Sin and Guilt

Many people avoid any kind of relationship with God because of sin and past guilt.

Some people are in love with certain sins and are fearful they may be forced to give them up if they come to know God. The truth of the matter is, that once you know God on a personal level, and you get a glimpse of how much He loves you, your desire for sin and evil things of old will leave on their own. It might not happen over night, but it will definitely happen, once you truly surrender your life to Christ and receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. The workings of the Holy Spirit bring about repentance, (the turning from sin.)

There are many people who don’t necessarily love a particular sin, but still avoid a relationship with God because of their past sins. In their mind they are essentially handcuffed to their past sins because they feel they are unworthy of God’s love. They feel that they have done so many terrible things in the past, that there is no way God or anyone else could really love them. However, that is a lie straight from hell. God is crazy about you. So crazy about you, that He came to earth as a man of flesh, so that He could die as a sacrifice for your sins. Once you accept the “Free Gift” of God and make Jesus Christ the Lord of your life, all your past, confessed sins will be covered by His blood. God will not see any of your past sins which have been covered by the blood of Jesus.

There is another group of people who avoid God because of the guilt of sin. Maybe they did something terrible to another person, and their guilt is unbearable. Maybe as a young girl, they had an abortion, and now they are condemning themselves for that past terrible mistake. I got news for you, God has everything under control. All the babies that have ever been aborted on earth, will live a life as kings and queens in heaven. Abortion, which is just another tool of Satan, doesn’t destroy the infant’s spirit, but rather it is meant to destroy the spirits of the Mother who had it done and the doctor who performed it. If the Mother and/or the doctor, accept God’s Free Gift and confess their sin of abortion, it will be gone, covered by the blood of Christ.

Maybe the person troubled by guilt is a man who raped or molested a young child, and now feels terrible about his past actions. If that sounds like you, I got good news for you, if you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and confess those sins to Him, He is faithful to cover them with His blood, so that they are no longer visible to God. Jesus will make you white as snow. But you may say, I can’t help but think about the person I victimized, how they must feel right now. Well I got more good news for you, if you are a Born Again believer in Christ and you pray to Jesus to blot out the memory of your sin from the mind of your victim, He is faithful to do that. This is important if you are plagued by guilt, so let me say it again, “The victim of your sin will have no memory of it” . Trust me if Jesus can bring a dead man back to life after three days of being dead, He can certainly erase a terrible thing from someone’s memory. When the Son sets you free, you are totally free.

Jesus replied, “I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave to sin. Now a slave has no permanent place in the family, but a son belongs to it forever. So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.” John 8:34-36

Born Again believers in Christ are all set free by the Son. They are new creatures whose sole purpose is to bring the fruits of the Spirit to the lost world. The fruits of the Spirit are as follows: Love, Joy, Peace, Long Suffering, Gentleness, Goodness, Faith, Meekness, and Temperance.

Many Born Again Christians remain in their prison cell of sin, because they haven’t realized that their cell door has been unlocked. The cure for that problem is reading the Word of God on a regular basis, which will increase your faith and cause you to comprehend how much God loves you. Once you become aware of how big God’s love is, you’ll receive the strength you need to resist all temptations and sin will be a thing of the past.