Beth Moore — Get Out of That Pit
We can slip in. So we've been thrown in, we've talked about slipping in. That brings us to point "C." Point "C" is this: we can jump in. You knew it was coming -- you knew it was coming!
You see, this is a brilliant group! You are brilliant participants! We can jump in. And how exactly did you know we could jump in?
We can plan sin. I want to show you something that conveys a little bit of this. I want you to turn with me to Psalm 19; I want you to hear verses 12 and 13. This is the Psalmist David who I so dearly love and so look forward to meeting.
It says in verse 12, who can discern his errors? Forgive my hidden faults. Look at verse 13, keep your servant also from willful sins. May they not rule over me.
Then I will be blameless, innocent of great transgression. This is a powerful verse because it is telling us what is possible by telling us what's happened so often in the life to get us in bondage to sin. Now let me talk about what is possible first of all. In the Christian life, it is a very fair question to ask -- I mean how together can we really get this thing?
I mean that's a fair question to ask. I know a number of people that have just -- they so abuse the whole concept of grace that they -- you just live like the devil because thank goodness we're saved and we're just in this temple of human flesh and blood and what else can we do?
I mean it is just a war toll death and certainly it is a war toll death but they've given up on the fight. And they've just decided that there is grace and we're just going to live like we do; live in complete defeat, totally blow our witness. But this is how we are. There's got to be something wrong with that.
That is not the New Testament life that is conveyed to us of abundant, effectual testimony. That is not what the Word of God is telling us. But can we ever completely pull it together? Listen, anybody that appears to have all their stuff together there is no such thing. Because this is just what we're dealing with, there is no way we're going to pull this thing completely together.
There will be no perfection for us on this earth. We pursue that upward calling. We pursue full-throttle godliness but we're never going to get this thing perfectly together. What is possible? This verse tells us. It's talking about something called “blamelessness.” We could call blamelessness, walking blamelessly and what it says is this, that there would be freedom from willful sins and that is premeditated, arrogant, full of ourselves sin and that there will not be an area of sin ruling over us. That is possible.
The Psalmist says, "Then we will be free of great transgression." You want to know what "walking blamelessly" is? That there is know area of sin that has dominion over you. I promise you that is possible. I used to walk in complete bondage to this or that area of sin. I know what it is like to walk with a sin in an area of bondage that has ruled over me.
We honestly can and there are people listening right now that do not believe that because they're basing it on their experience. Listen, the Word of God is not based on your experience. Our experience is not the plumb line of God's truth. God's Word is true.
Where our experience does not match up to it, our experience is awry and it is telling us a lie because we do not have to walk -- we are not forced as human beings to just accept the fact that we will always have this addiction or that. That is a lie. And it is a cop out because we don't want to do the hard work it will take -- we don't want to do the hard work it will take.