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NASB | Matthew 1:21 "She will bear a Son; and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 1:21 "She will give birth to a Son, and you shall name Him Jesus (The LORD is salvation), for He will save His people from their sins." |
Subject: Saved from sin? |
Bible Note: Greetings Aixen7z4 - I'm delighted to be dialoging with you, especially since you know the author and THE Author! I have been contemplating the concept of the "sin of obedience" for about a year. I don't know what this all involves, but I do see it as an approach to understand sin and how as believers we continue in it - oft unaware. We know from Romans that a "righteousness apart from the Law has been revealed" yet I suspect that we still persist in the notion that we must live according to the law to be righteous. I think that this creeps up on us in a subtle way however, and most times we are already in the trap of performance Christianity before we are even aware of it. For example, if my service or ministry to others is generated out of a desire to be thought well of by them, who am I pleasing, them or myself? So where is the Lord in this. I'm doing for others because God's Word tells me I should, but I do with the wrong motivation. Are you following me? So much of the time I see that old self-centered attitude and cry out like Paul "wretched woman that I am!" Yet, this recognition does not paralyze or discourage, rather as I see myself for who I am (IN CHRIST) I am reminded of the forgiveness that I ALREADY HAVE and ask God to change my heart to be more like His, to allow me to see Him, others and myself as HE sees, etc. I believe that this is at the core of our yieldedness to the power of the Holy Spirit and is what Paul was referring to when he exorts us to "work out our salvation with fear and trembling!" Phi 2:12 - it's interesting that he commends them for their obedience in his absence . . . I agree with what you have written about the way we present the Gospel. For me, it was a fire escape motivated by fear factor, I knew that sin was wrong, yet for so long I continued to walk according to the "lusts of the flesh", sometimes deliberately and other times in ignorance. (Not that I have already been made perfect . . .but I have a different perspective now than I did at the beginning. How I wish I had this view THEN!)yet as I have grown up in Him, it has become (what John Eldredge would call it) a "Sacred Romance." I understand the love of God for me, just as I am - yet this requires introspection, to really see who I am and what I have been saved from (myself and the Holy wrath that I deserve). Can we come to Christ without being selfsih? Does this make sense? Thanks for considering these things with me! (Most of my friends are unwilling to delve into or ponder stuff like this - oh well!) Blessings, mommapbs |