I agree that sin (no matter how big or small) keeps us apart from God - we've all sinned (Rom. 3:23). Like I just said, that sin keeps us apart from God (Rom. 6:23). In order to live a life with Christ, we need to ask Christ to forgive us of our sins - realizing this is something we cannot do ourselves, we must be completely emptied of ourselves and Christ is the only way to reach Heaven. It takes complete trust in Christ (Rom. 3:25, John 3:16, Rom. 5:8, John 14:6). Once we realize we are sinners, believe Christ died for us, and ask Him to forgive our sins, we are born again! He has forgiven our sins.
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I also agree that judging people is wrong. People take judging to an extreme level. They see only what they want to see without trying to understand what a person is thinking. Though, confronting a person when they are sinning should be done in a loving, Biblical way and done according to the principles laid out in the Bible (Matt. 18:15-17, Gal. 6:1-2, Titus 3:10 - there are many!)
However, after seeing this picture posted on Pinterest and reading all these comments...I want to take a minute and just encourage my friends and whoever else might be reading this. Just because we sin differently...don't let that be an excuse to stay where you are spiritually. The Bible is all the time talking about how we should be more like Christ.
1 John 2:6
Whoever says he abides in Him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.
I Peter 2:21
For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in His steps.
Romans 8:2-8
For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh. In order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot. Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
These are just a few verses that you can find on how we should be more like Christ. We should always be trying to attain Christ-likeness. Trying to gain victory in our sin! The awesome thing is that He has already promised us victory (1 Cor. 15:57), we just have to claim it!
Happy 2013 - I know a little late :)
