Please read Isaiah 59:1-5, “Behold, the Lord’s hand is
not shortened, that it cannot save; nor His ear heavy, that it cannot hear. But
your iniquities have separated you from your God; and your sins have hidden His
face from you, so that He will not hear. For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken
lies, your tongue has muttered perversity. No one calls for justice, nor does
any plead for truth. They trust in empty words and speak lies; they conceive
evil and bring forth iniquity. They hatch vipers’ eggs and weave the spider’s
web; he who eats of their eggs dies, and from that which is crushed a viper
breaks out.”
A non- believer cannot stop sinning because they have the
sin nature and they are enslaved to sin so they can never be right with God in
their unregenerate state. But if they
truly repent and turn from their sins and from their wicked ways, turning to
God, asking him for forgiveness then they can find mercy and grace and be
washed by the precious blood of the Lamb, Jesus Christ, God’s beloved Son. Then they will be set free of the hold that
sin has on their lives, praise the Lord. Sin always separates a person from God whether
it be a believer or non-believer!! All
sin is an affront to God and will cause a separation between God and the person
that committed it until it is truly repented of and make no mistake about that.
Praise the Lord for His precious promise
in 1 John 1:9, “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive
us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
Now please read 1 John 2:1-3, “My little children, these
things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an
Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. And He Himself is the
propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.
Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments.”
Now please read Jacob (James) 5:14-16, “Is anyone among you
sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him,
anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will
save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he
will be forgiven. Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one
another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous
man avails much.”
It is important that new believers remember what the Lord
did for them, as a matter of fact it’s important that all believers remember
what the Lord did for them. He left the
confines of heaven to come down as a babe to end up being the sacrificial Lamb
of God who would be sacrificed for the sins of mankind, because without His
shed blood no one could have been forgiven for it was impossible for blood of
animals to forgive sins.
Please read Hebrews 10:1-10, “For the law, having a
shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can
never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by year,
make those who approach perfect. For then would they not have ceased to be
offered? For the worshipers, once purified, would have had no more
consciousness of sins. But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins
every year. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take
away sins. Therefore, when He came into the world, He said: ‘Sacrifice and
offering You did not desire, but a body You have prepared for Me. In burnt
offerings and sacrifices for sin You had no pleasure. Then I said, ‘Behold, I
have come—in the volume of the book it is written of Me—to do Your will, O
God.’ Previously saying, ‘Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings, and
offerings for sin You did not desire, nor had pleasure in them’ (which are
offered according to the law), then He said, ‘Behold, I have come to do Your
will, O God.’ He takes away the first that He may establish the second. By that
will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ
once for all.”
God hated sin so much that He took it upon himself to do
something about it. He sent His only
begotten Son into the world to be its Savior, knowing the pain and agony that
He would suffer to pay for the sins of the people that would truly repent and put their trust in Him. Why should we hate sin? Outside of what I put down here already,
because it is so destructive. There is
never a good outcome when sin is involved, no one will ever be helped by it and
it only brings a short time of pleasure. We may think we are getting away with
something, but in the end, it will bring guilt and shame, and if not dealt with,
it will bring everlasting punishment and eternal punishment.
But like I said, God has provided a way for all to be set
free of sin’s grip on their live through His only begotten Son Jesus Christ. Please read John 3:16-17, “For God so loved
the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him
should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into
the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.”
Enough said, may the good Lord bless you and yours with His
perfect peace, love, and joy and health and happiness. I hope this has been an encouragement and a
help.
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