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Ask The Pastor
June 15, 2004
> Question:
>
> Hello Pastor Martin.
>
> I sure do appreciate you answering my first ever
>
question with so much wisdom. Hope it isn't too
> much of an inconvenience to ask
another.
>
> We were discussing in Sunday school about the things
>
people have come out of. It was a very intense discussion.
> I know that when you
break one commandment you are
> guilty of all. But are people that were
really big sinners
> more blessed than people that have gone to church all
> their
lives? I was saved at six, went to church all my life
> and was never delivered
from stuff like drugs, alcohol,
> sex sins, etc. Some people in church acted like
they
> were better because God delivered them from drug addiction.
Carol,
Believers who were deep in sin are not blessed more than anyone else when
they come to the Lord. They may feel more blessed simply because of where they
came from. But to be saved from sin is the same for all people.
My oldest son use to have a problem similar to yours. He felt like he didn't
have a 'real' testimony. Someone caught his attention by telling him that his
testimony was greater than that of those who came out of drugs, etc. His
testimony is that of a person coming to the Lord at a very young age. (Like
David's and Samuel's in the Bible.) It dawned on him that he had been looking at
the wrong thing. What greater testimony to righteousness is there than that of
having been raised in a Christian home and coming to know the Lord in one's
youth?
This help?
Blessings,
Buddy
Bro. Buddy Martin - Ask
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Lawrence "Buddy" Martin
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