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My Sin

By Jeremy Myers
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My Sin

I remember as a child asking God to forgive me and accept me into His family, but afterward, every time I sinned, I would worry that maybe God had kicked me out of His family or that He didnโ€™t love me anymore.

child praying for forgivenessI made it an almost daily habit to ask God back into my heart. I never really knew for sure where I stood with God, and so prayed daily to thank Him for loving me if He still did, but if He did not, then would He please forgive me and start loving me again.

I didnโ€™t really have too many major sins to be worried about. It was just the normal kid stuff, such as talking back to my parents, getting mad at one of my sisters, or stealing a piece of penny candy from the glass bowl on the pastorโ€™s desk at church.

Asking the Devil into My Heart

One time, though, I heard that a true Christian could never be possessed by the devil, so I decided to test whether or not I was a true Christian by praying to the devil and inviting him into my heart.

I remember feeling relieved afterward that I could still name the name of Jesus and pray to God, but for many years after that, I wondered if I had in fact been possessed by the devil and he was just deceiving me into thinking I had not.

So I prayed and begged for Godโ€™s forgiveness and that He would keep me in His family.

Getting Addicted to Porn

In Junior High and High School, I fell into a sin which I could never seem to beat. This was a sin which most males struggle with most of their lives, but which few Christians talk about. It was pornography. This cycle of sin led me into a cycle of shame, guilt, and fear, which then led to tearful confessions, repentance, and promises to never do it again, only to fall right back into it a few days or weeks later.

sin guilt and shameSimilar sorts of sins, problems, and fears followed me into college, adulthood, marriage, and even into my first years as a pastor.

Finding Freedom in God’s Love and Grace

It was during college that I first began to see some of the central truths of the gospel, and it was because of these truths that I first began to find the freedom, liberty, and joy in my relationship with God that I had often heard about but had rarely experienced.

These gospel truths liberated me from the fear of Godโ€™s rejection and the shame of my sin.

Later, during my years as a pastor, I came to understand the limitless freedom of Godโ€™s grace, and how to invite people into a relationship with God centered on grace instead of on our own performance.

In more recent years, these truths have continued to blossom, flourish, and grow into a certainty about the centrality of Godโ€™s unconditional love for everything in the life of the Christian. The fact that Godโ€™s love is unconditional means that there is nothing we need to do (or stop doing) to earn it, keep it, or prove it.

In my course, The Gospel According to Scripture,ย I share some of the truths with you that I have learned over the past couple decades which have helped and encouraged me.

freedom from sin and guiltI share with you what I have learned about Godโ€™s infinite love, grace, and forgiveness. I want you to begin to experience these truths in your own life, so that you not only come to a fuller understanding of the gospel, but so that you can actually begin to experience the promises and freedoms of the gospel in a real and tangible way.

If you take the course, you will see that God is pure love, that Godโ€™s love for you is unconditional and unadulterated. Once you see this, your fear and shame will fade away, because there is no fear in love (1 John 4:18). You will come to recognize that since God loves you completely and unconditionally, there is nothing you need to do to earn or keep Godโ€™s love for you.

The Gospel According to ScriptureWant to learn more about the gospel? Take my new course, "The Gospel According to Scripture."

The entire course is free for those who join my online Discipleship group here on RedeemingGod.com. I can't wait to see you inside the course!

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God is Redeeming Theology Bible & Theology Topics: forgiveness, gospel, gospel according to Scripture, grace, guilt, love, shame, sin

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[#52] Genesis 4 Introduction โ€“ The Story we Find Ourselves In

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[#52] Genesis 4 Introduction โ€“ The Story we Find Ourselves In
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Today we begin to look at Genesis 4. And rather than dive right into the text, I thought I would first tell you a story. Hearing this story will help you better understand what is going on in this critical chapter of the Bible.

genesis 4 story

In this discussion of Genesis 4 we look at:

  • A story which helps us understand what is going on in Genesis 4

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God is Redeeming God, Redeeming Scripture Bible & Theology Topics: abel, cain, Genesis 4, One Verse Podcast, sin

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The 1 Big Problem with the Gospel

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The 1 Big Problem with the Gospel

The primary problem with most of what is proclaimed in churches today as the gospel is that it really isnโ€™t much of a gospel.

The word โ€œgospelโ€ means good news, but most presentations of the gospel do not contain a whole lot of good news.

At least, not in the long run.

Most gospel presentations are mostly bad news.

Why?

Because they are missing the word โ€œnothing.โ€

The word โ€œnothingโ€ is the missing word of the Gospel. To see this, let us quickly define the gospel the way it is often defined today.

What is the Gospel?

If I were to ask you, โ€œWhat is the gospel?โ€ you would likely respond with something that you read in a book or heard your pastor teach.

The gospel, according to many people, is the message that Jesus Christ died on the cross and rose from the dead to pay the penalty for our sins and all we have to do to receive eternal life is believe in Jesus for it.

gospel problemThe gospel, for most people, centers around a few key words: God, sin, death, Jesus, cross, believe, eternal life.

Adding to the Gospel

While none of this is wrong, it just isnโ€™t โ€ฆ complete.

