Lessons Of The Coke Bottle

Where sin abounded, grace abounded much more. - Romans 5:20

Pastor Louie was preaching on the pervasiveness of sin. "It's everywhere!" he stated emphatically. He told about waiting for a traffic light when he saw the man in the car in front of him finished his Coke, open the door, set the glass bottle on the street, and drive away.

"That was wrong!" Louie said. "It was a selfish sin! He could have caused someone to have a flat tire or even an accident." We don't typically think of littering as sin, but it is clear evidence of our inherent selfishness.

Later, as Louie was greeting people by the door, a Bible professor at a local Christian university said quietly as he walked by, "Sin puts the bottle on the street, but grace picks it up."

Now, many years later, Louie has not forgotten the lesson of that scriptural principle. It comes right out of Romans 5, one of the most uplifting texts in the Bible describing the grace of Gos. Adam's transgression brought sin into the world (v.12), and its consequences spread to all people. But God responded with grace, offering forgiveness through His Son to all who choose to believe. The human race sinned, and God answered with abounding grace (v.20).

God does much more than just "pick up the bottle," He cleanses the heart of the transgressor! - David C. Egner

Marvelous, infinite, matchless grace,

Freely bestowed on all who believe!

You that are longing to see His face,

Will you this moment His grace receive? - Johnston

Confession of sin is the soil in which forgiveness flourishes

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It just like what I had right now... 2 fake Christian... ( in my opinion they are fake Christian)... come into my life... and when I get to know Jesus Christ, I think that is what it means... "Where there is sin, there are grace."....

God makes me learn to forgive, and maybe try to forget... Although I just keep ignore there present... but I do know they are there... and they care for me... well, I just don't know how to face them... so I choose to be a turlte... get in my own world as I don't know anything...

I am doing this due to I do know that it is God in control of everything... He have His own reason to allow it happen... so I can't comment on it... secondly... I am a sinner too... if it is not Jesus Christ, I will continue my sinner's life as I don't know the truth... so, I have no right to comment on other's business... thirdly, and also the most important one... every Sunday we will greet each other as we all had be good with Christ... so I think I should be good with "them" too...

But I still don't know how to be face to face with "them"... HEADACHE!!!... I have all the reasons... yet I still don't have any correction of my attitude toward "them"...