Surely we have to do something to be forgiven of our sins. It can't be as simple as giving and taking as we spoke about yesterday. Oh, yes it can! And that's because God dealt with the sin problem and put our sin away by the sacrifice of His Son. We had nothing to do with it whatsoever.
God doesn't ask us to deal with the sin problem. You can't find anywhere in the Bible where He asks us to do one single thing about it. He doesn't even ask us to be sorry that we were sinners. Why? Because we were not to blame for being sinners! Think about that for a while!
Is a person to blame for being born in a certain country? Or for being born into a particular family? Of course not! A person has nothing to do with what country he is born in or what family he is born into. He has NOTHING to do with it.
Similarly, we had nothing to do with our sin condition. We couldn't even help committing the sins we committed. Our sins were an outgrowth of a condition of sin in our nature. And we're not responsible for being born into sin -- we're just responsible for REMAINING in sin!
Remember what John the Baptist said about Christ? "Behold the lamb of God that beareth away the sin of the world!" In other words, Christ put our sins away by the sacrifice of Himself. He remitted all the sins we ever committed. He is not asking us to do anything . . . except receive, or TAKE the free gift of eternal life He offers.
Ephesians 2:8, 9 says, "By grace are ye saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is a gift of God, and not of works lest any man should boast." Did you catch that phrase "not of works?" In other words, it's nothing we can DO, except TAKE.
Remember, God does not ask us to do anything but just TAKE the free gift of salvation. Trying to follow manmade laws, or the rules and regulations of this and that church is trying to earn salvation through "works." Salvation, however, is a gift of God, a free gift, I might add.
So just TAKE -- whether it's salvation or another of God's wonderful gifts.
Preacher's Kid
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