So the Lord is OK with smoking cigarettes and this is not a sin?
Many claim it's a sin since it's proven to damage the body.
If this is true and smoking cigarettes is actually a sin, then isn't that willful sin?
I've heard some people say willful sin is not forgiven because we would be doing wrong and know we are doing wrong and have decided to do it anyway.
Good to know. This is how the pastor explained it to me that regardless of how one lives they are still saved as long as they believe Jesus paid for their sins.
Some people say eating pork is a sin, but most people like spareribs right?
This is what Jesus says:
Mat 15:17
Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?
Mat 15:18
But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.
Mat 15:19
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
Mat 15:20
These are
the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
If you go about your life and your not having any changes on the inside first, then there's a problem.
So you say, oh I can just keep doing whatever I want with no consequences, no it don't work that way.
If you truly accepted the Lord as your savior and was sincere, He's gonna clean you up.
And you can either do it the easy way, which is willingly participate. Or he will put you in circumstances where you got no choice.
So you say, hey, i drink and smoke weed no big deal. But someday you may end u in the hospital where smoking and drinking aint allowed.
Or you get some sickness that makes you stop drinking and smoking..
see where I'm going?
You can't say, oh look I accepted Christ as my savior, and believe you won't be held accountable for what you say.
Cause you will.
For me smoking is becoming an inconvience. I been smoking since I was 10. That's 48 years now.
And I'm not ready to quit.
But it's not easy to maintain either.
I smoke in my room only, since my dad came to live with me last april.
My car don't run so good, so I hesitate going to the store to buy tobacco.
Caughing is getting a bit out of hand.
And I know I'm going to have to quit, or he'll make it impossible for me to keep smoking.
The choice is mine.
But it's not going to change my salvation status.
God don't judge your flesh, he judges your heart.
The flesh is gonna judge the flesh, by either being healthy or sick.
You want to change, he'll give you the strength to do it. I quit once before a long time ago,
I prayed and stopped smoking for about 3 months, but then I gave in and I been smoking ever since.
Stubborness is definately not a virtue when it comes to changing bad habits.
You know what the ultimate sin is?
Believing there aint no God that's going to hold you accountable.
You get psoriasis of the liver or end up in a car accident because you too high and your reaction is too slow,
you got no one to blame but yourself. But that won't keep you from being saved spiritually.
The only thing that will keep you from being saved is the belief that there is no God.
And you'll probably die a lot sooner than what God had planned for you. And you'll probably go through a lot of pain and suffering for a short time high.
And you'll cry Lord I believed in you why didnt you fix this?
And he'll say,you had the power to fix it yourself and you chose not to.
I'm dealing with that right now.
So I get it.
But Jesus is more interested in your heart than he is your body. Your flesh is in your own control.
Your spirit however, once you hand it over to God.... don't abuse it.
Don't be mean, don't be nasty, don't be judgmental, don't be argumentative.
Soften up, care more, love more...
and drink more coffee
Hugs
