Being Totally Honest About Your Sin
The Gospel benefits require a complete and total honesty about our guilt and culpability before God’s holy tribunal.
The Gospel benefits require a complete and total honesty about our guilt and culpability before God’s holy tribunal.
Our righteous deeds or righteous environment is tempting to trust in, but doing so is a catastrophic mistake – we must trust in Christ alone!
God’s grace is amplified as we understand the inexcusability of our sin; we have been warned about his rules repeatedly by natured, conscious and God’s word.
While passages of Scripture sometimes appear to support “works salvation” it is essential to know that good works that accompany salvation come after real repentance & faith.
God’s judgment of sin is reflected in our passing judgment on others; it should confirm our guilt and should be done only as God would direct us – without hypocrisy or self appointed authority.
We must understand that God temporarily tolerates (co-exists) with sin and allows people to plow headlong into increasing sin until the day of judgment; this does not reflect a lack of power on God’s part, but only patience and grace until his coming.
Feeling awkward or even scared when talking about the gospel is normal, even expected, but we have to power through the feelings to be obedient representatives of the most important message in the world.
In light of our present resources and our future responsibilities we ought to be able to wisely resolve any dispute that comes our way.
We must let the frequent thought of our future judgment effect the quality and quantity of effort we expend to make a difference in people’s lives for Christ.