We are often carried into sin & overcome by it because we love it. But we also often continue in it because we are afraid of the consequences that might occur should we repent & give full disclosure. Sin is powerful. Watch & Pray!
What is Sin?
The Bible calls sin lawlessness (1 John 3:4)
An examination of things that are morally good and / or evil must be done with the appropriate response because God commands it – but what is really needed is to know what sin is & what holiness is (which correspond to disobedience & obedience). We must know sin & holiness as they are essentially & unalterably. I can obey because I must – but when I truly grasp what sin is – then I truly will know why I must flee. Study the nature of sin & holiness. The one is natural to us & the other is natural & essential to God.
A Reason Why You Must Go To Church
Prov. 19:27 – “Cease to hear instruction, my son, and you will stray from the words of knowledge”
Notice the verb – “hear”
Remember faith comes by hearing & hearing through the word of Christ – Rom. 10:17
What Does Conversion Involve?
2 things:
a) the dying of the old man
b) the coming to life of the new man
This is by God’s Sovereign work alone through the saving instrumentality of the gift of grace & faith.
To die to self – is to be genuinely sorry for my sin, to hate it more and more & to run away from it.
To come to life – is to receive wholeheartedly with joy Christ Jesus, and to have a desire to do every kind of good work as God desires of me
God is Greater than…
“The floods have lifted up,
O Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice;
the floods lift up their roaring.
Mightier than the thunders of many waters,
mightier than the waves of the sea,
the Lord on high is mighty”
Psalm 93:3, 4
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