Sunday, May 27, 2018

Repentance

Hebrews 8:12 NLT
And I will forgive their wickedness, and I will never again remember their sins. When God speaks of a "new" covenant, it means he has made the first one obsolete. It is now out of date and will soon disappear.

Repentance is not changing our ways by purposely finding a way to remove the sin from our lives. We can't fix us or anybody else. That was old covenant. We had to ask God's forgiveness and change our ways. 

New covenant repentance is about turning from our sin and focusing on Jesus. It is about being Jesus conscious not sin conscious. We are to turn from our old ways and see who we are in Christ. Focus on Him and not on the realized sin. 

Psalm 103:12 NLT
He has removed our sins as far from us as the east is from the west.

God remembers our sin no more. He forgave us all our past sin, all our current sin, all our future sin. He remembers none of it. He tells us our trespasses are as far away as the east is from the west.

We must forgive ourselves and turn to who we are in Christ. The more we stay in Christ the less opportunity we have to fall into the temptations of the enemy and fall into sin

Be Christ conscious not sin conscious. Live in the new covenant thankful for all Jesus did at the cross.

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