February 17, 2025 - No Condemnation

LEVITICUS 4:1-6:30

Chronological Bible Readings

Leviticus 5:5 “When you become aware of your guilt in any of these ways, you must confess your sin.

In today's reading we see again and again that if someone sins and doesn't realize it, it is still sin. And that as soon as they become aware of it they must act. Over the years God has convicted me of many sins in my life. I am grateful that he didn't do it all at once. I try to confess my sin to God as soon as I recognize it and when it is against a person I try to confess and repent to them as well. When I am praying and try to spend time in confession I struggle with specifics and sometimes confess generalities. I know that I daily sin in thought word and deed even when I don't recognize it. When we confess our sins we can be thankful that the sacrifice has already been made. We do not have to keep confessing a sin we have truly turned from. That is one of the reasons my confession time is more vague. I also ask the Lord to bring my sin to my attention so that I can confess and turn from it. Sometimes my personality and triggers can cause me to sin in the same way as I have in the past but because it is against a different person or in a different situation it needs to be confessed again and when appropriate, made right with that other person. When He does bring those things to mind I must recognize it as sin, and confess it which is agreeing with God that it is sin and repent or turn from it. Then rest in the assurance of pardon that we have in Jesus.

1 John 1:9 But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness.

After writing this I went to Sunday school and we were studying Romans 8. So Iwould like to close with that.

Romans 8:1-4 NIV

[1] Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, [2] because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death. [3] For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh, [4] in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.