Secret Sin?

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Crossfire

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A simple rule that I live by:

A person who has nothing to hide is a person who has nothing to fear.

If you have secret sin in your life then you have plenty to fear. The fear of being exposed, the fear of living a lie to cover up your sin, the fear of losing someone or something precious to you when you are exposed, the fear of missing our on God's best for your life seeing as what you sow you will most certainly reap, the fear of becoming spiritually cold - complacent and religious. I could go on.

What every believer needs to understand is that while God is in the business of justifying sinners, nowhere in scripture will you find that God justifies sin. In fact, the Bible states the complete opposite. The grace of God is the most powerful force in this universe. I am absolutely convinced that you can't experience God's divine grace without it changing you in some capacity.

2 Cor 5:17 "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new."

Ezekiel 36:26 "And I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit in you. I will take out your stony, stubborn heart and give you a tender, responsive heart."

After salvation, if there is no desire in your heart to become a different person than you were before you got saved, then seriously doubt that what you have experienced is God's divine grace. But here's the thing... you and I are absolutely powerless to change anything about ourselves. If we could could, we wouldn't have needed a Saviour in the first place. We are completely dependent on his grace to transform us and we can't experience His grace if we do not have a personal relationship with him.

Matthew 7:8 "For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened."

Don't your secret sin turn you into a religious pharisee. Seek God's face today!
 
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AnandaHya

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Isaiah 29:14-16 (New King James Version)

14 Therefore, behold, I will again do a marvelous work
Among this people,
A marvelous work and a wonder;
For the wisdom of their wise men shall perish,
And the understanding of their prudent men shall be hidden.”
15 Woe to those who seek deep to hide their counsel far from the LORD,
And their works are in the dark;
They say, “Who sees us?” and, “Who knows us?”
16 Surely you have things turned around!
Shall the potter be esteemed as the clay;
For shall the thing made say of him who made it,

“ He did not make me”?
Or shall the thing formed say of him who formed it,

“ He has no understanding”?
 
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Crossfire

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AnandaHya said:
Isaiah 29:14-16 (New King James Version)

14 Therefore, behold, I will again do a marvelous work
Among this people,
A marvelous work and a wonder;
For the wisdom of their wise men shall perish,
And the understanding of their prudent men shall be hidden.”
15 Woe to those who seek deep to hide their counsel far from the LORD,
And their works are in the dark;
They say, “Who sees us?” and, “Who knows us?”
16 Surely you have things turned around!
Shall the potter be esteemed as the clay;
For shall the thing made say of him who made it,

“ He did not make me”?
Or shall the thing formed say of him who formed it,

“ He has no understanding”?
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Amen.

We may be able to hide our sin from men for a season but we can't hide anything from God.

:)
 
Red33

Red33

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Crossfire said:
A simple rule that I live by:

A person who has nothing to hide is a person who has nothing to fear.

If you have secret sin in your life then you have plenty to fear. The fear of being exposed, the fear of living a lie to cover up your sin, the fear of losing someone or something precious to you when you are exposed, the fear of missing our on God's best for your life seeing as what you sow you will most certainly reap, the fear of becoming spiritually cold - complacent and religious. I could go on.

What every believer needs to understand is that while God is in the business of justifying sinners, nowhere in scripture will you find that God justifies sin. In fact, the Bible states the complete opposite. The grace of God is the most powerful force in this universe. I am absolutely convinced that you can't experience God's divine grace without it changing you in some capacity.

2 Cor 5:17 "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new."

Ezekiel 36:26 "And I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit in you. I will take out your stony, stubborn heart and give you a tender, responsive heart."

After salvation, if there is no desire in your heart to become a different person than you were before you got saved, then seriously doubt that what you have experienced is God's divine grace. But here's the thing... you and I are absolutely powerless to change anything about ourselves. If we could could, we wouldn't have needed a Saviour in the first place. We are completely dependent on his grace to transform us and we can't experience His grace if we do not have a personal relationship with him.

Matthew 7:8 "For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened."

Don't your secret sin turn you into a religious pharisee. Seek God's face today!
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Man was created out of the dust of the ground and that gave him weakness with the potential to fail in his experience. The dust was not made up of perfect elements that could give eternal life to the flesh. Man was never created in his humanity to live forever, and when sin entered in through the fall it only caused him to generate a death sentence sooner, giving him a polluted genetic pool that numbered his days on the earth (Job 38:21, Ps 90:12, Job 14:15, Ps 90:9,10). Man was never given eternal life in the garden and did not procreate there either. He was also forbidden to eat of the tree of life after he transgressed. The liberty to eat of the tree of life was taken from him when he ate of the tree of knowledge and was put out of the garden.

