If you love yourself, then you need to be honest with yourself as to what your faults and sins are and confess them to God. Jesus said, in Matthew 19:19 Honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as yourself. People make mistakes and wrong choices through their lack of knowledge of God, or just willfully choosing to sin. We, here on earth, never have all the information. The thing to remember in dealing with God is that God has all the information already and has already determined the best way for people to be in relationship with him and with each other. Sometimes an issue needs to be set aside for a while and more information gathered then revisited. When dealing with people we have to have an “agree to disagree” ability on some issues. Just as we draw closer to the people we love whenever we are united with them in thoughts we draw closer to God when we follow his way of doing things.
#SIMON THE SORCERER ACTS 8 9 25 FREE#
That is our choice…God gave us this free choice.
God allows us to follow our own way, our own opinion, but whenever we do this, we get further from God, instead of closer to him. Healthy relationships allow for a difference of opinion. That is why God wants us to be forgiving toward others, but again, we do not have to agree with their every action as being right, in order to love them. Bitterness and resentment eventually will lead to hatred.
On the contrary, it will lead to bitterness and resentment toward the other person. That kind of thinking does not lead to a good relationship with anyone. However, d o not get confused loving someone does not mean that you have to be okay with everything they do and think that everything they do is good and correct. We must do everything with love towards each other, and nothing in hatred. Even when society wants you to believe that if you chose God’s way, then you are just being mean! The thing about having God in your life, is that you cannot chose to accept some of his word, and reject the parts you don’t like. Simon was trying to have God by his own standards, and not live by God’s standards.
Peter told him that he needed to get right with God and put aside his bitterness and become free from sin. He thought that he could buy the gift of God with money. New International Version (NIV)Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission.
#SIMON THE SORCERER ACTS 8 9 25 FULL#
23 For I see that you are full of bitterness and captive to sin.”Ģ4 Then Simon answered, “Pray to the Lord for me so that nothing you have said may happen to me.”Ģ5 After they had further proclaimed the word of the Lord and testified about Jesus, Peter and John returned to Jerusalem, preaching the gospel in many Samaritan villages. 22 Repent of this wickedness and pray to the Lord in the hope that he may forgive you for having such a thought in your heart. 17 Then Peter and John placed their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.ġ8 When Simon saw that the Spirit was given at the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money 19 and said, “Give me also this ability so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit.”Ģ0 Peter answered: “May your money perish with you, because you thought you could buy the gift of God with money! 21 You have no part or share in this ministry, because your heart is not right before God. 15 When they arrived, they prayed for the new believers there that they might receive the Holy Spirit, 16 because the Holy Spirit had not yet come on any of them they had simply been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. 14 When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John to Samaria.
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