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| Written by Michael Tilton | |||
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When you're done repenting of YOUR own sins, are you done? I come from a churchian background, where "Once Saved, Always Saved" is a prevelent doctrine. This is the doctrine that says "raise your hand, say a prayer" and you're a lock for the Pearly Gates. The prayer always is some vague prayer of repentance "forgive me my sins" and an invitation for "Jesus to come into my heart". Now there is nothing wrong about either (repenting and inviting), other than neither should be a ONE TIME event. 2 Chronicles 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. However as part of the process, it is implied, and sometimes explicitly stated, that your sins are forgiven "once and for all" because Yeshua "died for you". Again, it is true that Messiah died for us, as pentalty for our sins, once and for all. It isn't true however that all of our sins are forgiven, past present and future. The good news is, when we sin, HE is faithful and just to forgive us our sins ..... IF WE CONFESS. Please take a notice, that this forgiveness is CONDITIONAL. There are many things that are clearly conditional in scripture that are now taken for granted. Forgiveness of sin is one of the biggest ones. We EXPECT it, almost as if it is a personal "right". We are nothing short of spoiled children when we do this. The moment we take for granted any GIFT of our Abba, it is a sin. Grace isn't earned, deserved, and not to be taken for granted. Let us all take a moment, and repent of any of these spoiled brat attitudes we might have. We don't deserve HIS grace, yet HE offers it to us anyway. This should be humbling. Not only are we to confess our sins to HIM, we are also to confess our sins to each other ... James 5:16 Confess [your] faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. Again, it is our confession and prayer that heals us. I suspect that we see so much illness and sickness going un-healed because people are not confessing their sins. Remember, that sickness is a sign of a people who don't obey YHVH. Exodus 15:26 And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I [am] the LORD that healeth thee. Deuteronomy 7:12 ¶ Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers: Deuteronomy 7:15 And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all [them] that hate thee. It is clear from the scriptures that sin and sickness are linked. And confession with prayer is Healing. Ever see one of those "healing" services on television by one of those charlatains? When was the last time you saw confession of sin as part of that service? The sad fact is that too many have believed the lie that we don't need to repent anymore. I have a theory as to why we don't see repentance being instructed any more. And my theory goes beyond the implications of OSAS doctrine. Beyond OSAS doctrine implications, there is an even greater lie; the non-definable sin. Sin is never preached as specifics anymore. Only vague generalities. Actually defining what is and isn't a sin is now viewed as ... a sin; the sin of "judgmentalism". This word, judgmentalism is used to condone sins. Homosexuality, Promiscuity, Lying , Adultry, Idol worship, Not Honoring one's parents, Coveting in some form or another is all ignored, condoned or worse, all because people are afraid of being "judgmental". The problem with all of this lack of definition is that we become oblivious to what is sin, so that we begin to accept is as normal, and ultimately end up carried away to Babylon and Egypt, and end up as slaves to the world. The time is come that we learn from the generations of long ago, to cry out in repentance. But not only for our sins, but for the sins of all our people. As we read through the Torah again this coming year, pay attention to the pleas of Moses on behalf of Israel. Look at how many times this man stood before YHVH pleading not to wipe Israel off the face of the planet, because of their rebelliousness. It is time for the men of YHVH to stand up, and be the Priests on behalf of all the children of Israel. As I was preparing for Yom Kippur this year, I happen to be reading through Daniel when I came across this passage (below). Here is a man of Elohim sitting in the high courts of the King of Babylon, a virtual prisoner and slave, pleaing for Israel before YHVH. He pleas for mercy even while admitting that they don't really deserve it. Take the time to review this prayer of Daniel and make it yours during the upcoming High Holy Days, and make it your prayer for the year to come. Stand before YHVH on behalf of Israel who doesn't hear Him, neither do we obey. Daniel 9:3 And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes: Daniel 9:4 And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments; Daniel 9:5 We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments: Daniel 9:6 Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. Daniel 9:7 O Lord, righteousness [belongeth] unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, [that are] near, and [that are] far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee. Daniel 9:8 O Lord, to us [belongeth] confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee. Daniel 9:9 To the Lord our God [belong] mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him; Daniel 9:10 Neither have we obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets. Daniel 9:11 Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that [is] written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him. Daniel 9:12 And he hath confirmed his words, which he spake against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil: for under the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon Jerusalem. Daniel 9:13 As [it is] written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth. Daniel 9:14 Therefore hath the LORD watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God [is] righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice. Daniel 9:15 And now, O Lord our God, that hast brought thy people forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and hast gotten thee renown, as at this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly. Daniel 9:16 O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people [are become] a reproach to all [that are] about us. Daniel 9:17 Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake. Daniel 9:18 O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies. Daniel 9:19 O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are called by thy name.
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