Most people sense this, which is why, after a person believes in Jesus for eternal life, other well-meaning Christians come alongside that new believer and try to fill in the pieces.

After a person believes in Jesus for eternal life, the nagging question in their heart and mind is, โ€œNow what?โ€ People know there must be something more to this whole Jesus thing, but they are not sure what it is.

The tragic reality is that there are plenty of people and churches who are more than willing to fill in the pieces, but the pieces they provide do not come from the gospel of grace but from the rules of religion.

preaching the gospelThe missing pieces that often get added on to the gospel are not from Godโ€™s gospel at all, but are from the legalistic laws of man-made religion.

Where the โ€œnothingโ€ piece is supposed to go, religion adds all sorts of rules and regulations.

New believers are told to attend church, read the Bible and pray every day, get rid of sinful music and sinful activities and sinful speech, tithe faithfully, attend a Bible study, build friends with Christians, and so on. Along with this list of things new Christians must do, there is also a list of things to believe. New Christians must believe the Bible and everything written in it, and must not doubt a word of it. They must believe that God is always at work, even if everything goes bad. They must believe what the pastor says, and what the church tells them.

And on and on it goes.

Yet here is where the problem begins.

Most people have trouble with these lists of these behaviors and beliefs.

It is not that they donโ€™t want to do or believe these things; the problem is they cannot.

The list of activities and behaviors that Christians are to be involved in is overwhelming. Most people cannot add daily prayer and Bible reading into an already busy life, let alone church services on Sunday morning, Sunday night, and Wednesday night, a Bible study on Friday night, and an accountability group on Saturday morning.

As for sin, while most people can fix a few sins, they canโ€™t fix all of them, and every time one sin gets โ€œfixed,โ€ a dozen more seem to sprout up.

Then there are all the strange things written in the Bible. Most people have trouble believing everything that is there. Was the universe really created in only six days about 6000 years ago? Did people live to be almost 1000? Did an axe head really float? And on and on it goes.

Eventually, what began as the good news of Godโ€™s love and grace becomes the bad news of duty, obligation, shame, fear, guilt, and failure.

gospel guilt

The pieces of the puzzle which have been added to the gospel sound right and even biblical, but they rapidly cause the gospel to lose its luster and appeal.

The Solution to the Gospel Problem

The solution to this gospel problem is to recognize once and for all that there is nothing we need to do to earn, keep, or prove God’s free gift of eternal life. This is the beginning of the gospel, and if we get this wrong, the rest of the gospel unravels as well.

So what do you need to do?

Nothing!

No amount of good works before, during, or after the reception of eternal life can help you earn, prove, or keep your eternal life. This is square one of the gospel, and everything follows from here.

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The entire course is free for those who join my online Discipleship group here on RedeemingGod.com. I can't wait to see you inside the course!

God is Redeeming Theology Bible & Theology Topics: good news, good works, gospel, gospel according to Scripture, sin

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[#51] Genesis 3 Summary โ€“ The Redemption of Sin

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[#51] Genesis 3 Summary โ€“ The Redemption of Sin
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Genesis 3

This episode of the One Verse Podcast provides a summary of what we have seen from Genesis 3. There is still some new stuff in this episode, so if you have listened to all the previous episodes on Genesis 3, you will still want to listen to this one.

But if you are just joining us on the One Verse Podcast and have missed most of the previous episodes, this one will get you up to speed. Of course, since what I share today might be a bit challenging, you might also want to go back and listen to some of the episodes from Genesis 3 to get a further explanation and understanding of what we discuss today.

In this Summary of Genesis 3 we look at:

  • The basic question โ€œWhat has gone wrong with the world?โ€
  • The fact that Genesis 3 does not talk about sin
  • What Godโ€™s response to Adam and Eve in Genesis 3 reveals what God thinks about our own disobedience
  • Three truths about sin that most of us fail to understand

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[#49] Genesis 3:20-21 โ€“ The Emperor Has No Clothes

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[#49] Genesis 3:20-21 โ€“ The Emperor Has No Clothes
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When did the first sacrifice in Scripture take place? Lots of people think it happened in Genesis 3:20-21 when God gave โ€œtunics of skinโ€ to Adam and Eve before He kicked them out of the Garden of Eden.

Genesis 3:20-21

The idea often taught from this is that from the very beginning, sin demands payment, sin demands sacrifice, sin demands death.

Well, I show you something quite a bit different in this Podcast Episode from Genesis 3:20-21.

The Text of Genesis 3:20-21

And Adam called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.ย Also for Adam and his wife the LORD God made tunics of skin, and clothed them.

In this discussion of Genesis 3:20-21 we look at:

  • Why Adam named his wife Eve
  • The meaning of โ€œEveโ€
  • Why it is significant that God gave clothes to Adam and Eve
  • Where the clothes came from
  • Why there is no sacrifice or death in Genesis 3:21

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God is Redeeming God, Redeeming Scripture Bible & Theology Topics: Adam and Eve, clothes, death, Genesis 3:20-21, One Verse Podcast, sacrifice, sin

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