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scripture	Psalms 15:1
topics	Assurance of Salvation, Faith
series	Psalms, Volume 2

Mark 13 - An Introduction

preached	August 26, 2012
added	August 27, 2012
comments	3 Comments and 2 Reactions
scripture	Mark 13
topics	Prophecy, Second Coming of Christ, Studying the Bible, Word of God
type	Sermon
id	2888

God's word is infallible, but no individual is an infallible interpreter of the Bible. When scholars and theologians don't agree on what a Biblical text means, how are we to understand it? This introductory study to Mark 13 encourages us to take the right approach, by focusing on the "main and plain" things.

As I get older in my walk with the lord, I lament that few Christian teachers seek to point out that our sins do have consequences, and regardless how much prayer we do, and mercy and grace we receive
we will live with the consequences of our sins. Gregg Laury describes sin as driving a nail into a piece of wood, sure God can forgive you and will pull the nail out, but the hole and mark where the nail was remain in the wood. So too the marks of sin on our lives. There are consequences of sin that remain " the "Nail Holes". King David committed both murder and adultery, God forgave him and healed his life spiritually but the consequnces were that violence and the effects of sin would remain on him and his family for the rest of David's life. Once we have the spiritual insight to realize that our choices and sins have long term consequences, we would realize just how careful and how much in prayer and how much we need to be seeking God's help and guidance so that we do not make any more inadvertent "nail holes. I do not think this concept is stressed or pointed out enough by "cheap grace teachers". Too many people in Christianity adopt a frivolous attitude , oh well if I make a mistake or willfully sin, I will just ask for forgiveness, and all will be fine once again. Not so little grasshopper! Once we understand how God designed us and the universe (space time continuum) we may understand that some things can not be reversed once put into motion. Those "nail holes" are never the same as a new piece of wood.God's perfect will is much better than God's permissive will. May God grant us the spiritual insight
to realize this.

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