He Washed It White as Snow

"The real human predicament, as Scripture reveals, is that inexplicable, irrationally, we all keep living our lives against what's good for us. In what can only be called the mystery of iniquity, human beings from nearly the beginning have so often chosen to live against God, against each other, and against God's world. We live even against ourselves. An addict, for example, partakes of a substance or practice that he knows might kill him. For a time he does so freely. He has a choice. He freely starts a 'conversion unto death,' and for reasons he can't fully explain, he doesn't stop until he crashes. He starts out with a choice. He ends up with a habit. And the habit slowly converts to a kind of slavery that can be broken only by God" - Cornelius Plantinga

Our speaker tonight, Matt Francisco, spoke on the seriousness of sin. He told us how sin is self-chosen slavery. We know that we are sinning, but we cannot explain why we keep on doing it. We know that because of our sin we simply fail to enjoy God, but we cannot seem to stop ourselves from continually falling into it. Matt said, "Satan is smarter than us, stronger than us, ans more subtle than we can ever imagine. He is not going to steal our hearts away from the Lord towards the sin of unbelief through murder if he can do the same by getting us to say bitter things about a person. He will not lead us into straying away from God through adultery if he can get us to lust in our hearts."

I am a slave--not because any man, woman, or any other being has put me here, in this position, but because I have chosen to not side with Christ. I have chosen to not enjoy God completely because I thought I wanted to satisfy myself with the things of this world.
"For all that is in the world--the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions--is not from the father but is from the world." (1 John 2:14)
I now want to be in love with the Father in a way that I never would have imagined. I want to throw away everything that I have--just so I can love Him more. I will no longer choose to commit idolatrous treason against Him for things of this world. I will not longer choose to side with our Enemy. I will no longer choose to be a slave.

-Matt

"For the wages of Sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 6:23