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When You're Active in Church But Living in Sin

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ourdailybread.org They're everywhere---church people who actively "serve God" in their churches yet continue to live in sin. Somehow, they feel that serving God covers up for their sins. Or probably, this is the result of the famous lines in preaching today---that God accepts you as you are and nobody is perfect. But what happens when you actively serve God but continue to enjoy sin? When we were controlled by our old nature, sinful desires were at work within us, and the law aroused these evil desires that produced a harvest of sinful deeds, resulting in death. [Romans 7.5] Let's look at it from another version: For when we were in the realm of the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in us, so that we bore fruit for death. First, when you still enjoy sin and study the bible, God's Word (the Law) merely "aroused evil desires" in you. The law (or Word of God) triggers sinful passions if you're still in sin. Im