{"id":2267,"date":"2015-07-07T09:23:07","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T13:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayerplainandsimple\/?p=2267"},"modified":"2015-07-07T09:23:07","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T13:23:07","slug":"a-sin-sandwich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayerplainandsimple\/2015\/07\/a-sin-sandwich.html","title":{"rendered":"A Sin Sandwich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><strong>When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, the results are very clear: sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures, idolatry, sorcery, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, division, envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and other sins like these. Let me tell you again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort of life will not inherit the Kingdom of God. (Galatians 5:19-21)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s read that Scripture again and this time take out the bits that most religious folk scorn upon:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><strong>When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, the results are very clear: &#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, division, envy<\/span> &#8230;and other sins like these. Let me tell you again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort of life will not inherit the Kingdom of God. (Galatians 5:19-21)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Paul, in all his brilliance, hid these more subtle\u00a0sins, sandwiching them between the ones that most Christians avoid. So often we read this Scripture and just glaze over it because we have been fooled\u00a0into thinking that these sins are not on our radar, therefore we don&#8217;t fall into the\u00a0class\u00a0of the\u00a0immoral ones who will miss out on the Kingdom of God. Well, look again, dear church-goer, Bible-thumper! (I was the chief-ess\u00a0of sinners in these things, so I can be so bold!) Hidden in these verses are sins that we commit on a daily if not hourly basis! Wake up, Sunday School teacher! It&#8217;s time to scrutinize and crucify your stinkin&#8217; flesh! Paul puts temper tantrums\u00a0in the same category as pornography or getting drunk. Boom.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em>Father,<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em>You&#8217;ve nailed me. Now grant me forgiveness, I pray. And I nail my sinful flesh on the cross that killed you, and I receive your forgiveness and the transformation of my mind and soul to grow in the fruit of the Holy Spirit. Today I choose love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control! You reflect\u00a0all of those qualities, and I receive them from You as I walk hand in hand with you today.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em>In Jesus&#8217; Name, Amen<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, the results are very clear: sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures, idolatry, sorcery, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, division, envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and other sins like these. Let me tell you again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":478,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,30,14,15,244,11,7,4,255,19,266,21,40,1,250],"tags":[836,1213,1216,1215,815,552,1214,1022,1217,829,1218],"class_list":["post-2267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addictions","category-answered-prayer","category-bible","category-bible-prayer","category-blessing","category-christianity","category-daily-prayer","category-god","category-gratitude-2","category-holy-spirit","category-joy","category-love","category-prayer-for-forgiveness","category-uncategorized","category-wisdom-2","tag-anger","tag-christians","tag-fighting","tag-hostility","tag-jealousy","tag-kingdom-of-god","tag-pornography","tag-rage","tag-road-rage","tag-sin","tag-true-religion"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Sin Sandwich<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayerplainandsimple\/2015\/07\/a-sin-sandwich.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Sin Sandwich\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, the results are very clear: sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures, idolatry, sorcery, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, division, envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and other sins like these. 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