The Three S's Part 1
by Ron Noble
The FIRST S is SIN If you're going to deal with somebody following a service he might have 2 options. First, he might be someone who's never been saved. They need to dump all that past sin at the Cross and understand God's absolute complete forgiveness. I've been privileged to pray with guys in prisons that have got some pretty bad records and assure them that if any man is in Christ he is a new creature. All that old stuff is washed away. It's gone. It's under the Blood. It's paid for. It's forgiven. And there's a new life and a new opportunity ahead.
Second, we often think "OK, I did it 45 years ago. I repented of my sins, I got saved and we forget about the fact that sin continues on in the life of the believer because there is no such thing about the eradication of the old nature. I was warned about that in Bible School. I ran into teachings about it in my life-time. I began to realize that there are people who are led astray to think that if I'm filled with His Holy Spirit that I have His Mind I can't go wrong. That's a horrible heresy. That's why cults start – cults that lead people to commit mass suicide. I still can sin. We know that sin separates a person from God, separates him from people. In Genesis sin separated Adam and Eve from God.
Sin has that devastating effect. Christians still fail, still sin, and still need to come back and repent . Churches, as Revelation would tell us, is that we need to repent.
I John 1:9 – "the Christians' Bar of Soap" I call it - is a cleansing prayer for believers. They've already repented of sins when they were saved, but they've done it again. They come back again and they say, "Lord, forgive me." That's short accounts you keep every day with God. Why is that important? If we don't do that we build a wall of bricks. God can't hear our prayers. We go right back to where we started. Sin, is an issue that we deal with right up front. God can't do much with us until we do deal with it.
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