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A Closer Walk

Attitude of the Righteous

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Our ministry is to reach out to the world with the Good News of Jesus Christ and to help believers be equipped with a solid knowledge of the Word of God, the Bible, and be encouraged to apply it in every aspect of their daily lives. There are simple truths for these complex times to help people live in a way that brings real spiritual victory to them and more importantly, through the Lord Jesus Christ, glory to God our Father.

1 John 1:8-9
If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
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The apostle Paul wrote prior to this, confirming these words of John, 'for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,' {Rom.3:23} so it should be obvious that today’s verses are about us! It is certainly FOR us who have been cleansed by the shed blood of the Lamb.

There is never an excuse for sinning. As I have said many times, “excuses are the fiery arrows shot from the pits of hell to kill repentance!” And that can lead to turning the grace of our God into licentiousness and trying to make our sins somehow justified! And that would deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. {Jud.1:4} As He taught in the Sermon on the Mount repentance requires us to change the way we think.

The great desire of every one of us believers should be to ‘go and sin no more’ just as the Lord said to the woman who had been caught in adultery then saved by His grace. {Jn.8:11} We also need to remember that the Word says that anything we do or say that does not come from faith is sin! {Rom.14:23} And the instruction from Peter to all believers is that we are to proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called us out of darkness and into His marvelous light. {1Pt.2:9} Because it was Jesus, sinless holy and pure who was found innocent by Pontius Pilate and then crucified for our sins! {Lk.23:4} We are to abhor what is evil and cling to what is good. {Rom.12:9}

We can tend to be quite good at hating the evil that others do, and then perhaps not quite so good at hating our own! The Word says that we should examine ourselves {1Cor.11:28} and test ourselves to see if we are in the faith. {2Cor.13:5} We are, as Jesus said, the salt of the earth and the light of the world. {Mat.5:13-14}

"Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God."
(Hebrews 12:1-2)

BE STRONG IN THE LORD AND THE POWER OF HIS MIGHT