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Glory · Our Walk with Him
When a believer sins, their salvation is not undone; Christ is their advocate with the Father. But the Spirit is grieved and fellowship is clouded. The remedy is confession: God is faithful to forgive and cleanse, and He grows us through our failures.
https://glorystudy.com/questions/what-happens-when-i-sin · Scripture quoted from the World English Bible
1 John 1:5-10
As you read: The honest realism that believers still sin, and the promise of cleansing.
5This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
6If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don’t tell the truth.
7But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.
8If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
10If we say that we haven’t sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
1 John 2:1-2
As you read: If anyone sins, we have Jesus Christ the righteous, the propitiation for our sins.
1My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.
2And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.
Hebrews 4:14-16
As you read: A High Priest who was tempted as we are, so we may come boldly for mercy.
14Having then a great high priest, who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold tightly to our confession.
15For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.
16Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace for help in time of need.
Psalm 32
As you read: David's confession and the blessedness of one whose transgression is forgiven.
1Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
2Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh doesn’t impute iniquity, in whose spirit there is no deceit.
3When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
4For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.
5I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn’t hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
6For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.
7You are my hiding place. You will preserve me from trouble. You will surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah.
8I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.
9Don’t be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding, who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come near to you.
10Many sorrows come to the wicked, but loving kindness shall surround him who trusts in Yahweh.
11Be glad in Yahweh, and rejoice, you righteous! Shout for joy, all you who are upright in heart!
'If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.' Even Paul cried out over a war within: 'For the good which I desire, I don't do; but the evil which I don't desire, that I practice.' A believer is not someone who never fails, but someone who refuses to make peace with failure.
“If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.”1 John 1:8
“For the good which I desire, I don’t do; but the evil which I don’t desire, that I practice. But if what I don’t desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me. I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present. For I delight in God’s law after the inward man, but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members. What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?”Romans 7:19-24
The gospel does not leave you stranded in guilt. 'If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous, and he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins.' Your standing before God rests on His finished work, not on your performance, and He is right now pleading for you.
“My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.”1 John 2:1-2
“Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.”Hebrews 7:25
'If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.' David learned it: 'I acknowledged my sin to you… and you forgave the iniquity of my sin.' Whoever conceals his sin does not prosper, but whoever confesses and forsakes it obtains mercy.
“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”1 John 1:9
“I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn’t hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.”Psalm 32:5
“He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.”Proverbs 28:13
We do not approach God on the strength of our clean record but on the faithfulness of our High Priest, who was tempted in every way as we are, yet without sin. Because of Him we can 'draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace for help in time of need.'
“For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace for help in time of need.”Hebrews 4:15-16
'There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.' The Spirit, not the accuser, is the one who convicts, and He convicts to restore, not to destroy. God even works our failures for our good, making His grace sufficient in our weakness.
“There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.”Romans 8:1
“In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered. He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit’s mind, because he makes intercession for the saints according to God.”Romans 8:26-27
“He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.”2 Corinthians 12:9