True self denial

Let me talk about the use of the curses in the Psalms. Ive been accused of a lot of things because I am teaching that the curses are important in understanding Gods purposes in saving men. Ive been accused of being unloving and selfish...even threatening me by saying that those curses will fall on me. lol And yet these same people at some point and time are shown to attach labels on people they disagree with or that are socially unacceptable to them.

And yet these same people teach that our lives should be lived in self denial. But the self denial they are speaking of is defined by their own causes. So I am amazed at how easy it is for us to ignore portions of scripture as we even refuse to sit down and put ourselves under the ideas the scripture presents and try to think about them in a deep way. I mean even if we cannot reconcile every idea the scripture presents we should be able to expand our understanding the complications that we have reasoned out so that we can better understand some of these areas that other people have experience in and accept that we could be wrong in judging them.

Our problem with self denial is not really trying to avoid certain situations or things that we are tempted by. Our problem with self denial is that we do not believe that honor is displayed in substitution. The reason is that we live on the level of seeing sin as an action rather than an evidence that we are unable. This is just common sense. If we use sin to divide the good from the bad then inevitably we will never get past the level of communicating some kind of label in order to define the christian experience. We will always wonder why our self denial is always anti social.

But the truth is that we cannot save ourselves by trying to control how much we avoid sin. If self denial means death to self then why is it that some people are always thinking it means avoiding certain people and sins? Is there any purpose if someone is substituting their lives for other people for us to be obsessed with avoiding that piece of pie? And if dieing to ourselves means that we are self destructive then self denial is really inter relating with something that is alive in us in which we feel the pain that we can define. We can label the pain. Your attempting to be on that level of self denial that is not Gods design. But the reason that self denial is death is because we are pleased to substitute ourselves because the connection to honor is more important then any label that we can see.

You cant live on this level unless you see that everything that we are opposed by must be cursed to death. You cant honestly say that you deny yourself if your still alive to label what you are opposing. If you cant trust that you have killed it by cursing it then your gonna label it. This is what the apostle saying that he sees no man according to the flesh.