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thoughts, God knows.
    If this man is born again and has made Jesus the final authority over His life, this hidden sin will eat him. He’ll constantly battle guilt and condemnation. The sad thing is, he can’t tell anyone because it’s his dirty little secret. Unless he renews his mind and finds out that he has the blood-bought right to receive forgiveness for his sins, he’ll be trapped in a cycle of sin and condemnation. Not only are sexual fantasies of equal value to the actual act, but their effects are just as damaging. Though carnal-minded people have determined the severity of each sin, God does not categorize it. To Him, sin is sin.

Religious Clichés Don’t Help
    To make matters worse, Christians who judge others use powerless religious clichés to try to make others “feel” better about themselves. It is the Word that heals, cleanses, and sets people free, not a church catchphrase.
    It is the Word that heals, cleanses, and sets people free, not a church catchphrase.
    Telling people who are broken by sin, “Turn it over to Jesus, and He’ll work it out,” or “Jesus will fix it after a while,” doesn’t help. Now there may be some element of truth in these sayings, but what people need is wisdom from the Word of God regarding their specific situation. They need the Word broken down so they can understand and apply it to their lives right now. Saying “Joycometh in the morning” won’t help anyone. All people want to know is what is joy, where will it come from, and why they need it. Once you direct people to the Word, show them Scriptures dealing with joy, and give them a chance to meditate and study the Word, then they will understand and know that joy comes from the Word of God that they know and have in operation in their lives.
    If you tell people who are caught up in sin that sin doesn’t have to dominate their lives anymore because they have God on their side, they can take that knowledge and break sin’s power and receive deliverance. A side effect of sin is a feeling of guilt and condemnation. These feelings can cause people to stay in their sin because they don’t feel worthy to go before God. If someone would take the time to tell them that there is no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, they would be delivered from those feelings (see Rom. 8:1) and run to God for the strength that they need. Instead, religious Christians want to pacify them by saying, “It’s okay, honey, for all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. No one is perfect except our Lord Jesus Christ.” Counsel such as this doesn’t help anyone.
    Condemned Christians need to know that although everyone has sinned, everyone can be made righteous. It’s the Word of God, not religious clichés, that brings deliverance and changes lives. Instead of giving people the Word, religion judges and gives the world the wrong impression of Christianity and what it is all about. This causes unbelievers to view the church as hypocrites and ultimately turns them away from God.
    It’s the Word of God, not religious clichés, that brings deliverance and changes lives.
    The unsaved see their Christian co-workers talking about the love of God on one day and condemning others the next day. If a carnal-minded Christian learns that her unsaved co-worker is living with her boyfriend, the Christian condemns the person by saying, “Honey, you and your boyfriend are going to burn in hell.” Even if they had a close relationship before and the Christian was trying to lead the other woman to Christ, she will now distance herself from the woman and want nothing to do with her. This type of judgmental attitude won’t win anyone to Jesus. In fact, it’s usually a turnoff to the unsaved.
    Understand that sinning is what sinners do. They know that what they are doing is not right and don’t need their sin thrown in their faces as a reminder or a weapon used against them. What could possibly stop sinners from sinning? The