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EPISODE · Feb 19, 2017 · 32 MIN

God Never Said That – Week 3 | It Doesn't Matter What You Do

from Thrive Community Church · host John Roth

When people shrug, "I’m not hurting anyone," as if neutrality equals goodness, this message pushes back on that bargain. It names the quiet rationalizations we use to justify selfish habits — pornography, substance use, small daily compromises — and shows how thinking “benign” is the same as avoiding responsibility for the harm sin does to ourselves, others, and our relationship with God. Grounded in Romans 6, the talk reframes grace not as a license to do whatever we want but as the basis for a new identity: baptized into death and raised to live for others. You’ll hear why avoidance isn’t the aim, why sin functions like a power that dominates us, and how repentance and the reality of Jesus’ freedom invite a different way of living — beyond the silver rule to the golden rule — with practical clarity and surprising hope that points to what life looks like when grace really changes us.

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