What a weekend busy, busy, busy. Life seems to just fly by here. My Friday began the weekend with 5th Qtr. 'Idol'. We had about 10 students i think tryout so they all made it.:) I shared the gospel and one new student prayed to receive Christ. Pray that seed would take root and grow. Saturday was 'Cinco De Mayo', we had a Mexican fiesta fundraiser to raise money for a group of adults and students going to help with hurricane Katrina relief in Mississippi, June 10-16. It was not the most provitable fundraiser but God is in control. We have one more a car wash the first weekend in June. Well I was reading some emails today and I came across one about Spiderman and his evil nemesis and thought yep that's all of us. I am not that good at making such great parallels but they are at www.dare2share.com/soulfuel , it was this weeks soul fuel. May we be led by the Holy Spirit and not our flesh.
He talks about how "spidey" wishes to be rid of this goo that falls from the sky. We have no goo falling from the sky just our sin nature attached to us daily. Thanks be to Jesus it no longer has power over us, I quoted some of it here but take time to read it all, it is good.
it says at one point..... "But make no mistake, this movie is more than a treat for the eyes. There are thoughtfully developed plot points that strongly parallel divinely developed spiritual truths...and that's where I come in!"
.........we don't need to worry about an outer space substance that attaches to our bodies, but we do need to be aware of a dangerous and deadly entity that is already fastened to our souls. It is called your sin nature: the inherited and ingrained part of you that rebels against God and pulls you towards self-destructive behavior...and make no mistake...it poses a greater threat than anything Marvel Comics could ever dream up. Here's the way the Bible describes the sickness of our soul:
The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? (Jeremiah 17:9)
The sinful nature wants to do evil, which is just the opposite of what the Spirit wants. And the Spirit gives us desires that are the opposite of what the sinful nature desires. These two forces are constantly fighting each other, so you are not free to carry out your good intentions. (Galatians 5:17 )
..............Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death? (Romans 7:24)
Don't you feel the same? Like Spider-Man, we would love to defeat the monster inside us by our own efforts, but for the Christian, that is impossible. So impossible, in fact, that only God could make it possible.
And He did. Jesus' death and resurrection is the only cure for our sin nature. That's why Paul wrote these words right after his cry for help:
Thank God! The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord . (Romans 8:25)
When you trusted Christ as your only hope of salvation, you were given a new power though the Holy Spirit to overcome the rebellious and destructive nature inside you.
The question is...will you? Will you wake up each day and ask God to give you the power to defeat your sin nature? Will you commit to avoiding the people and places where the venom of sin seems to saturate your life the most?
There is one scene in Spider-Man 3 I'll leave you with. At one point the black symbiote is trapped under a glass, but when freed it quickly slithers towards Pete r. Dr. Connors responds by saying, "It seems to want you..."
And so does your sin nature... the question is - what are you going to do about it?
Tuesday, May 8, 2007
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