"Let us forgive and forget," doctrine of some of our elders

" “We could believe that Jesus would forgive sin,” says many, “but then our trouble is that we sin again, and that we feel such awful tendencies within us to sin.

A stone thrown up into the air will soon come down again to the ground and we feel like that stone.

When we hear wonderful preaching we feel like we are ascending to heaven, but we soon return again to our senseless condition.

We are so easily fascinated by the hypnotic eyes of sin and held under a spell that we cannot escape from our own foolishness.”

I heard this from many of our brothers, sisters, mummies, daddies, uncles, & aunties in God, in the course of my life so far.

I've cried in prayers for many of them for their deliverance including for me & cried in prayers for understanding of the situation.

Dear ones in God, Salvation would be a sadly incomplete condition if it did not deal with this part of our fallen life.

We want to be made pure as well as be pardoned.

Justification without sanctification would not be salvation at all. It would be like calling the leper clean but leaving him/her to die from his/her disease.

Justification without sanctification would forgive the rebellion, but will allow the rebel to remain an enemy to his/her king.

It would remove the consequences of sin, but overlook the causes of sin.

It would leave us in a hopeless and desperate situation.

It would dam up the stream for a little while, but eventually the polluted lake will break through with more power than ever. "Let us forgive and forget," doctrine of some of our elders fuel this silent building up of the polluted lake.

Remember that our Lord Jesus came to take away sin in three ways:

He came to remove the penalty of our sin,
the power of our sin, and finally,
the presence of our sin in our life.

We may go from the first to the second immediately. This is not impossible.

And then we will be on our life journey to the third, that is, the removal of the presence of sin.

We know “that he appeared to take away sins.”

The angel of the Lord said to Joseph that Mary would be his wife and that, “She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”

Our Lord Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil that are in us.

The same thing that was said at our Lord’s birth was also pictured in his death. 

At the cross, “one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once there came out blood and water.” 

This represented the double cure that delivered us from the guilt and the poison of sin.

However, if we are troubled by the power of sin and our tendency to fall into it, as we well may be, here is a promise for us.
Have faith in this promise.
It is part of the guarantee of grace that God has given and he cannot tell a lie. 

This promise is found in Ezekiel 36:26: “I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.”

We see, it is all “I will,” and “I will.” “I will give,” and “I will remove.”

This is the royal way of the King of kings who is able to accomplish everything he wills.

No promise of his will ever be broken. "

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