The well-known phrase “only God can judge me” is something from the late singer Tupac Shakur, not Scripture. Although we are indeed commanded to judge other people (Ezekiel 3:18-21; Matthew 7:1-6; Matthew 13-20; 1 Corinthians 5:11; 1 Corinthians 5:12; 1 Corinthians 15:33, etc.), none of this judgment will come close to what someone will experience when they are judged by God. We can only judge one’s visible fruit, but what if they live a secret life of sin we know nothing about? God will judge your thoughts (Ecclesiastes 12:14), all your secrets laid bare before Him (Romans 2:16), all you’ve said (Matthew 12:36-37), and all your deeds will be known (Romans 2:6). Unlike being judged by human beings, you will not mock God (Galatians 6:7). Unless you repent and believe unto salvation (2 Corinthians 7:10), you will be found guilty of your sins. However, God offers us a way out of the condemnation against us. We have had “the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us... nailed it to the cross” (Colossians 2:14). Those who have been crucified with Christ will no longer live for themselves but they’ll now live for Christ (Galatians 2:20) and will no longer be slaves to sin (Romans 6:6). God either sees all your “good deeds,” which are filthy (Isaiah 64:6), or God will see the righteousness of His Son imputed to you (1Corinthians 1:30). As George Whitefield said, “Christ's righteousness delivers believers from the guilt of [sin]: Christ is their Savior, and is become a propitiation for their sins... By having Christ's righteousness imputed to them, they are dead to the law, as a covenant of works; Christ has fulfilled it for them, and in their stead.” God will judge you. The question is: will He see your righteousness or the righteousness of Christ imputed to you?

Jeremiah 46:27 Do Not Fear

But do not fear, O My servant Jacob, and do not be dismayed, O Israel! For behold, I will save you from afar, and your offspring from the land of their captivity; Jeremiah 46:27 When people are in a difficult situation, they are often afraid. In hard places, most people do not know what to do or how to get out of those situations. As that happens, people begin to get afraid. They fear for their…

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Love, Mercy, and Judgment

IT MIGHT SOUND STRANGE to hear the words love, mercy, and judgment in the same breath, but these three concepts are delicately interwoven and must be understood together. They are integral to understanding God’s response to sin. As Paul said, “…the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Rom. 6:23). Sin gives rise to God’s righteous judgment. In…

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ROMANS S.O.A.P. ~ CHAPTER 7

Monday, 1/30/23

SCRIPTURE:

So the trouble is not with the law, for it is spiritual and good. The trouble is with me, for I am all too human, a slave to sin.  ... Oh, what a miserable person I am!  Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death?  Thank God!  The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord.  So you see how it is: In my mind I really want to obey God’s law, but because of my sinful nature I am a slave to sin.   ~ Romans 7:14; 24-25

OBSERVATION:

"The trouble is with me..." - not that I've ever said it wasn't...

"...is I am a slave to sin..." - addicted to sin?

I am a slave to disobedience and selfishness - to my will and my way instead of God's will and God's way...

It takes admitting it - like a twelve-step program - "Hello, I'm g, and I'm a slave to sin..."

But it only takes one step - one step toward Jesus - one day, one hour, one minute, one breath at a time...

Thank God indeed!

APPLICATION:

Thank God...

"Accept" the answer - Jesus...

Take the step...

PRAYER:

Loving, patient Father God - I ask forgiveness for my failure to admit my sinfulness - my small acts of disobedience, of placing what I want over what Your will would have me do...  Thank You and Your holiness for Your Spirit that reminds me with each breath that Your Son Jesus came to free me from my addiction to myself and my way and my will... In His Name, and for Your praise and honor and worship...

Grateful to be yours... in Him...

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Verse of the Day

💕Romans 6:15-16💕

Romans 6:6 (NLT) - We know that our old sinful selves were crucified with Christ so that sin might lose its power in our lives. We are no longer slaves to sin.

