that the Lord knows I’m sinning and I’m going to keep on sinning…it is just not going to work like that.
This is Bob Barney for the Plain Truth Today short broadcast. Thanking you for listening. Please come back and keep listening to this and go into theplaintruth.com each and every day. Have a good day. Bye-bye.