I will freely and shamefully admit I am considered as “obese” by my doctor. This is not something that happened overnight, but a lifestyle choice I made to overeat and not to take care of the body the Lord gave me. Now, because of the sin of gluttony, I am dealing with a number of health issues, to include Type II Diabetes. Just as with any other lifestyle choice, I had to make the decision to forsake the desires of my flesh. Although forgiven, I still face the consequences of the weight I gained. It is the same with any of the “lifestyle choices” that are sinful in the eyes of God. Can an adulterer be saved? Yes, but they have to repent and forsake their sin and depend wholly on the grace of God and surrender completely to His will. Can a homosexual be saved? Absolutely, but just as with gluttony, with adultery, fornication, and any other lifestyle choice, they must repent and forsake their sin. For many, it is not easy to accept God’s will over their own; in my own life, it was not easy to admit that my overeating was a sin, after all, it was my body and God understands – until I began to understand two verses that completely changed how I saw myself: Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men (1 Corinthians 7:23) and What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? (1 Corinthians 6:19). I no longer belonged to myself; I belong to the Lord.
WHy do I believe in such a radical Christianity that most theologians reject?
For me, it is a personal choice that I came to as I seriously began studying the Bible in 2006. The purpose of this blog is not to shame or to condemn you for believing a certain way. It is simply to share with you what I have learned about my Christian faith since 2006. I believe that God has laid out within the Bible His plan for how He wants His children to live; it is not my place to pass judgment on you. If you read a blog post and you think I am wrong about what I am sharing, in my opinion, it is between you and God. For me, this blog is what I believe and I do my best to explain to you, through the use of scripture, why I believe the way that I do. My faith is a common-sense faith that I believe is taught through common-sense by God. It is not my place to “clarify” – as some theologians attempt to do – what God means. When the Bible declares, For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life (John 3:16) it is not my place to explain who the “whosoever” is. Jesus says that “whosoever believes in Him” and that’s a good enough explanation to me. I believe that anyone that comes to Jesus can be saved and that the Holy Spirit that takes up residence in the heart of the believer will begin the process of cleaning the life of the believer up.
I also know from my own experience that it is possible to believe you’re saved yet not to have actually been saved. From 1988 to 2006, while having the head knowledge about who Jesus was, I really did not believe, in my heart, who Jesus was. I talked the talk, but that is all that it was. There was no desire to live a life pleasing to the Lord. There was no desire to live a life for Him. I simply continued to live my life the way I wanted to, committing the sins I wanted to, and by living a life full of impurities and immoralities, I made a mockery of the sacrifice of Christ. As I have shared on other posts and pages of this site, when I accepted Jesus Christ as my personal savior in 2006, I became serious about my faith in Jesus and about living a life that is acceptable to Him. I am not worried about what other people think or what other theologians say. I just want to please my Lord and Savior.
