Download 01 Eric Burns
Eric introduced buddy Jesus. The false idea is that we might take Jesus with us everywhere, but we are very quick to forget or leave him behind. We make Jesus just a convenience. Whenever we want or need something, that’s when we talk to him. When things are good in life, we think it is because of us, like we run the show or something. But when life gets tough, we cry out to him. We tend to look at sin through man’s eyes and not Gods. Our heart has to be right to have a relationship with Christ. We have to realize we are sinners.
Has Christianity become just a chore? Jesus dying on the cross for our sins and loving us unconditionally should bring us a great joy. So why do we not choose to abide? We don’t always choose to abide because we think we can control our life with our own understanding. Typically, when we sin, we go to God thinking if we read our Bible or go to church, it will make up for sinning. We don’t get to bargain with God, it just doesn’t work that way. True brokenness is needing God so bad, we realize we can’t do anything without him. John 15:4 says, “Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.” Apart from God, we can do nothing. We value brokenness because we want to be as close to Jesus as possible. What is it going to take to make us realize our sin, so that we fully abide in God? To make us so broken, we are on our knees before him, because he loved us so much that he replaced our sin with his blood.
