(Live Free From Sin-Consciousness)
TO THE BIBLE Romans 6:14
“For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.”
LET’S TALK
Have you ever wondered why people sin? Perhaps this thought has crossed your mind, and you’d like to know why. The answer is simple: it’s because of fear and selfishness.
Thankfully, God provided you two awesome replacements to these two vices the moment you were born again: faith and love. If you walk by faith, you can’t live in fear and if you walk in love, you can’t be selfish.
Therefore, if you function in faith and love, you can’t sin; nothing done by faith and love could ever be sin.
Love is also self-giving; when you love, you give. The Bible says, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son…” (John 3:16).
Selfishness holds back, while love is considerate and puts others first. 1 John 4:18 says, “There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment.
But he who fears has not been made perfect in love.” If you’re born again, you’re born of love; you have the nature of love and righteousness, and you can live above and free of sin.
However, if you do something wrong, the Bible says, “My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin.
And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world” (1 John 2:1-2).
And, also in Ephesians 1:7, it says, “In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace.”
Therefore, all you need to do is say, “Father, I know that these things that I’ve done are wrong; I receive forgiveness, in the Name of Jesus.” That’s how you live free from sin and sin-consciousness.
Go Deeper
John 8:36; Galatians 5:1
Pray:
Dear Father, I thank you for your grace, I live free from sin and sin consciousness because I walk by faith, and manifest the love of Christ! I walk in the liberty of the Spirit today, and always, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
Daily Bible Reading
ONE YEAR
Matthew 18:15-35, Exodus 10-12
TWO YEAR
Matthew 10:1-11, Genesis 26
Act:
Demonstrate faith in your daily life and show love to those around you today.