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1 | sins forgiven, what about new sins? | 1 John 1:9 | lnbrous | 231171 | ||
When you accept the Lord isnt all your sins forgiven? And does the Lord keep a new tablet of your new sins? How does all that work? Please explain. | ||||||
2 | sins forgiven, what about new sins? | 1 John 1:9 | Bill Richardson | 231178 | ||
I've been taught that as human beings, we're all weak and sinful creatures. First we have to succeed in avoiding "the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye and the pride of life," 1 John 2:16 which is incredibly difficult to do. Then another very difficult weakness of ours as humans, we can't possibly match Jesus in His Life as described in... James 4:17 Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin. We can't possibly do every little good thing of we which we could think to do. We simply don't have the energy or the self-discipline but we also just choose NOT to do it. We are a people of convenience; I'll admit it as I am this way. We like our routines and really don't want to go out of our way looking for new and fresh opportunities to "do good." Also Paul tells us in... Rom 3:21 But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, 22 even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all[h] who believe. For there is no difference; 23 FOR ALL HAVE SINNED AND FALL SHORT OF THE GLORY OF GOD, 24 being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, 26 to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. What are we to do with this conundrum, a seemingly almost impossible task imposed on us by our Lord? We do the best we can; we set the best kind of example around our co-workers, avoid those obvious sins above and go home to our family as that too is a responsibility charged to us by God in... 1 Tim 5:8 But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel. Finally we just got to go to bed and give over all our inadequacies, cares and frustrations to our God in prayer. I like to do this at night, wake up the following morning and start fresh, resolving to do the best we can in devoting ourselves to imitating His Son, 1 Cor 11:1. This is all part of the Process we call Grace, bestowed on us by our Lord. He gives us that kind of comfort as long as we're maintaining that relationship as cited in... 1 John 1:5 This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. 6 If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. 7 But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. 8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us. So we must maintain a proper attitude of gratitude instead of pride and not do more sinning to bring on more Grace. That we must not do... Rom 1:1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? 3 Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. I hope this helps; Go with God in all His Ways, Bill |
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