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Text Box: the temptation we have won that battle. Sometimes the sin is a sin of impulse. We just do something without real thought. We have fallen into a habit of that particular sin. To avoid that type of sin we have to change our habits and try very much to think before we say or do anything. This can be difficult, especially since most employment or work involves trained reaction or response. A sales clerk is trained to tally the customer’s purchases and sometimes they are also trained to be polite. A machinist is trained to do certain things in response to different levels of progress in his work. A lawyer is trained to respond logically and quickly to his adversary’s comments and witness examination. Any thoughtful delay in these responses at work can be detrimental to the work itself; yet that same spontaneity of response at work is part of the factor which leads us to sin through habit. So we have to apply that spontaneity to our lives in a more proper manner, so that we can break the habitual sins. We have to be spontaneous in our work, but not in most circumstances our lives outside of our work. We have to measure or control our spontaneity. And if we fail, and sin, then we must have a contrite heart. The greedy servant did not have a contrite heart. He did not even have a thankful heart, for if he had possessed a thankful heart, the thankfulness would have overflowed and applied to his fellow servant. All the greedy servant had was focus on himself and what he desired. If your focus is not on yourself, but is on Jesus Christ - God, then you will more easily overcome those seemingly spontaneous sins, and more easily overcome those which are not spontaneous. But not only will you then more easily overcome sin. You will more easily serve Christ, and assist others in their journey to eternal salvation. Unfortunately there are other great barriers to eternal salvation. One is technically known as Gnosticism. A

Text Box: Gnostic is one who believes he or she has secret knowledge of God and of how God works, or of how the universe works, and can therefore manipulate God or the universe. And there are many other great barriers to eternal salvation. But all of them are nothing more than sins. If we simply acknowledge as fact, that God established the standards by which we attain eternal union with Him in Heaven. Then attempt our best to attain those standards solely for the purpose of pleasing Him by being with Him for all eternity ( and thus pleasing ourselves as well), we will actually be well on the road to eternal salvation. And a very large per centage of the human race is on that road. But leaving that road is so easy that we must be vigilant in our journey to eternity. So from time to time check to be sure that you are doing what Christ the King showed us to do, and doing what He did for the same reason, which is Charity - also known as Agape Love or Divine Love. Then the deviations from that path will become fewer, which means our sins will become fewer, and we will become happier in this life as we follow Christ into the life to come. Ref: Eph. 6:10-17; Mat. 18:23-35 +

Text Box: AN ASPECT OF GOD IS LIFE - MORE THAN MERE EXISTENCE What is God? We can only talk about aspects of God, because the totality of God is impossible for us to comprehend. Since we really can not fully explain what man is, it would be foolish to attempt to explain what God is. With that said, and understanding that we really are discussing aspects of God; God is said to be Charity, agape love, an expression now corrupted into the saying, “God is Love”. We often think of God the Father and God the Holy Spirit as being Spirit, and of Jesus the Son of God as being Spirit which took on flesh and therefore as now being both Spirit and flesh. This is a proper reasoning. Therefore, in a very real sense, God is flesh. Again, in a very real sense, before God took on flesh, it can be said God is Spirit. But before it could be said God is Spirit, it must be said that God is Life. Self-existing life. And this Life, with a capital “L”, is what God wishes to share with us for all eternity. Let us think about the man with the palsy. There he was, unable to walk, lying in a bed and being brought to this man named Jesus. He must have had the palsy for quite some time to have reached the status of being unable to walk, of being bedridden. Death must have been something which he contemplated every day, and pending death has a way of making some people wise, for it has a way of making a person contemplate their sins and have sorrow for them. Only the foolish and stupid ignore their sins when death is near. If he could be cured of the palsy, he could support himself, live a longer life, and perhaps change his life so that he did not sin, or at least not sin as much as in the past. Perhaps he could make a special sin offering, or do something to

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