[Discoveries] 11-08-08 The vacuum principle - part one -- Galatians 6:1

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/*Brothers, if someone is caught in a sin, you who are spiritual should 
restore him gently. But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted. -- 
Galatians 6:1*/

If you take away sin, what is left?

Think about it. I think this is a very important question that most 
people haven't considered, yet it is the reason so many people have so 
many problems.

I think most Christians would say that if you take away sin you are left 
with righteousness or obedience or goodness. But I disagree. If you take 
away sin, you are left with a vacuum. You are left with an emptiness 
that longs to be filled and will be filled quickly with something. It 
might be filled again with the same sin. People who wrestle with 
addictions understand this. They try to stop, and they can't. Or this 
vacuum might be filled with self righteousness. Often it is, and this is 
why people get such a bad taste in their mouths for what they believe to 
be Christianity.

Jesus made it clear that if you drive out an evil spirit, that it will 
come back, and finding the house unoccupied, rounds up seven worse 
spirits and re-enters the house. It's the vacuum principle.

You can bet those evil spirits wouldn't be at all interested in 
returning if they knocked on the front door and Jesus answered.

(More tomorrow.)

Be encouraged!
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