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EVERY STEP OUTSIDE OF LOVE IS SIN

EVERY STEP OUTSIDE OF LOVE IS SIN So lately I've been having series of dreams and what seems to be endless thoughts about the end of the world: rapture and my constant prayer is that God should make me rapturable. Now because of this I'm constantly thinking of what actually constitutes sin, what I'm doing wrong and I try to avoid "obvious sins" (there is something about the fear of not making heaven that'll set you straight😀) until I read "Every step outside love is sin" from a Kenneth E Hagin's book I'm reading.  I realise now that living righteous is more than compliance with a series of do's and don'ts. Many Christians who abide perfectly by do's and don'ts are still sinning. How? By not walking in love. Our attitudes are wrong. We need to maintain a love attitude towards our fellow man. If we don't, we are sinning. John 13:34 : "A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another, AS I HAVE L...
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CHOOSE WISELY When God created the Garden of Eden, He put man in charge of it and in the midst of this Garden,  God planted the tree of knowledge of good and evil and in Gen 2:17, God commanded man not to eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. He said "in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shall surely die". Here, God gave man a choice; to choose between life and death.  The death that God refers to here is separation and death as a consequence for disobedience  (sin). Adam and Eve disobeyed when they ate of the forbidden fruit. Rule 1: the wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23) The reason why all sins are equal is because sin is first and foremost disobedience to God.  Irrespective of the gravity of the sin, there was first a choice to disobey and by so doing choose death. The choice to obey or disobey God is the same as the choice to live or die (See Deuteronomy 30:15 - 20) Think of it this way,  every time you're faced with temptati...
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