Sin And The Effect That It Has On Our Lives?

You know that is what I have been talking about Sunday after Sunday, you attitude and what you want to make of yourself!

Don’t think that just because you can fool me or a loved one or a co-worker, that you can fool God!

You know that God knows what you are going to do before you even think about it.

God calls us to holy, righteous, obedient living.

Once we truly understand forgiveness, and the deadly penalty of being in an unpardoned state of sin, we won’t want to breach our relationship with God.

Our sins will be grievous to us, not enjoyable.

We will no longer in all good conscious be able to hold sin in our hearts!

Once we fully understand the power of God we will only want to please Him and live for Him and in no way will we want to do anything for the devil!

You will know by the way that you feel on the inside where you are standing with the Lord Jesus Christ!

You will want to please the Lord, you will want to do things for God!

You will find that you are happier when you are doing things for God!

You will start having thoughts that line up with the Will of God!

Your thoughts will become higher!

You will be standing on a higher plane!

God will be in you and you will have His power!

Let’s stop with all of this playing around and lacks a daisy way of living!

Let’s stop with all of this trying to use the scripture in a way to please you and start pleasing God!

Amen!

As we look on further we find that people sometimes misuse this next verse.

1 John 1:9

9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

People like to assume, “Well I can sin and run right to God and ask Him to forgive me, and He will.”

You know that is a very casual attitude to have about something as serious as sin!

Yes, god will forgive you of your sins when you confess them, but perhaps you should reconsider what confession really means.

I can assure you that you can’t use God as a fire escape!

That is not the meaning of that scripture!

We need to read the scripture Psalm 139:23-24 again,

23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:

24 And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

Lead me in the way everlasting!

Keep me in the straight and narrow!

Help me to live the way that You want me to live!

That way of thinking and only that way of thinking will keep you right with God!

We cannot continue to live in sin and expect to go anywhere with God!

Confession means that you admit to God that you have erred!

You are genuinely sorry for what you have done!

And you have no desire to commit the sin in the future!

It needs to be the goal of each and everyone of us this morning to live for God because we truly love Him and not just because we are afraid that if we die tonight we will go to hell!

The confession should include a request that God, by the power of His Holy Spirit, will help you to never commit such a sin again.

You see, when we ask God to forgive us we have to mean it.

It would be like if every time I walked by you I would step on your foot and then say,