“Sin No More!”
John
5:14, 8:11
Most Christians know that John son
of Zacharias, was called the Baptizer because he called people to repent of
their sins and baptized them for the forgiveness of sins. (Luke 3:1-3)
Most Christians do not know that
JESUS started His Ministry by calling people to repent of their sins. (Matthew
4:12-17; Mark 1:14-15; John 3:22-24, 4:1-3)
Most Christians know the stories
of the man who had been lame for 38 years and the woman caught in adultery.
JESUS healed the lame man and told him, “See you have been made well, Sin no
more lest a worse thing come upon you!” When the religious leaders tried to
trap JESUS with the woman caught in adultery, He convicted the religious of
their own sin and when they all left He asked the woman, “Woman, where are those
accusers of yours? Has no one condemned you?” She said, “No one LORD!” and JESUS
said to her, “Neither do I condemn you, go and Sin no more!”
Repent means to change your mind,
to stop thinking and therefore behaving one way and think and behave the opposite.
“Sin no more!” is tha call and requirement of all who believe in JESUS and call
themselves a Christian!
If you call yourself a Christian
you should be living a life of repentance! Paul tells us it is our
responsibility to live the Christian Life, and as we do GOD works in us the
call of repentance and the desire to do His Will. (Philippians 2:12-13)
Here is the hard part of this
teaching! A lack of true repentance in Christians is the cause of the problems
in The Church and the world. Remember JESUS told us that we are supposed to be
light and salt, we are supposed to be exposing sin and preserving righteousness
by our life! Each and every Christian will be judged by GOD according to His
standard of Righteousness! If you do not abide in JESUS and His Word (The
Bible) does not abide in you, then you are not His disciple and you are not
doing the Will of GOD! (John 8:28-32, 14:15-24, 15:1-17)
JESUS told us many hard things: He
did not come to bring peace, He came to fulfill The Law, we will be hated and
persecuted for His sake; if we do not forgive others, GOD will not forgive us…
Study The Sermon On The Mount, Matthew 5-7; where JESUS told us how to live the
Christian Life!
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