"Important Things"

 "This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me:" (Ecclesiastes 9:13 KJV)

  "I don't really understand myself, for I want to do what is right, but I don't do it. Instead, I do what I hate. But if I know that what I am doing is wrong, this shows that I agree that the law is good. So I am not the one doing wrong; it is sin living in me that does it. And I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. I want to do what is right, but I can't. I want to do want is good, but I don't. I don't want to do what is wrong, but I do it anyway. But if I do what I don't want to do, I am not really the one doing wrong; it is sin living in me that does it." (Romans 7:15-20 NLT)

 You may have heard this before, but it is true and something that we must accept as our condition, under the sun! "We are not sinners because we sin; we sin, because we are sinners: We are born in sin, straight from the start, we are sinners at birth!" 

 Crazy to think how that is, seeing there appears to be such innocence in a little baby's life. But then they grow up! They actually really don't need to be taught how to sin, (as some people might not believe,) because they have a sinful nature; one that has been handed down for thousands of years, from Adam, the father of all mankind. 

 Again, read your Bible; and as you read it, do it slowly and carefully, and believe what you read; making sure that you don't set anything aside as if it might not be true! If in doubt, ask God to help you understand and accept what He has done, no matter how hard it might be to comprehend. God can do anything, and He has created everything! 

 With that, I need to make sure to address that Baby Jesus had something about Him which was quite different from all of us, that are born in sin; meaning that we all are born sinners. You see, Jesus did not have an earthly father, in the order of Adam, that had power of the curse: the seed inside of Mary was of the Holy Spirit, not of man. 

 Yes, Jesus was born in the flesh, tempted as everyone else; but He did not sin! Oh, there are some that try and say that He did; believe me, I know, because I grew up believing that He did. Trust what your Bible says, because there is prophecy about this, and there are testimonies that make it true. 

 That is one thing that puts the Bible as more important than any other book: There are prophecies of what would happen, and there are real proofs that they came to pass...

"When Adam sinned, sin entered the world. Adam's sin brought death, so death spread to everyone, for everyone sinned. Yes, people sinned before the law was given. But it was not counted as sin because there was not yet any law to break. Still, everyone died - from the time of Adam to the time of Moses - even those who did not disobey an explicit commandment of God, as Adam did. Now Adam is a symbol, a representation of Christ, who was yet to come. But there is a great difference between Adam's sin and God's gracious gift. For the sin of this one man, Adam, brought death to many. But even greater is God's wonderful grace and his gift of forgiveness to many through this other man, Jesus Christ. And the result of God's gracious gift is very different from the result of that one man's sin. For Adam's sin led to condemnation, but God's free gift leads to being made right with God, even though we are guilty of many sins. For the sin of this one man, Adam, caused death to rule over many. But even greater is God's wonderful grace and his gift of righteousness, for all who receive it will live in triumph over sin and death through this one man, Jesus Christ." (Romans 5:12-17 NLT)