Convicted of Sin 4

Heb 4:12-13 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. (13) Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

WE ARE CONVICTED BY JESUS, THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD

John 3:19-20 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved DARKNESS rather than light, because their deeds were evil. (20) For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved

Jesus is the Light of the World. His perfection sheds light on our sins. When we are not living as we should and we know we have sin in our life it causes us to shun church or other spiritual situations. We are convicted of our sins when we are in the prescence of the Light.

Did you ever notice that the nights are more filled with crime, violence and even accidents caused by sin. Evil loves darkness. When we let the Light of the World shine in our lives it drives the sin from us.

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Convicted of Sin 3

Romans 2:14-15 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: {15} Which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;

I once read of an Indian who was asked how he would describe the conscience. He said it was like a triangle in the heart that would spin when you did wrong and would cut your heart with each turn.
I don't know about you but I have felt the cutting edge of that triangle in my heart many times.

The truth is that most of the time when we do wrong we know it is wrong without having to be told. There is something inside us that lets us know that what we did was wrong. If you never have that feeling then you have a serious spiritual problem. God has instilled in us that conscience to help us avoid the pitfalls of sin. It is for our own protection that God uses our conscience to convict us. It lets us know when we are guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.


Please feel free to contact me by email at

shilohkosciusko@gmail.com with questions, comments or even suggestions for further devotional studies.


If you know of someone new to the Kosciusko area and would like for our church to visit them please let us know. Our prayers are that this devotional ministry will be an outreach to bring people into a closer relationship with Jesus. I do appreciate you taking the time to read these devotionals and please keep us in your prayers.

Convicted of Sin 2

Heb 4:12-13 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. (13) Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

GUILTY OF THE WHOLE LAW

James 2:10 For whosoever shall keep the WHOLE LAW, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

If you do much visiting on behalf of your church or witnessing to people you will inevitably run into someone who will begin comparing himself with others, especially to wayward church members. The point we must not miss is yes, he is right. He is as good as we are. The problem is he is also as bad as we are. When we begin to compare ourselves to others we always need to make that same comparison.

James made a point. If we have broken the law at any point we are guilty of breaking the whole law. The Bible says "...for all have sinned." According to James if all have sinned then we are all guilty of all sin. It was sin that Jesus died for on the cross. It was the awful sin debt that we all owe that he paid the price for.

We belong to Him only by grace through faith in what He did for us. We are guilty of all sin. When we accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior, we are pardoned from the punishment of all sin.


Please feel free to contact me by email at

shilohkosciusko@gmail.com with questions, comments or even suggestions for further devotional studies.


If you know of someone new to the Kosciusko area and would like for our church to visit them please let us know. Our prayers are that this devotional ministry will be an outreach to bring people into a closer relationship with Jesus. I do appreciate you taking the time to read these devotionals and please keep us in your prayers.

Convicted of Sin

Heb 4:12-13 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. (13) Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

We know what the word convicted means in terms of the law. When there is enough evidence against a person accused of a crime to prove that he is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt he is convicted. The same is true in a spiritual sense. It is amazing how many people commit sin but do not really believe they are guilty. Sin is kind of sneaky.

Sin
At first we fear them and shun them.
We then begin to ignore them.
Next we begin to tolerate them.
This is followed by accepting them.
It will not be long until we embrace them,
And eventually we will pursue them.

We must measure ourselves and our actions against the Bible, God's Word, to define sin, and to realize that we are guilty of it.
In the next few devotionals we will be discussing things that will convict us of our sins. I hope you receive a blessing from them.


Please feel free to contact me by email at

shilohkosciusko@gmail.com with questions, comments or even suggestions for further devotional studies.


If you know of someone new to the Kosciusko area and would like for our church to visit them please let us know. Our prayers are that this devotional ministry will be an outreach to bring people into a closer relationship with Jesus. I do appreciate you taking the time to read these devotionals and please keep us in your prayers.

THE BEGINNING OF SIN

1st Peter 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
Isaiah 55:8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.

Sin usually begins in the back of our thoughts. Wild fires and thoughts are a lot alike. They both start with a spark and quickly get out of control. Just like the wild fires in National forests that are started by man, Satan will try to spark your thoughts out of control.
When you go to buy a new car and walk on the lot the salesman shows you around to get you interested. Soon he tries to get our attention on one particular car and then he starts to push for us to make a commitment.
Satan will do something similar with sin. First he just kind of shows you around to spark your interest. He will then begin to tempt you with what you are already interested in and finally he will try to push you into getting caught up in the sin.
Isaiah tells us that we don't look at things (including sin) the same way that God looks at them. We do not see the destructiveness of sin that God knows is there. Satan tries to get us to sin to destroy our testimony. He then renders us ineffective for God's service.
Jesus sent us the Holy Spirit to help protect us against the attacks of the devil. The Spirit will convince and convict us of sin if we will let Him.
We need to look at sin from God's point of view and be ready when Satan attacks us through our thoughts.