Series: Part One-The basics of true fellowship (b)
The requirements of true fellowship with God
Acknowledge and confess sin to God—be specific in your private prayers, in your closet prayers. When we specifically confess to God each sin, we are acknowledging that as sin. We are not blaming anyone else. We are taking responsibility, acknowledging we did something, or said words—that we indeed sinned in those things.
All have sinned and fallen short of the glory God—so do not think and say you have no sin. We all have sinned but, when we accept Christ, surrender to Him our all; we do not continue in sin if Christ mind is in us through His Spirit because God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all. If we sin—if because we by faith, if God’s Spirit is in us; we do not have to choose to sin against God, and shame His holy name. We may choose enmity (hatred) to sin that God has made available for us to choose. God gives us a way of escape (1Corinthians 10:13 KJV). If the word is in us, we pray according to His word, and He hears and answers us—the answer is yes. Amen.
The only sin not forgiven of God is sin against the Holy Ghost, and sin that we do not confess. We must acknowledge that we have sinned, and confess—call the sins out specifically one by one to God confessing. He will forgive.
“If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.” 1 John 1:8-10 KJV
“My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: and he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for our’s only, but also for the sins of the whole world.”
1 John 2:1-2
Maranatha