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***Due to timing and Amy being out of town, this is a repeat article from July.  Enjoy!***

He Sinned and I Repented
By John Kerr

I may not have all the details right (I’m pretty sure I don’t), but that is immaterial to this article.  Here is what I heard:  my good friend, Mike Smith, was pulled over by the police for speeding.  They also made the observation that he did not have a current inspection.  They are certainly not the worst infractions a man could make.  This is the sin I refer to in my article.

I have been a renegade motorcycle riding preacher for some time also.  I have been riding without an inspection.  When I heard about Mike’s episode, I repented.  I took my motorcycle to an inspection station and got my sticker.  I thought about two things:  1) learning from others; 2) making changes in our own lives.

Learn from others.  There are much more egregious sins than neglecting vehicle inspections.  I Corinthians 10:6 Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as they did.  7 Do not be idolaters as some of them were; as it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.”  8 We must not indulge in sexual immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day.  9 We must not put Christ to the test, as some of them did and were destroyed by serpents,  10 nor grumble, as some of them did and were destroyed by the Destroyer.
11 Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come.

Make changes in your own life.  You are the one you can change.  James 1:22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.  23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror.  24 For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like.  25 But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.

OCTAD - a group of eight.  It's a great word for this month.