You can't always help thinking what you think.
There's thoughts that pop in your mind that you, as a Christian,
as a believer who wants to love Jesus and serve Jesus.
These thoughts come in that you don't want to have there.
Impure thoughts,
wrong thoughts,
unrighteous thoughts.
And when they come in you get angry at yourself.
Why, why, why would I think like that? That's not me!
When that happens,
did you sin?
Did you make God angry at you?
Paul, when he wrote to the church inside of Rome,
he gave them encouragement about what to avoid.
He said don't fall into drunkenness.
Don't fall into sexual sins. Don't fall into jealousy.
And then he says this in Romans chapter 13.
And you might hear that and go,
"Well, I'm in trouble then because I think about it.
Things pop into my mind that I don't want there."
Did you anger God?
Did you make him mad at you?
See, the Greek word that is used here for "think" is a special one.
It's a special verb tense.
It's in the present tense, which means on-going action.
So, God is saying that the sin is when you have those thoughts on-going in your mind.
There's a different Greek verb tense that could have been used here
that shows one-time action and that would have been the sin.
You see, if to even think about sin,
to have it pop in your mind,
that temptation, if that is sinful to God,
well then Jesus sinned.
And we know he didn't sin.
The Bible said Jesus never once sinned
but when the devil tempted Jesus in the wilderness
to turn these rocks into bread,
Jesus had to think about it.
One-time action.
And Jesus said, "No, I don't want that.
Man does not live on bread alone."
He did not sin.
Jesus is taken atop of a temple.
The devil says, "Throw yourself down."
Jesus has to think about, "Should I do this?"
And he says, "No."
One-time action. There's no sin.
Jesus is taken atop of the mountain.
The devil tempts him,
"Bow down and worship me."
Jesus has to think about this. "Should I do this?" and he says, "No."
One-time action.
And so there is no sin.
Worship the Lord your God.
Serve him only.
See, when those thoughts pop into your mind that you, as a Christian believer,
do not want there and they're cast away right away,
that's a one-time action.
There's not sin.
But when there's ongoing thought,
that turns into the sin of greed, and lust,
and grudges, and anger.
And God says that,
that's sin.
Confess that to me,
give that to me,
fall before my cross.
And Jesus, who lived perfectly,
tempted in every way as you are,
yet was without sin,
Jesus gives you his perfection
and heals you.
So if those thoughts pop into your mind that you do not want there
and you cast them away by the power of Jesus' name,
you did not sin.
God is not mad at you.
You did not fail.
You were faithful.
And Jesus?
He loves you.
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