Comments on: John 8 (NIV) http://findinggrace.com/blog/2007/11/20/john-8-niv/ Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:32:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: dave hensleigh http://findinggrace.com/blog/2007/11/20/john-8-niv/#comment-674 dave hensleigh Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:01:45 +0000 http://findinggrace.com/blog/2007/11/20/john-8-niv/#comment-674 34 Jesus replied, “I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave to sin." Jesus talks alot about sin in this passage. Sin usually enslaves us by creeping in on us bit by bit...what we watch, how we talk, etc. Like in Hemmingway's "The Sun Also Rises" , "How did you go bankrupt? Gradually, then all at once." (Taken from the book "Fierce Conversations" Core deception regarding sin (from my Recovery Bible): 1.I can stop anytime I want to. 2.I have the right to choose how I live my own life. 3.My behavior doesn't affect anyone but me. 34 Jesus replied, “I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.”
Jesus talks alot about sin in this passage. Sin usually enslaves us by creeping in on us bit by bit…what we watch, how we talk, etc.
Like in Hemmingway’s “The Sun Also Rises” , “How did you go bankrupt? Gradually, then all at once.” (Taken from the book “Fierce Conversations”

Core deception regarding sin (from my Recovery Bible):
1.I can stop anytime I want to.
2.I have the right to choose how I live my own life.
3.My behavior doesn’t affect anyone but me.

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