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Sound of Liberty
7286 Hwy 53 West
Dawsonville,
GA
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How God
Let's us See our Fallibility
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Message Transcribed and
Edited
From Audio Tape #746
Preached Sunday Evening, June 06, 1999
Brother Ben Howard, Dawsonville, Georgia
I would like to bring a thought from the Word of
God and title it, “How God Lets Us See Our
Fallibility, and I believe it will be a great blessing
to you. I pray that this message will be a “light”
unto you as you prayerfully read.
Now God is infallible, but we are all fallible. We
all have our times of failures, our mistakes and
things. This shows our fallibility, but God is
infallible. So I want to take this thought, “How God
lets us see our fallibility”.
You might ask, “Why does God let us see our
fallibility?” It is to let us see that we are human,
that we have many failures and He has ordained it
thus. When Paul went forth to preach the Word of God,
God assigned a messenger of satan to buffet him. This
was to keep him from becoming exalted above measure.
God did this to Paul, because of the abundance of
revelation that he had.
We are human and God lets us see that we are
human. We need to realize that we are human and we
need to realize that God is God. We need to realize
that we are not perfect, but He is. The only way for
us to be perfect is to be IN THE PERFECT ONE.
Paul says, “We have to die daily”, didn’t he? We
have to die daily, because everyday when we get up,
there is a different situation. We have to die out to
“self”. This way the Lord can really live His life
through us.
Let’s take a look at the great Apostle Paul. When
he began serving and getting right with God, he found
it very strange. When he had accepted the Lord Jesus
Christ in his heart, his whole desire was to do good,
never to make a mistake. When Paul began his walk, he
began to realize that a lot of times when he wanted to
do good; he didn’t do as he wanted to. He said, “When
I wanted to do good, evil was present.” So let’s read
about Saint Paul, starting in Romans, chapter 7:15..,
“For that which I do I allow not: for what I would,
that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.” Now
that’s a Christian there; that Saint Paul. As he came
to God, he found out that he was doing things that he
hated in the outer realm of the human side of things
that went contrary to the spiritual side. Some of the
things he did went against the spiritual desires that
he had in his heart. When he would do good, evil was
present. He said, “What I hate is what I do.” Do you
ever do that? What you hate is what you do?
Sometimes it works that way, doesn’t it? You have a
desire to do everything right to serve God. That’s
why we come to the House of God many times to dedicate
ourselves over and over, making dedications to God. I
believe it is necessary. We say, “From now on we are
going to do better; we are going to do it
differently.” Pretty soon, we are back into doing
things; maybe not sins, but we are just not dedicated
like we need to be. It’s like going on a diet, you
know. Many times you say, “Well I’m going to start
Monday.” I’ve got so now I say, “I’m going to start
tomorrow.” It’s everyday: “I’m going to start
tomorrow.” Here Paul is talking about the things he
hated; he did sometimes. Verse 16 says, “If then I do
that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it
is good.” In other words, the law is good, but I’m
just not able all the time, to do what I want to do,
and the way I want to do it. So, that’s kind of what
Paul is saying here. Verse 17 says, “Now then it is
no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.”
Now I want you to notice that Paul was converted. He
was right in the Word of God. He was an Apostle. One
thing we must realize that our body is being
redeemed. It’s not redeemed yet. It is not redeemed
totally until this body is changed in a moment, in the
twinkling of an eye. The inner man is sealed until
the Day of Redemption. The Bible says in Ephesians,
chapter 4:30.., “And grieve not the Holy Spirit of
God, whereby ye are sealed until the day of
redemption.”
When Paul spoke of us, he spoke of the inner man
and the outer. You are both. You are the inner man
and you are the outer man. There is an inner man that
lives in you; the Word of God says, “Whosoever is born
of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in
him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.”
(1st John3:9) The Word says in Romans, chapter 4:8;
this was concerning David and Abraham. It says,
“Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute
sin.” If you are God’s child, he is not going to
impute sin against you. God will not charge you with
sin, because you are in Christ.” Do you know that you
are in Christ? The Word says, “For in Him we live,
and move, and have our being; as certain also of your
own poets have said, for we are also His offspring.”
(Acts 17:28) So we are in Christ, but this old body
is not in Christ. Our inner person is in Christ,
see? The Bible says, “We are dead and our life is hid
with Christ in God.”
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