Goodboy
Just waiting for the Rapture at this point!
The Inner Man
Here is a story I made up…
There was a black family living in the south part of the U.S. in the 1960s who we will call the Browns. This family was comprised of a father, a mother, three sons and two lovely daughters. The part of Alabama that the Browns lived in was ruled strictly by the Klu Klux Klan. One day two black guys from the north came to visit the Browns.
Unfortunately the Klu Klux Klan heard about the visit and a mob of over 30 Klu Klux Klan members went to the Brown’s house and confronted Mr. Brown. They told Mr. Brown that he must turn over the two Black men who were visiting right away or face the consequences.
As Mr. Brown knew that the mob would do something terrible to the two black men, he did not want to comply. Mr. Brown told the mob that he had two lovely daughters who were virgins and that the mob could have their way with them if they would spare the two visitors.
Here are two questions…
Would a “righteous man” willing give up his two daughters to be gang raped by a large mob to spare two visitors?
Would you consider Mr. Brown to be a “righteous man”?
I assume your answers to the questions above is “no”.
God’s view…
Well Lot did just what Mr. Brown in the story above did, but God considered Lot to be righteous. How is that possible? It is because God is looking at the “Inner Man’, not the outer man. Meaning neither Mr. Brown nor Lot wanted to turn their daughters over to the mob, but their “Outer Man” thought circumstances required it.
It is the same with true Born Again Christians today. Their inner man (Spirit Man) has been changed at conversion, but their “Outer Man” (the flesh) causes them to do sinful things due to circumstances, feelings or many other things that the flesh deems to be important. Fortunately for salvation, God only sees our inner man. However, there are consequences for what we do in the flesh, but that does not change our eternal destiny!
1 Samuel 16:7 But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.
Romans 7:25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
Praise God!!!
Goodboy
Here is a story I made up…
There was a black family living in the south part of the U.S. in the 1960s who we will call the Browns. This family was comprised of a father, a mother, three sons and two lovely daughters. The part of Alabama that the Browns lived in was ruled strictly by the Klu Klux Klan. One day two black guys from the north came to visit the Browns.
Unfortunately the Klu Klux Klan heard about the visit and a mob of over 30 Klu Klux Klan members went to the Brown’s house and confronted Mr. Brown. They told Mr. Brown that he must turn over the two Black men who were visiting right away or face the consequences.
As Mr. Brown knew that the mob would do something terrible to the two black men, he did not want to comply. Mr. Brown told the mob that he had two lovely daughters who were virgins and that the mob could have their way with them if they would spare the two visitors.
Here are two questions…
Would a “righteous man” willing give up his two daughters to be gang raped by a large mob to spare two visitors?
Would you consider Mr. Brown to be a “righteous man”?
I assume your answers to the questions above is “no”.
God’s view…
Well Lot did just what Mr. Brown in the story above did, but God considered Lot to be righteous. How is that possible? It is because God is looking at the “Inner Man’, not the outer man. Meaning neither Mr. Brown nor Lot wanted to turn their daughters over to the mob, but their “Outer Man” thought circumstances required it.
It is the same with true Born Again Christians today. Their inner man (Spirit Man) has been changed at conversion, but their “Outer Man” (the flesh) causes them to do sinful things due to circumstances, feelings or many other things that the flesh deems to be important. Fortunately for salvation, God only sees our inner man. However, there are consequences for what we do in the flesh, but that does not change our eternal destiny!
1 Samuel 16:7 But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.
Romans 7:25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
Praise God!!!
Goodboy
