1 John 1:6-7
"If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin."
This message might hurt a little today and may even offend some, but I am just posting God's Word and not mine.
If we claim to be "Christians" (a better term would be "Followers of Jesus Christ" because most people claim to be Christians) but yet we willfully live in a sinful lifestyle, we are deceiving ourselves. I am not saying that we have to be perfect but when we stand up and ask Jesus to forgive our sins and ask Him to be our Savior, do we honor that and show our appreciation by getting hammered every Friday / Saturday night? By doing drugs and having ungodly physical relationships?
We all have a free will to choose what we do. But if we use that free will to deliberately sin and stay in the darkness of our sins we CANNOT expect Jesus to turn a blind eye to it just because we said a prayer once or we go to church, take communion, go to confession or whatever.
James 1:22
"But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves."
If we go through life thinking that we can live anyway we want to with no regard to God's Word, we are deceived and will never see the light of Heaven.
Think about it...Jesus was whipped, beaten, spit on, slapped, mocked, kicked, punched, skin ripped off by the whips with chards of bone in the leather, a crown with 3-4 inch thorns shoved onto His head gouging His skin, nails driven through His hands (or wrists-like it matters), nails through His feet (possibly right through the ankle area), left there to bleed to death and die.
and what did He say?
Luke 23:34
“Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do.”
So He does that for us and forgives those that did it to Him just so we can go out and make mockery of it and deliberately sin and defy His Word?
If you need help with an addiction, get help!
If you struggle with an area of sin, remove it!
Ask God for help!
Wake up, get right and come out of the darkness and walk into the light!