Sin, of any kind, is unholy. Although every sin will keep us from heaven if we embrace them (Hebrews 10:26-27), not every sin calls you to be “put to death” over them. Sins such as homosexuality (Leviticus 20:13), adultery (Leviticus 20:10), bestiality (Exodus 22:19), murder (Genesis 9:6; Exodus 21:12), etc., are all called for those who have committed them to be put to death. God takes sins seriously, which means that Jesus, being God, also takes them seriously. When nearly all of mankind drowned to death in the Great Flood, or when people were burned to death in Sodom and Gomorrah, Jesus was neither absent nor contrary to such decisions. Thankfully, God also takes grace and atonement seriously as well. We are told in Romans 6:23 that “the wages of sin is death, but the gracious gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Sin leads to death but, thankfully, because “God so loved the world” “He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life” (John 3:16). Sadly, many Christians remain forever stuck with faith without repentance. They remain "attracted" to their sin, even though they don't practice it. They say they are in Christ, while also dwelling in their sins within their minds. Remember Christ’s words: “unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.” Mortify your sin — no matter where it may reside; don't merely set it aside. God saw fit to put to death His only begotten Son in your place. He died on that cross so you may live. Therefore, put to death your sinful desires and be a slave to Christ; no longer be a slave to sin but now be a slave to righteousness (Romans 6:8-18). Repent of your sins and believe in the Christ who has died for you.

Listen I love Mo Ran as much as the next guy but I can’t get over how he treated and judged Rong Jiu….. “he loves money” he was saving up to buy his freedom you ass

y’all he is holding onto Frida’s arm but clearly glad to have his fingers touching Abe’s ribs, and is looking approvingly at Abe while he looks away

Deliverance from False Prophets

Now there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves. Many will follow in their depravity, and because of them the way of truth will be defamed. In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with deceptive words. The longstanding verdict against them remains in force, and their destruction does not sleep.

For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment; if He did not spare the ancient world when He brought the flood on its ungodly people, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, among the eight; if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes as an example of what is coming on the ungodly; and if He rescued Lot, a righteous man distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)— if all this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.

Such punishment is specially reserved for those who indulge the corrupt desires of the flesh and despise authority. Bold and self-willed, they are unafraid to slander glorious beings. Yet not even angels, though greater in strength and power, dare to bring such slanderous charges against them before the Lord.

These men are like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be captured and destroyed. They blaspheme in matters they do not understand, and like such creatures, they too will be destroyed. The harm they will suffer is the wages of their wickedness.

They consider it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deception as they feast with you. Their eyes are full of adultery; their desire for sin is never satisfied; they seduce the unstable. They are accursed children with hearts trained in greed.

They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness. But he was rebuked for his transgression by a donkey, otherwise without speech, that spoke with a man’s voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.

These men are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them. With lofty but empty words, they appeal to the sensual passions of the flesh and entice those who are just escaping from others who live in error. They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves to depravity. For a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him.

If indeed they have escaped the corruption of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, only to be entangled and overcome by it again, their final condition is worse than it was at first. It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than to have known it and then to turn away from the holy commandment passed on to them. Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud.” — 2 Peter 2 | The Reader’s Bible (BRB) The Reader’s Bible © 2020 by Bible Hub and Berean.Bible. All rights Reserved. Cross References: Genesis 6:8-9; Genesis 13:13; Genesis 19:5; Genesis 19:24-25; Exodus 15:16; Exodus 22:28; Numbers 22:5; Numbers 22:21; Deuteronomy 32:35; Job 21:30; Psalm 73:8; Psalm 85:8; Proverbs 5:6; Proverbs 26:11; Jeremiah 12:3; Ezekiel 33:13; Mark 7:22; John 8:34; Romans 13:13; Hebrews 11:4; Jude 1:6; Jude 1:9; Jude 1:12-13

So I feel as if it is necessary to announce that I have no Kinktober fics for this year.

I really really tried, but with how work, my mental health, and my personal life have been lately, I simply haven’t had the mental capacity to get it to happen. I’m sorry if you were looking forward to anything. 🖤

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