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Some of the church’s most troubling people are not the openly rebellious but the selectively devout those who attend faithfully and read Scripture regularly, yet only for what they want, never for what God commands. Their piety is self-referential; they are religious humanists who use the Bible to serve themselves rather than to submit to the Lord. Eve did not reject all of God’s Word only the part that conflicted with her desire and that single act of selective obedience brought ruin to the world. As James reminds us, “whoever keeps the whole law and yet offends in one point is guilty of all” (James 2:10). Obedience and faith are total realities: either God’s will governs us, or our will does. Whether sin is committed once or a hundred times, its essence is always the same rebellion “my will be done,” not God’s.
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CR101 Radio - Podcast Network — Yea, Hath God Said?. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
C-R101Radio.com, podcasts and more. 49. Yay, Hathgoth said. Certain religious people are the church's biggest problem. They can be devout and very faithful, but only up to a point. They're in the church for what they want, not for what God says they need. They go to the Bible sometimes daily for personal needs, but not to hear and serve God. They are humanists, and they are themselves the focus of their lives. We're not told in Genesis 3, 1 to 6 that Eve disbelieved everything God had ever said, only that she rejected God's word at one critical point. When the time to raise the question, Yeh, Hathgoth said, Eve was ready to believe that her personal desires or needs could set aside God's law at one point and all would be well.
As a Lord's brother, James says, For whosoever shall keep the whole law and yet offend at one point, he's guilty of all, James 2.10. Obedience is a total fact, the same is true of faith, either we are faithful or we aren't, and alter is adultery whether committed once or a hundred times. God does not measure sin by the grooves, but by the fact that all sin is rebellion against him. The heart of all sin is to say, My will be done, not God's.
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