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		<title>I Saw a Bumper Sticker Today &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 15:06:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw a bumper sticker on a car in my church&#39;s parking lot today that made me look twice: &#34;If you&#39;re living like there is no God, you&#39;d better be right!&#34; with flames licking up from the bottom of the sticker. My first thought was &#8211; wow.&#0160; All Law and no Gospel. So if a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I saw a bumper sticker on a car in my church&#39;s parking lot today that made me look twice: &quot;If you&#39;re living like there is no God, you&#39;d better be right!&quot; with flames licking up from the bottom of the sticker.</p>
<p>My first thought was &#8211; wow.&#0160; All Law and no Gospel.</p>
<p>So if a person who lives as though there is no God saw this bumper sticker and said, &quot;Oh no, what if there is a God?&quot; and starts cleaning up his moral act &#8211; does that mean the person is going to heaven?&#0160; Not without the forgiveness of sins through Jesus Christ.&#0160; Even if the person from that time forward lived a perfect life (which is impossible in actuality), that wouldn&#39;t make up for everything wrong he had done previously.</p>
<p>On one of the podcasts that I listen to, someone once said something to the effect that if Satan took over a city, he wouldn&#39;t make it a city where there&#39;s no law and order and everyone is engaging in crime and there&#39;s mayhem and evil everywhere.&#0160; No, it would be a city where everyone is a respectable, law-abiding citizen, the children are all well behaved, where all the people are moral and go to churches every Sunday where Christ is not preached.</p>
<p>There needs to be repentance AND the forgiveness of sins.&#0160; Otherwise all you wind up with is the confusion of Law and Gospel, a kind of &quot;clean up your act or you&#39;re toast!&quot; sort of legalism that saves no one.</p>
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