Expert: Germania Rodriguez - 3/6/2010

Question
I was talking to a church member who at the time was drinking a bottle of beer, and quoting scriptures left right and centre.   he kept calling the bottle 'Holy Spirit', I thought surely he gests, and it grieved me to hear him continually referring to the bottle as the Holy Spirit. He has been fervent in reading the bible since he became a christian which is for about a year. After asking him why he kept saying that, he said God knows his heart that to him drinking was a comfort for him after a hard days work and therefore he regards it as something holy. I was stumped to help him understand that God is Holy and you cant mock God, he was very sincere and insistent about being right in what he was doing.  My question is what could I have said better to make him understand what holidness really is.  Thank you

Answer
Hi Dee,
In Romans 5:20, Paul says that "Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound," and in 6:1-3 says: "What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? God forbid......
At the moments of his regeneration, the believer becomes a member of the death of Christ in his behalf. Being joined to Christ, and he is joined to the death of Christ, and receives from that union the life of Christ..... in Romans 6:14-15 say the same question again..... Shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace?..... This is the languaje of every renewed heart.
When you are born again you received a new nature from God, but you did not get rid of the old nature. Every believer there are two natures, first; that which is natural, second, that which is supernatural.

2 Corinthians 5:18..... he is a new creature; the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new.
A christian will not be kept from the Rapture by these things, BUT he be kept from the approval of his Lord. the Rapture is part of our salvation because our salvation  is all  of grace, BUT many christian will "suffer loss" at the judgment.
1 Corinthians 10:31 reads:  WHETHER THEREFORE YE EAT, OR DRINK, OR WHATSIEVER YE DO, DO ALL TO THE GLORY OF GOD"..... All born again persons will "inherit Heaven, but carnal Christian will lose much of blessing for their carnality, both here and hereafter. 1 Corinthians 3:11-15.....11:30-32.