Remember: Just because we “believe” doesn’t mean we can’t be guilty of sinning anymore…

MARK 7: ²¹ For from within, out of a person’s heart, come forth wicked thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, ²² greed, malice, deceit, indecency, envy, slander, arrogance, foolishness…. ²³ All these wicked things come from within, and they make a person unclean.” (CJB)

IF WE ARE HONEST WITH OURSELVES, I BELIEVE WE CAN AGREE THAT WE CAN ALL BECOME GUILTY OF SOME OF THESE THINGS, ON OCCASION. We humans are prone to “fall” sometimes, and both the Torah and New Testament tell us that the soul that sins SHALL die. However, the GOOD news is that we have an awesome Elohim who promises to forgive those who repent and turn from their sins.

(This, as you know, used to be done via animal sin sacrifices; but YHWH sent us His Divine Messiah to remove our “past sins” – Halleluyah!)

Let’s check it out:

Romans 1:28. And as they did not determine with themselves to know Elohim, Elohim gave them over to a vain mind; that they might do what they should not. 29. Being full of all iniquity and lewdness, and bitterness and malice, and covetousness and envy, and slaughter and strife, and deceit and evil machinations 30. and backbiting and slander; and being haters of Elohim, scoffers, proud, vain-glorious, devisers of evil things, destitute of reason, disregardful of parents. 31. and to whom a covenant is nothing, neither affection, nor peace, and in whom is no compassion…

THE ABOVE PASSAGE GOES ON NOT ONLY TO WARN US ABOUT OUR OWN TRANSGRESSIONS, but it goes on to tell us that we are to WARN anyone who even associates with the wicked!

Romans 1: 32. These, while they know the judgment of Elohim, that he condemns those to death who perpetrate such things, are not only doers of them, but the companions of such as do them.  (AENT)

But all is not lost because YHWH gave us the GOOD News:

Proverbs 28:13 He who conceals his sins will not succeed; he who confesses and abandons them will gain mercy. (CJB)

1 John 1:7. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with each other and the blood of Y’shua his Son cleanses us from all our sins.  8. And if we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.  9. But if we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all our iniquity.  10. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar and his word is not with us. (AENT)

HALLELUYAH! What an awesome ELOHIM we serve! All we have to do to “walk as Yeshua walked” is to be really honest with ourselves and admit that we Believers CAN still sometimes be guilty of transgressions, and make sure we repent and turn from them so that we can continue to be “right with God.”

1 John 2:5 But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in him. 6 He who says he abides in him ought himself also to walk just as he walked. (CJB)*

*NOTE: Remember, just because Yeshua “walked” in Torah doesn’t absolve us from doing the same. Our salvation is up to each of us…

Philippians 2: ¹² So, my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed when I was with you, it is even more important that you obey now when I am away from you: keep working out your deliverance with fear and trembling ¹³ for God is the one working among you both the willing and the working for what pleases him. ¹⁴ Do everything without kvetching or arguing, ¹⁵ so that you may be blameless and pure children of God, without defect in the midst of a twisted and perverted generation,^[c] among whom you shine like stars in the sky, ¹⁶ as you hold on to the Word of Life. (CJB)