You want the Pastor to march down the road of addressing the sin’s of others.  You want him to be brave, clever and intelligent and bring an argument or deliver an expository sermon condemning those sins that you find objectionable.  You wish that he would elevate particular sins that it would stand in reproach against those collectively embracing their Sin Identity.  We have a mindset that views those who are beyond salvation’s offering hand to detach ourselves from the Loving Responsibility placed upon us as disciples to reach them for repentance and that offering hand.  When we look to sin for identity then we have become trapped by worldly thinking.  A man or woman is not each of their sins but a wonder-full creation of God.  Their sins are actions, a staining that enters and contaminates the soul.  It is not them but the wicked disease with which they have been infested, the humanistic prison within which they are incarcerated for eternity without Christ.

What is your sin identity?  Do you see your self as a Covertor, A thief, An Adulteror?  As Christians we identify with Christ.  That is our identity is found in His reflection, His mannerisms, Holiness, Righteousness, Faith, Truth, Love and Peace.  Once touched by this identity, we no longer look at ourselves through the defective lens of self-recrimination or condemnation for all have fallen short but some have accepted that offer of cleansing Grace and have been transformed.  Yes, transformed, we are no longer what we were but through life being reconditioned, remade, transformed into something other than the limitations of Sin Full Identity allowed.  Our transformation is limitless, just as God is limitless and to hold it to worldly understanding when worldly language possesses not the compunction or depth to describe the invincible, is impaired consideration.

What and who are you now, in Christ?  What is the identity that God alone gives you?  Remember that which is given by Sovereign Hand is in effect sovereign and may not be changed, stolen or transformed by any Hand but His.  Are your self reflections rooted in the impermeable constructs of Almighty God, not pompous but humbly understanding your reflection to His Sovereign Authority?  Do you identify with sin or God, simple question, difficult and complex answers to be found between you and God.  We must look upon the world and the people in this world through the Biblical Lens of God’s coloring.  They are who He believes that they are, “fearfully and wonderfully made”, by God for His Own Good Purpose.  Fornicator, Adulteror, Murderer, Liar is where they are trapped and identified by their inherent and practiced sin.  Won’t you help them find their true identities to be set free from that condemnation that faces all who remain attached to that identification?

In Jesus’ Holy Name.