The 28 Day Forgiveness Challenge — Day 11
God always shows us favor, even when we sin. He never withdraws that favor or grace. Christians live in His favor twenty-four/seven. His grace produces in us God’s desired effect.
One thing we naturally do in response to God’s grace is confess the sin. But what God really desires for us is that we trust and rest in the shed blood of Jesus. Just as salvation is by grace through faith, experiencing the forgiveness of God is by grace, through faith, as well.
By grace, Jesus took your sins upon himself. By grace, he suffered the punishment you justly deserved. By grace, he offered his blood to the Father on your behalf. By grace, he forgave your sins. Now, through faith, thank Jesus for what he has done and rest confidently in the forgiveness that is yours in him.
If you are still wrestling with what to do when you sin, let faith in the finished work of Christ settle the issue. He has taken away your sins once and for all.
Forgiveness Challenge #11 – Begin to deal with sins by trusting in the completed work of Christ at the cross, resting in the fact that you are forgiven, and then ask the Lord to begin to work in you to be able to say “no” to sin.
“God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance” (Romans 2:4 ESV).
Thank you Bob, awesomely thought provoking for me to see further into this amazing salvation that I do not deserve
Thank you Howard.
“One thing we naturally do in response to God’s grace is confess the sin.”
This is true, a born again child of God does not deny that they sin. Confessing sin is simply agreeing with God that you have sinned. If you are agreeing with God then you are not denying but if you are denying then you are not agreeing.
John tells us in his first letter that everyone sins but that only the lost deny that they sin.
1John 1:8 If we deny that we sin we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.
So john is saying that all sin, lost or saved, but only the lost deny that they sin.
Just another example of the word of God identifying the lost.
Hey Bob,how do we deal with the sin of knowing what’s good and knowing what’s evil?
We deal with it by walking in faith that Jesus has dealt with it. If he did not take that sin away, then no one could be saved. He took it all away, he did away with sin.
Heb 9:26
Otherwise Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world. But he has appeared once for all at the culmination of the ages to DO AWAY WITH SIN by the sacrifice of himself.