About « DarrellBaudoin.com

About

About Us 2 Timothy 3:2-5

A few people told me that my blog is controversial, especially some of the Bible topics. I search the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so” (Acts 17:11). When I find Bible verses about the same subject that seem to contradict each other I pray to find out the truth. Then, I begin a Bible study on that topic. Most people usually just choose the side that fits in to the way they think and disregard the other. I wanted to know truth as God meant it when He revealed it to the writer. I pray often that God would reveal this truth to me. Within the last few years He certainly has been answering those prayers. I try explaining this to my friends and family. Most of us were taught wrong beliefs and ideas that’s goes directly against the Bible! It’s as if they can’t grasp what I am saying or the significance of it.

God’s Word explains:
But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 1 Corinthians 2:14

What is sin?

Satan has fooled twentieth century Christians into an ever deeper spiritual sleep so that many have become insensible as to what constitutes sin. The Bible clearly defines it for us, however. ‘”Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.” I John 3:4.

The breaking of any one of God’s Ten Commandments constitutes sin. The Apostle Paul reveals the purpose of the law. “What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.” Romans 7:7. And again, “By the law is the knowledge of sin.” Romans 3:20. Thus, we see that the law of God points out sin in the life.

The cancer of sin has infected the entire human race, “for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.” Romans 3:23. However, the gospel of Jesus is the good news of salvation from sin. The sinner may come to the Lord in full assurance that the grace of God is sufficient to forgive him of all sin. “Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God.” Verses 24,25.

The plan of redemption provides for more than the forgiveness of past sins. It also provides a way of escape from continued sin. We need to experience not only forgiveness of sin, but also victory over sin. We cannot be saved in our sins, we must be saved from our sins. Is it possible to live without sinning?

Jesus did not come to save us from the consequences of sin only, but to save us from the sin itself. Salvation is not a negative thing; not just the absence of something. He did not come just to take away something—our guilt—but to give us something—victory over sin. For God to forgive us and leave us under the power of continued sin would make God an accomplice of sin. He not only counts us righteous through the imputation of His atoning death, but He makes us righteous through the impartation of His victorious life.
After thoughtfully reading the entire sixth chapter of Romans, if you need more assurance that victory can be yours, read the following:

1 Corinthians 15:57—“But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
1 John 5:4—“For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.”
Philippians 2:5—“Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus.”
2 Corinthians 5:21—“… that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.”
1 John 3:6—“Whatsoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.”

More about understanding the Bible:

Keys To Understanding the Bible