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14 The Life that Wins
Why do I speak about these things? It is because the life lived by many Christians is too unlike the life of God. Some brethren can only see people's faults; they cannot see any of the good qualities in others. They always talk about the shortcomings of their fellowbrethren. For instance, a brother who had finally gained victory over this matter confessed beforehand that he did not understand why he always found fault with his brethren. He would look at a brother and find six or seven faults in him; he would look at another brother, and again, he would find in that brother six or seven faults. I told him that the reason why he did this was because he himself had these same faults: that this was how his own disposition was.
All these faults in disposition, character and temperament are sins, and every Christian must live victoriously above these things, not be defeated under them.
6. No Heart to Keep God's Word From the viewpoint of the Scriptures what some of us lack before God is not having a heart to keep His word. This too is a sin. Let us ask ourselves how many of God's commands we have read and obeyed. For instance, how many husbands love their wives, and how many wives are subject to their husbands? One wife confessed that she knew she should submit to her husband, but in every instance she submitted only after she had first quarreled with him. She today realizes that she had never really submitted according to God's command.
How many Christians know that worry is sin? "Rejoice in the Lord always," declares the Scripture (Phil. 4.4). How many Christians have kept this commandment? We should acknowledge that worry or anxiety is sin. All who refuse to rejoice have committed sin, for the commandment of God is that "in nothing" are we to "be anxious" (Phil. 4.6). If you worry, you sin. Though worry is not considered sinful in man's eyes, it is a sin according to the word of God.