The greatest transgression that can be committed by any human being is the sin of presumption or rebellion (Ps 19:12,13). As believers we are guilty of this much of the time and are not sensitive to conviction because the word is not dwelling RICHLY in our hearts (Col 3:16, Heb 4:12). This is not some outward moral sin that man can easily relate to whether it be in secret or outwardly, but an inward disposition of the mind and heart that secretly presumes and rebels against God' word, God's promises, God's man and God's people. They can walk and be clean in their own eyes according to the dictates or their own heart and the moral rectitude of their own conscience, but they are not clean according to the word (Ps 119:9) and do not live in their heart according to the mandates and dictates of conviction that come from the word and Holy Spirit in the midst of the people of God that walk in the light by faith.
 
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nomerhunks

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A person who has integrity in all his deed has no fear for God will always be in his side. The person will never go wrong and will therefore experience God's saving grace.
 
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AnandaHya

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nomerhunks said:
A person who has integrity in all his deed has no fear for God will always be in his side. The person will never go wrong and will therefore experience God's saving grace.
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the only person who fits that description is JESUS.

God's saving grace is for SINNERS not the rightieous because it is unmerited mercy and until people experience God's Saving Grace, they do not have any integrity just worldly knowledge and self-delusions of righteousness.

Matthew 9:13
But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”
 
tribesman

tribesman

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Enthusiasts and synergists will always stress the walk in the newness of life, how coming to faith affects your lifestyle and the dire importance of commitment. To this end they don't shy away from using the law mixed up with the gospel. What it comes down to in reality is that the gospel for them is there to make man trying to keep the law a little better, or maybe, at best, breaking a little fewer laws (while neglecting most of the laws).

However, descriptions of the effects of regeneration and how it changes men in their dealings in this life are in the Bible, after all. Yes. But none of these are actually works (that affect ones justification). They are all fruit, whose growth man cannot control at will. The synergist however, do not understand the difference between works and fruit. He thinks that men (including unregenerates) are able to do or be things at will, if you just preach it much enough to them. Just tell them much enough what they should be and should not be, and if they really want to realize the positive, they can do it. "You can if you will", is their message.

The synergist believes that repentance is a work, something that he, at least partly, really can make up to by his mere commitment. Not knowing what motivates a sinner in genuine repentance, of which man can never boast or commend himself. The synergist's looking into self, law (of his choice) and experiences for his right standing with God is a deceptive counterfeit. It is to be doubted that someone is saved if he only looks to self and his "changed life" for assurance instead of only looking unto the only One that is able to save to the uttermost. As much as someone is preaching the need for holy living, as much, yes even more, must he also preach and stress that such is the result only of God's doing, monergistically, for His own glory. If someone to the contrary is preaching synergism, then he is into heresy, which is a work of the flesh.
 
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tribesman

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Red33 said:
The greatest transgression that can be committed by any human being is the sin of presumption or rebellion (Ps 19:12,13). As believers we are guilty of this much of the time and are not sensitive to conviction because the word is not dwelling RICHLY in our hearts (Col 3:16, Heb 4:12). This is not some outward moral sin that man can easily relate to whether it be in secret or outwardly, but an inward disposition of the mind and heart that secretly presumes and rebels against God' word, God's promises, God's man and God's people. They can walk and be clean in their own eyes according to the dictates or their own heart and the moral rectitude of their own conscience, but they are not clean according to the word (Ps 119:9) and do not live in their heart according to the mandates and dictates of conviction that come from the word and Holy Spirit in the midst of the people of God that walk in the light by faith.
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This is true. But to understand this one has to acknowledge God's law properly. Not all do that. Not all will let God's law judge them. Or accept what the law says about them. A shallow concept of sin is deadly. Having a shallow concept of sin is always rooted in or leads to a wrong understanding of righteousness and justification - and to actually justifying sin. Basically there are two ways of justifying one's sins. One is to wilfully live in sin and yet say that sin is not sin or that this sinning is grace (the heresy of libertinism or marcionism). The other one is to claim to have no sin, and when convicted of yet having sin still say: "I don't call that sin" (the heresy of sinless perfectionism). Both these heresies are antinomian in nature. Therefore both do not understand the righteousness of God and none of them believe the gospel. Those who hold to these heretical beliefs are lost, even if they have a zeal for God (Rom.10:1-4).
 
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