That You May Not Sin

"My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin" (1 John 2:1)

What words did John write that give you power over sin? Only 2 verses before, "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." (1 John 1: 9) one of the most misused scriptures in the Bible. Grace people turn this verse into a license to sin saying, "ask God, He'll forgive you," which it does not say. The holiness movement use it as a fire escape confessing real and imaginary sins every moment of the day fearing hell if they die with one unconfessed sin. Not.

"You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness;" (Psalms 45: 7a) Confess that you hate your sin even if you don't and soon you will. Agree with God about your sin, "He is faithful and righteous to forgive," and He will also "cleanse you from all unrighteousness." Forgive and cleanse? Forgiveness saves you from hell. Cleansing washes the iniquity from your heart.

"Confess our sins" was written "that you may not sin." Confess means speak same and agree with not ask or admit. Say what God says,"He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him," (2 Corinthians 5: 21). When we say what God says we do what God did nailing our sin to the cross.

The fact is "you nailed" Jesus "to a cross by the hands of godless men and put Him to death" (Acts 2: 23) when you sinned. If you were there who would you be? Peter, who denied Him; John, stood silently as the crowd yelled "crucify Him." Would you have been in the throng yelling? A priest inciting the people? Or Pontius Pilate? You might as well be a Roman Soldier pounding the nail through His wrist. Your sin killed Him. Say out loud with your mouth, "He became my sin. I nailed it to the cross." then sin will be a thing of the past. It will be harder for you to sin than to be holy.

"8 If we say that we have no sin," "10 If we say that we have not sinned, (1 John 1: 8a & 10a) Sin is now a thing of your past.